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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!

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

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

Chrismv wrote: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".

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.

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.