What do you mean by “spreading lies”? You have installed it illegally. Leopard and Snow leopard are not licensed to run in virtual machines. Who is lying now?
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[VIRTUALIZATION] Snow Leopard on a modern Mac
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I also have Snow Leopard 10.6.8 running in VirtualBox
I believe I made an .iso of the retail DVD and used that to boot from. The VM is configured as Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (32 bit). You can't install the 64 bit version.
Limitations are that screen resolution is stuck at 1024 x 768, and graphics are very slow.
I was even able to restore all my settings and apps from an old Carbon Copy Cloner backup on an external drive.
Cheers
Hugh
This is quite a grey area in my view, as VirtualBox allowed me to install client Snow Leopard with no hint of licensing issues.
Does this make me also a pirate, since I used an SL disc that I still own, and restored an account (from Carbon Copy Cloner) that I still run on another machine?
PS, I’ve compounded the crime by installing Leopard client in VirtualBox, again with no mention of whether or not I am allowed.
I have a feeling that so many years after the release of Snow Leopard, Apple is no longer bothered by such things
Cheers
Hugh
Just to be clear I am not insisting you can't install Leopard or Snow Leopard just that it is not legal. First of all you can only virtualize legally MacOS on an Apple hardware. Which technically means whatever Parallels can install is legal. Parallels actually copies the serial number of the host to the guest. Try installing Leopard in Parallels. I also have Leopard Server which has no problem installing in Parallels.This is quite a grey area in my view, as VirtualBox allowed me to install client Snow Leopard with no hint of licensing issues.
Does this make me also a pirate, since I used an SL disc that I still own, and restored an account (from Carbon Copy Cloner) that I still run on another machine?
PS, I’ve compounded the crime by installing Leopard client in VirtualBox, again with no mention of whether or not I am allowed.
I have a feeling that so many years after the release of Snow Leopard, Apple is no longer bothered by such things
Cheers
Hugh
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For your info. I only have Apple machines, but using VirtualBox allows me to use some PPC software from my iMac for example, without the need to reboot into the Snow Leopard partition and back again when finished
I have licensed copies of VMware and agree they stop such installation, Parallels free version too I think.
I hope this explains my actions.
Cheers
Hugh
I have licensed copies of VMware and agree they stop such installation, Parallels free version too I think.
I hope this explains my actions.
Cheers
Hugh
Follow this example and adapt it for Snow Leopard.
Create ISO from Mavericks app
Create ISO from Mavericks app. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
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Cool! Thanks
I'm no programmer but I think I can handle it after clearing up a few things:
1) I already have the installer (I made a DMG file out of it, from the Snow Leopard installer DVD), so I assume I can remove the following section, right?
2) I already have a DMG file (I believe I used Disk Utility to make that disk image from the Snow Leopard installation DVD back when I bought it, so I could have a hard-drive backup copy). If I double-click the DMG file it opens with the same contents as of the DVD. There's an app there (with a "prohibited" icon over it, indicating that I can't even install it from MacOS 10.13 High Sierra that I'm currently using) named "Install Mac OS X" (and if I right click and select "Get info" it shows it to be a .app file). Is this equivalent to the "Mavericks.app" file below? If so, I have a problem as I can't find anything similar to the file structure below, nor is there a DMG file in there (I right-clicked on the installer app and chose "Show package contents"):
I'm no programmer but I think I can handle it after clearing up a few things:
1) I already have the installer (I made a DMG file out of it, from the Snow Leopard installer DVD), so I assume I can remove the following section, right?
Code:
if [ ! -f /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg ]; then
echo "Download the OS X Mavericks App and then rerun this script."
open "https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/os-x-mavericks/id675248567"
exit 1
fi2) I already have a DMG file (I believe I used Disk Utility to make that disk image from the Snow Leopard installation DVD back when I bought it, so I could have a hard-drive backup copy). If I double-click the DMG file it opens with the same contents as of the DVD. There's an app there (with a "prohibited" icon over it, indicating that I can't even install it from MacOS 10.13 High Sierra that I'm currently using) named "Install Mac OS X" (and if I right click and select "Get info" it shows it to be a .app file). Is this equivalent to the "Mavericks.app" file below? If so, I have a problem as I can't find anything similar to the file structure below, nor is there a DMG file in there (I right-clicked on the installer app and chose "Show package contents"):
Code:
# Mount the installer image
hdiutil attach /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg -noverifyThe easiest way is to installCool! Thanks
I'm no programmer but I think I can handle it after clearing up a few things:
1) I already have the installer (I made a DMG file out of it, from the Snow Leopard installer DVD), so I assume I can remove the following section, right?
Code:if [ ! -f /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg ]; then echo "Download the OS X Mavericks App and then rerun this script." open "https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/os-x-mavericks/id675248567" exit 1 fi
2) I already have a DMG file (I believe I used Disk Utility to make that disk image from the Snow Leopard installation DVD back when I bought it, so I could have a hard-drive backup copy). If I double-click the DMG file it opens with the same contents as of the DVD. There's an app there (with a "prohibited" icon over it, indicating that I can't even install it from MacOS 10.13 High Sierra that I'm currently using) named "Install Mac OS X" (and if I right click and select "Get info" it shows it to be a .app file). Is this equivalent to the "Mavericks.app" file below? If so, I have a problem as I can't find anything similar to the file structure below, nor is there a DMG file in there (I right-clicked on the installer app and chose "Show package contents"):
Code:# Mount the installer image hdiutil attach /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg -noverify
El Capitan in Parallels and do it from there.