accafella Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 hello, I hope this is the right place. I want to run snow leopard in a virtual machine so I can run some powerpc software. I'm using my own snow leopard installer from years ago. apparently adding -v cpus=1 busratio=20 boot options stops the installer from hanging at AppleIntelCPUManagement. (screen shot 1) I can't for the life of me get to this prompt ! Nearest I can get is what looks like the VM's boot menu (see screen shot 2) by holding function-f8, s, v, and n at start up. Help would be enormously appreciated. Thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris1111 Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 Try boot args -v arch=x86_64 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accafella Posted May 9, 2019 Author Share Posted May 9, 2019 hi and thanks for your reply. however, the problem I am having is how to get to the command line in the first place. keystrokes either take me to the boot screen in screenshot 2 or are ignored and verbose booting happens until the hang. I'm on a Mac Pro 5,1 running 10.13.6. any ideas ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accafella Posted May 9, 2019 Author Share Posted May 9, 2019 of course, I could just dual boot. doh, what a dummy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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