Installing Snow Leopard in a Mountain Lion Host

[Chrismv]

Hi All,
I upgraded our accountants iMac erroneously to Mountain Lion from Snow Leopard>Lion and then Mountain Lion. Guess what? A bunch of her programs don't run in Mountain Lion because they're PowerPC apps. I thought running Snow Leopard in Virtual Box would solve the problem. I created a ISO of our original Snow Leopard install disk, pointed the virtual drive to it and started it up, loaded mac kernal and it stops at system uptime in nanoseconds.

Help!

[rpmurray]

Better solution. Restore the iMac to Snow Leopard using the backup you made of her hard drive before you updated it.

[Chrismv]

Oh, why did I think of that? Folks there is no backup.

[rpmurray]

Folks there is no backup.

Kind of stupid of you, wasn't it?

Any chance you could provide some useful information; like perhaps the settings you used to create the VM, a screenshot of the actual error, a copy of the VirtualBox.log file (attached as a zipped file)? We already know you don't follow standard practices when doing a major update to the OS like making a backup first. Unfortunately in order to provide any help we need more details than "it's not working".

[Chrismv]

I really don't appreciate the tone of your reply. This is a non-profit that hangs on by it's boot straps. Just the cost of buying a backup up drive creates a major cost assessment. I've been singing the necessity of backups (clone or Timemachine) for years. I backed up the important documents.
That said I will post the information but the process of installing OSX in a OSX host must be here. I just haven't been able to find it on this site.

[ChipMcK]

forum Mac OS X Server guests viewforum.php?f=22
Presently vb does not support the client verisons of Lion and Mountain Lion. Other virtualisation packages do, Parallels and VMware Fusion.