Cr0n_J0b Posted February 14, 2011 Share Posted February 14, 2011 Ok, I'm going to start over from scratch on my OSX 10.6 server. I have a version running 10.6.5 on ESXi 4.1, but for some reason it's crashing when I try to spin up itunes...I have a lot of songs, but I don't think that's the issue. So my one starting question is...which guide and which files. There are now so many variations in the thread and attached threads that I've gotten lost. I have: vmware-darwin-voodoo VMware_Mac_OS_X_Guest_Package vmware-darwin-200 vmware-darwin310-macosx1064 and a few more. What I'm looking for is the latest working darwin ISO and file set. An up to date guide would be nice too for ESX, but that might just be dreaming. thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSoK Posted February 14, 2011 Share Posted February 14, 2011 Ok, I'm going to start over from scratch on my OSX 10.6 server. I have a version running 10.6.5 on ESXi 4.1, but for some reason it's crashing when I try to spin up itunes...I have a lot of songs, but I don't think that's the issue. So my one starting question is...which guide and which files. There are now so many variations in the thread and attached threads that I've gotten lost. I have: vmware-darwin-voodoo VMware_Mac_OS_X_Guest_Package vmware-darwin-200 vmware-darwin310-macosx1064 and a few more. What I'm looking for is the latest working darwin ISO and file set. An up to date guide would be nice too for ESX, but that might just be dreaming. thanks Cr0n_J0b, Use Donk's latest darwin.iso, vmware-darwin310-macosx1064, and his original guide, see link below, I will get round to writing a new guide, I have all the notes and screen shots, just need to find the time to put it together: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...t&p=1186508 The other thing that might trip you up, is getting the DVD to be seen and mounted, see some boot parameters to help: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...t&p=1495893 For other assistance have a look at my topic for Workstation and Player, some useful links: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...t&p=1622074 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cr0n_J0b Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 Cr0n_J0b, Use Donk's latest darwin.iso, vmware-darwin310-macosx1064, and his original guide, see link below, I will get round to writing a new guide, I have all the notes and screen shots, just need to find the time to put it together: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...t&p=1186508 The other thing that might trip you up, is getting the DVD to be seen and mounted, see some boot parameters to help: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...t&p=1495893 For other assistance have a look at my topic for Workstation and Player, some useful links: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...t&p=1622074 Thanks, I followed you advise and I'm working on the installation, but I'm seeing some really strange behavior. let me explain. I did my first install and it was really smooth...unexpectedly so. I got all the way to the welcome screen and the disk partition utility and i noticed that I already had a disk partitioned with all of my space...this was a new datastore, so the install or the boot utility must have partitioned it for me. I killed the install halfway through, because I'm dumb...but I figured I would just go back in and do it again...this time however, the disk didn't show up automatically, and the boot ISO messed up my vmx file. Changed the guestos to bsd and other stuff...really wierd. so i fixed it all back up again...and this time used the rd(0,1)...line at boot, which got things going...I'm just not sure why it worked one way, once and not again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
appleguru Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 I got 10.6.6 working on ESXi 4.1 update 1 on my AMD host using nawcom's bootcd: http://appleguru.org/blog/2011/03/08/snow-...i-4-1-amd-host/ Any tips on getting vmware tools working? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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