NYC Coyote Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 has anyone tried the vmware tools for mac located inside the vmware fusion beta install? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ack3 Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 Hey if i wanted to speed up leopard on vmware would i just up the memory it can use? Cause mine right now is running a little slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flinxc Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 Does that kill your RAM run VMware leo/vista??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaVinciXL Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 Great, man. This shall be my "work-around" until i finally manage to install OS X natively on my machine... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schnullimaus Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 Hi everyone, here is how I enabled UDMA-Mode in the pcwiz vmware image running on vmware 6.0: Login as root, and go to /System/Library/Extensions/IOATAFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext/Contents open the File Info.plist for editing Locate the section: <key>ESB2 ATA/100</key> <dict> (Comment - this editing is quik-and-dirty. A better way would be to create a new section for the VMWare-emulated IDE controller and leave the existing ones as they are...) edit the IOPCIPrimaryMatch key to 0x71118086. 8086 is Intel's PCI Vendor Code, 7111 is the PCI-ID of the Intel 82371 Controller, this is the one emulated by VMWare. <key>IOPCIPrimaryMatch</key> <string>0x71118086</string> Then edit the >Supported Transfer Modes to limit UDMA to UDMA-Mode2, because the 82371 only supports UDMA2: <key>Supported Transfer Modes</key> <string>0x0f061d</string> Setting the UDMA2-Mode is a bit guesswork as I did not find documentation on the Supported Transfer Modes bitmask. But in the Info.Plist, 0x3f061d is UDMA4, 0x1f061d is UDMA3, so I concluded 0x0f061d must be UDMA2. It works for me, hard-disk performance is apporox 10-fold (!!) in xbench after this mod) Delete /System/Library/Extensions.mkext, and reboot. It still takes very long to boot (takes long find the boot device...i do not know why- but when in Leopard everything goes much faster. To verify, go to System Profiler, Extensions, and check, that AppleIntelPIXATA.kext is loaded Enjoy, Stephan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickDG Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 This did speed things up quite a bit! I noticed there was also a generic ATA kext that loaded. Should that be removed? Great work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazzanova Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 great work schnullimaus!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gree Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 is there a 10.5.5 version cause i got it to 10.5.2 but i need 10.5.5 for iphone sdk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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