JackkTutorials shows you how to install Macintosh OS X on VMWare Workstation Quick Links - https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3861236/MLVMWAREiHack. If you have an OS X developer account, and want to work with OS X 10.9 Mavericks, you may prefer to do so using a virtual machine, in Parallels Desktop or VMware Fusion. However, you won't be able to create a new virtual machine in either of these programs using the Mavericks installer. Run Nearly Any Operating System on a Mac. Running Windows on Mac is only the beginning. VMware Fusion lets you choose from hundreds of supported operating systems, from lesser-known Linux distributions to the latest Windows 10 release, or even macOS, to run side by side with the latest macOS release on your desktop.
VMware Fusion is a software hypervisor developed by VMware for Macintosh computers. VMware Fusion allows Intel-based Macs to run virtual machines with guest operating systems—such as Microsoft Windows, Linux, NetWare, Solaris, or a different version of macOS—within the host macOS operating system. All OS 9 capable machines run on the PowerPC platform, meaning that your VM software has to emulate that instead of the x86 platform. These are pretty rare. I know only of qemu which can emulate multiple platforms, and it is mostly suited for technicians.
We used many operating systems in our life. Windows versions , different distributions of Linux , Android etc.. Everyone want to use one operating system in their life, that is Apple mac os x operating system. Apple integrate it with their hardware, so we can’t buy it from other retails stores. Last year, they made Mac OS X free for Apple computer owners, they can upgrade to latest version of OS X 10.9 from Apple store. If you want to get the real power of Apple Mac OS X , you must buy an apple computer.
If you want to install latest Apple Mac OS, Mavericks on Windows machine, this article will help you. Here we installed Apple Mac OS X 10.9 aka Mavericks on Vmware workstation. You can do same on Linux host. Here we use Windows 8 as host machine. We can install Mac OS X 10.9 but it won’t give the real power of Mac OS X. It will be slow, but perfomance depends upon your Processor and RAM.
Requirements : Windows XP, 7, 8 or any Linux distributions ( Windows os will be the best one)
Vmware player or Workstation (player is free, but i prefer Workstation,you can download from torrent)
System with Intel VT or AMD equivalent technology.
30GB-100GB hard disk space ( 10 GB is required , but if you have more space you can store your documents, you can install applications)
2GB or higher RAM ( More RAM increase performance, i use 8GB RAM i set 3GB for my guest operating system)
| Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks |
Steps :
1 : Download Apple Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks Vmware files
2 : Download VMWare player or workstation ( Download->Desktop & End-User Computing)
3: Goto BIOS settings , enable Intel VT (Virtulization technology)
4: Download 7zip, WinRAR or Winzip software to extract downloaded files
5: Extract your Mavericks zip fille.
6: Install Vmware workstation/Player
7: Goto Extracted folder and install install.cmd
8: Start Vmware workstation or Vmware player
9. Click on Open a Virtual machine
10. Select your file ( Watch video, Goto your extracted folder, then you can see one file. Open it )
11. Edit settings
12. Play your guest operating system
13. You will see a black screen, Click on I copied once your get a prompt window.
14. Continue, Click on OKs
15. Once you get Mac OS X, install it
I think better to watch above video
If you are a Hackintosh user on desktop virtualization software VMware, then the “VMware unlocker” is a compulsory utility to run Mac OS X lion guests. This unlocker utility replaces few VMware program files to be able to install and run latest 10.8 and 10.7 Lion OS X guests. Here is the download links of working unlocker for VMware Workstation 9, 8 and 7 series versions (tested by me) on Windows 7 32 bit host.UPDATE – This post has been updated after testing latest unlocker (version 1.1.0) with VMware workstation 9 on 08/11/2012
Earlier Mac OS X versions like Snow leopard 10.6 and leopard 10.5 can run on VMware desktop virtualization products without this patch. But the latest Lion OS X needs this patching.
Sysprobs already published a working method to install and run Lion OS X on VMware workstation based on this unlocker. I have demonstrated and tested on Workstation 7 series in previous post, but once I upgraded to VMware workstation 9 or 8, it stopped working. Obviously, the upgrade process replaced patched files, so no longer I able to run Lion OS X on VMware. Later, I found a similar patch for 9 and 8 series. Using older ulockers to patch recent VMware workstation did not work and I could not start any virtual machines.
Unlocker for VMware workstation 9, 8 and 7
I have not updated the screenshots for latest 1.1.0 unlocker or latest VMware workstation 9. The above all screenshots remain same with earlier versions (almost one year ago). But, I can confirm that latest 1.1.0 unlocker works well with VMware workstation 9 on Windows 7 Host.
After applying patch with VMware unlocker – One more Guest OS type and versions.
Unlocker for 9 , 8.0 and 8.0.1 Download Links
This unlocker works well with 9, 8.0 and 8.0.1. All credits go to developer of this patch. You can download and check for the updates and comments here. Make sure you are download the latest version from developer. As on today 1.1.0 is the latest one.For VMware workstation 7.0 series.
You can download our earlier Sysprobs_lion files set which is having unlocker for 7.0 series.
How to Use Unlocker
Its very simple. Close all VMware programs (if opened)
Extract the downloaded file. The latest Unlocker is having patch for Windows, Linux, Fusion 4.0 on Snow Leopard and Lion and VMware ESXi 5.
Before run the patch, its recommended to take a backup of VMware program folder, because this patch will replace the original files. Even though the utility takes backup which can be replaced later if required, but its good to have a backup copy taken by you.
Right click on install.cmd file and select run as administrator option as shown below. ( or you can start the command prompt as administrator in Windows 7 computer and execute install.cmd from command prompt)
The successful patch will return the following screen (and disappears automatically)That’s it. You patched the VMware workstation 9, 8.0 or 8.0.1 in Windows 7 host to run Mac OS X Lion guest. Restarting the host computer is not required here.
Here is the working Mountain Lion OS X 10.8 in VMware workstation 9 with Windows 7 32 bit host after running unlocker.
Mac Os X Unlocker For Vmware Workstation 9 Download
Mac Os X For Vmware 9.1
I will be publishing several articles in coming days about running a Lion OS X with pre installed VMware image based on this VMware workstation 9 unlocker.