McOsh Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 Hello I have VMWare Workstation 7.1.4 installed. These are my PC's hardware specifications according to Piriform Speccy: Operating System MS Windows XP Home 32-bit SP3 CPU Intel Atom N450 @ 1.66GHz 60 °C Pineview-N 45nm Technology RAM 2.00 GB Single-Channel DDR2 (5-5-5-15) Motherboard Acer eM350 (CPU) 45 °C Graphics Plug and Play Monitor (1024x600@60Hz) Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 3150 Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 3150 Hard Drives 156GB Western Digital WDC WD1600BEVT-22A23T0 (SATA) 42 °C Optical Drives No optical disk drives detected Audio Realtek High Definition Audio A bit more details about the CPU: Intel Atom N450 Cores 1 Threads 2 Name Intel Atom N450 Code Name Pineview-N Package Socket 437 FCBGA8 Technology 45nm Specification Intel® Atom CPU N450 @ 1.66GHz Family 6 Extended Family 6 Model C Extended Model 1C Stepping A Revision B0 Instructions MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, Intel 64 Virtualization Unsupported Hyperthreading Supported, Enabled Bus Speed 166.3 MHz Rated Bus Speed 665.1 MHz Stock Core Speed 1666 MHz Stock Bus Speed 166 MHz Average Temperature 60 °C Caches L1 Data Cache Size 24 KBytes L1 Instructions Cache Size 32 KBytes L2 Unified Cache Size 512 KBytes Core 0 Core Speed 1662.8 MHz Multiplier x 10.0 Bus Speed 166.3 MHz Rated Bus Speed 665.1 MHz Temperature 60 °C Thread 1 APIC ID 0 Thread 2 APIC ID 1 I booted an empty virtual hard disk using Prystar's Rebel EFI then inserted Snow Leopard as required. I get the grey screen with the apple but the "virtual CPU has entered a shutdown state". I understand it's got something to do with VT-x, which my CPU doesn't support according to Speccy. Please advise. Thank You. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/258922-virtual-cpu-entered-shutdown-state/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
ifrit05 Posted June 10, 2011 Share Posted June 10, 2011 You MUST have VT-x to run a retail OS X inside a Virtual Machine. Your Atom don't support VT-x, causing the "CPU Shutdown" error. Have a look on the Wikipedia page about your CPU. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel...2_.2845_nm.29_3 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/258922-virtual-cpu-entered-shutdown-state/#findComment-1695375 Share on other sites More sharing options...
McOsh Posted June 10, 2011 Author Share Posted June 10, 2011 I have two questions: 1) Isn't there anything I can do with the CPU settings of a VMWare Workstation 7.1.4 virtual machine ? (Please check the attached BMP screen capture) 2) retail OS X was in bold. Does that mean that I may run a non-retail OS X on a non VT-x CPU ? Thank You. virtual_CPU_settings.bmp Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/258922-virtual-cpu-entered-shutdown-state/#findComment-1695422 Share on other sites More sharing options...
shusuke028 Posted June 10, 2011 Share Posted June 10, 2011 I have two questions: 1) Isn't there anything I can do with the CPU settings of a VMWare Workstation 7.1.4 virtual machine ? (Please check the attached BMP screen capture) 2) retail OS X was in bold. Does that mean that I may run a non-retail OS X on a non VT-x CPU ? Thank You. After a quick search in google, I found this http://www.sysprobs.com/install-mac-os-leopard-vt-vmware Looks as though it's saying that u just have to check that box "VMware Kernel Paravirtualizatioon" and it looks like that'll do it maybe? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/258922-virtual-cpu-entered-shutdown-state/#findComment-1695550 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ifrit05 Posted June 10, 2011 Share Posted June 10, 2011 I have two questions: 1) Isn't there anything I can do with the CPU settings of a VMWare Workstation 7.1.4 virtual machine ? (Please check the attached BMP screen capture) 2) retail OS X was in bold. Does that mean that I may run a non-retail OS X on a non VT-x CPU ? 1. No, by default VMWare needs to have VT-x enabled for a retail OS X, it;s hard coded into the VM. Last time I checked, it has to do with the 64bit kernel. It still doesn't work when you boot in 32bit though. 2. Yes, custom distros like iATKOS, SnowLeo, and Hazard can run in VMWare without VT-x, but you wont get Video Hardware Acceleration, which is not fun... You might be better of installing it natively. EDIT: @shusuke028: On that site, it says to download a pre-built image of Leopard from bittorrent... The reason why that works on that image is because it has been hacked to allow VMWare to disable VT-x on OS X. OP is better off getting a pre-hacked distro (iATKOS, SnowLeo, Hazard) running with VMWare or install OS X natively. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/258922-virtual-cpu-entered-shutdown-state/#findComment-1695563 Share on other sites More sharing options...
shusuke028 Posted June 10, 2011 Share Posted June 10, 2011 1. No, by default VMWare needs to have VT-x enabled for a retail OS X, it;s hard coded into the VM. Last time I checked, it has to do with the 64bit kernel. It still doesn't work when you boot in 32bit though. 2. Yes, custom distros like iATKOS, SnowLeo, and Hazard can run in VMWare without VT-x, but you wont get Video Hardware Acceleration, which is not fun... You might be better of installing it natively. EDIT: @shusuke028: On that site, it says to download a pre-built image of Leopard from bittorrent... The reason why that works on that image is because it has been hacked to allow VMWare to disable VT-x on OS X. OP is better off getting a pre-hacked distro (iATKOS, SnowLeo, Hazard) running with VMWare or install OS X natively. Ahhh ok, makes sense. Sorrryyyyy. Didn't mean to mislead you Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/258922-virtual-cpu-entered-shutdown-state/#findComment-1695654 Share on other sites More sharing options...
McOsh Posted June 11, 2011 Author Share Posted June 11, 2011 What does install natively mean? install OS X on an actual physical Mac computer or in some kind of dual-boot with Windows on the "real" hardrive ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/258922-virtual-cpu-entered-shutdown-state/#findComment-1695846 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ifrit05 Posted June 11, 2011 Share Posted June 11, 2011 Install Natively=Install it on your actual physical machine, instead of running it off a VM. That way, more resources are available to OS X as Windows wont be hogging them. But your Graphics card wont be supported... So you SOL, because Leopard/SL without Graphics Acceleration is not fun. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/258922-virtual-cpu-entered-shutdown-state/#findComment-1696056 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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