How to Use VMware to a Snow Leopard Machine on VirtualBox

The software licensing agreement for Apple's Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server operating system permits virtualized instances of the software, as long as it is running on Apple hardware. This means you can run Snow Leopard Server as a virtual machine on hypervisor software, such as VMware and VirtualBox, as long as you are using a supported version of Mac OS X as your host. VirtualBox includes the ability to use virtual disk images created with VMware. You can use VirtualBox to run a virtualized instance of a Snow Leopard Server virtual machine created with VMware.

Instructions

1. Open VirtualBox, and then click the "New" button.

2. Click "Continue," and then enter a name for the virtual machine.

3. Click to select "Mac OS X" under "Operating System," and then click "Mac OS X Server" or "Mac OS X Server (64-bit)" under "Version."

4. Click "Continue."

5. Choose how much RAM to allocate to the virtual machine, and then click "Continue."

6. Click "Use existing hard disk," and then click the folder icon to the right of the drop-down list.

7. Click to navigate to the saved VMware VMDK hard drive image file of the Snow Leopard Server, and then click "Continue."

8. Click "Done" to finalize the settings.

Tips & Warnings

• VirtualBox cannot directly use a VMware virtual machine, but it can directly use the VMware VMDK virtual hard drive image file created in VMware without conversion.