
If you are facing difficulty to start Mac OS X after above changes, open the XML file and make sure the added line exists. Normally location is user profile ->.Virtualbox -> machines -> machine name. Add the string mentioned in the below step.ĥ) VirtualBox creates and saves virtual machine’s configurations in an XML file. After configured following settings, close VirtualBox application completely and change the XML file. Don’t start the virtual machine, because it will not work now.
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Read more here how to add vmdk files in VirtualBox as a hard disk.Ĥ) Here we go we are ready to start Mac 10.5 VM. If you select PIIX3, Mac will hang with booting screen. When adding the Mac VMDK file, attach as ICH6 or PIIX4 only. Hard disk – Select Existing hard disk and add extracted Mac OS X VMDK file. This Mac OS X VMware image works only with hardware virtualization enabled computers. If you can’t see Acceleration tab under system settings, it means hardware virtualization is not enabled on motherboard BIOS. Processor Extended Features – Select Enable PAE/NXĪcceleration Hardware Virtualization – Select Enable VT-x/AMD-V MotherBoard Extended Features – Select Enable IO APIC, Create a new virtual machine with the following configuration. ( it’s a torrent download & size is approx 1.9 GB)Ģ) Extract the downloaded image by WinRar.ģ) Now, Open VirtualBox. Intel and AMD processor virtualization utility Installation Stepsġ) Download the Mac OS X VMware image here.
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Required Products for Mac OS X 10.5.5 installation.

If you have the latest computer hardware, VirtualBox and macOS, then you can find the updated guides in our this page. Note: This post originally published back in year 2010 with the older version of VirtualBox and macOS. I will be explaining how to fix the above issues and install properly in the below steps.

I wanted to try the same Mac OS X image on VirtualBox but faced below two issues.Ģ) Mac OS X admin password did not work once it booted. If you like to try this VMware preinstalled image on VMware workstation, try this method which we published earlier. Mac OS X 10.5.5 installation DVD is not required and this method will work with AMD and Intel processor X 86 computers as well.
