The method mentioned here is already covered in several blogs, but not with the all post installation steps such as working sound, changing display resolution screen size, Shared folders and more. So, I have decided to publish a complete guide with installation method and other post configurations you must do to make use of SL. These steps applicable for VMware Workstation also. This is completely for learning and experimental purpose with Snow leopard on Intel based PCs.
Don’t expect all features in side Mac Virtual machine as running on original apple hardware. Please buy original OS and Apple hardware for long term use and to get all features. Required Products for Fresh Snow Leopard Installation on VMware Player 3 1) VMware Player or Workstation ( This post goes with VMPlayer) 2) or ISO ( Convert the original DVD to ISO as, you may get some reading EBIOS errors if use DVD) 3) Download pre configured. 4) Time to spend with post installation configurations. Demonstration PC Configuration. I’m using a PC with following configuration.
Mac OS X 10.9 can be installed from the.dmg created via the script detailed in the second post of this topic as can Mac OS X 10.10 which is only available as an option in Workstation 11, Workstation Pro 12, Player 7, Workstation Player 12 and ESXi 6, although Mac OS X 10.10 or 10.11 can be installed in Workstation 10, Player 6 or ESXi 5 using.
Intel Core2duo 2.66 GHz, 3GB RAM, Intel P35 chipset, Windows 7 32 Bit OS, Processor and motherboard support Virtualization Technology ( VT) and 64 Bit architecture. 1) Make sure VT is turned on in physical computer motherboard and host OS is detecting it. 2) Extract the download Snowy_VM to a place with 15GB free Space. (These files are having pre configured Mac VM configuration, hard disk, boot loader and post installation packages.) 3) Start VMware Player and Click on ‘Open a Virtual Machine’.
Browse for following VMX file in extracted location. 4) Virtual machine’s default pre settings are fair enough, but if more resources available on host computer then go to virtual machine settings and change. I configured, 2 Processor Cores, 2GB Ram Enabled ‘Accelerate 3D graphics’ (Hope for better performance) 5) Click on CD/DVD option and mount Darwin_snow.iso file as shown below. 6) Start virtual machine and keep Mac SL installation ISO file ready. 7) When following screen appears, load installation ISO file.
To do it, right click on CD icon and select settings. Browse for correct ISO file and make sure to click ‘Connected’ under Device status. Once it’s loaded successfully installation will start after few seconds or by pressing any keyboard keys.
8.) Continue the installation, select disk and customize to remove languages and printer support to save time and space if you want. 9) Oops, did you get following error screen at the end of installation? Don’t worry, I got too. Go to VM menu and Power off Virtual machine (Don’t restart). Darwin_snow.iso should be loaded again to CD ROM to boot Mac OS X from installed hard disk.
After loading ISO file, power on the SL VM. 10) Again, I stuck here. I waited for few minutes and reset machine several times but nothing brought the proper screen except Apple loading screen.
Based on my experience, if I directly copy D: drive (250 GB) into external HDD, which usually take 4 hours to finish, but for WD, this is my first time for backup, it takes more than 5 hours and only copy 70 GB files. 17,1 iMac, 10.14.2, 24GB RAM, - TO - a Time Machine formatted WD Passport USB3 4TB external Hard Drive. It's been over 24 hours and Mojave is only 3/4 finished encrypting my 4TB drive. Click “Encrypt Disk” to begin the encryption process; Encrypting the drive is a slow process and will take on average 1 Minute per GB; After the drive has been encrypted, the password will be required to access the data.
• Select the schedule option then tap Fetch New Data (upper-left). 
If you are facing similar problem then go to end of this article called ‘ Issues faced and How I Fixed’. That’s it installation done. Now you have working Snow leopard 10.6 in normal Intel computer with VMware Player. Post Configurations and setups of Fresh Snow Leopard Installation on VMware Player 3 1) Network and Internet Worked out of the box in all three Network connection types.