Supra James Posted August 21, 2010 Share Posted August 21, 2010 Hello! My end goal here is to have a virtualised Snow Leopard (server or client) running under VMware Workstation 7 on my Linux machine running CentOS 5.5 (8GB ram, Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 CPU). I've tried two different paths so far with no luck: 1. Snow Leopard Server pre-built vmware image - this works perfectly on my MacBook Pro under VMware Fusion 3.1, I even updated it to 10.6.4 no problems. I expected to just be able to move this VM over to my Linux box, but it doesn't boot. It hangs right after "Loading Darwin/x86". If I boot verbose mode I get: Loading Darwin/x86 Loading kernel mach_kernel Loading HFS+ file: [mach_kernel] from 4234070. Loading HFS+ file: [mach_kernel] from 4234070. Then nothing. 2. Using a bootloader.iso / darwin_snow.iso with my genuine Snow Leopard Install DVD, and I get exactly the same behavior trying to load the mach_kernel! I can get a little further if I manually tweak the .vmx settings, changing the OS type to FreeBSD (64-bit) - I then get quite a lot of loading drivers but then: Invalid front-side bus frequency 66000000 Hz. Disabling the CPU ... Can anyone assist with either method? I feel like I'm close! Cheers all! James Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/229516-troubles-with-sl-on-vmwarelinux/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supra James Posted August 22, 2010 Author Share Posted August 22, 2010 I've tried the failing VM image (from part 1 above) and it does boot up fine on a Windows 7 laptop I have - Core 2 Due, 2GB RAM). So, VM config is OK I guess, it hyst must be something weird about my server. Anyone? Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/229516-troubles-with-sl-on-vmwarelinux/#findComment-1534941 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supra James Posted August 25, 2010 Author Share Posted August 25, 2010 Have tried upgrading Workstation to 7.1.1 today but still getting the same problem. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/229516-troubles-with-sl-on-vmwarelinux/#findComment-1536828 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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