NeXTStep 3.3 on the Virtual Box

[michaelslevinson.com]

I have a new MacBookPro, running Mountain Lion. I also have my 2007 MacBook running Snow Leopard. I owned a NeXT color workstation years ago but i am not a geek by any stretch. So . . I'm a little scared to load the Snow Leapard into the Virtual Box on my MacBookPro (although I suppose I should be able to do it—I installed Virtual Box and I like the looks of Virtual Box!!) That will work, won't it?

What I am trying to accomplish is this - with Snow Leopard, a friend tells me he can run Open Step, which was the Intel version of NeXTStep, the most elegant OS ever and the free BSD inspiration for OS X. Can I safely load Snow Leopard into the Virtual Box on my Mountaion Lion MacBookPro and then when I get a copy of Open Step, install Openstep in the Snow Leopard. Will that work?

Another related question: Can I skip the Snow Leopard and install my copy of NeXT Step 3.3 in the Virtua Box? I didn't see it in the supported operating systems (NeXTStep cost $200 years ago. (My NeXT had 12 megs of ram. I bought a 4 meg ram stick from BEST BUY FOR $205.00 - Back IN 1992. It screamed with 16 megs of ram. Back then a 1 Gig hard drive was $2100.

Thanks in advance.

[mpack]

VirtualBox is not a CPU emulator, all code which runs must be x86 based. So, if you have an x86 version of NextStep then it's possible it will run. See the Other Guests forum for previous discussions, e.g. here.

It is not a supported OS, so no Guest Additions.

[michaln]

I might still have a display driver for NeXTSTEP 3.3... let me know if you can't find a functioning VESA driver for NS 3.3 (I forget now if there is one or not).