I thought I might be able to fix these problems by using VirtualBox's EFI emulation. There was no sound output at all (not that important to me, but an annoyance just the same). Selecting 'About this mac' from Finder caused Finder to crash, and with it, all currently running applications.
Restarting the virtual machine causes a kernel panic. I used the iBoot + Easybeast method developed by tonymac, but there were a lot of things that irritated me. I eventually ran across some sites saying that Core i users were having trouble using the EFI method and would need to use the standard hackintosh methods to run OS X on non Apple hardware. However, my new machine is a Core i5 (Sandy Bridge) and the 10.6.3 install disc wouldn't boot in VirtualBox. My old machine was a Core 2 Quad (Kentsfield), and I was easily able to install Snow Leopard in VirtualBox 4 using EFI emulation.
I don't like Macs well enough to use all the time, but I need one to build software for Mac. Although my machine is capable of being a hackintosh, it is usually easier to build software in a virtual machine which doesn't require restarting.
I recently built a new computer and have been trying to get Mac OS X working on it. VirtualBox 4.1.24 seems to be the last version where this will work. Edit: 2013-May-23 - This doesn't seem to work with new versions of VirtualBox.
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