Can Lion be installed from scratch in vmWare 11/Win7?

[homyakchik]

Howdy, all

 

First poster here. My question's simple: is there a manual or instruction list (preferable to a video) whereby I might install my gift copy (actually legit. Wow) of Lion in my vmWare 11 on Windows 7x64?

 

I've googled this ad nauseum, including all the good bits. 100% of what I get back are links to YouTube videos that all go through the customization of someone else's already-installed vmw image. (Don't wanna image. Wanna do it myself. If it's possible.) Once I got back here and passed the qualification tests I searched the forum for things like vmware 11 and installation instructions. Got some interesting posts, but not a one that covered what I was looking for. Enough is made of the digit-difference that I'm scared to try instructions for x.9 or x.whatever for fear of making Epic Failure that much worse.

 

I found the unlocker 2.x and updated my vmWare. When I ran through the initial install, it found Apple OSX as a guest, and I selected that (and the correct version number as well). In the absence of a vmw-specific from-scratch guide I just let it go with the defaults (while bumping RAM to 3, as one post somewhere mentioned using less = epic fail).

 

(Although I understood the key word to be EFI, and selected that, when OSX went to boot for install it failed to open the EFI Hard Drive in vmw.)

 

I know it must be possible because all those @#$%! images for torrenting and downloading have to be being done by someone. I just cannot seem to find instructions that cover this specific attempt.

 

(Caveat: I want to try it in vmWare first to see if that's what I switch to when Win7 support evaporates. Thanks to Ubuntu, linux is leaving a bad taste in my mouth, but I'm gonna need something. I could likely experiment with a pre-made vmw image, but being techyish, I'd really rather go through it successfully myself.)

 

If I'm demonstrating incredible noobiness by missing something glaringing visible somewhere, I apologize, but I'm really kind of hoping that that's the solution--I'm missing the solution--rather than the alternative, which is that OSX installation is only for experienced anonymous professionals.

 

Thanks if anyone can point me in the direction of instructions (preferably not videos, preferably not pre-built images).

 

Davey

 

P.S. My hardware is all-new--thanks, Uncle Sam--and if not Apple Branded then I'd think certainly Apple Brandable. Problem is that I only just got Win7x64 set the way I want it, and really don't want to screw it up by trying to real-world install OSX as a dual-boot component and have it epic fail there.