Mac Os X 10.5 Vmware Image Download Updated

Mac Os X 10.5 Vmware Image Download

Everybody likes to work with Mac OS X on a normal computer without buying the Mac Hardware. If you lot are one of them, you reached the correct place. This commodity explains how to install Mac OS X 10.5.v Leopard on VirtualBox. We practice non need to purchase any boosted hardware or software for this purpose. This method is but for testing purpose. Do not use equally a permanent and production solution.

Mac OS X x.v.v installation DVD is not required and this method will work with AMD and Intel processor X 86 computers as well.

If yous like to endeavor this VMware preinstalled image on VMware workstation, endeavor this method which we published earlier.

Working Leopard VM

I wanted to try the same Mac Bone X image on VirtualBox but faced below ii issues.

1) The VMware Image did not boot.

2) Mac Bone Ten admin password did not work once it booted.

I will exist explaining how to ready the above issues and install properly in the below steps.

Notation: This post originally published back in year 2010 with the older version of VirtualBox and macOS. If you take the latest calculator hardware, VirtualBox and macOS, then you can detect the updated guides in our this page.

Required Products for Mac OS X 10.five.five installation.

Oracle VirtualBox
Mac OS Ten ten.v.5 VMware image
Intel and AMD processor virtualization utility

Installation Steps

ane) Download the Mac OS Ten VMware paradigm here. ( it's a torrent download & size is approx 1.ix GB)

2) Excerpt the downloaded prototype by WinRar.

3) Now, Open VirtualBox. Create a new virtual machine with the following configuration.

Operating System – BSD

Version – FreeBSD

free bsd os

MotherBoard Extended Features – Select Enable IO APIC,

Processor Extended Features –Select Enable PAE/NX

Acceleration Hardware Virtualization – Select Enable VT-x/AMD-V

If you tin can't see Dispatch tab under system settings, information technology means hardware virtualization is not enabled on motherboard BIOS. This Mac Os X VMware image works only with hardware virtualization enabled computers.

Classify memory – Minimum 1GB

Hard deejay – Select Existing hard disk and add extracted Mac OS Ten VMDK file. You can see the hard disk size as 30GB. When adding the Mac VMDK file, adhere as ICH6 or PIIX4 only. If y'all select PIIX3, Mac will hang with booting screen.

Mac Leopard 10.5 VMDK file

4) Here we go; we are ready to start Mac 10.five VM. Don't start the virtual auto, because it will not work now. Later on configured following settings, close VirtualBox awarding completely and modify the XML file. Add together the string mentioned in the below step.

5) VirtualBox creates and saves virtual machine's configurations in an XML file. Unremarkably location is user profile ->.Virtualbox -> machines -> machine proper noun.

Edit the XML file and add

< ExtraDataItem name="VBoxInternal2/SupportExtHwProfile" value="on" />

My Mac Os Ten XML file looks like below,

If you are facing difficulty to get-go Mac Bone X after above changes, open the XML file and make certain the added line exists. Because sometimes when the VirtualBox services are running, the XML change will not be saved properly.

6) If the Mac OS virtual motorcar booting screen stuck as below, I'm certain something wrong with hardware virtualization.

Mac logo stuck

7) Mac admin password with for Mac OS X Vmware image is Xelabo, equally hinted below.

The Password

8) Now start the virtual machine, I'chiliad sure you can encounter a working Mac Os 10 x.5.five leopard on VirtualBox.

9) As you lot could come across in the above screen, the network is working fine within the image. I can ping to my host Windows computer from Mac Os X. I set 'Host-only' network.

To apply this method, the hardware virtualization in BIOS and Acceleration Hardware Virtualization – Enable VT-x/AMD-5 in VirtualBox should be enabled.

You can verify the enabled hardware virtualization in motherboard BIOS here.

That's it. Installation is done. Unfortunately, nosotros can't install the VirtualBox guest additions or change the screen resolutions.

Problems and Solutions

I demonstrated these installation steps on my PC which was with the following configuration (Remember: it was done in 2010).

Intel Core2duo ii.66GHz
3GB RAM
P35 Intel Chipset.

If the VM stuck with Mac logo (without loading arrows), then bank check the following settings.

Enable IO APIC and VT-x
Enable PAE/NX, make processors numbers 1
You tin can Try Enabling Nested Paging. (it worked for me without enabling information technology, only one user said it worked for him after enabled)
IDE Controller ICH6
Close VirtualBox completely and open the XML file to make sure extra string is there.
However, it hangs? Shutdown the virtual motorcar and restart several times. It volition work (Don't ask me why).

If stuck with Mac logo (with loading arrows), so check the following settings

Enable VT-x
Check BIOS whether hardware virtualization is enabled.
Run virtualization detecting tools to make sure that host OS is detecting hardware virtualization. Because in some PCs, even when VT is enabled in BIOS the OS will not notice.
Close VirtualBox completely and check the XML.

As this guide was done with the older versions, y'all can apply the same VMware preinstalled image of Mac Os 10.5.5 without modifying ting the XML file on latest Oracle VirtualBox. Information technology is better to virtualize and use the latest version of macOS rather than trying 10-year-old product except you lot have some specific reason for that.