I'm trying to install Snow Leopard on Virtual Box. I have Virtual Box running on the 11 inch Macbook Air (the 2013 version) with Mavericks as the operating system. So hardware is all Apple. I've already installed Lion successfully on a virtual machine - and it is working just fine, so is no problem with my Virtual Box installation. When setting up auto start in snow leopard version 10.6.8 (fully updated). The OS boots fully past the apple logo and the proceeds to a grey screen where it will sit indefinitely at a spinning wheel. In verbose mode it will make it to a black screen with a prompt, but no text can be typed into the prompt and no text ever is returned by the prompt. I have Snow Leopard running in VirtualBox on a ten year old legacy PC. I did it using this guide. I wanted to use Clover and a later OS but absolutely nothing I tried worked and I followed several guides for several OS using different methods. I also had the same problem as in your last screenshot when attempting some of those other guides.

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Guest type:	OSX Server	Host type:	Mac OS X

• Rip your original retail DVD of Snow Leopard in ISO format. In VirtualBox, create a new virtual machine. Name it as you want, but select 'Mac OS X' as the operating system, and 'Mac OS X Server' as the version.
• MacOS and VirtualBox are the perfect duo if you want to create a virtual Hackintosh. Follow these steps on how to install macOS on virtual box and try it.

How To Install Snow Leopard On Virtualbox

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SOLVED NOW.
FWIW the solution was to use rpmurray's command in Terminal, before starting the install
VBoxManage modifyvm <vmname> --cpuidset 00000001 000006fb 00000800 80000209 078bfbff
Which I did in Virtual Box 4.3.12. (Don't know if it still works in 4.3.18, didn't try)
Oh - and it's actually 10.6.3 that I was installing, when I checked on the DVD.
Thanks everyone for your help!
ORIGINAL QUESTION

Snow Leopard Install Dmg

I'm trying to install Snow Leopard on Virtual Box.
I have Virtual Box running on the 11 inch Macbook Air (the 2013 version) with Mavericks as the operating system. So hardware is all Apple.
I've already installed Lion successfully on a virtual machine - and it is working just fine, so is no problem with my Virtual Box installation.

Mac Os Cheetah Virtualbox

With Snow Leopard, I tried both the hardware DVD and also converted it to an .iso file with Disk Utility. Both have the same error.
Crash happens just after the virtual machine shows the line:
Loading systemLibraryCachescom.apple.kext.cachesStartupExtensions.mkext .......................................... (lots of dots)

It says 'A critical error has occurred'.

I have tried various permutations of the machine settings etc, nothing seems to fix it.
VBLog attached.
Anyone got any solutions - or things to try out?

Install Snow Leopard On Virtualbox

Thanks!

Install Snow Leopard On Virtualbox Mac