We’ve shown you how to Install Mac OS 10.7 Lion on PC, and lots of Mac OSX Snow Leopard on PC Guides now its turn to create a virtual machine instance that runs OSX 10.6.6 on VMWARE Workstation on Windows PC.
Why 10.6.6? Apple introduced Mac App Store, a versatile store for Mac apps, so if you wish to try them out, here’s your easiest bet!
Summary for Snow Leopard 10.6.6 VMware : We’ll download a pre-configured Vmware image for OSX 10.6.6 and then upgrade it to 10.7 Lion.
Pre-requisites / Downloads
- VMware Workstation 7
- Hardware Virtualization support
- Mac OSX 10.6.6 Vmware Image
Running Mac OSX 10.6.6 in VMWare Workstation
This would be pretty easy if you are not new to Vmware and Hackintosh installations. Its pretty straightforward, most of the stuff is already in-place.
- Launch VMWare Worksation and Select “Open Existing VM or Team”
- Unzip downloaded file and Browse and Select MacOs10.6.6 (If it asks you to “Take Ownership”, do so.)
- For the first Run, do not change settings, just Power on the virtual machine.
- Select “Moved it” if you get a prompt about virtual machine files.
- At run time, you would see the empire EFI screen, click on the screen so that you are “In” the virtual machine and Press F5.
- Using your arrow pad, hit the “Left” arrow to chose the “mac” named hard drive.
- On arrow pad again, hit the “Down” arrow. Go down once more to the “Boot Verbose” option.
- On the bottom of Mac desktop, hit the gear looking icon (system preferences.) That should be easy to find even though its all russian.
- In the top category select the thing that looks like a flag. Click and drag English to the top.
- Go to next tab and chose the top two tabs to “U.S. English” and “English (United States).” or any other language you are comfortable with. When done, log out. On next login it will ask you password. Just hit enter, there’s no password set.
- That’s’ all you are now running Mac OSX in Vmware.
- You can configure settings for your virtual machine on next boot. Play around with RAM and Video RAM settings.
What’s Next: Install Mac OSX Lion 10.7 on VMware workstation, stand by.
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hello, good guide. I have this problem, how can I fix this?
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I have the exact same issue… have you found a fix??
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Solution for this error message:
“Mac OS X is not supported with software virtualization. To run Mac OS X you need a host on which VMware Workstation supports hardware virtualization.”
is to make sure that you have selected “Other OS” from Guest Operation System in Virtual Machine options tab
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Can someone tell me what im doing wrong here.
I have a dell optiplex 380 dual core machine with Hardware Virtualization support.
I do these instructions but as soon as a click enter on boot verbose it dies and wont go any further
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I’m having the same problem with a HP Pavilion p6000 Series, any help would be useful
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I was able to get this to work, after using iBoot.iso (found elsewhere). Thank you!!
How do you go about installing VMtools with this method? I get the error: ‘Could not find component on update server. Contact VMware Support or your system administrator.’ I’ve tried booting from the darwin_snowy.iso (seen in other guides), but it won’t load up the OS.
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hey taranfx,
i manage to boot up. btw do you know how to fit the screen of guest machine to the host screen. it’s too big here
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the resolution is too big here. is there a way to resolve this?
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the link on piratebay is broken..please upload it again.
thank you!!
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The link is broke for the image download. Do you have another download location?
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The link is broke for the image download. Do you have another download location?
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hi taran.. the vmware image you listed doesn’t have darwin_snow.iso … also in cd-rom it has attached efi iso instead of darwin iso… please update along with download link for darwin_snow.iso as its link in your previous posts has gone dead.
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when i start the virtual machine (step 3) it just says :
Mac OS X is not supported with software virtualization. To run Mac OS X you need a host on which VMware Workstation supports hardware virtualization.
what should i do?
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when i start the virtual machine (step 3) it just says :
Mac OS X is not supported with software virtualization. To run Mac OS X you need a host on which VMware Workstation supports hardware virtualization.
what should i do?
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Everything i do with OS X i got CPU panic, i tryed everything in the web (installation on HD or via VMware)
at this moment the one who panic is me..Please help if you can
Fujitsu NH570, intel Core i7 m640,GT 330m,8GB RAm..
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what is the root password? i’m trying to install xcode, but i don’t have the password…thanks!
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did u managed to fix it???
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This does not work
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I installed Mac OS on VmWare but I think it’s not very stable, because I didn’t get Keynote working on it. Keeps getting not enogh vRAM message.
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