sadanro100 Posted September 6, 2009 Share Posted September 6, 2009 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! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/184455-physical-os-x-boot-crashing-in-vmware/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donk Posted September 6, 2009 Share Posted September 6, 2009 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! Can you post bthe information listed here please? http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...t=#entry1189918 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/184455-physical-os-x-boot-crashing-in-vmware/#findComment-1254074 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadanro100 Posted September 6, 2009 Author Share Posted September 6, 2009 Posting there now, sorry about that... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/184455-physical-os-x-boot-crashing-in-vmware/#findComment-1254391 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donk Posted September 6, 2009 Share Posted September 6, 2009 Posting there now, sorry about that... There wasn't a problem posting here, the link was just to tell you what I needed. It should have taken you to an entry about the things that need to be reported to allow a quicker diagnosis. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/184455-physical-os-x-boot-crashing-in-vmware/#findComment-1254417 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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