hockeydude Posted October 24, 2009 Share Posted October 24, 2009 Currently I'm running Snow Leopard (relatively stable) on a Gigabyte P35-DS3L Rev 2 with an Intel Core2Duo E4500 processor. I would normally stick with this setup, as it's plenty fast for what I'm doing, but neither the board nor the chip support hardware virtualization. Therefore, I've decided to upgrade the system a little. I'm still trying to decide on the hardware, but right now I'm stuck between either the Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3L with a Q9550 OR a GA-EX58-UD3R with the new i7-920. I'm curious if anyone has Snow Leopard hackintosh systems built with either of these combinations and also utilizing virtualization. If so, could you please tell me what software you're using (Parallels, VMWare Fusion or VirtualBox), what OS(s) you're virtualizing and how much RAM you have? Also if you could give me an idea of performance with the virtual OS, that'd be great! Thanks in advance!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/193889-virtualization-on-a-snow-leopard-hackintosh/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
pimpa Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 I use 10.6.1 retail with parallel and XP work very good. I use the same virtualisation with ideneb 10.5.6 (in another HD), without problem. I try also VM and work. I have 6 giga ram. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/193889-virtualization-on-a-snow-leopard-hackintosh/#findComment-1310187 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sobik Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 Currently I'm running Snow Leopard (relatively stable) on a Gigabyte P35-DS3L Rev 2 with an Intel Core2Duo E4500 processor. I would normally stick with this setup, as it's plenty fast for what I'm doing, but neither the board nor the chip support hardware virtualization. Therefore, I've decided to upgrade the system a little. I'm still trying to decide on the hardware, but right now I'm stuck between either the Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3L with a Q9550 OR a GA-EX58-UD3R with the new i7-920. I'm curious if anyone has Snow Leopard hackintosh systems built with either of these combinations and also utilizing virtualization. If so, could you please tell me what software you're using (Parallels, VMWare Fusion or VirtualBox), what OS(s) you're virtualizing and how much RAM you have? Also if you could give me an idea of performance with the virtual OS, that'd be great! Thanks in advance!! Hi, I am running 10.6.1 on EP35-DS3R with E8400@3GHz and 8 GB RAM (I just had an opportunity to buy a cheap 4 GB pair to my basic 4 GB RAM)... Virtualizing mostly with Parallels 4.0 (Win7, WinXP, Win Server 2008, Win Server 2008 R2, CentOS 5.3) but now thinking about going back to VMware Fusion - version 3.0 (RC, final version will be released next week) has a lot of improvements (comparing to 2.0.x) and allows me to virtualize Snow Leopard Server 10.6.1 !!! VirtualBox is also good, less performance, some networking problems (shared network is OK, bridged is unstable) but it is free and the development is fast... I have tried VB 3.0.6 with Vista SP 2 and works well... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/193889-virtualization-on-a-snow-leopard-hackintosh/#findComment-1310484 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Ross Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 On the side of "It's not working for me", I have a Dell Optiplex 755 hackintosh running well, except that things report that I don't have hardware virtualization (VT-x) available. Both VirtualBox and Parallels report that I don't have the capability to do VT-x, but my processor is a Core 2 Duo, and the system does it outside of Mac OS X. I'm running 10.6.1. I presume I need to modify the DSDT a bit, but haven't found the solution yet. If anyone has any suggestions, I'd love to hear them. Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/193889-virtualization-on-a-snow-leopard-hackintosh/#findComment-1341142 Share on other sites More sharing options...
el_charlie Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 My CPU is a Core2 Duo E8400 with 4GB of RAM ad Parallels 5 is AWESOME!!!! It detects the VT-x capability of the CPU. It detects my Windows 7 Disk as a Bootcamp Partition and bots from it. I have all my settings like using native Windows. I can even play Wolfenstein @ high settings. I previously tried VMware 3 and was great, but Parallels works faster. VirtualBox is great 'cause it's free and doesn't need a VT-x CPU. Of course, it will run faster with VT-x enabled. The rest of my specs are on my signature. Cheers! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/193889-virtualization-on-a-snow-leopard-hackintosh/#findComment-1341199 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kari_Juhani Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 i have a P5QL pro with Intel Quadcore cpu and virtualization works fine. I think you should just check that you have enough RAM ( 6 - 8 GB ?) and a Mobo that allows you to enable/use Intel Virtualization technology. New Parallels 5 is very good, and it gives more/better power to virtual client. Just remember that DDR2 memory needs to be installed as pairs to get best effort, this means that you can have like 2gb + 2gb + 1gb + 1gb memory sticks, but 1A + 1B must be same as also 2A + 2B. Of course, they must all be same frequency (667/800/1033 ... ), but size can be different. If you take a board with DDR3 Ram, there are also things to consider.... Kari Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/193889-virtualization-on-a-snow-leopard-hackintosh/#findComment-1342772 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rwillett Posted November 27, 2009 Share Posted November 27, 2009 i have a P5QL pro with Intel Quadcore cpu and virtualization works fine. I think you should just check that you have enough RAM ( 6 - 8 GB ?) and a Mobo that allows you to enable/use Intel Virtualization technology. New Parallels 5 is very good, and it gives more/better power to virtual client. Just remember that DDR2 memory needs to be installed as pairs to get best effort, this means that you can have like 2gb + 2gb + 1gb + 1gb memory sticks, but 1A + 1B must be same as also 2A + 2B. Of course, they must all be same frequency (667/800/1033 ... ), but size can be different. If you take a board with DDR3 Ram, there are also things to consider.... Kari I run VMWare Fusion 3 on a Gigabyte G31M-E2L MB with 4GB with no problems. It's got a 64-but Ubuntu desktop and a Windows XP client solely to run VMWare VIClient. Tried Parallels and didn't like it very much, though apparently it's a lot better. AFAIK the motherboard and CPU supports Intel virtualisation very well. I haven't had any problems. I also don't play games but use it for work, so no idea about speed of graphics. At £29 ($45) for the Motherboard and £49 ($80) for the dual core 2.8Hz CPU I can't complain at all... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/193889-virtualization-on-a-snow-leopard-hackintosh/#findComment-1343921 Share on other sites More sharing options...
acemaker Posted November 28, 2009 Share Posted November 28, 2009 10.6.1, E8400 OC to 3.6G Hz, 8 G DDR-2 RAM, VM Fussion 3.0 runs very well. I have Win 7 64 bit, Vista 32 bit and XP. Sometimes I even 2 VM at the same time and give them 2 G each. I have the VM disks on a separate WD 1TB black drive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/193889-virtualization-on-a-snow-leopard-hackintosh/#findComment-1344631 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freaky Chokra Posted November 28, 2009 Share Posted November 28, 2009 Very shortly... From my signature... I use Win7 X64 but have just downloaded Parallels 5... and will try it out on Thursday.. .if it can boot it up. Otherwise... Recently... I just DLed VMWare Fusion 3.0 and installed Windows 98 (Yes!.. Sheesh!). Coz, on my LAN, we use DC++ network... Though me and 3 others who use Shakespeer and Hackintosh Systems, are in a soup as there is no Hub software for Mac OS X... This was the most easy way out... and The best thing is, though for Win98, Fusion asks 1GB disk space.. it runs perfectly on 64MB virtual RAM allocated to it. Now, I boot into Windows only when I am in a mood to frag some guys or build a city.... Till Next Time, -Regards, Freaky Chokra Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/193889-virtualization-on-a-snow-leopard-hackintosh/#findComment-1344811 Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil43 Posted November 28, 2009 Share Posted November 28, 2009 ... but right now I'm stuck between either the Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3L with a Q9550 OR a GA-EX58-UD3R with the new i7-920. I'm curious if anyone has Snow Leopard hackintosh systems built with either of these combinations and also utilizing virtualization. If so, could you please tell me what software you're using (Parallels, VMWare Fusion or VirtualBox), what OS(s) you're virtualizing and how much RAM you have? Also if you could give me an idea of performance with the virtual OS, that'd be great! Thanks in advance!! I have the latter (GA-EX58-UD3R with i7 920, 6GB DDR3, EN9600GT with 512M GDDR#) running OSX 10.6.2 - now solid. Running VMware Fusion 3 with XP-Pro SP3 virtualized set with one CPU and 1.5GB memory, I get GeekBench 2.1.4 of 3059. This is non-overclocked set up. For comparision, on an Intel DG45FC MB with E8500 3.16GHz CPU 4 GB DDR2, XP-PRO SP3 GeekBenck 2.1 is 3553. So net net is XP running virtualized on this platform is stronger then it is on most laptops and many desktops. I frequently have an instance of Ubuntu running along with XP each in it own space. The i7 920 is a great CPU and this Gigabyte MB is solid so far (two months so not a real history yet). Neil Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/193889-virtualization-on-a-snow-leopard-hackintosh/#findComment-1344985 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hozey Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 My CPU is a Core2 Duo E8400 with 4GB of RAM ad Parallels 5 is AWESOME!!!! It detects the VT-x capability of the CPU. It detects my Windows 7 Disk as a Bootcamp Partition and bots from it. I have all my settings like using native Windows. I can even play Wolfenstein @ high settings. I previously tried VMware 3 and was great, but Parallels works faster. VirtualBox is great 'cause it's free and doesn't need a VT-x CPU. Of course, it will run faster with VT-x enabled. The rest of my specs are on my signature. Cheers! Why do you say Virtual Box doesn't require VT-x. Everything I've tried with VB says my machine doesn't support VT-x and throws me out. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/193889-virtualization-on-a-snow-leopard-hackintosh/#findComment-1516959 Share on other sites More sharing options...
el_charlie Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 Why do you say Virtual Box doesn't require VT-x. Everything I've tried with VB says my machine doesn't support VT-x and throws me out. On VirtualBox there's a setting to enable the use of VTx but you can disable it. On the VirtualBox manual you can verify that. It says that is one of the features because you can virtualize on older hardware. Cheers! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/193889-virtualization-on-a-snow-leopard-hackintosh/#findComment-1516996 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qdell Posted December 27, 2010 Share Posted December 27, 2010 On the side of "It's not working for me", I have a Dell Optiplex 755 hackintosh running well, except that things report that I don't have hardware virtualization (VT-x) available. Both VirtualBox and Parallels report that I don't have the capability to do VT-x, but my processor is a Core 2 Duo, and the system does it outside of Mac OS X. I'm running 10.6.1. I presume I need to modify the DSDT a bit, but haven't found the solution yet. If anyone has any suggestions, I'd love to hear them. Thanks. Hey, Did you solve your issue with running parallels on optiplex 755? I am now running 10.6.5 and both parallels and VB have claimed I don't have HW virtualization capability (although there was an "enabled" option in the BIOS for it). I haven't given up yet and I will inform of my efforts, either fruitful or futile. Thanks for any reply Reuven Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/193889-virtualization-on-a-snow-leopard-hackintosh/#findComment-1609889 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qdell Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 On the side of "It's not working for me", I have a Dell Optiplex 755 hackintosh running well, except that things report that I don't have hardware virtualization (VT-x) available. Both VirtualBox and Parallels report that I don't have the capability to do VT-x, but my processor is a Core 2 Duo, and the system does it outside of Mac OS X. I'm running 10.6.1. I presume I need to modify the DSDT a bit, but haven't found the solution yet. If anyone has any suggestions, I'd love to hear them. Thanks. Hey, I made it. I have an optiplex 755 running parallels 5 perfectly. checked windows xp. OSX - retail version (no distro) 10.6.4 it involved: 1. buying a new processor (E7200 does not support VT-x so changed to E8600) 2. flashing the bios (A11 revision, not newer ones) 3. testing 200 different ways of setting the bios options till it worked (disable TPM!!!) No DSDT, using [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]+[url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] - 100% working - sound, Ethernet, graphics (haven't tested sleep thought, but I don't use it anyhow). 2 lcd screens in max res. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/193889-virtualization-on-a-snow-leopard-hackintosh/#findComment-1612535 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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