How to create Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard virtual machine in UTM

November 28, 2021

UTM is a frontend for QEMU that works on Mac and iOS.

UTM Home Screen
Snow Leopard Desktop

I’ve been working to get Snow Leopard running in UTM (by extension, it would probably also work in QEMU, too). Here’s how to do it.

Updates

7 March 2023: This is confirmed broken on M1 or M2 Apple Silicon Macs, exhibiting a commpage no match for last kernel panic. I just got an M2 MacBook Pro, so stand by while I test. See updates on the comments.

18 January 2025: Snow Leopard is now booting in UTM on Apple Silicon Macs! I wrote up a guide.

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