Install Run Mac OS X 10. 7 Lion in a Virtual Machine with VMWare. Install Run Mac OS X 1. Lion in a Virtual Machine with VMWare. Update 91. 42. 01. Installing Mac OS X Lion within a virtual machine is made significantly easier with VMWare Fusion 4. All you need to do is Installation of Lion is extremely fast, and you are then able to boot and use your virtual OS X 1.
About this Book This manual, the vShield Installation and Upgrade Guide, describes how to install and configure the VMwarevShield system by using the vShield. If you want to run Mac OS X 1. Lion Developer Preview but you dont want to bother setting up another partition or upgrading your existing Mac OS X 1. Lion in a virtual machine with VMWare. This is really only recommended for more technically inclined Mac OS X users. If youre serious about Lion development, remember that virtual machines have their limitations, and you should probably just setup a dedicated partition to run the developer preview directly. Having a dedicated partition will ultimately perform better and the installation process is a lot easier than setting this up to run in VMware. Anyway, if you want to try out Lion in a VM, heres what youll need Regarding the RAM requirement, VMware and virtual machines in general perform best with a lot of RAM, if you plan on using them often on your Mac its highly recommended to upgrade to 8. GB. With how cheap RAM is these days, I consider it an essential upgrade for power users. If youre curious, you can read my review of 8. GB RAM upgrade for a Mac. Debian 8 documentation covers information on how to install the operating system in a virtual machine. For additional information. VMware vSphere Update Manager 5. 5 Update 3 16 September 2015 Build 2735933. Last Document Update 16 September 2015. Check frequently for additions and updates. Book Pro where I detail the advantages of having a bunch of memory. Update Obvious. Logic. Google Cache Installing Mac OS X Lion in VMware. Shhh Dont tell anyone. Overview. Yay The developer version of OS X Lion is out in the wildNot going to say where I got it from, but I have it and I want to play with it But Being ill gotten and a pre beta release, I really dont want to install it on a hard drive and boot my i. Mac off of it. Who knows what crazy things could happen Would suck if something was wrong with the file system or a virus installed and it wiped all attached drives So, since I already use VMware Fusion for my Open. BSD web server, why not run Lion in a virtual machine Issue 1. Only server versions of Mac OS X can be run in a virtual machine. Well theres an easy way around that. Seems the system only checks for the existence of a single file, which can be created to appease the VM Gods. Issue 2. Lions installation and boot process is a lot different and the VM doesnt know what to make of it booting from a disk image makes the VM cower into a corner and cry for help. Or just get outright hostile and tell you, Not here, Jack But, as it turns out, theres a way around that as well. Not as easy as the first obstacle, but possible nonetheless. Step 1 Create a blank disk image. Using Disk Utility, create and mount a new image with the following settings,Name My. Installer. Size 5 GBFormat Mac OS X Extended. Encryption none. Partitions Single partition Apple Partition Map. Image Format DVDCD master. You can name it whatever you want, but be sure to modify the steps below accordingly. Step 2 Mount the Lion installer image. The image I obtained mounts as Mac OS X Install ESD. If yours mounts as something different, then you will need to make any necessary changes to reflect that in the following steps. Step 3 Mount the Base System image. The Lion installer image contains a bunch of hidden files, to get to them youll need to run the Terminal application. One of these hidden files is Base. System. dmg which is used to boot the system. cd VolumesMac OS X Install ESD open Base. System. dmg. The volume will mount as Mac OS X Base SystemStep 4 Copy the base system. The entire contents of the base system needs to be copied to your installer image. The Restore feature in Disk Utility works great for this. Once that is finished, you can eject the Base. System image, it is no longer needed. Please note, if you chose to Erase destination, your installer image will now have the same name as the source, Mac OS X Base System. I rename mine back to My. Installer. Step 5 Setup the kernelcache file. First the file needs to be copied from the Lion installer image to your installer image, then the boot configuration file updated to specify the location of the file. cp VolumesMac OS X Install ESDkernelcache VolumesMy. Installerkernelcache cd VolumesMy. InstallerLibraryPreferencesSystem. Configuration sudo vi com. Boot. plist. Make sure the boot file contains at least the following keyvalue to specify the location of the kernelcache file,Kernel Cachekernelcache. Step 6 Copy the installation Packages. Before the packages can be copied from the Lion installer image, theres a file on your installer image that needs to be deleted. sudo rm VolumesMy. InstallerSystemInstallationPackages sudo cp R VolumesMac OS X Install ESDPackages VolumesMy. InstallerSystemInstallationPackages. The copy cp command will take a few minutes its copying a few gigabytes of data, so be patient. Step 7 Flag the system as a server installation. Again, in order to boot an OS X volume in VMware, it needs to be a server. The system checks for the existence of a file in a specific location you can imitate a server installation simply by creating that file. cd VolumesMy. InstallerSystemLibraryCore. Services sudo touch Server. Version. plist. Thats it for the installation disk. Both installer images can be ejected. Step 8 Create a virtual machine. This shouldnt be anything new to you, but Ill go through each step anyway. Open VMware Fusion and select New from the File menu. Click the Continue without disc button. Select Create a custom virtual machine and then Continue. Select Operating System Apple Mac OS X and Version Mac OS X Server 1. Continue. Click the Customize Settings button, then name and save the new virtual machine. Choose CDs DVDs from Settings, then click Use disc image and select your installer image. Choose Hard disks from Settings, deselect Split into 2 GB files for the pre created hard drive and click Apply. Feel free to make any other changes to the settings with one caveat, you must use a SCSI hard disk IDE drives are not recognized by the installer after it boots. Also, if the hard disk is going to be used as a boot disk, it cannot be split into separate 2 GB files, so make sure to deselect that option when the HD is created. Step 9 Replace the VMs NVRAM. The default NVRAM will boot up previous OS X systems, but it will not boot up a Lion volume. I have a VM that I initially used as a Snow Leopard system. Booting into that system seems to have set the NVRAM so that it will know how to boot a Lion volume. Here is the NVRAM file from that VM. You can download it and use it in your VM. Download and uncompress the nvram file. Locate your VM within the Finder, right click and select Show Package Contents. Delete the current nvram file if one exists. Copy the downloaded nvram file into the folder and rename it to match the name of your VM mine is named, Mac OS X 1. Mac OS X 1. 0. 7. Now you should be able to run the VM and it will boot up to being the installation process. Step 1. 0 Installing Lion. After the installation disk boots up, the first thing you should do is run Disk Utility and format the hard drive. All the norms apply GUID partition map, Mac OS X Extended Journaled format, etc. When done, Quit to return to the installer. Continue with the installation. When the installation is complete, it will attempt to reboot the VM using the freshly installed OS on the hard disk. It wont boot, because its not a server installation. Step 1. 1 Forcing the VM to boot from the CD. VMware will not let you change the startup disk in the VMs settings, so youll have to force a change while the VM is running. Start the VM. As soon as you see the vmware splash screen, hit the escape key. This will bring you to a boot menu, select Boot ManagerThis will then bring you to another menu where you choose which device to boot from. With Mac OS X selected, you can look at the Device Path info on the right side of the screen to see the path to the default OS X boot device this should be the hard disk. You can then move through the list to determine which device would be the CD to boot from. The Pci or Scsi numbers will be different. If you choose the wrong device the first time, you can just restart the VM and choose another until you get it right. Step 1. 2 Flag the new system as a server installation. After the VM boots from the install disk again, run the Terminal from the Utilities menu. How to Install Mac. OS Sierra 1. 0. 1. VMware Step by Step Hey, heres how to install mac. OS High Sierra 1. Click here and go now The new Mac. OS Sierra is out and has been installed on almost all of the Macs because its new features going to get better and better. While it has spirit everywhere, especially, Siri which is more compatible and smart and finds the best results for you. Moreover, you have the universal clipboard, auto unlocks with Apple Watch and much more. Sounds exciting Do you think its only for Mac users or you cant install itWindows using VMware within some easy steps. However, as we have covered the previous OS X El Capitan installation on VMware, this time again were having a surprising gift for our users means weve covered this too, so lets get started. Hey, check out this fantastic latest mac. OS High Sierra installation guide. Install Mac. OS Sierra 1. VMware Step by Step Guide. Hey, before beginning the installation you need to take care them in order to install it fully on your computer. Minimum system requirements. GB MemoryRAMNumber of Processors 2. Hard Disk 8. 0GBGraphics memory 2. MBNow download the Winrar files from below you need Latest preview 1. Final 1. 6A3. 23. September 2. 0, 2. Important Note Before begin installing Mac. OS Sierra, make sure you have enabled Virtualization on your PC and VMware too. Heres how to do it Step 1 Create a New Virtual Machine. After finishing the steps above, now its time to begin start virtualizing and installing Mac OS Sierra. Lets get started. 1. Open File Explorer and navigate to unlocker. Run as administrator, when the windows ask your permission click Yes. This will unlock or start VMware services of Mac so that you can choose and install Mac on VMware. Unlocker. 20. 82. Now open VMware and click on File New virtual machineCtrlN, when the new virtual machine wizard pops up, just click Next. New virtual machine wizard3. In this step, youve to select I will install the operating system later and click Next. Guest OS Installation4. Here you need to select Apple Mac OS X as operating system and choose 1. OS X version then click Next. Select an OS5. Customize your virtual machine name and location for the installation like the shot and hit Next. Customize the VM6. Now you dont need to do anything just hit Next due to we wont use the drive for our installation. Specify Disk7. Everything is ready now, customize hardware if needed or finalize the virtual machine settings creation by hitting Finish. Ready to install. Step 2 Edit the Virtual Machine Replace the VM Hard Disk. When the virtual machine created, point out your mouse on Edit virtual machine settings and click on it. Notice After the virtual machine has been created, dont turn it on otherwise you might lose the virtual machine and begin the steps from the beginning. Edit virtual machine settings. Now here you can increase memory, processor if your system allows you and then select Hard Disk option and click Remove. When the hard disk removed, click Add then select Hard Disk and click Next. Virtual machine settings. On this page, let all things by default, just click Next. Select a disk type. Here you need to select use an existing virtual disk and click Next. Select a disk. Now browse the VMDK file of Mac. OS Sierra from the extracted folder that you had downloaded then click Finish then click Ok on virtual machine settings. Select an existing disk. Step 3 Edit the Virtual Machine VMX Write Down the Command. Its time to edit the VMX file of the virtual machine, to do that navigate to the mac. OS Sierra virtual machine files you had created and right click on it and open it with Notepad. Notepad. When the file opened, scroll to the end and type the command down then press CtrlS to save it. Note If you got the error later saying the value 0 in Smc. Smc. version 0. Notepad. Stuck booting up or cant change the screen or do you have another problemNo matter, heres the solution, click the link below and try one the solution methods from the list. Step 4 Install mac. OS Sierra 1. 0. 1. VMware. All right and now what youre going to do next is power on the VM by clicking on the button above Power on this virtual machine. When the VM powered on, on the first screen youll see the welcome page, choose your country then click Continue. This installation is similar to other OS X installation, so just enjoy. Welcome Page. Now choose a keyboard layout and hit Continue. Keyboard Selection. Select Dont transfer any information now and hit enter. Transfer Information to this Mac. Its your choice whether you allow or disallow location services, choose one and click Continue. Enable Location Services. On this page, sign in with your Apple ID otherwise select Dont sign in and Continue or if you dont have an Apple ID and want to create one heres how to do How to Create an Apple ID Without a Credit Card Sign in with your Apple IDRead the Terms and conditions fully and click Agree. Terms Conditions. Step 5 Personalize Your Mac. So lets personalize our Mac by filling out the required details then Continue. Create a computer account. Watch out, it isnt finished its the final one, help Apple to improve its products and services automatically by having Diagnostics usage just hit Continue. Diagnostics usage. After continuing, youll exactly be in Mac. OS Sierra and finally, youve got your final result. Mac. OS Sierra Installed. Ok, fine thats it, cant install or got confused, check out our video below based on install Mac. OS Sierra on VMware step by step. Notice that if you face boot manager problem or any other problems, check out the step 3 and use the code without quotation marks or you can try the whole tutorial once again if again not succeed, then try to check your laptopPC if its not AMD, if it is then you cant do it or if your system is Intel then go and check the steps clearly and check once again or do it on another computer. And dont forget to install VMware tools when the installation has finished, go now When the VMware tools installed, now step through setting up your mac which is essential after installation. Click the link below and follow the steps. Check out the video tutorial.