Installing Snow Leopard in Vmware Workstation 7 : with FULL Video guide
MacOSX Snow Leopard 10.6 Retail ISO image (for burning in windows PC !!)
Download the file from below links and burn the iso to a DVD. this for users who couldn't convert DMG to iso.
You will always need to use the darwin_snow.iso to boot your vm but this is a small price to pay for having Snow Leopard in a vm right?
Attach the physical DVD or ISO of the install DVD to the VMware session and then start it up. You should boot to the installation DVD. Note that the DVD may become disconnected on ESX(i), if it does then a popup message is displayed. Just reconnect the DVD and press the "c" key to continue. You should then be at the main installer screen for language selection. Work through the setup as for any other system. If you need to install as 32-bit version of Mac OS X, pass the "-legacy" flag from the boot options screen. Remember to use Disk Utility from the menu to partition the virtual disk before progressing into the installer.
Video : Full video instruction how to install
Instruction read carefully and watch the video(s) if any question send me a mail i will answer it or them :
- preparing the image Open VMware, load the vmx that you downloaded from above
- edit the vmware settings to match your needs (like CPU, memory, shared folders)
- set the darwin_snow.iso as the cdrom media.
- save your settings
- Start up your OS X VM
- QIUCKLY press F8 when you are starting and once at the darwin boot prompt
- Down at the corner you see a CD picture right click and then choose settings and set boot to load your Snow Leopard ISO (dvd)
- Install Snow Leopard as normal
- If you get the error even when pressing F8, then change the OS to "other" in the drop down list under OPTIONS>General, instead of Snow Leopard and it was able to boot.
- reboot**
- **note: FakeSMC causes kernel panics on reboot in Snow Leopard for some reason. Just ignore the Kernel panics.
You will always need to use the darwin_snow.iso to boot your vm but this is a small price to pay for having Snow Leopard in a vm right?
Post Install (when finished everything :
TAKE A SNAPSHOT before updating or making any other chages to the VM.
Use Apple Software Update (update to 10.6.2) if u want but keep in mind that after updating there will be a mouse delay problem. you must wait 4-5 minutes in order to get the mouse fully worked in 10.6.2)! the mouse moves but you can't click or open anything till 4-5 minutes is passed after each RESTART or reboot- If you get the error even when pressing F8, then change the OS to "other" in the drop down list under OPTIONS>General, instead of Snow Leopard and it was able to boot.
ALWAYS Take a Snapshot after a successfull installation and then every week or month
When get stuck at the apple logo SHUTDOWN and then go to CD/DVD settings and change the path to darwin_snow.iso and then RESTART if again stuck in apple logo this time SHUT down from vmware (shutdown guest OS) and then restart this time it will work.
If u also get a CPU error do as mentioned above !
You will always need to use the darwin_snow.iso to boot your vm but this is a small price to pay for having Snow Leopard in a vm right?
If you get CPU Errors:
VMware Tools
The darwin.iso supplied has the Fusion 2.0.5 tools and can be used to install to the guest after Mac OS X has been installed. The current tools supplied by VMware are a subset of those found for the other supported operating systems but do include:
Copy & paste between host and guest
Transparent mouse entry and exit to guest
Shared folders
VMware SVGA II video driver
Video (install VMWare tools to get all video resolutions)
VMware do not provide accelerated video drivers for running Mac OS X, and so you won’t get Quartz Extreme support and Core Image works in software mode. Also at this time Workstation will not automatically resize the screen when entering or leaving full screen mode. Fusion does this seamlessly, and it is due to an extension to the VMware SVGA II specification which Fusion supports and Workstation does not. To change screen resolutions you will need to pass the resolution at boot or setup a default resolution in com.apple.Boot.plist. There are plenty of tutorials on how to do this on the web. You can setup multiple resolutions in separate configuration plist files and select them at boot using the "config" boot switch.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Kernel</key>
<string>mach_kernel</string>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string></string>
<key>Graphics Mode</key>
<string>1280x1024x32</string>
</dict>
</plist>
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