Installing OSX leopard as a virtual machine.

[Jacob Was Here]

Hey all, I finally worked out how to install Leopard as a virtual machine and decided to write a brief guide on how you too can do it seeing as no-one else has really done one. First a list of things you will need:

 

* A version of Leopard saved as an iso (For this guide i used iDeneb 10.5.5. Others have said using Jas works well too)

* A virtual machine program ( I used vmware workstation, not sure of any other programs that work)

* Patience

 

Okay, now for the installing of leopard.

 

1. install vmware workstation onto your pc

2. Once install complete, open vmware workstation and start creating a new vm. Follow the wizard and specify these settings as you go:

• When you first start the new vm wizard choose a custom one rather then typical(typical will not work) and then on the next screen set it to Workstation 6 (not 6.5)
  
• Then when it ask you for an installer disc, click on 'Installer disc image file (iso)' and input the location to your leopard iso
  
• It will then tell you the os can not be detected. On the next screen choose other then FreeBSD-64bit
  
• Then input a name and location for your vm (can be what ever you like)
  
• On the processor screen you can select either 1 or 2 cpus. (I used 2 but many have said using 2 dosn't work. If it dosnt for you then select 1)
  
• On the next screen input how much ram you want osx to have ( i used 2gig: half of my total amount of ram)
  

• then just select nat for networking, select scsi for disk type, create the disk(about 20gb will do nicely)then on the final screen uncheck 'Power on after creation'(we have a bit of tweaking to do first)
  

Ok now that you have basicly created the vm, we need to tweak a setting so vmware can identify it as Mac OSX. You need to browse to the folder containing the virtual machine configuration file. Once you have found it open it with notepad and finf the line that starts guestos. It should say something like 'guestos=freebsd-64' You need to change this so it reads'guestos=darwin-64' Vmware will then identify the vm as Mac OSX Server Experimental. Save the file and go back to vmware. Now your ready to start the vm. So power it on and press f8 at the darwin boot loader. There should be a line that says something about ideneb v 1.3 10.5.5. If it does your good (hopefully) if it dosn't then restart the vm and try again. Once at the darwin boot loader and you have pressed f8, type -v to boot in verbose mode. OSX will then start showing you alot of code. It will then bring you into the start of the osx installation. Choose your language settings then click the arrow. It should then take you to the iDeneb welcome screen. Now you have to format your disk. Go to the tolbar at the top of the screen and choose utilities then Disk utiltiy. Open that then click on the vmware hdd on the left hand side. Click on partition, choose 1 partition, call it Mac HDD, the set it to use the MBR, not the apple thing (click on the options button on the partition screen to do this). Click apply then once its done close disk utility. Once back at the welcome screen proceed to the install summary screen. Click on customise and then choose the following from the options available:

 

Under Patches 10.5.5 choose the following:

AMD Patch (only choose this if you have an AMD cpu, DO NOT use it if you have an intel cpu)

• Kernel - 9.4.0 StageXNU
  
• Fix - Poweroff fix
  

Select all applications.

 

Once you have done this click done then click install back on the 'Install summary' page. Skip the disk consitency check and wait for osx to install. (the hardest part is over yay...)

 

Once you have installed and your vm reboots you should get the apple start up wizard. Go through it and in a few minutes you should be staring at the desktop of OSX Leopard 10.5.5. If you are then well done, if not, well then im sorry you have stuffed something up, try again. You should be able to get networking. Unfortunately there is no sound (mainly because nobody knows what vmware emulates as hardware, so no one can make a driver for it ) Other then that everything works. The only other annoying thing is you only get 1024x720 screen resolution (same reason as sound).

 

Well thats about it. If anyone wants screenshots, videos etc about this vm post it and i will try to help you out. Other then that enjoy OSX.

[mrfatboy]

there is a way to change the screen resolution. I did it a month ago. You change the plist.apple.info.com (?) for something. I will try post if I can find the instructions.

[hashooma1985]

well, after trying the above tutorial, which has few things different than other tutors, which is:

this one didnt add the paevm line

this one changed the guest os to darwin-64

this one didnt change anything in the BIOS.

 

the change I got in the result is when i press f8 and -v at the booting, the installation started and many lines appeared unlike previous times it always hangs when i type -v.

 

but the same problem still exist, same blue screen whith iDeneb word at the bottom, and the rainbow cursor at the top rounding for about an hour now and nothing changed

 

Note: I followed the exact words above, and my processor is core 2 due e6550 2.3

[Jacob Was Here]

well, after trying the above tutorial, which has few things different than other tutors, which is:

this one didnt add the paevm line

this one changed the guest os to darwin-64

this one didnt change anything in the BIOS.

 

the change I got in the result is when i press f8 and -v at the booting, the installation started and many lines appeared unlike previous times it always hangs when i type -v.

 

but the same problem still exist, same blue screen whith iDeneb word at the bottom, and the rainbow cursor at the top rounding for about an hour now and nothing changed

 

Note: I followed the exact words above, and my processor is core 2 due e6550 2.3

 

What version of iDeneb are you using? The reason I changed the guest os to darwin-64 is so that vmware will actually recognize the vm as mac osx(mac osx server to be more exact). Because you have an intel cpu you need to turn virtualisation off in the bios. Not sure exactly what it does but it has been reported to work so try that.

[hashooma1985]

What version of iDeneb are you using? The reason I changed the guest os to darwin-64 is so that vmware will actually recognize the vm as mac osx(mac osx server to be more exact). Because you have an intel cpu you need to turn virtualisation off in the bios. Not sure exactly what it does but it has been reported to work so try that.

 

 

how to turn of the virtualization in the bios?

[Jacob Was Here]

how to turn of the virtualization in the bios?

 

Depends on your bios. Usually if you just boot into the bios and have a look under a tab for something like 'Intel Virtualisation Technology'. Set that to disabled if its there. You may have to update the bios to see it.

[Reed Whaley]

I'm getting ReportCrash[47]: mkdir() failed to create /Library/Logs with error: Read-only file system.

 

Any ideas?

 

EDIT: Ok, fixed that by switching to 1 processor instead of 2, now all I get is the spinning beach-ball of death.

[Jacob Was Here]

EDIT: Ok, fixed that by switching to 1 processor instead of 2, now all I get is the spinning beach-ball of death.

 

When does the ball appear?

[Reed Whaley]

Right as it loads from verbose mode into the gui for the installation.

 

[Jacob Was Here]

Did you set the vm to workstation 6.0 or 6.5?

[Reed Whaley]

It's set to workstation 6.0.

[Jacob Was Here]

It's set to workstation 6.0.

Hmm. What sort of specs does your system have?

[Reed Whaley]

Its one of the new Asus G50VT-X5 series notebooks. I know a lot of these specs don't actually matter, its just what I have typed in already.

 

Processor Brand-Intel®

Processor Platform-Intel® Centrino® 2

Processor-Intel® Core™2 Duo Mobile

Processor Speed-2.13GHz

Display Type-WXGA widescreen with 1366 x 768 resolution

System Bus-1066MHz

Cache Memory-3MB on die Level

System Memory (RAM)-4GB

Type of Memory (RAM)-PC2-6400 DDR2 SDRAM

Hard Drive Type-Serial ATA (7200 rpm)

Hard Drive Size-320GB

Optical Drive-Double-layer DVD±RW/CD-RW

Optical Drive Speeds-Drive speeds not specified

Direct-Disc Labeling-Yes

Digital Media Reader or Slots-Yes, digital media card reader

Graphics-NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS

Video Memory-512MB GDDR3

Personal Video Recorder (PVR)-No

TV Tuner-No

MPEG-Yes

Built-in Webcam-Yes

Modem-None

Networking-Built-in 10Base-T/100Base-TX Ethernet LAN with RJ-45 connector

Wireless Networking-Wireless-A+B+G+N

Bluetooth-Enabled-No

Security Technology-Facial recognition

S-Video Outputs-None

Additional Audio/Video Connectors-HDMI

Audio-Azalia audio chip

Speakers-Built-in Altec Lansing

PCMCIA Slots-1 Type II

USB 2.0 Ports-4

IEEE 1394 FireWire Ports-1

Parallel Ports-None

Serial Ports-None

Game Ports-None

[Jacob Was Here]

Nice lappy. Disable intel virtualisation in the bios. Not sure how that helps but it usualy works everytime.

[Reed Whaley]

So, Intel Virtualization was already disabled.

[Lambros]

quick question, where is the vmware config file found that u gotta modify?

 

thanks, im a bit inexperienced at this.

[Reed Whaley]

Normally, it's in Documents/Virtual Machines/(whatever you saved the vm as)

 

Then find the config file, and open it in wordpad or notepad.

[Lambros]

is it the vmware virtual configuration file?

[Reed Whaley]

That's the one, then just follow the instructions that Jacob was nice enough to post at the top of the page.

[Lambros]

thanks....if it is set to other, not other-64, wat should i change to?

 

darwin 64 or just darwin?

[Reed Whaley]

Did you set it to FreeBSD 64-bit during the virtual machine setup?

[Jacob Was Here]

Yeah what reed said.

 

@reed whaley: what version of osx are you trying to install?

[Reed Whaley]

Trying to install Iatkos_5i, I'm going to attempt to download iDeneb here in a few.

[Jacob Was Here]

thanks....if it is set to other, not other-64, wat should i change to?

 

darwin 64 or just darwin?

 

You need to change it to darwin-64. That lets vmware recognise the vm as mac osx.

 

Trying to install Iatkos_5i, I'm going to attempt to download iDeneb here in a few.

 

Yeah iatkos isn't known for its virtual machine compatibility. I used iDeneb because it was the easiest to get running as a virtual machine.

[Reed Whaley]

Ok, got a copy of iDeneb, but now it hangs at the first gray screen.