kdb424 Posted September 23, 2008 Share Posted September 23, 2008 Someone came up with a hack for VMware Fusion that allows Leopard and Tiger to be installed. I tried it with Snow Leopard but it will not boot the DVD. Any idea why, or how to fix it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Fogge Posted September 23, 2008 Share Posted September 23, 2008 VMWare Fusion detects the OS based on a checksum for the Leopard Server Installation DVD. You can create your own checksums that VMWare Fusion will look for by taking your Snow Leopard image and running the following commands: sudo bash cd "/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/isoimages" mkdir original mv darwin.iso tools-key.pub *.sig original perl -n -p -e 's/ServerVersion.plist/SystemVersion.plist/g' < original/darwin.iso > darwin.iso openssl genrsa -out tools-priv.pem 2048 openssl rsa -in tools-priv.pem -pubout -out tools-key.pub openssl dgst -sha1 -sign tools-priv.pem < darwin.iso > darwin.iso.sig for A in *.iso ; do openssl dgst -sha1 -sign tools-priv.pem < $A > $A.sig ; done exit Please note, I have not personally tested these instructions. They were pulled from http://www.macgeekblog.com/blog/archive/20...gerleopard.html However the methodology is still sound for applying to Snow Leopard. ~Adrian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdb424 Posted September 23, 2008 Author Share Posted September 23, 2008 That is exactly what I did for leopard and tiger, and tested Leopard, which did boot fine. It won't load the DVD for snow Leopard. I even tried an ISO ripped from it, and thought about torrenting it (as I already own it), but it works fine for a native install. I just want to try it out in a VM for fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f41qu3 Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 Yesterday I try install Snow in Vmware 2.0 using 10.6 and 10.6 64bit configs on MacBook 403LL/A, both fail on VM boot after Darwin prompt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le-Bebop Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 I tried to directly mount the .cdr found, and it came that: I don't know if it is possible to mount directly that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
basi Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 Someone came up with a hack for VMware Fusion that allows Leopard and Tiger to be installed. I tried it with Snow Leopard but it will not boot the DVD. Any idea why, or how to fix it? Can you post the link to that hack for vmware fusionthat allows Leopard and Tiger to be installed. thank u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
australianmacgamer Posted September 5, 2009 Share Posted September 5, 2009 I have Successfully Installed into VMware fusion http://forums.mactalk.com.au/46/72594-succ...ualisation.html This will show you how to as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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