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adq

Switching to Virtualbox and getting Snow Leopard to work in a VM

Feb 04, 2011 00:40

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Originally I had been trying to get Snow Leopard to work in qemu-kvm, and it kind of does; I had even thought of contributing to that project to make it work even better (e.g. the e1000 emulation does not work under Mac OS X). However, I decided that I simply don't have the time: I had submitted a patch to their developer list ( Read more... )

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Good stuff! anonymous February 15 2011, 09:06:23 UTC

Now do it under Windows... 3:-)

Re: Good stuff! adq February 16 2011, 18:40:01 UTC

Thanks anonymous April 26 2011, 19:48:45 UTC

Very helpful for emulating mac on mac with VirtualBox.

Discussion around Power management kernel extension ext_998197 January 21 2012, 13:41:55 UTC

Good work, thanks for your efforts. Couple of questions, suggestions.

I'm concerned that actually I would need the Power management extensions in order not to burn through my battery. Otherwise the moment I start running a virtual machine, the CPU won't be able to drop into a lower power mode.

For this reason I'm really keen to figure out how to run with proper power management fully functional. I wonder if one of the following would work...

Installing from a later Snow Leopard image - I heard that full support for i5/i7 came in from 10.6.4 so perhaps a 10.6.7 installer disk would work without issues.

Installing and following your guidance to nullify the buggy power management, at least long enough to run a System update, and bring in the functioning kernel extensions from a version later than 10.6.4.