NYC Coyote Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 has anyone tried the vmware tools for mac located inside the vmware fusion beta install? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/95958-leopard-on-vmware/page/3/#findComment-867838 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ack3 Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 Hey if i wanted to speed up leopard on vmware would i just up the memory it can use? Cause mine right now is running a little slow. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/95958-leopard-on-vmware/page/3/#findComment-868187 Share on other sites More sharing options...
flinxc Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 Does that kill your RAM run VMware leo/vista??? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/95958-leopard-on-vmware/page/3/#findComment-879206 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaVinciXL Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 Great, man. This shall be my "work-around" until i finally manage to install OS X natively on my machine... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/95958-leopard-on-vmware/page/3/#findComment-883859 Share on other sites More sharing options...
schnullimaus Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 Hi everyone, here is how I enabled UDMA-Mode in the pcwiz vmware image running on vmware 6.0: Login as root, and go to /System/Library/Extensions/IOATAFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext/Contents open the File Info.plist for editing Locate the section: <key>ESB2 ATA/100</key> <dict> (Comment - this editing is quik-and-dirty. A better way would be to create a new section for the VMWare-emulated IDE controller and leave the existing ones as they are...) edit the IOPCIPrimaryMatch key to 0x71118086. 8086 is Intel's PCI Vendor Code, 7111 is the PCI-ID of the Intel 82371 Controller, this is the one emulated by VMWare. <key>IOPCIPrimaryMatch</key> <string>0x71118086</string> Then edit the >Supported Transfer Modes to limit UDMA to UDMA-Mode2, because the 82371 only supports UDMA2: <key>Supported Transfer Modes</key> <string>0x0f061d</string> Setting the UDMA2-Mode is a bit guesswork as I did not find documentation on the Supported Transfer Modes bitmask. But in the Info.Plist, 0x3f061d is UDMA4, 0x1f061d is UDMA3, so I concluded 0x0f061d must be UDMA2. It works for me, hard-disk performance is apporox 10-fold (!!) in xbench after this mod) Delete /System/Library/Extensions.mkext, and reboot. It still takes very long to boot (takes long find the boot device...i do not know why- but when in Leopard everything goes much faster. To verify, go to System Profiler, Extensions, and check, that AppleIntelPIXATA.kext is loaded Enjoy, Stephan Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/95958-leopard-on-vmware/page/3/#findComment-1014708 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickDG Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 This did speed things up quite a bit! I noticed there was also a generic ATA kext that loaded. Should that be removed? Great work! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/95958-leopard-on-vmware/page/3/#findComment-1016905 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazzanova Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 great work schnullimaus!!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/95958-leopard-on-vmware/page/3/#findComment-1020400 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gree Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 is there a 10.5.5 version cause i got it to 10.5.2 but i need 10.5.5 for iphone sdk Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/95958-leopard-on-vmware/page/3/#findComment-1041616 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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