[Solved] Crit. error Installing 10.6 (Snow Leopard) on 10.9

[Robert Walker]

Have you read Status of OSX on OSX? We discussed installing various versions of OS X as guests there.

No I hadn't seen that thanks!

It's a bit techy but some of them talk about using a "32 bit template" which sometimes made all the difference.

Is that worth a try? How do I set about doing it?

[Robert Walker]

Have you read tatus of OSX on OSX? We discussed installing various versions of OS X as guests there.

No I hadn't found that yet, thanks for the link!

Do you know what they mean by a "32 bit template"? Seems some of them got it running by using those, but I don't know how to do it.

When I attempted to install it as 32 bit I just chose "Snow Leopard (32 bit)" from the droplist - was there anything else needed?

I'm using 4.3.18, for Virtual Box and the top table shows Snow Leopard 10.6 as "Yes".

Thanks!

[rpmurray]

Yes, the dropdown list is where you chose the 32 or 64 bit versions of the VB templates for the guest. You shouldn't have to do anything else other than the nested paging setting which, depending on which version of VB you're using and which template you've chosen, needs to be enabled or disabled. Try installing it with it enabled and if that gives you an error switch to disabled and try that. If the 32-bit template doesn't work then try the 64-bit.

[Robert Walker]

Yes, the dropdown list is where you chose the 32 or 64 bit versions of the VB templates for the guest. You shouldn't have to do anything else other than the nested paging setting which, depending on which version of VB you're using and which template you've chosen, needs to be enabled or disabled. Try installing it with it enabled and if that gives you an error switch to disabled and try that. If the 32-bit template doesn't work then try the 64-bit.

Okay, I've tried all four - 32 and 64 bit, both with and without nested paging, all the same error message as in the screen shot at the top of this thread. And checked the logs, 2560 MB RAM available so is not a memory issue, I've got it set to 1024 MB now to be safe for the Base Memory.

[Robert Walker]

Any thoughts about anything else I can try?

I'm happy to try anything even if it has only an outside chance of success, only takes a few minutes to give it a go and see if it works or not.

Thanks!

[loukingjr]

It has been so long since I tried installing an OSX guest I didn't even realize there are now templates for different versions.

I'm trying to install Snow Leopard as I type but it's taking awhile because the .iso is on an external USB2 drive.

[loukingjr]

Any thoughts about anything else I can try?

I'm happy to try anything even if it has only an outside chance of success, only takes a few minutes to give it a go and see if it works or not.

Thanks!

Robert, the errors you posted in your OP are the same that I get after I install 10.6 then try and update it to 10.6.8. Similar Problem. I don't know why you can't get 10.6 to install and I can but I do know I created a Snow Leopard guest, updated it to 10.6.8 in a previous version of VirtualBox running on Mavericks. If you really need a working SL guest you could try rolling back to a previous version of VirtualBox.

[Robert Walker]

Any thoughts about anything else I can try?

I'm happy to try anything even if it has only an outside chance of success, only takes a few minutes to give it a go and see if it works or not.

Thanks!

Robert, the errors you posted in your OP are the same that I get after I install 10.6 then try and update it to 10.6.8. Similar Problem. I don't know why you can't get 10.6 to install and I can but I do know I created a Snow Leopard guest, updated it to 10.6.8 in a previous version of VirtualBox running on Mavericks. If you really need a working SL guest you could try rolling back to a previous version of VirtualBox.

Oh, just checked, I thought it was 10.6, I bought it from Apple here:
http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MC573 ... ow-leopard

But the DVD says 10.6.3.

Okay, I'm just going to give it a go on Virtual Box 4.3 which you show as Yes on the OSX on OSX list.

[Robert Walker]

Okay gave that a go but got the same error, I tried version 4.3.0 of Virtual Box. Also tried all combinations of nested paging on or off, and 32 / 64 bit

Can you remember which version worked for you for 10.6.8?

Also - just want to check I'm doing it right.

I backed up the virtual machines.

Then, I used the uninstaller to uninstall Virtual box (from the file I downloaded to install it in the first place) - and then installed the new version.

I just loaded the old version of the machine after that, the one I did for VB 4.3.18 - loaded it okay but on click the Play - just got the same error as before.

Thanks!

[loukingjr]

Robert, I had to do some detective work to figure out what I was using when I finally managed to get a working 10.6.8 guest working.
1. I had to be using VB 4.3.12
2. I had to be using OSX 10.9.3
3. I had to apply rpmurray's tweak…

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VBoxManage modifyvm <vmname> --cpuidset 00000001 000006fb 00000800 80000209 078bfbff

of course none of that means much now. I did try the above tweak when running OSX 10.10 and VB 4.3.18 and it didn't help.

[Robert Walker]

Robert, I had to do some detective work to figure out what I was using when I finally managed to get a working 10.6.8 guest working.
1. I had to be using VB 4.3.12
2. I had to be using OSX 10.9.3
3. I had to apply rpmurray's tweak…

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VBoxManage modifyvm <vmname> --cpuidset 00000001 000006fb 00000800 80000209 078bfbff

of course none of that means much now. I did try the above tweak when running OSX 10.10 and VB 4.3.18 and it didn't help.

Oh okay. I just tried 4.3.12, same thing. But not tried rpmurray's tweak. For that - I have to edit the contents of the .iso and remove "AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext"?

It seems worth a try.

I'm not sure how you edit an iso. Is there a simple free tool to do this? Or how do you do it?

Thanks,

[loukingjr]

Oh okay. I just tried 4.3.12, same thing. But not tried rpmurray's tweak. For that - I have to edit the contents of the .iso and remove "AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext"?

It seems worth a try.

I'm not sure how you edit an iso. Is there a simple free tool to do this? Or how do you do it?

Thanks,

Actually you just run this in the terminal…

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VBoxManage modifyvm <vmname> --cpuidset 00000001 000006fb 00000800 80000209 078bfbff

replace <vmname> with the name of your VM. If the name has spaces put it in quotes.

I don't think it works anymore however.

[Robert Walker]

Actually you just run this in the terminal…

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VBoxManage modifyvm <vmname> --cpuidset 00000001 000006fb 00000800 80000209 078bfbff

replace <vmname> with the name of your VM. If the name has spaces put it in quotes.

I don't think it works anymore however.

Oh brilliant, that worked.

For the record, did this with VBox 4.3.12

Used your command with the name of the machine.

Only thing that happened after that was - that it couldn't see any disk when it came to the install page - but I used the disk utility from the top of the window which could see it and erase it (remember doing something similar for Mountain Lion) and then all was fine.

So, am now in Snow Leopard in a Virtual machine - great!

Thanks for your help!

[loukingjr]

you're welcome. glad it worked. I for one however am not willing to roll back to 4.3.12 to install a guest I don't need.

you should mark this as solved. just go to your first post, edit, type [Solved] in front of the title.

it's rpmurray's command btw.

[Robert Walker]

you're welcome. glad it worked. I for one however am not willing to roll back to 4.3.12 to install a guest I don't need.

you should mark this as solved. just go to your first post, edit, type [Solved] in front of the title.

it's rpmurray's command btw.

Okay thanks, I've marked it [Solved].