zoomie Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 I'm interested in hearing any feedback you all might offer. My ultimate goal is to have a usable version of OSX running as a VMWare guest OS. I don't wish to run OSX natively because shutting down an OS to reboot into a different OS is annoying to me. My PC has enough horsepower that I can run an instance of VMWare with WinXP alongside an instance of VMWare with OSX 10.4.3 (8F1099) simultaneously. Both guest OS's aren't speed demons, but are fast enough to comfortably accomplish most tasks that I run. I still prefer Linux/Gnome over OSX, but I'd love to be able to run some of those wonderful iLife apps. I've been able to successfully install 10.4.5 as a VMWare guest OS, but it runs very sluggish. It runs faster than 8F1111, but not by much. So really, it isn't very useful. I've previously had 8F1099 running in VMWare and found its speed quite usable, but I could never get the sound and networking to work properly. The only issues I have with 10.4.5 are its sluggish speed and a strange "echo" effect with the sound. I've tried the maxxuss vmware sound patch, but I still get the same sound "echo". The maxxuss security update is installed. I've tried the Speedboost tips, but nothing really helps. Even if OSX is the only instance of VMWare, its still sluggish. If anyone has any suggestions, I'd love to hear them. Here's my Setup: -Athlon 64 3200 with SSE2, 1.5gb RAM, Giga-Byte GA-K8NS mobo w/nForce 3 250 chipset, GeForce 6200 video card, Seagate 80GB ide hard drive. -Gentoo Linux kernel 2.6.14-r5, Gnome 2.12, VMWare 5.5.1 build 19175 (guest OS's assigned 384mb ram) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11232-any-1045-successes-as-a-vmware-guest-os/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted March 7, 2006 Share Posted March 7, 2006 You won't be able to make 10.4.5 as resposive as the older seeds (8F1099). Only maxxuss can do what with hacks and if he hasn't done it yet, then I'm affraid there's not much else you can do other than getting a multi-processor (not dual core) and vmware server to support it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11232-any-1045-successes-as-a-vmware-guest-os/#findComment-70362 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoomie Posted March 7, 2006 Author Share Posted March 7, 2006 You won't be able to make 10.4.5 as resposive as the older seeds (8F1099). Only maxxuss can do what with hacks and if he hasn't done it yet, then I'm affraid there's not much else you can do other than getting a multi-processor (not dual core) and vmware server to support it. I wonder if getting an SSE3 capable CPU would make a significant improvement in vmware performance. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11232-any-1045-successes-as-a-vmware-guest-os/#findComment-70647 Share on other sites More sharing options...
soop Posted April 9, 2006 Share Posted April 9, 2006 I have 10.4.5 on VMWare 5.5 and I am having the same audio corruption / chopping you talk of. Has anyone got this release working ok on vmware for sound yet? Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11232-any-1045-successes-as-a-vmware-guest-os/#findComment-92463 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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