
This might fix the boot loader issue and improve performance.Ī) Mac DVD reading error – EBIOS read error: Error 0×0c Block 0×1ed48a Sectors 0 If this doesn’t work, restore the virtual machine to the latest snapshot and install the Chameleon bootloader from separate installation file in Post Installation folder. Press the Install button to continue.Īfter successful installation, remove empireEFI ISO and start the virtual machine, it should boot from the hard disk as shown below. I recommend to not deselecting anything selected by default. Read each package description and select it if you need for your computer hardware. Take a snapshot before doing anything at this point. Go to Empire EFI CD which already mounted and open the Post Installation folder.
In this method will install Chameleon bootloader and some other drivers.
To avoid attaching empireEFI ISO every time to boot OS X virtual machine, we can install bootloader permanently on Mac hard disk.
Sound driver (Mentioned under sound) Installation Steps of Mac OS X 10.6 on VirtualBoxġ) Create a Mac OS X Virtual Machine with following configuration (If you have latest VB, then select Mac Server version)ħ) Update 1 Install Boot Loader permanently and some fixes. Hardware VT Checker ( Read more here and make sure Hardware Virtualization is enabled on the host computer BIOS). EmpireEFIv1085.iso for Intel Processors (This is the boot loader we will be using to boot Mac OS DVD/ISO, download the correct version here). 6 Snow Leopard Retail DVD or ISO (You may need to search for ISO on the Internet) If you are a developer who wants to test several older versions of macOS, then you can try these methods. But there will not be many valid reasons to try an older version of Mac OS 10.6 when we have macOS 11.0 Big Sur now. But still, these methods are applicable for latest version including Windows 10 and VirtualBox 6.x. You may find the older version of products on the screenshots. Note: This post was originally published in the year 2010. But still, we can do some workarounds to install Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware with different bootloaders on Windows computers. So, technically you can virtualize macOS on Apple devices only. From version 3.2, the Oracle VirtualBox officially supports Mac OS X as the guest virtual machine on Apple hardware. Runs on Mac OS X 10.6 or later (including OS X 10.10 "Yosemite").This method is completely for testing and learning purpose. Please buy the original Mac OS and Apple hardware. The release candidate contains a fix.įor (web) servers. On macOS 10.14 (Mojave) buttons and popup menus are not shown until the window containing them is resized. This is only necessary the first time you use it. To start Chimera on 10.15 (Catalina) or later, you need to right-click (or control-click) on the app icon and choose "Open" from the popup menu.