phantom8 Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 I've installed Vista, Kalyway OSX 10.5.2 & Ubuntu on my PC with triple boot via Vista bootloader. It was working perfectly, but I hated to keep rebooting the PC to other OSes when needed. I used Vista most of the time, so I installed the latest Vmware Workstation for Windows (exp-91182 beta). I found a Tutorial by Donk (here) which describes how to install Jas 10.5.2 onto a virtual disk. Thanks to him. I've used his vmx file to boot my existing OSX partition under vmware. Here are the procedures to use your existing Kalyway OSX parition under Vmware workstation for Windows. This should also work for other OSX installations. 1) The default Kalyway kernel won't work in the vmware virtual machine. The best kernel to use is "/mach_kernel" from Jas OSX 10.5.2 installation disc. Boot up your Kalyway partition and copy "mach_kernel" from the DVD or ISO over to /mach_kernel of your existing installation. You may wanna backup your existing kernel file beforehand. If you've a hard time finding the Jas kernel, you can try the "modbinkernel" in Kalyway installation. The modbinkernel allows you to boot under vmware, but it will cause other issues, such as eating up all your CPU time. There maybe other kernels that may also work well under vmware. 2) Download Donk's Jas 10.5.2 vmware virtual machine settings. Download link is in the first post of his tutorial here. 3) Download the latest Vmware workstation beta for Windows from vmware site. 4) Open Donk's virtual machine file. 5) Remove the virtual hard disk entry. 6) Add a new hard disk. Choose "Use a physical disk", then pick the disk that host your OSX partition. Select "Use entire disk". 6) Now, saving the settings and start the OSX virtual machine. 7) When you see the darwin boot prompt, hit spacebar and type "-v" to see addtional bootup messages. 8) You should now running your Kalyway partition under vmware. This has been testing on a Asus P5K-E/WiFi mobo with E8400 CPU & 6GB RAM. My first SATA disk houses a Vista and another NTFS partition. The 2nd disk houses OSX, Ubuntu & another NTFS partitions. With the Vista bootloader on the first disk, I can cold boot to any one of the three OSes. Under Vista, I can run my physical OSX or Ubuntu partitions under vmware. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/111161-using-existing-kalyway-osx-partition-in-vmware-workstation-under-vista/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donk Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 Interesting read. I was going to try this out myself, with JaS so good to know you've had some success. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/111161-using-existing-kalyway-osx-partition-in-vmware-workstation-under-vista/#findComment-788231 Share on other sites More sharing options...
arquitetu Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 Thanks for the guide! Very good! But... do you know how it does the inverse? Use a existing Vista partition on a virtual machine under MacOSx. Sorry about my english. Felipe Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/111161-using-existing-kalyway-osx-partition-in-vmware-workstation-under-vista/#findComment-813364 Share on other sites More sharing options...
menzapc Posted July 13, 2008 Share Posted July 13, 2008 Anyone know where I can get the the Jas kernel without having to download the whole file? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/111161-using-existing-kalyway-osx-partition-in-vmware-workstation-under-vista/#findComment-818161 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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