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icehacker
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Hi there i know it might seem dumb but after getting mac osx to work on vmware you start wondering if i just had that vmware tools i would get an extra boost and everything incl audio usb etc could work fine. i am sure this is possible as maxxus had done the networking part for osx on vmware may be some one can do the rest.

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gn0stik
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First post.. Uber Noob in the Hackintosh arena. I'm running 10.4.4 Myz in VMWare on a Dell E1705 Core 2 Duo, 2gb ram. VM has 1GB of that.

 

 

Can someone post an example of their com.apple.boot.plist? Mine is stark bone default, and has no video settings or anything.

 

I'd like to know what the xml tags are etc for the various settings Especially video. And where to put them.

 

Regards,

Gn0stik.

 

Edit: Here's a copy of what I currently have...

 


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Kernel</key>
<string>mach_kernel</string>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<key>Boot Graphics</key>
<string>Yes</string>
<key>Timeout</key>
<string>5</string>
</dict>
</plist>

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banz
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hmm so the extremely slow mouse movements is due to no acceleration for the graphic drivers?

 

It's pretty much unusable for me to install it in vmware :unsure: and with osx as a native install it is not viable as my hardware is not supported. Guess I'll just keep running it on my desktop then.

gn0stik
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Yes, you can adjust the tracking speed, but that won't help him. I think what he's referring to is the screen response. Since the refresh rate is so slow, he won't be able to SEE the cursor movements as quickly as he likes even though it is moving faster. VMWare works differently with different versions however and you might have better luck with say, 10.4.3, as I've heard that is a bit speedier in vmware than 10.4.4, or 10.4.6.

 

 

Also since darwin(and hence OSX) is BSD based, you might be able to find a way to hack those vmware tools into working if you are really ambitious, at the console prompt of course. No DMG files for it.

 

I'm too new here to know if anyone has attempted this, but it seems logical enough to try.

 

gn0stik.

macgirl
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Anyway slow mouse movements has nothing to do with non acelerated graphic drivers.

 

I have 2 installations of Mac OS X, ones is 10.4.3 and the other is 10.4.8, the first one is very fast but the mouse moves exactly the same in both, also in native with and withdout the graphics drivers.

banz
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I'm using 10.4.8 on vm and omg it is so slow that I wouldn't want to use it at all. If I install it natively it is fine. I thought it is due to the screen refresh rate. I don't want it to dual boot because while at work I mainly use windows and only occationally I'll need a mac. It's pain in the *** when your supporting different OS. We have users with mac, debian, xp here so I need to switch around.

 

For example, I have install XP on it without vmware tools and you can feel the cursor laggy. After installing the vmware tools it is perfectly fine, it feels like your just infront of a real computer.

 

I thought everyone who uses osx on vm is experiencing the same problem... obviously not then. I'm using a 1.66 core duo with 2gig of memory. I have given osx 512 of memory and I checked the activity monitor to make sure its not lacking memory. It feels like the old tiger image which you havent delete the AppleTPM kext.

 

Hmm I just remembered I have used the AMD patch instead of the Intel as it gives me a ACPI kernel panic. But I'm using an intel cpu. Maybe its because of that. I'll try and get intel one to work then.

 

 

EDIT: Changed to 1 cpu and it is much faster now, but still can't compare with native install.

Anyway slow mouse movements has nothing to do with non acelerated graphic drivers.

 

I have 2 installations of Mac OS X, ones is 10.4.3 and the other is 10.4.8, the first one is very fast but the mouse moves exactly the same in both, also in native with and withdout the graphics drivers.

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karlo211
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Documentation on how to implement accelerated video under vmware is readily available (http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&...;sourceid=opera, for instance). It's essentially an SVGA adapter with some extras (which don't need to be supported).

 

Hacking a similar video driver to support vmware probably shouldn't be too much work. I took a quick peek at the ATI driver, and I'd assume that it would be possible to use that as a starting point (or indeed, have the ATI driver support vmware at the very lowest level).

alexb17
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hello all,

 

i'm a noob in the osx 89 scene...

can some one tell me what vmware is?

 

greez

 

the vm in "wmware" stands for virtual machine. it basically emulates a whole computer.

 

os x seems to run pretty fast on vmware 5.5, but i can't get any networking on it.

macgirl
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the vm in "wmware" stands for virtual machine. it basically emulates a whole computer.

 

os x seems to run pretty fast on vmware 5.5, but i can't get any networking on it.

Did you install the VMware Ethernet Driver?

track09
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Acceleration is exactly why there can't be QE/CI on VMware. There's no acceleration when installing Windows or a linux flavor on VMware because a software emulated video accelerator is not possible right now. Parallels said they were going to work on it, but they were way in over their heads. So if the emulated hardware isn't software emulated for acceleration, the OS installed cannot use accelerated technology.

macgirl
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Acceleration is exactly why there can't be QE/CI on VMware. There's no acceleration when installing Windows or a linux flavor on VMware because a software emulated video accelerator is not possible right now. Parallels said they were going to work on it, but they were way in over their heads. So if the emulated hardware isn't software emulated for acceleration, the OS installed cannot use accelerated technology.

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=287077

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Beareka
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MacOS slowness under VMWare has nothing to do with video acceleration!!! I had under WMWare the same problem - movement of mouse extrem slow. Than I have just booted direct native from the HDD, where I previosly MacOS with the help of WMWare installed. And WHAT A SURPRISE: everything works really quick (only video acceleration or WMWTools).

Fazit: The slowness of MacOS under WMWare on PC is dut to badly interaction between MacOS and WMWare or WMWare is the problem alone. :D

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