Tutorial: How to Install Mac OS X 10.7 Lion on VMWare Workstation

Discussion in 'Virtualization' started by trungpt, Jan 9, 2013.

  1. brtrj

    brtrj MDL Novice

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    Hey
    Mine is a pc and i have workstation installed.I got the darwin.iso installed. But still am not able to make my virtual machine work.

    could you guide me.

    cheers
     
  2. trungpt

    trungpt MDL Addicted

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    At which step in the tutorial, you cannot make it work?
     
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  3. trlkly

    trlkly MDL Novice

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    No, you don't have to use virtualization to run Mac OS X on a PC. Google the term Hackintosh. It's a lot more involved than this tutorial, but it is doable if Mac OS X supports your hardware.
     
  4. jasoos

    jasoos MDL Junior Member

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    can you please post screenshots
     
  5. free1975yuly

    free1975yuly MDL Expert

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    I used with success OS X from 10.7 to 10.9 on Vmware workstation 9.With Lion I tried a hackintosh distro from Niresh12495 but for ML and Mavericks I tested directly from genuine .dmg Mountain Lion and I used upgrade for Mavericks DP 1...etc.All goes fine except some issues with Intel 3000 HD (installed vmware tools from Zackehsoul (if I remember the correct name) to have native resolution.What I saw:Safari does not works(some buggs,I installed Chrome;works like a charm),and the mision launcher works with huge delay.:eek:
     
  6. trungpt

    trungpt MDL Addicted

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    Sorry, that's all I have.
     
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  7. pawgod

    pawgod MDL Novice

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    This is PERFECT!!!! i never thought id see the day id get to use OS X in a VM :'D im sucessfully using Lion 10.7 in VMWare 10 and it installed fine

    Just 3 problems though:

    1) it cant use shared folders from host, why is that?

    2) it cant connect to the internet even though VMWare is set to use NAT, am i doing something wrong here?

    3) resizing the VM's window doesnt always make the guest resize to the size of the window, plus al apps inside the VM move pretty slow >.< is there a way to fix this?
     
  8. trungpt

    trungpt MDL Addicted

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    You need to install successfully VMware Tools from darwin.iso to fix these problems :D
     
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  9. smttvn

    smttvn MDL Novice

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    can you help me the link download MAC OS x 10.7 ??
     
  10. trungpt

    trungpt MDL Addicted

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    You can search from you favorite wazez forums or torrent sites. I cannot provide it here.
     
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  11. TCM

    TCM MDL Addicted

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    Why not 10.9? You have to have some OS X running to be able to download from the Store. Then you can download 10.9 for free.
     
  12. trungpt

    trungpt MDL Addicted

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    Converting the installer of MacOS X 10.9 downloaded from MAS to iso is a little bit more complex. I haven't tested it yet.

    We also need VMWare 10 and the newest version of VMware Unlocker, v1.2.0.

    More info can be found at insanelymac[dot]com :D
     
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