You can still download it here.įurthermore, after some testing, it appears that only INTEL based host systems work for these instructions. The version of VirtualBox which was used for this article and did work at the time with these instructions is VirtualBox-4.1.18-78361-Win. I can confirm that these instructions DO NOT work using the current version of VirtualBox 4.3.8, nor do they work with any recent (2013/2014) released update version of VirtualBox. –UPDATE– A lot of you have been asking me about this article and stating that the instructions don’t work.

I know there are a lot of guides on this already, but I found none of them detailed enough and most just didn’t work for me. This tutorial will teach you how to install OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) on VirtualBox.

It’s free and offers a fairly low footprint on my computer. To solve problems in heterogeneous computing environments, I like to have a test system with each operating system flavor at my fingertips. Throw some Unix or Linux into the mix and things get ubercomplex very quickly. A process that works great on Windows may not necessarily work on a Mac and vice versa. Things can get complicated when dealing with multiple operating system platforms. More and more frequently I find myself assisting customers with business analysis issues in Mac shops.

Make zip files for mac os 10.6