Unlike previous updates that focused on flashy visual changes and new apps, Snow Leopard was about optimization. Apple rewrote the Finder in Cocoa, reduced the installation footprint by nearly half (saving users up to 7 GB of space), and introduced core technologies like Grand Central Dispatch and OpenCL.
| Hypervisor | Boots raw .iso? | Notes | |------------|----------------|-------| | VirtualBox | Yes (with hacks) | Needs cpuid mask, EFI enabled, SATA/IDE config | | VMware (Workstation/Fusion) | Yes | OS set to “Mac OS X 10.6” (requires unlocker for non-Apple hardware) | | QEMU | Yes (best) | Most accurate — supports HVF/ KVM acceleration | | Proxmox | Yes | Via QEMU, must pass AppleSMBIOS and correct CPU flags | | Parallels | Yes | For Intel Macs only | mac os x snow leopard 10.6 original.iso