Hey There!
I'v tried to get Mac OS x86 Leopard working on VMware and I'm using Leopard patched with 9a581 GM by BrazilMac.
When i tryed using the .iso file, i failed trying to install.
They error i recive is " PXE-E53: No boot filename recive ", " Operating system not found ".

Anyone got any tips.
Is there a chance that the patch did not work?
Appreciate any help / suggestions.

Yours Thankfully,
SaiN

I also tried on VMWare Workstation 6.0.2, but as soon as the Apple logo appeared I got a message from it saying that the CPU requested to reset or something similar. That's as far as I got using the same image as well: BrazilMac.

I do recall there was someone who did manage to install Leopard on VMware but I can't recall the name... He used kalyway 9a527

Hi i installed Leopard on my VMWare Workstation and when i strat the virtual machine i get the following error:
"Virtual Machine Kernel stack fault (hardware reset)"

Anyone can help me to solve this problem?

Thank you
Marco

I get the kernel stack and cpu reset error when loading from the disc...

it looks like it happens when its about to load the apple logo

I tried changing from 1 processor to 2, then from a 64 bit os but it wont work. Stops at the apple logo.

Are you guys using the ISO to boot from or a burned physical cd?

Apple ISO's are split into two different filesystems, cant remember the specifics.

Basically burn the disk and run vmware using the physical drive.

No, VM ware is saying that the patched leopard burnt dvd in a physical drive is a 64 bit operation system and that it must be shut down and to change the VM ware settings to 64 bit, but then I cant even boot to 64 bit becaues it says it doesnt support my scsi / s-ata p-ata adapter for 64 or whatever. And Its impoosible to boot from the CD native, either with ACHI or IDE mode JMicron off and on, it still says Error loading loader.plist or whatever, it doesn't even say hit f8 for options or etc. Normally VMware always works 32 bit, boot physical CD in windows... but not anymore with leopard =(

yeah tried from iso and actual dvd. doesnt work

I cant use the dvd to actually install osx because my board doesnt support any osx versions, but it should work in vmware hopefully

10.4 all works perfect on mine its just everytime i boot to a 32 bit like WINDOWS NT with the image it says "Youre running a 64 bit application" and my VMware doesnt support my scsi or whatever ide on p5b to do 64bit vmware. I have core 2 whats going on here?

yeah I fixed that by deleting that vmimage, and creating one on an ide drive.

then I got the kernel stack error as its about ot load up the apple thing

Used the flat image, kernel stack error right when the apple logo loads, too bad, as there is no way to load OSX (any version) on my Pc native, as I have a raid 1 controller.

use -legacy to force 32bit.

Still get a kernel stack fault though!

Using Brazil patch version with retail CD

wonder if it would work with the SSE2 patch?

I've been trying the BrazilMac Leopard iso in VMware, and it's been giving me the stack fault thing too right at the apple logo. I figured it was because BrazilMac was for intel, and I'm have an AMD processor. (I have an unpatched Leopard DMG, and I am wondering where I would go for help to patch that for AMD.)

I think you are on the right track; kernel stack error happens after kernel goes into 64 bit mode.

However, I don't think -legacy works with newer kernels.

Try turning intel virtualization off in your BIOS and see if that works.

Was able to get it to go through to the Kernel Stack Fault without the 32-bit error (or using -legacy) by selecting a 64 bit OS in VMWare Workstation 6...will try turning off virtualization and see if i can get any further.

no luck turning off virtualization in the Host BIOS

Well, installation goes fine, but upon reboot everything's messed up...
I used Kalyway 9a527.

dont work for me:(

Same for me using BrazilMac iso. The VM resets when apple logo appears. I'm using a Intel SSE3 processor (Xeon 3040).

Hmm, I feel like I need to give this a try. Can anyone get me a link for the "BrazilMac" iso?

Just search the usual place, no links here.
Although with Demonoid down it kinda sucks...

I also tried to boot Leopard in vmware, it yells about
trying to run a 64 bit in 32 bit mode.

When I use a 64 bit program and try to run it I get
"Virtual Machine Kernel stack fault (hardware reset)"

In a virtual machine does the processor you are running
on top of matter, I have an AMD 5600 AM2 with sse3
ECS GeForce6100SM-M AM2 Motherboard,

Should a virtual machine not be indiffrent to what physical
processor your running on as long as it has the instruction sets?

Ill try and run with the -legacy and see what happens. What is the best
virtual machine to run it in a win64 or a freebsd64?

I've also got the BrazilMac 9a581 iso, got it burned and mounted, tried -legacy mode, gets rid of the 64-bit popup, but still, there's a hardware stack fault...

Hi everyone, here is the link to download the BrazilMac (i don't know why it has that name..)
[REMOVED]

I tried to install via vmware too, but get the same error (64 bit operating system). Let's hope someone smarter post here a tutorial or guide to VMware Leopard.

Greetings from Argentina (sorry for my english..)

not allowed links

I tried flat image..but same kernel stack error..

No luck for me neither
Tried set to freebsd and NT, but in vmware it says waiting for root device, and then vmware gives an error that the cpu is disabled.

I have successfully made Leopard work natively and in VMWare (workstation 6.0.2 x64 on ubuntu hardy 8.04 beta with kernel 2.6.24 and the vmware-any-any-115a patch).

Procedure:
- Started from leopard-flat-image (which is patched with brazilmac's patches I believe) on a spare harddrive
At this point the OSX startup screen would flash and the pc would reboot over and over

- Patched it with the AMD patches ("Shrinker" found on this board) by manually copying the files over from windows (running in VMWare, but that's irrelevant) using macdrive
At this point OSX would start somewhat, then crash (the powermanagement lockup)

- Removed the powermanagement kext using macdrive
At this point OSX would boot but get stuck because the decrypts weren't there yet

- Added the amd decrypts using macdrive the patching the cpuids by booting into single user mode (-s) and running the patcher. I had to remount the root drive read/write for this to work.
At this point OSX would boot successfully natively

- For better performance I added some kexts after this (SATA/PATA for SB600 found on this board, ...)

- To get it to run under VMWare, I built a new custom VM, set it to FreeBSD 64bit or so, added the spare haddrive as the VM's disk, configured it with ram etc.

Notice that I changed the VM type to "Darwin" in the VM's .vmx file for better performance. Also notice that I can safely use the paravirtualization features (set them to true in my host's BIOS, the gues BIOS and the VM's properties).

Networking in VMWare does *not* work, but the rest of the system does (well, no QE/CI of course).

I have not tried VMWare's virtual SMP yet, but as OSX runs natively on my dual core AMD64, I suspect it will work.

Now if I could only find a way to resize the hfs+ partition. The recommended method using ubuntu didn't work.

Screenshot:

Can you help me step by step to install Leopard on Vmware?
It's the first time that I instal OSX...

Nice going.

Did you use a Physical Partition for the VMWare HD?

I notice it boots further using a Daemon Tools mounted Leopard.

Just thinking that it doesn't like any emulated drives.

For networking you need to install the Maxxuss AMDpcnet kext, no Leo DVD has it, neither Flat images.

cesco-viso: just read up on installing leo on this board and follow the steps in my post.

El Maco Taco: yes, I used the flat image method that creates a hfs+ partition on a physical drive. then I added this drive to the vm by selecting "use a physical disk" or alike in vmware.

macgirl: thanks for the hint!

I do not understand how you copied files over from windows into OSX using macdrive because for me VMware makes the vmdk file readonly, thus when I map it to a drive letter it will not write to it?!?

Secondly if you would like to enlarge the HFS+ partition I have found a fairly easy way to do so after much failure.

1) Create a new Virtual Machine in VMware and specify the new size you wish it to be
2) If you have the room you can allocate it, but it is not necessary.
3) Personally I specified that it was another FreeBSD machine and I placed it in a different folder
4) Open your VMX configuration file and add a new line it and make it look just like your original hard drive line ide0.0 except this one will be ide0.1 and there will be 3 lines you will have to copy and paste then modify.

-update-
I forgot to mention to use Disk Utility first and partition the new drive into 1 partition if you want but make sure you do so in GUID or MBR, depending on your current partition. Since mine was MBR I had to set it as such for the new one.

5) Boot back into OSX and somehow get the program SuperDuper! installed in it, or you might be able to use Carbon Copy Cloner, but I use SuperDuper! it is fast and easy. It took my OSX Tiger roughly 15-20 minutes to copy over. Just tell it to do a complete backup, the free version allows this. I think you can set it to boot off of it on reboot, but I do not know that for sure, if it can I forgot to set it.
6) If it cannot be set to boot the new drive on reboot, then the drive has to be set to active which can be done with Gparted by setting a flag on it or Acronis Disk Director.
7) Once the new drive has been set to active you are home free and you can set your new drive as ide0.0 instead of ide0.1.

At least that is how I did it and I went from 10gb to 60gb easily.

i had that problem. i solved it changing the vmx file guestOs parameter to "winNT" instead of "freeBSD".

hope it helps. tell us your progress

glitchbit: just set the vmdk read-write then

does anyone still have the sourcecode of the maxxuss vmware drivers. the links on his site are broken, and the tiger kexts don't seem to work on leopard. I want to try and compile them on leopard.

Got it working for Intel and AMD, or is that tutorial just for AMD?

afaik, the leopard flat image has the brazilmac patches and should work on intel (also in vmware) out of the box. this tutorial adds the support for amd.

Have you tried the Maxxuss AMDpcnet kext yet to fix the networking yet? How is performance in leopard in general? Sluggish, acceptable or even zippy?

I've just succeeded in installing and booting iATKOS 1.0i R2 on VMware Workstation 6 on Windows XP Dell D620 host. I will post details at Uphuck forum in a day or so.

performance is good overall, but I do have 4GB of ram of which 2GB for the Leopard VM. when I set it to use 1GB or less, it slows down incredibly.

the maxxuss kexts don't work AFAIK, at least not the binary one. I'm still looking for the source to recompile them for leopard.

OK, iATKOS ir2 is currently installing within VMware 6.0.2 (still waiting for it to finish).

FreeBSD x64, removed SCSI VMDK HD replaced with IDE VMDK HD, used GParted to set it up as GUID/GPT.

Only HW in the vmx file currently is Memory (1024 MB), IDE HD, CDROM (using a burned copy, mounted ISO didn't work so well), Display, 1 Processor. So for now I have removed USB, Sound, Ethernet, Floppy. I'll try adding some of those back in if the install actually finishes...

Can someone confirm that iATKOS ir2 is working in vmware? Mine is crashing randomly either before or during the installation.

I have posted instruction on the Uphuck forum http://uphuck.ggrn.de/forum/showthread.php?t=420&page=7

UPHUCK forum is closed
Can you post your instructions here, please?

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=81721

From what I read it doesn't look like I would be able to install Leopard in VMware but I'm willing to try

hi people i am also having same problem....according to wikipedia virtualiron is similar to vmware virtualization...so i am going to try it in that in virtualiron.....

people i downloaded virtualiron but need key file......

The best solution for now is the mods made to QEMU and KVM which can run existing image of Mac OS X. http://alex.csgraf.de/self/?qemu/.