I successfully created a Hackintosh inside VirtualBox. For those that don’t know, a Hackintosh is a PC, originally designed to run Windows, running the Macintosh operating system instead. I had bought an eMac about five years ago but the hard drive died in it about two years ago. I’ve wanted to get a new Mac (most likely a MacBook) to replace but just couldn’t justify the expense. I had Windows computers in my house which were still running and were cheaper to replace. For a while now, I was thinking about trying to create a Hackintosh but I didn’t want to dual-boot one of my computers or blow away the operating system just to install OS X. I had read an article on Lifehacker which gave step-by-step instructions on creating a virtual Hackintosh. I haven’t had the motivation to try it until today.
I originally tried with an image I found called SnowLeo. I got that to install to the virtual hard drive without an issue; yet when I rebooted, I got the spinning beach ball of death (the OS X equivalent to a BSOD – Blue Screen of Death). Then I found an image put out by a person/group called Hazard. Not only did that version match up with the instructions that were listed in the article, but it installed and rebooted successfully.
I’m a little hesitant to update the OS because I don’t want something to break afterwards. It did only take me about an hour from start to finish, so it wouldn’t be too time consuming if I had to do it all over again.