a2h Posted March 4, 2010 Share Posted March 4, 2010 (This is a crosspost with my blog post) Thanks to this tutorial for some pointers. This method has been tested on VMware Player 3.0.1 with iDeneb 1.6 lite. As VMware Workstation is quite similar, this tutorial is expected to work under it as well. You know what you doing, move zig Create a new virtual machine Select the iDeneb iso, and click next Set the OS to Other -> FreeBSD (64-bit untested) Give your VM a name, like "Mac OS X" or something as unoriginal as you want Make the hard drive about 15G or so You probably are at the end of the wizard now (unless you're using Workstation) Edit the VM (this can be done through the wizard if you're using Workstation) Set the RAM to something you like, at least 512M Go to the network adapter page and change it to bridged Close the settings Play/start/whatever the VM As soon as the "press any key to load Mac OS X or F8" screen comes up, press F8 Type in: "-v -f busratio=10 cpus=1" without the quotes (your mileage may vary, maybe try 7 instead?) Wait for the flying text party to end Skip past the welcome, license, etc until you get to the destination selection screen Go into Utilities -> Disk Utility Erase the disc using "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" (this should be default), with whatever name you like Go on, but then go into Customize SELECT THESE: Kernel 9.7.0, ACPI fix, Old PS/2 drivers, ICH fix (This list is off my memory, please tell me if this combo fails! Also I don't know how to get sound working) Wait. Twiddle your thumbs. Try to wonder what spectrum Portal is trying to comply with. Fall off a cliff (well no don't fall off a cliff). Upon restart, when Chameleon is counting down, give it the flags you used to go into the installer Go through the post install wizard Go into Terminal Run this command: sudo /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist Add these two lines:<key>Graphics Mode</key><string>1280x800x32</string>Configure the string as you wish. For the <string></string> after <key>Kernel Flags</key>, fill it in with the flags from before (without the -v if you like the pretty Apple loading screen and/or if you hate flying text parties) Save Download the appropriate file from here (I used darwin-wks7) Go into VM -> Settings and mount the darwin.iso inside the package you downloaded Install You're forced to reboot Wait, enjoy, have fun, because you're done! Hey look a screenshot (with the wallpaper changed to aurora) You're welcome. I love you too. REGARDING VMWARE TOOLS According to the provider of the VMware Tools they only support: * Copy & paste between host and guest * Transparent mouse entry and exit to guest * Shared folders * VMware SVGA II video driver I have only been able to verify copy&paste and shared folder functionality. I cannot get mouse entry/exit working, and I have not attempted to test the video driver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fask Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 Driver patchati VMsvga2 http://sourceforge.net/projects/vmsvga2/#googtrans/auto/it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsn0x Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 Are steps 29-31 necesecary? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MxTofitof Posted June 29, 2010 Share Posted June 29, 2010 Installed succesfully on my computer : AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition 2x ASUS HD4770 Formula 2x 2GO OCZ DDR2 RAM Gigabyte MA790X-UD3P Corsair TX650W Samsung DVD Samsung HDD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilsquelch Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 thanks for the post, but it seems that i will not be able to do any VM emulation. According to Several posts, a non vt-x CPU will not allow me to do this. I have a Intel T6400 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSoK Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 thanks for the post, but it seems that i will not be able to do any VM emulation. According to Several posts, a non vt-x CPU will not allow me to do this. I have a Intel T6400 Not my area of knowledge but try Zenith432's SnowKitty Topic, link below, it may point you in the right direction, just do not expect too much performance. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...t&p=1288448 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilsquelch Posted November 16, 2010 Share Posted November 16, 2010 Not my area of knowledge but try Zenith432's SnowKitty Topic, link below, it may point you in the right direction, just do not expect too much performance. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...t&p=1288448 You were right Performance was really bad. Did actual install instead. Happy with my decision. Non VT-x owners get pwned. oh well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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