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mharris45
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I've englarged my vdisk by using vmware-vdiskmanager -x 20GB myDisk.vmdk, and am now going into disk util to expand. However it says that the partition is too small. Im trying to expand it from 16GB to 25GB.

 

I've also tried merged it using the Terminal command sudo diskutil mergePartitions "Journaled HFS+" New disk1s1 disk1s2 however I am having no such look with either method.

 

Any ideas on how to expand the partition?

 

Has anyone come across a solution for this? I have run into the same issue and have not been able to use either mergePartitions/extendPartition successfully.

Donk
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Has anyone come across a solution for this? I have run into the same issue and have not been able to use either mergePartitions/extendPartition successfully.

 

Create a second VMDK and use Carbon Copy Cloner to move it over. Then remove the first virtual drive and replace the old one. I have never found a way to expand HFS partitions.

mharris45
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Create a second VMDK and use Carbon Copy Cloner to move it over. Then remove the first virtual drive and replace the old one. I have never found a way to expand HFS partitions.

What about just adding a second drive? I tried that as well, and Disk Utility wouldn't allow it to be formatted.

Donk
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What about just adding a second drive? I tried that as well, and Disk Utility wouldn't allow it to be formatted.

 

Sorry never seen that problem. If the drive is attached to the virtual machine the rest is up to the OS.

captainfs
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Many thanks for the manual.pdf and post!

 

Just want to report:

Host OS: Vista Home Premium SP2 (OEM)

System : ACER 5920G Notebook with 2GB and latest Bios

CPU : T7500 there is a program on the internet to check VT-x enabled. Acer enabled and locked it by default.

Vmware: v6.5.2 build 156735

Network: bridged over Intel Wifi.

 

Did a fresh install on VmWare 6.5.2 as described in the manual: OS X Leopard 10.5.1 Retail DVD grabbed from the local Apple store.

Had a keyboard problem so: keyboard.vusb.enable = "FALSE" solved this. Did a hard reset.

Booted 10.5.1: had to pass the Welcome screens and create an account.

Didn't shutdown thereafter, instead went to the 10.5.8 update immediately.

After the about 800Mb download the system wanted to reboot first > it hanged on shutdown, so hard reset.

Then I faced the Welcome loop which was easily solved (see Apple forum).

After second reboot the 10.5.8 update install started automatically which took 15min to complete.

 

Third reboot: perfect stable running 10.5.8! Boots very fast in about 30s! Look and feel is very good, much much better and faster than the PCWiz image I grabbed before this.

 

Did not install the VmWare tools yet.

 

1 happy OSX user ;)

Wampenseppl
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Never thought that anyone would refer me to a manual as I read them quite thoroughly. :P

I disabled the virtual USB keyboard and DirectX acceleration (DirectX and MacOS? errr), now it seems to run fine. I even got Apple Remote Desktop working, Virtual Network options were a bit tricky.

 

Thanks!

 

Got too early with that, unfortunately the problem with Mac OS hanging when idling in screensaver persists. :)

Donk
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Got too early with that, unfortunately the problem with Mac OS hanging when idling in screensaver persists. :D

 

Switch off screensaver, all power saving and add Caffeine app.

tr1p
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Great that it now works. I guess there must have been some odd interaction between VMware and the direct access to the DVD drive. Has been reported before but not with Leopard.

 

I had the same issue with the Mac OS X 10.5.6 installer timing out on DVD disc access when I installed off my physcial retail DVD. Having read the couple of posts above, I used PowerISO from within Windows to rip the retail DVD to an ISO image (I was quite suprised that it could rip it fine considering the DVD has two parts to it: the Windows part and the Mac part). Mounting the resultant ISO image in VMware allowed me to successfully install Mac OS X 10.5.6 :-)

Donk
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I get this error when trynna install it: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...ost&id=3977

 

Please help yourself and me by posting more information http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...t=#entry1189918.

 

I followed the nice PDF. I use ESX 4. When i start the VM i get The guest operating system 'darwinGuest' is not supported

 

What could be wrong

 

Luc

 

Either you missed a step or have you patched ESX from VMware. If you have loaded a patch the tools get refreshed and you need to run though the steps again.

 

I had the same issue with the Mac OS X 10.5.6 installer timing out on DVD disc access when I installed off my physcial retail DVD. Having read the couple of posts above, I used PowerISO from within Windows to rip the retail DVD to an ISO image (I was quite suprised that it could rip it fine considering the DVD has two parts to it: the Windows part and the Mac part). Mounting the resultant ISO image in VMware allowed me to successfully install Mac OS X 10.5.6 :-)

 

Interestingly, VMware have just said this is the best way to load Leopard into Fusion, using an ISO or DMG.

sadanro100
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Hi there, Ive had OS X installed on my Msi Wind for a while now using an OS X .iso designed for Wind's hardware (msiwindosx86.iso) and everything works perfectly. The only reason for why I installed it is because Ive got an iPhone and Im not able to sync it in my main OS (Ubuntu) and as Im not a big fan of Windoze I chose OS X to do that job.

However, Im not really happy having to reboot every time I want to sync my music or anything, so I installed VMWare Workstation to try to virtualise the physical partition (cos I dont really like the ideia of not being able to boot the OS as well, since I'd need that to restore the phone as it wouldnt work in virtualised environments).

 

Well, i suppose I got really close to what I wanted after following Donk's guide (big thanks!) included in vmware-darwin-200.zip. What I did was:

 

1 - Copied all the needed .iso files (darwin.iso, linux.iso...) by launching the script provided

2 - Created a new virtual machine in VMWare as FreeBSD and set it to read from the physical partition (had to open Workstation with sudo or it wouldnt let me access the partitions)

3 - Added the following content to .vmx file:

 

ich7m.present = "TRUE"

smc.present = "FALSE"

keyboard.vusb.enable = "TRUE"

mouse.vusb.enable = "TRUE"

 

4 - Changed the guest OS to "darwin"

 

When I boot it up, everything goes as expected, until it gets to the grey apple screen and crashes with that OS X warning message saying that the machine needs to be rebooted (I think its something about kernel) and VMWare Player quits instantly.

Ive tried changing processors execution mode, ticking paravirtual kernel support but nothing helped.

 

Have you guys had any luck doing that, any experience twards this problem?

 

If my english didnt make things clear please let me know,

looking forward to any attention.

Thanks a lot!

 

Additional info: first time I boot the virtual machine, VMWare tells me that it wasnt able to connect to the virtual device IDE-0 and asks me if want to try to connect to it every time I power the machine up. I dunno if it happens because the host OS doesnt have permission to access OS X file system (I cant browse the entire OS X file system from Ubuntu file manager, only part of it), therefore VMWare wouldnt have permission to load the necessary content.

Donk
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Hi there, Ive had OS X installed on my Msi Wind for a while now using an OS X .iso designed for Wind's hardware (msiwindosx86.iso) and everything works perfectly. The only reason for why I installed it is because Ive got an iPhone and Im not able to sync it in my main OS (Ubuntu) and as Im not a big fan of Windoze I chose OS X to do that job.

However, Im not really happy having to reboot every time I want to sync my music or anything, so I installed VMWare Workstation to try to virtualise the physical partition (cos I dont really like the ideia of not being able to boot the OS as well, since I'd need that to restore the phone as it wouldnt work in virtualised environments).

 

Well, i suppose I got really close to what I wanted after following Donk's guide (big thanks!) included in vmware-darwin-200.zip. What I did was:

 

1 - Copied all the needed .iso files (darwin.iso, linux.iso...) by launching the script provided

2 - Created a new virtual machine in VMWare as FreeBSD and set it to read from the physical partition (had to open Workstation with sudo or it wouldnt let me access the partitions)

3 - Added the following content to .vmx file:

 

ich7m.present = "TRUE"

smc.present = "FALSE"

keyboard.vusb.enable = "TRUE"

mouse.vusb.enable = "TRUE"

 

4 - Changed the guest OS to "darwin"

 

When I boot it up, everything goes as expected, until it gets to the grey apple screen and crashes with that OS X warning message saying that the machine needs to be rebooted (I think its something about kernel) and VMWare Player quits instantly.

Ive tried changing processors execution mode, ticking paravirtual kernel support but nothing helped.

 

Have you guys had any luck doing that, any experience twards this problem?

 

If my english didnt make things clear please let me know,

looking forward to any attention.

Thanks a lot!

 

Additional info: first time I boot the virtual machine, VMWare tells me that it wasnt able to connect to the virtual device IDE-0 and asks me if want to try to connect to it every time I power the machine up. I dunno if it happens because the host OS doesnt have permission to access OS X file system (I cant browse the entire OS X file system from Ubuntu file manager, only part of it), therefore VMWare wouldnt have permission to load the necessary content.

 

Can you post the following:

 

To help me understand some of the issues that are being seen can I ask everyone who has a problem to post the following information please when first logging the problem:

  1. VMware product and version being used
  2. Host operating system
  3. Host CPU
  4. Vanilla Leopard or other distro
  5. Version of Leopard 10.5.6, 10.5.7 etc.
  6. Please attach the VMX file
  7. Please attach the latest vmware.log file

TheGreatDeceiver
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Donk, somewhat off topic question. Assuming I have a beta copy of vmware, debugging is set to full and is grayed out under VM settings. Is there a switch or line to add to the vmx file to turn this off?

 

thanks

radam
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Donk, somewhat off topic question. Assuming I have a beta copy of vmware, debugging is set to full and is grayed out under VM settings. Is there a switch or line to add to the vmx file to turn this off?

 

thanks

 

Go into C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Workstation or the directory where VMware is installed.

 

Then find vmware-vmx-debug.exe and delete it or just rename it to like vmware-vmx-debug.bak or whatever you want.

 

That was all I did the remove debugging.

 

Donk also mention copying the file vmware-vmx.exe and renaming it to vmware-vmx-debug.exe but I did not have to do that.

TheGreatDeceiver
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Go into C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Workstation or the directory where VMware is installed.

 

Then find vmware-vmx-debug.exe and delete it or just rename it to like vmware-vmx-debug.bak or whatever you want.

 

That was all I did the remove debugging.

 

Donk also mention copying the file vmware-vmx.exe and renaming it to vmware-vmx-debug.exe but I did not have to do that.

thank you. will try this.worked, I guess. seems opening vms faster I think.

rlsx
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Greetings TheGreatDeceiver,

 

I see that you are running OS-X on a Dell Inspiron 1505.

Can you tell me, briefly, how to do it? Do you know if the same is possible with a Dell Latitude E6400 or E6500?

 

Thanks, in advance

TheGreatDeceiver
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Greetings TheGreatDeceiver,

 

I see that you are running OS-X on a Dell Inspiron 1505.

Can you tell me, briefly, how to do it? Do you know if the same is possible with a Dell Latitude E6400 or E6500?

 

Thanks, in advance

 

I did a retail installation of 10.5.6 and then upgraded to 10.5.8. The gma950 is a bit(h to upgrade though. It all depends on your hardware whether a specific guide will work. All my posts are in either this or this thread. There are a few people who describe their installations very detailed (e.g. Inkblot). But again, it all depends on the hardware you got in your system.

 

good luck

alch555
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Help me to install Mac OS X 10.6 in VMware 6.5 on desktop with Core i7 processor. I hear its impossible. Why? What is different in first post's manual between installation 10.5 and 10.6 on desktop with i7 processor?

Cr4z33
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Help me to install Mac OS X 10.6 in VMware 6.5 on desktop with Core i7 processor. I hear its impossible. Why? What is different in first post's manual between installation 10.5 and 10.6 on desktop with i7 processor?

It's not possible yet.

Read the manual attached in the first post. :D

ninox
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Ciao,

 

my pc is DELL Precision T3400

vmware 6.5.2 build 156735

Intel® Core2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz

4GB Ram

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3400/4400

Hitachi HDT725050VLA360 500 GBytes IDE SATA-II

NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit Controller - Teefer2 Miniport

windows xp sp3

iATKOS_V7

 

could you help me?

 

Ciao

Thanks

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Donk
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Ciao,

 

my pc is DELL Precision T3400

vmware 6.5.2 build 156735

Intel® Core™2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz

4GB Ram

NVIDIA Quadro FX 3400/4400

Hitachi HDT725050VLA360 500 GBytes IDE SATA-II

NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit Controller - Teefer2 Miniport

windows xp sp3

iATKOS_V7

 

could you help me?

 

Ciao

Thanks

 

1. This work does not support anything other than retail Leopard, and you are using iATKOS, so may be something in that version which is causing the problem.

2. Try editing vmx and change lines to this:

 

monitor.virtual_exec = "hardware"

monitor.virtual_mmu = "software"

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