Introduction This simple guide is for those who want to try out Apple’s Macintosh OS X on VMware Workstation in Windows platform. The basic requirements are:. A PC running Windows x86 or x64. VMware Workstation 8.
IHackintosh guide to install OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 in a virtual machine with VMware, Windows 7 host. After spending hundred’s of man hour poking around the “Hackintosh” community and overcome a few quirks along the way, I have successfully installed Mac OS X Lion 10.8 on my Windows 7 Ultimate, VMware 8 workstation. You must have access to the App Store in Mac OS X. Download OS X. The ~6 GB file is saved to the Applications folder. Go to the Applications folder,.
Download the following files:. (Size: 2.42MB). (A bit torrent of size 4.12GB) Patch VMware Workstation 8 with VMware Workstation 8.0 Darwin Unlocker Windows Before running Mac OS X on VMware workstation, a patch should apply to some binary files of VMware workstation. For illustration purpose, the following example will attempt to patch VMware Workstation 8 binary files:. First, extract the download file Mac OS X Lion VMware files.exe.using any file archive utility like or double click the.exe to extract the files.
Open command prompt (cmd) in Administrator Account. Navigate to extracted folder “VMware Workstation Unlocker - Windows' and run install.cmd: M: cd ' VMware Workstation Unlocker - Windows ' M: VMware Workstation Unlocker - Windows install.cmd VMware Unlocker 1.0.0 = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = (c ) Dave Parsons 2011 Stopping VMware services. The VMware Workstation Server service is stopping. The VMware Workstation Server service was stopped successfully. The VMware Authorization Service service was stopped successfully.
Creating backup folders. Starting VMware services. The VMware Authorization Service service is starting. The VMware Authorization Service service was started successfully. The VMware Workstation Server service is starting. The VMware Workstation Server service was started successfully.
M: VMware Workstation Unlocker - Windows The VMware workstation 8 is now patched. You may continue the next step to configure and run Mac OS X Lion on VMware workstation 8. Install Mac OS X Lion on VMware Workstation Prepare a Mac OS X machine Extract pre-configure Mac OS X Lion VMware workstation files from Mac OS X Lion VMware Files.exe in a new folder: Start the virtual machine Mac OS X Lion.vmx.
A dialog prompt for the virtual machine instance state: Press “ I copied it” button to state the virtual machine is a cloned instance. Prepare Mac OS X Installation The machine setting may change to suit the environment. E.g.: Memory size. Next, add Mac OS X Lion Installer disk ( Mac OS X Lion Installer.vmdk) by creating a new VMware hard disk. Start Mac OS X Machine Power on the virtual machine. A Mac OS X installation screen should appear as follow: Prepare a disk for Mac OS X installation Next, start Disk Utility to prepare a disk for Mac OS X installation: a new Mac OS X partition by using the Erase option.
A label for the new disk may specify in the option: Confirm the Erase operation: Start Mac OS X Installation Follow the screen instruction to continue Mac OS X installation: Confirm the installation on the new disk created: installation may take a while to finish: Finish Mac OS X Installation Finally, the Mac OS X installed and the first screen appear as follow: Install VMware tools VMware tools provide few GUI enhancement experience for Mac OS X guest. Download VMware tools ISO for OS X.
Follow the following steps to install VMware tools in OS X:. Extract a ISO file (darwin.iso) from the zip archive file. Mount the ISO file to Mac OS X Guest operating system.
Start Mac OS X guest system. Open Finder from OS X desktop and select CD/DVD ROM device. Double click Install VMware Tools icon to start VMware tools installation.
Follow the screen instruction to complete installation. Reference. How To Install Fully Functional Mac OS X Lion Virtual Machine inside Windows 7 UPDATE: 10.7.3.
Apple is not releasing the updates for Mac OS Lion Developer edition, so became older now and the latest version of Xcode (4.5) is not working on it. To install the Mountain Lion on Vmware follow the steps provided below. Mountain Lion VM: 1) Download VMware workstation 8 – 2) Enable hardware virtualization in the computer BIOS – If you don’t know how to do this, 3) Download Mac OS X Mountain Lion Vmware Image – 4) Vmware does not support the virtualization of OS X. To unlock the Vmware, extract the Mountain Lion Vmware image and go to ‘VMware Unlocker – Mac OS X Guest VMware 8.x Series VMware Workstation Unlocker – Windows’ folder. Right click on the ‘Install.bat’ and run it as administrator. It patches the Vmware and allows the installation of Mac OS X. 5) In the extracted vmware image, click on the.vmx file and it will load the Mountain Lion VM.
Vmware Tools: 1. Edit virtual machine settings, go to ‘Cd/Dvd’ and use ‘VMware Unlocker – Mac OS X Guest VMware 8.x Series Tools darwin.iso’ as iso image. Power On the virtual machine and click on Finder.
Click on the iSO image listed on the right side and install the vmware tools. Vmware tools installation displays ‘The Installation Failed’ message and that is expected.
Restart the VM and now it supports the Full screen mode. Open Mac AppStore and login with iTunes account. Search for Xcode and install it.
It installs the Xcode 4.5 & iOS 6 simulator. Note:I tried updating the VM to Mountain Lion 10.8.2 but not succeeded.