This simple guide is for those who want to try out Apple’s Macintosh OS X on VMware Workstation in Windows platform. The basic requirements are:
- Free Vmware Player For Mac
- Vmware Fusion For Mac
- Virtualbox For Mac
- Download Vmware Player For Mac Os X
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Access your VM-console from Linux or Mac OS X with a VMware Player-console. Once your ESXi-host is up and running and you have multiple virtual machines running and maybe also vCenter deployed as a virtual appliance then you can access the console of those virtual machines with VMware Player.
- A PC running Windows x86 or x64
- VMware Workstation 8
- Download the following files:
- Mac OS X Lion VMware Files.exe (Size: 2.42MB)
- Mac OS X Lion Retail Bootable .vmdk (For VMware) (A bit torrent of size 4.12GB)
- Oct 01, 2016 Setup MacOS 10.12 Sierra on VMware Player on Windows Patch VMware. Open Patch Tool folder then right click on win-install.cmd file, Select “Run as Administrator”. Create Virtual Machine. In VMware Player, create a new virtual machine with the settings below: Guest OS: Apple Mac OS X; Version: Mac OS X 10.11 or 10.12.
- VMware Fusion: Powerfully Simple Virtual Machines for Mac. VMware Fusion Pro and VMware Fusion Player Desktop Hypervisors give Mac users the power to run Windows on Mac along with hundreds of other operating systems, containers or Kubernetes clusters, side by side with Mac applications, without rebooting.Fusion products are simple enough for home users and powerful enough for IT.
For illustration purpose, the following example will attempt to patch VMware Workstation 8 binary files:
- First, extract the download file Mac OS X Lion VMware files.exe.using any file archive utility like 7-Zip or double click the .exe to extract the files.
- Open command prompt (cmd) in Administrator Account.
- Navigate to extracted folder “VMware Workstation Unlocker - Windows' and run install.cmd:
Prepare a Mac OS X machine
Extract pre-configure Mac OS X Lion VMware workstation files from Mac OS X Lion VMware Files.exe in a new folder:Free Vmware Player For Mac
Start the virtual machine Mac OS X Lion.vmx. A dialog prompt for the virtual machine instance state:Press “
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I copied it” button to state the virtual machine is a cloned instance.Prepare Mac OS X Installation
The machine setting may change to suit the environment. e.g.: Memory size.Next, add Mac OS X Lion Installer disk (Mac OS X Lion Installer.vmdk) by creating a new VMware hard disk.
Start Mac OS X Machine
Power on the virtual machine. A Mac OS X installation screen should appear as follow:Prepare a disk for Mac OS X installation
Next, start Disk Utility to prepare a disk for Mac OS X installation:
Create a new Mac OS X partition by using the Erase option. A label for the new disk may specify in the option:Confirm the Erase operation:
Start Mac OS X Installation
Follow the screen instruction to continue Mac OS X installation:Confirm the installation on the new disk created:
The installation may take a while to finish:
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Finish Mac OS X Installation
Finally, the Mac OS X installed and the first screen appear as follow:VMware tools provide few GUI enhancement experience for Mac OS X guest. Download VMware tools ISO for OS X here. Follow the following steps to install VMware tools in OS X:
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- Extract a ISO file (darwin.iso) from the zip archive file
- Mount the ISO file to Mac OS X Guest operating system
- Start Mac OS X guest system.
- Open Finder from OS X desktop and select CD/DVD ROM device.
- Double click Install VMware Tools icon to start VMware tools installation
- Follow the screen instruction to complete installation.
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- How To Install Fully Functional Mac OS X Lion Virtual Machine inside Windows 7 [UPDATE: 10.7.3]. URL: http://www.windows7hacker.com/index.php/2011/09/how-to-install-fully-functional-mac-os-x-lion-virtual-machine-inside-windows-7/