5Roses Posted December 26, 2007 Share Posted December 26, 2007 Yo guys, I would like to install Leopard on my PC (dual boot), but I'd like to try it first. So I tried to install several distributions in a virtual machine. First I used VMWare, a very good product! Then I discovered VirtualBox and I'd like to use this FREE product. The only distribution I was able to install was the JaS 10.4.8. My installations of 10.4.9, 10.5.0 & 10.5.1 crashed during the installation, and that brings me to my question: Could you be so kind as to upload a virtual machine with Leopard in it? (My wish is in a VirtualBox virtual machine :-) Is it possible to upload a virtual machine (in general) as soon there is another distribution upoaded? TIA 5Roses P.S. If there are more people that wants so, please react as to show the need in the community :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeHunt79 Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 Have you tried the osx86 Leopard flat image? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahtt Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 I kinda approve.. I'd save so much time of hitting my face right into walls if i had a prechewed virtualbox .vdi file to use:P (instead of those i-dont-even-know-what-partition-type-it-is-but-it-doesnt-boot-at-all disc images) (yet i know that windows's ntfs/fat-only attitude wont help... and that some linuxes can see the files on the cd... And that magic iso says the images arent bootable...erh....) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galen Posted November 1, 2008 Share Posted November 1, 2008 Here's the process with VirtualBox to get Tiger going, should anybody be interested: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=2076 This is really compelling, because VirtualBox beats VMWare in terms of performance when running deadmoo. And VirtualBox is free, open source, and available for even more platforms than VMWare! It seems possible to use VirtualBox with Leopard too: http://alex.csgraf.de/self/?qemu/ Problem is that I can't get it to work. I've been using the pcwiz vmware vmdk as a handy starting point. Even with safe mode, adjusting the res down, setting all the backwards compatibility flags I can think of (-f, x86pc, etc.) I can't get it to fully boot. It loads the kexts, then VirtualBox either just abruptly closes, or reports a fatal error and gives a logfile that is (to me) both long and meaningless. I've also tried almost every combination of settings in VirtualBox. Nothing seems to work. I've tried the native and ToH kernels. I will occasionally hack at it, but if I knew the source of the issue, it would go so far in helping guide the process. Another set of solutions for Darwin under Virtual Box: http://sites.google.com/a/puredarwin.org/p...pers/virtualbox It's so close, I can smell it. Anybody want to help? Contribute suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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