Question

I'm pretty new to Macs and would like to familiarize myself with the latest Mac OS. Has anyone tried installing Snow Leopard in VM Ware? Is it possible without a lot of hacking around with it?

Answer 1

Apple licensing does not allow for the virtualization of OSX Client on any hardware and only allows for the virtulaization og OSX server on Apple hardware. Anything else is in violation of the license agreement.

That being said.

Do a search for ideneb via google.

Answer 2

No. Virtualization of Snow Leopard (Client) is not officially supported/allowed by any virtualization solution. (Well, at least for Leopard there were some unofficial hacks to install it with VMware Fusion but I never bothered...)

Apple does only allow virtualization of Snow Leopard Server on a Mac host. It is e.g. supported as a guest in VMware Fusion 3. But that won't help you.

Answer 3

Is possible, Requires hacking.

Basically, you need to do a few modifications to the .vmx file and use a modified install disk as this will save a lot of trouble.

I will not go in to details here on how to do it because not sure that it is right to do so, but you may be interested in looking at the OSx86 project site as you will be able to learn a lot there.

Answer 4

There are a couple of tutorials available which make it possible. Here are two popular ones I used: Install Snow Leopard on VMWare

BTW, I used Virtualbox, its much faster than the vmware workstation version.The link is there on the same page