Mac OS X 10.4/10.5/10.6 with iBoot in VM not possible?

[greendragon78]

Dear forum, after 5 hours of trying I'm asking Help (

I have an Apple Mac Pro with Mac OS X High Sierra. On it VirtualBox 6.0.6

The problem is, I have a very old software that runs on 10.4 or perhaps 10.5 that I want to use.

So I want to install a older version of OS X on my Mac Pro. Don't know, what I'm doing wrong, but the boot keeps crashing all text time. I tried boot 1.0, 2.0, 2.1, 2.5, 3.2 and so on. Tryiet too reboot.

Can somebody please help me? Thanks a lot!

I can't understand, why Oracle gives as choice to install OS X Operating systems in the list of the OS, when the installation is not possible.

No idea....

 

[trs96]

iBoot was never designed to work in a virtual environment. You need to burn a phsyical CD disk and use that to install Snow Leopard on bare metal. You can install Rosetta on a SL hackintosh and then run any PowerPC apps that you'd like.

I have a first gen Mac mini that still works great. It's running Tiger. You could easily find one on Ebay to run your older PowerPC programs. Getting those to work in a VM is a very difficult task as you've found out. Other than an old G4 Mac it's best to build a Snow Leopard Hackintosh that should work.

Snow Leopard: Installing Rosetta – The Mac Observer

Mac OS X 10.6 signals a shift at Apple as the company looks to the future of its operating system, and a clear example of that was the move to offer Rosetta as an optional install instead of including it as part of the default OS installation. For Mac owners that still rely on apps that can't...

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The best hardware to run SL on is the HP 6200/8200 with an i5 or i7 CPU. You still need a SL graphics card like the 8400GS but they are incredibly inexpensive and can still be bought new. I wrote a short guide that you could use to get it running. Here's a 6200 Pro SFF on Ebay for under $70. https://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-Compaq-...887839?hash=item3fbe137cdf:g:kzwAAOSwPHZctdYe

[GUIDE] Install Snow Leopard on the HP 6200/8200 Desktop PC

If you are having trouble installing Snow Leopard on your hardware or your new system (Skylake or newer) is not compatible with iBoot, this is an alternative way to get access to the Mac App Store to download genuine macOS. The only place that tonymacx86.com approves for downloading the...

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If you plan on staying with SL you can also run Multibeast post install to get everything working.

 

[greendragon78]

thanks a lot for the quick response! I never thought, that this might be such a problem.. testet VM Ware Fusion and Parallel too. no was.

Thanks!