oregonduckman Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 I have an iMac that came with an Leopard install disc labeled "CPU Drop-in DVD". I have a Windows computer running VMWare and am trying to build an iso that can be mounted and booted by VMWare workstation. VMWare finds the iso OK but does not see the boot section of the image and juast spins while looking for a DHCP server to resolve the boot. Can anyone shed some light on what I am doing wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoyanf Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 I have an iMac that came with an Leopard install disc labeled "CPU Drop-in DVD". I have a Windows computer running VMWare and am trying to build an iso that can be mounted and booted by VMWare workstation. VMWare finds the iso OK but does not see the boot section of the image and juast spins while looking for a DHCP server to resolve the boot. Can anyone shed some light on what I am doing wrong? easiest method is from Mac Disk Utility :- Open Disk Utility Insert disc in drive Select dvd drive New Image Image Format -> DVD/CD Master Change the extension from CDR to ISO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oregonduckman Posted February 6, 2009 Author Share Posted February 6, 2009 easiest method is from Mac Disk Utility :- Open Disk Utility Insert disc in drive Select dvd drive New Image Image Format -> DVD/CD Master Change the extension from CDR to ISO Yes that's how I got to the point where I have an iso image that cannot be booted by VMWare workstation on my PC. Seems like the ISO must be patched so that it can be recognized as a bootable image???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacUser2525 Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 I have an iMac that came with an Leopard install disc labeled "CPU Drop-in DVD". I have a Windows computer running VMWare and am trying to build an iso that can be mounted and booted by VMWare workstation. VMWare finds the iso OK but does not see the boot section of the image and juast spins while looking for a DHCP server to resolve the boot. Can anyone shed some light on what I am doing wrong? Unless I have missed something here you will not get a standard Mac .iso image to be bootable in vmware it will never pass the hardware check and unless vmware is breaking the Apple EULA it never will either. Now if you were to search on "pcwiz vmware" you just might find an image that has been hacked for use on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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