OS X on OS X: where do I start?

[dtgriscom]

I'm trying to get an OS X Snow Leopard guest running on a OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 host, all on a MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2009, using VirtualBox 4.3.18. I have a retail Snow Leopard DVD (10.6.3, I think, but not Server), and have tried all sorts of methods I've found on the Interweb, but the most Mac-like thing I've seen is the Gray Screen of Death (it felt encouraging after four hours of text error messages, but wasn't really my final goal).

Before I ask for debugging help, I'd like to know: what is the "standard" method of doing this? I've seen all sorts of recommendations:

• use the standard retail OS X Snow Leopard DVD
• using an OS X Snow Leopard Server DVD
• using iBoot and then the DVD
• removing/renaming/modifying AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext
• downloading modified kernels or even whole pirated distributions
• sacrificing a goat, and then feeding its ears into the DVD drive

(no: I didn't try all of these...)

I'd be happy to RTFM, if someone would kindly point me to the M...


Thanks,
Dan

[loukingjr]

I'm trying to get an OS X Snow Leopard guest running on a OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 host, all on a MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2009, using VirtualBox 4.3.18. I have a retail Snow Leopard DVD (10.6.3, I think, but not Server), and have tried all sorts of methods I've found on the Interweb, but the most Mac-like thing I've seen is the Gray Screen of Death (it felt encouraging after four hours of text error messages, but wasn't really my final goal).

Before I ask for debugging help, I'd like to know: what is the "standard" method of doing this? I've seen all sorts of recommendations:

• use the standard retail OS X Snow Leopard DVD
• using an OS X Snow Leopard Server DVD *only useful if you want to run a server and may not work
• using iBoot and then the DVD *iBoot is used to install OSX on non-Apple Hardware
  
• removing/renaming/modifying AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext
• downloading modified kernels or even whole pirated distributions *not supported and breaks the Apple EULA
  
• sacrificing a goat, and then feeding its ears into the DVD drive *might work.

(no: I didn't try all of these...)

I'd be happy to RTFM, if someone would kindly point me to the M...


Thanks,
Dan

I feel your pain. If you look through this section you will see a number of users who cannot seem to get Snow Leopard installed as a guest including myself and I did have a working OSX 10.6.8 guest this past June. I can still install OSX 10.6 as a guest but I can't update it to 10.6.8 so I have a new theory. When I install the 10.6 guest it connects to Apple and I suspect it looks pirated. Hence Apple won't sign it and possibly inserts a line somewhere to prevent it from being updated. I don't know that but I can't come up with any other reason.

[dtgriscom]

I feel your pain. If you look through this section you will see a number of users who cannot seem to get Snow Leopard installed as a guest including myself and I did have a working OSX 10.6.8 guest this past June. I can still install OSX 10.6 as a guest but I can't update it to 10.6.8 so I have a new theory. When I install the 10.6 guest it connects to Apple and I suspect it looks pirated. Hence Apple won't sign it and possibly inserts a line somewhere to prevent it from being updated. I don't know that but I can't come up with any other reason.

Thanks for your sympathy; at least if I'm being dense I have company. BTW, I'm certain that my problems occurred far before anything had a chance to Phone Home and be disabled. But, if a straight retail DVD (I have 10.6.3) should work, then I'll give it a shot and report.


More to come,
Dan

[loukingjr]

I rethought my Apple did it comment.

check this thread… viewtopic.php?f=8&t=64312