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vmware virtual disk not visible in mac os installer


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Well the problem is that the disk utility won't see the vmware virtual drive

I tried formatting it to fat32 and setting it to active but that also won't work.

The Disk Utility does see the deamon tools virtual drive though.

 

I made a default profile with the Windows NT profile and following settings:

memory: 1024MB

hard disk(scsi 0:0) independent-persistent

cd-rom (IDE 0:0) Using drive V:

ethernet: bridged

audio: auto detect

virtual processors: 1

 

I also added the paevm="true" to the config file.

 

I'm running vmware on a core2 duo cpu but that shouldn't make difference on the virtual drive issue.

 

So am i doing something wrong or did i forget anything?

 

 

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The last post solved my problem. So maybe this can also be usefull to others.

The problem is located in the scsi vs ide emulating system. Mac OS doesn't really like a scsi virtual drive i think. If you first select FreeBSD it creates an IDE drive and if you change it to WinNT after creating the virtual machine the drive will show up :)

Thanks to BandTrumpet7 who made me realise this :)

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OK.

 

Before you install Mac OS X you should create an partition with unallocated disk space.

Then create a partition for mac, even if you are using vmware.

To do that enter diskpart> start>run> type diskpart and ENTER

here enter "list disk" without the quotes

 

if you have more thatn one HDD on yout pc then you need to see wich one you will use for your mac OSX partition

 

when you know select your disk by typing: select disk X (where X is the number of your disk)

 

then type in: list partition

you should see your partitions that exists on your selected HDD

 

type: create partition primary size=7007 id=af and press enter

after you finish type exit

 

now install Mac OS X, and in INSTALLER...select disk utility from the menu

 

your partition that you have just created will appear. use erase disk tool to obtain your ready to install partition

 

goodluck

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