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cs_hackeraryOkay, so.
Ingredients:
MacBook Pro w/ 1T space and 64G memory, running Catalina (Mac OS 10.15.1)
Mac SuperDrive
Mac USB-to-Thunderbolt adaptor
Oracle VirtualBox (free, downloadable)
Snow Leopard (Mac OS 10.6.8) install DVD
Steps:
Download and install VirtualBox.
It wants to violate your privacy/security like whoa - I guess you have to let it??
Click NEW.
Most of the defaults are sensible.
One of the options is "New 10.6.8 Install", which FAR OUT.
But! It wants to know: 10.6.8 32 bit or 10.6.8 64 bit?
Since I'm testing for ultimately moving my old 10.6.8 machine's contents into a virtual machine, I'd better do the same thing. But... what is it running?
Googling "how to tell mac 32 vs 64 10.6.8" got me this web page which said to fire up terminal and run the command uname -a and...:
VirtualBox asks me if I'd like to install the OS now, and if so, where is it?
I belatedly unpackage my SuperDrive, and discover it won't mount on my USB hub - it complains of insufficient power - so it has to hog the USB-to-Thunderbolt adaptor all to itself, and I have to use the built-in keyboard and scratch-n-sniff for all the rest of this, ugh.
By the time I get the drive attached and the installer DVD in it, and this assemblage shared with the "guest" virtual machine, Virtual Box has kind of given up on me? And I wind up with a virtual machine with no OS. Lovely.
Also, I should note that this thing came up in a glorified postage stamp of a window. I forget how I ultimately got it to be a reasonable size I could, you know, read, but that was another 10 minutes of wandering around lost in the application.
With so farting around, I eventually restart the virtual machine, with the instruction to boot from media; the DVD is of course bootable.
This is not fast but by god it happens, and eventually I am greeted by the sunny face of the Snow Leopard installer asking if I wanted to install onto this machine it thinks it is booting. Yes, yes I absolutely want to do exactly that omg this is working.
Everything is so promising, then it says, "Okay, sure. Select the drive onto which you want to install the OS" and there are NO drives listed. I'm like: bwuh? I just made you a nice virtual disk?? Where did it go?? Virtual Box itself is sure it's there and attached to this virtual machine. Mac installer can't see it.
But! The installer also gives you access to a variety of tools when you're booted from it, including Disk Utility.
Disk Utility tells me that the virtual drive is totally there, it's just unformatted. I'm like "...really? Is that all?" So I go to Erase, and Erase the virtual disk, which reformats it, which because it is 20G and is empty takes approximately 1.5 seconds, and then, boom, there's the volume in the selection pane. I quit Disk Utility and, lo! the installer can see my new virtual drive. "Install here?" YES, YES MY MINIONS! BWAHAHAH!
And it said it was gonna take a half hour, so I am typing this up now on my old 10.6.8 machine while it does it's thing. /giddy
Oh, hey! It got through that faster than it said. It claims it has finished installing, and now it has come up into the normal 10.6.8 default Finder interface. Okay, let's see if it it actually worked: power down the instance, quite Virtual Box VM (which actually crashes, instead), eject the DVD, unmount the SuprDrive (and re-attach the USB hub so I can use my real keyboard), and restart it.
Some difficulty getting it to restart, apparently because of the crash, but eventually: success! It boots into a fresh install of 10.6.8 off the virtual disk, and makes me do all the irritating things to register the software or whatever and configure a first account (note to self: "admin" with the "aa" password.)
Tada! I have a virtual machine running 10.6.8. Feels a bit pokey/laggy; I wonder if that's because I only gave the instance 2G memory, or if that's just virtualization for you.
Ingredients:
MacBook Pro w/ 1T space and 64G memory, running Catalina (Mac OS 10.15.1)
Mac SuperDrive
Mac USB-to-Thunderbolt adaptor
Oracle VirtualBox (free, downloadable)
Snow Leopard (Mac OS 10.6.8) install DVD
Steps:
Download and install VirtualBox.
It wants to violate your privacy/security like whoa - I guess you have to let it??
Click NEW.
Most of the defaults are sensible.
One of the options is "New 10.6.8 Install", which FAR OUT.
But! It wants to know: 10.6.8 32 bit or 10.6.8 64 bit?
Since I'm testing for ultimately moving my old 10.6.8 machine's contents into a virtual machine, I'd better do the same thing. But... what is it running?
Googling "how to tell mac 32 vs 64 10.6.8" got me this web page which said to fire up terminal and run the command uname -a and...:
If you’re using a 32 bit Kernel in Mac OS X:So I have 32 bit 10.6.8. So that's what I select.iMac:~ user$ uname -a Darwin iMac.local 10.0.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.0.0: Fri Jul 31 22:47:34 PDT 2009; root:xnu-1456.1.25~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
See the i386 on the end there? That indicates it’s the 32 bit kernel
If you’re using a 64 bit Kernel in Mac OS X:iMac:~ user$ uname -a Darwin iMac.local 10.0.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.0.0: Fri Jul 31 22:47:34 PDT 2009; root:xnu-1456.1.25~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
The x86_64 at the end will let you know you are using the 64 bit kernel.
You can alternate between the two by holding down “6” and “4” during system boot to load the 64 bit kernel, or holding down ‘3’ and ‘2’ during boot to use the 32 bit kernel. Your machine should default into the kernel that is best supported
VirtualBox asks me if I'd like to install the OS now, and if so, where is it?
I belatedly unpackage my SuperDrive, and discover it won't mount on my USB hub - it complains of insufficient power - so it has to hog the USB-to-Thunderbolt adaptor all to itself, and I have to use the built-in keyboard and scratch-n-sniff for all the rest of this, ugh.
By the time I get the drive attached and the installer DVD in it, and this assemblage shared with the "guest" virtual machine, Virtual Box has kind of given up on me? And I wind up with a virtual machine with no OS. Lovely.
Also, I should note that this thing came up in a glorified postage stamp of a window. I forget how I ultimately got it to be a reasonable size I could, you know, read, but that was another 10 minutes of wandering around lost in the application.
With so farting around, I eventually restart the virtual machine, with the instruction to boot from media; the DVD is of course bootable.
This is not fast but by god it happens, and eventually I am greeted by the sunny face of the Snow Leopard installer asking if I wanted to install onto this machine it thinks it is booting. Yes, yes I absolutely want to do exactly that omg this is working.
Everything is so promising, then it says, "Okay, sure. Select the drive onto which you want to install the OS" and there are NO drives listed. I'm like: bwuh? I just made you a nice virtual disk?? Where did it go?? Virtual Box itself is sure it's there and attached to this virtual machine. Mac installer can't see it.
But! The installer also gives you access to a variety of tools when you're booted from it, including Disk Utility.
Disk Utility tells me that the virtual drive is totally there, it's just unformatted. I'm like "...really? Is that all?" So I go to Erase, and Erase the virtual disk, which reformats it, which because it is 20G and is empty takes approximately 1.5 seconds, and then, boom, there's the volume in the selection pane. I quit Disk Utility and, lo! the installer can see my new virtual drive. "Install here?" YES, YES MY MINIONS! BWAHAHAH!
And it said it was gonna take a half hour, so I am typing this up now on my old 10.6.8 machine while it does it's thing. /giddy
Oh, hey! It got through that faster than it said. It claims it has finished installing, and now it has come up into the normal 10.6.8 default Finder interface. Okay, let's see if it it actually worked: power down the instance, quite Virtual Box VM (which actually crashes, instead), eject the DVD, unmount the SuprDrive (and re-attach the USB hub so I can use my real keyboard), and restart it.
Some difficulty getting it to restart, apparently because of the crash, but eventually: success! It boots into a fresh install of 10.6.8 off the virtual disk, and makes me do all the irritating things to register the software or whatever and configure a first account (note to self: "admin" with the "aa" password.)
Tada! I have a virtual machine running 10.6.8. Feels a bit pokey/laggy; I wonder if that's because I only gave the instance 2G memory, or if that's just virtualization for you.
