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[DFox]

I'm not able to find it... here my vSphere Client screenshot...
Could You help me, please? I don't understand what is the problem...

Thank You

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[oegie]

Sorry, my last answer was a little cryptic:
You have to create the VM first as 10.6 guest.
Then you change the settings of the VM to 10.7 (on the second tab of the change settings window)

cheers,
oegie

[DFox]

Oh thank You very much...
Ok, I successfully installed Lion on my ESXi 5 with the use of vmdk trick.
I found that Lion does not see any IDE device, only SCSI devices! Can someone confirm this?!?

[oegie]

Yep. That seems to be an issue at the moment.

[Donk]

Yep. That seems to be an issue at the moment.

Yes that is the issue. The Lion support in Fusion 2011 beta always creates SCSI drives and CDROMS. I can't find a way to create a SCSI CDROM in ESXi except as pass-thru to actual server drive.

[yozh]

Yes that is the issue. The Lion support in Fusion 2011 beta always creates SCSI drives and CDROMS. I can't find a way to create a SCSI CDROM in ESXi except as pass-thru to actual server drive.

This is very strange based on some research, we should be able to add a scsi CDROM atleast from vmx file using this

scsi0:0.present = "true"
scsi0:0.startConnected = "TRUE" 
scsi0:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"

but I get this and machine doesnt boot.....

Invalid scsi device type "cdrom-raw"

[Donk]

This is very strange based on some research, we should be able to add a scsi CDROM atleast from vmx file using this

scsi0:0.present = "true"
scsi0:0.startConnected = "TRUE" 
scsi0:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"

but I get this and machine doesnt boot.....

Invalid scsi device type "cdrom-raw"

Yep and VMware will also re-write the VMX file to convert SCSI CDROM to IDE. I have a recollection that ESXi has never supported SCSI CDROM which point to ISOs.

[Grootstyr]

I installed Donk's patch, rebooted a couple of times, and when I try to install snow leopard via an iso it hangs.
When I view the event tab it says: The CPU has been disabled by the guest operation system. Power off or reset the virtual machine.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

[Donk]

I installed Donk's patch, rebooted a couple of times, and when I try to install snow leopard via an iso it hangs.
When I view the event tab it says: The CPU has been disabled by the guest operation system. Power off or reset the virtual machine.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

What is the guest type set to?

[Grootstyr]

First OS X 10.6 and later OS X 10.7, both with the same results.

[Donk]

First OS X 10.6 and later OS X 10.7, both with the same results.

CPU Type? Don't forget that Snow Leopard before certain versions can't support modern CPUs.

[Grootstyr]

It is an AMD Phenom II X6, but I thought by using VMware ESXi, that wouldn't matter.

I have run Snow Leopard on it using ModCD's though.

Would a AMD Phenom II X6 be to new for 10.6.0?

Thanks in advance,

Grootstyr

[Donk]

It is an AMD Phenom II X6, but I thought by using VMware ESXi, that wouldn't matter.

I have run Snow Leopard on it using ModCD's though.

Would a AMD Phenom II X6 be to new for 10.6.0?

Thanks in advance,

Grootstyr

Sorry but these patches will only support CPUs that Mac OS X supports out of the box. You would need to put together something with a modified kernel to work on this. Should point out that all the work I have done, also the support by MSoK, is only for using vanilla copies of Mac OS X.

[Grootstyr]

It was a vanilla Snow Leopard, only a ModCD to emulate BIOS.
So if I'm right I need to buy an Intel board with Intel i7 or something?

[Donk]

It was a vanilla Snow Leopard, only a ModCD to emulate BIOS.
So if I'm right I need to buy an Intel board with Intel i7 or something?

I would guess the ModCD had a modified kernel installed to allow AMD chips. You could look and see if there is anything in the other forums ere, but I don't really follow hacking to run on AMD. An modern Intel CPU will run it OK but make sure t is 64-bit with VT-x and EPT extensions.

[Grootstyr]

Intel CPU's not used by any mac in the past are also not supported, am I right?

(Such as Intel's Sandy Bridge platform)

[Donk]

Intel CPU's not used by any mac in the past are also not supported, am I right?

(Such as Intel's Sandy Bridge platform)

Depends, the latest patch to Snow Leopard supports Sandy Bridge and Lion does out of the box.

[DFox]

I tried Snow Leopard Server and Lion installation on my ASUS P5K + Intel Q6600 and everything works fine!

One question: it's possible now an hardware fake using smbios.plist or something similar??? I found that use of smbios.plist is possible only with Chameleon.

Thank You very much...

[iceman3301]

I installed the ESXi 5 patch and created an OSX 10.6 x64 VM. I then booted via the Snow Leopard ISO on my data store. I get the grey screen with the Apple logo and the spinning gear. After a minute or so, the Apple logo turns into a circle with a line though it. Any ideas?

[MSoK]

I installed the ESXi 5 patch and created an OSX 10.6 x64 VM. I then booted via the Snow Leopard ISO on my data store. I get the grey screen with the Apple logo and the spinning gear. After a minute or so, the Apple logo turns into a circle with a line though it. Any ideas?

Iceman,

We need some more information, i.e. Processor type, version of OS X 10.6, the normal problem is the latest retail version of OS X is 10.6.3 and if you have a Core i processor or Xeon 5600 series they are not supported without the CPUID mask being set, but this is a guess without additional information. Have a look at the following topic, link below, which is the equivalent of this "How to" but for Workstation 4 and Player 3 instead of ESXi 5, but still should find some useful information:

http://www.insanelym...p...t&p=1622074

Cheers, MSoK.