Note: We don’t in anyway encourage downloading Apple software via file-sharing / torrent sites and run it in an virtualized environment under Windows. This guide is for informational purposes only. If you like OS X Snow Leopard, Get a Mac.Step 1: and install VMware Workstation 7.Step 2: pre-made modified version of Snow Leopard.vmdk and darwinsnow.iso files required to get this thing to work.Step 3: Start VMware Workstation and open up “Mac OS X Server 10.6 (experimental).vmx” file which you downloaded in Step 2. Insert OS X Snow Leopard retail DVD in your DVD drive and select the “Use physical drive” option.Step 7: Now go back and select “c” option (Boot DVD) from the prompt which you got in Step 5 to boot from the OS X retail DVD. OS X boot screen with Apple logo should now appear.
If the boot screen doesn’t appear for you, try booting it in verbose mode by pressing “F8” key after selecting “c” option, and then enter “-v” (without quotes). This will enable the system to boot OS X DVD using verbose mode. Step 8: Wait for a couple of minutes for the Installation Setup screen to show up. From here on, simply follow the onscreen setup instructions to install OS X Snow Leopard. Make sure you format your virtual hard drive in “Mac OS Extended (Journaled)” format using Disk Utility.
Customize your installation with minimum set of printer drivers and language options for a lightweight trouble free installation experience.Step 9: Once the installation is completed. System will automatically reboot. At this point, close your guest virtual machine and change your CD/DVD option again like you did in Step 2 to point it to “darwinsnow.iso”.Step 10: Start the virtual machine again. Press “F8” key and select “h” option to “Boot first hard disk”. Snow Leopard should now be running live under Windows 7!
Note: We don’t in anyway encourage downloading Apple software via file-sharing / torrent sites and run it in an virtualized environment under Windows. This guide is for informational purposes only. If you like OS X Snow Leopard, Get a Mac.Step 1: and install VMware Workstation 7.Step 2: Download pre-made modified version of Snow Leopard.vmdk and darwinsnow.iso files required to get this thing to work. Please don’t ask for the link to these files. You can find them easily elsewhere on the web.Step 3: Start VMware Workstation and open up “Mac OS X Server 10.6 (experimental).vmx” file which you downloaded in Step 2.Step 4: Click on”Edit virtual machine settings”, select CD/DVD (IDE) option from left hand side and then and select “Use ISO image file” option.
Point it to “darwinsnow.iso” which you downloaded in Step 2.Step 5: Now power on the virtual machine and hit “F8” key. You should now have a screen similar to the one shown below.Step 6: Now you’ll have to point your virtual machine to OS X Snow Leopard retail DVD instead of “darwinsnow.iso”.
To do this, right click on CD/DVD option found in lower right most corner of your VMware window and select settings.Insert OS X Snow Leopard retail DVD in your DVD drive and select the “Use physical drive” option.Step 7: Now go back and select “c” option (Boot DVD) from the prompt which you got in Step 5 to boot from the OS X retail DVD. OS X boot screen with Apple logo should now appear. If the boot screen doesn’t appear for you, try booting it in verbose mode by pressing “F8” key after selecting “c” option, and then enter “-v” (without quotes). This will enable the system to boot OS X DVD using verbose mode.Step 8: Wait for a couple of minutes for the Installation Setup screen to show up. From here on, simply follow the onscreen setup instructions to install OS X Snow Leopard.
Make sure you format your virtual hard drive in “Mac OS Extended (Journaled)” format using Disk Utility. Customize your installation with minimum set of printer drivers and language options for a lightweight trouble free installation experience.Step 9: Once the installation is completed. System will automatically reboot.
At this point, close your guest virtual machine and change your CD/DVD option again like you did in Step 2 to point it to “darwinsnow.iso”.Step 10: Start the virtual machine again. Press “F8” key and select “h” option to “Boot first hard disk”.
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Snow Leopard should now be running live under Windows 7!
You know how things get easier with practice? Well, there wasn’t much required for this feat: Installing Mac OS X 10.6 (a.k.a. Snow Leopard) into a VMware Workstation 7 virtual machine. Workstation 7 appears to have greatly improved support for the Mac operating systems to the point that installing Snow Leopard into a virtual machine is much easier than it was with. In fact, in this version (I’m using 7.0.0 build-203739), you can install VMware Tools yourself, and enable sound!Credit Where It’s DueI actually did very little experimentation/exploration this time. I did some cherry picking of steps from a number of places (most notably, the forums). I give particular credit to Talyn’s post in that forum for giving me the clue to use the ISO image instead of the DMG, and for the Ensoniq audio driver link.
Part 1: Baking the Cake Here We GoBefore you begin making any modifications, please read through these instructions at least once, just to make all the steps are clear and that you haven’t missed anything.Let’s get started:. First, get yourself the retail version of Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). This will only work with the retail version of the operating system DMG. Use your favorite search site to find the DMG. Since you’ll need to use the ISO version for this tutorial, you might want to find that instead, allowing you to skip the next step. Next, convert the DMG file into an ISO. I used to convert my retail DMG to ISO.
If you plan to use a converter other than the one I’m recommending, beware of converters that create ISOs that are considerably smaller than the original DMG. They probably won’t work.
Download and extract its single file, “darwin.iso”. You’ll be using this in a couple of places, so remember where you saved it. Grab, and extract its contents.
This will create a folder called “vmware-darwin-200/” that contains all the archive’s files. This distribution will need to be installed into your VMware Workstation 7 directory. Although instructions for installing this are included with the archive, it simply takes a “ setup.cmd install” from within the extracted folder to complete. However, before you actually perform the install, you need to copy the “darwin.iso” file you extracted from darwin-wks7.zip into the “vmware-darwin-200/” folder, replacing the file with the same name that is already there. Once the new “darwin.iso” is in place, you may proceed with the install. In VMware Workstation 7, create a new virtual machine.
You should use the same settings as those documented in. The interface has changed a bit in VMware Workstation 7, so some screen shots will not be exact. However, it doesn’t have to be an exact match, since in this tutorial, instead of altering one or two lines of the resulting VMX file as we did in the Leopard tutorial, we’ll be replacing the contents of the entire file as well. At this point, close Workstation 7. Locate the VMX file that was newly created for your VM; for example, if you named your VM “Mac OS X 10.6”, then the file you’ll want to locate is called “Mac OS X 10.6.vmx”.
Thank you so MUCH! The hardware specs for your laptop appear to be sufficient (I’m using an ASUS laptop with similar specs that can run this just fine).I can’t offer any advice specific to this VM, though.
As you can see from the other comments here, it does work as flawlessly for some as it did for me.The only hardware-related advice I could give you is that you might check your machine’s BIOS to be sure that virtualization support is enabled. On most new machines, it is by default. However, I’ve run into some myself that needed it to be turned on explicitly. I’ve seen comments from other people who also needed to enable it before they could move forward.Good luck, John. Hello Sylra,The link which Bobhood has given for dmg2iso strictly says to make use of dmg2img.dmg2iso did not work for me as well.So I tried dmg2img and it works very well as it is said on that linked page.Please do use that.Regarding your statement “Then, I created a Virtual machine, following the step and modifying the text file with the name that I gave to the name of the Virtual machine.” I would like to know what do you mean by text file?
There is no text file as I understand.Pardon me if I am wrong.It is.vmx file opened in text editor.I hope this is what you wanted to say.Regarding your last problem,first attach darwin iso image and boot.While booting press F8 so that you will get 3 options.Now you can look for CD symbol at the bottom similar to other symbols like Network,USB etc.Right click the symbol and select ‘settings’ and change the iso image to Snow leopard image.Then press the option ‘c’ which says ‘Boot from DVD’.Now I think you will surely see what you wanted desparately. Syrla, dmg2iso shouldn’t have a problem running. Is there something blocking it on your system? You are running the exec and not a compressed file correct?
The new one is actually DMG2IMG I think but should work the same.Did you run the setup.exe command with the darwin 200? Also, did you run it as admin? If you run from a cmd and don’t give it admin access, it won’t actually copy them. It will show that as 0 files copied in the cmd window.If you go step by step, it should work if nothing looks odd. I am running Windows 7 and it worked great as far as the install goes for me.
I’m not sure how it would do on other versions though. Since DMG2 didn’t run for you, it sounds like there may be some problem on your system. Thank you for your help!
Between your instructions and Taranfx’s, I’m now smoothly running 10.6.2 on a Dell Latitude D630. Best of all, I can end the endless quest for compatible kexts that makes a D630 hackintosh satisfying only to enthusiasts and masochists.I found one or two things confusing in the steps above:No. 4: I’m primarily a Mac user, so setup.cmd install meant nothing to me. At first I thought it was a Terminal command. It actually calls for a Run command line in Windows.
You can invoke it by right-clicking inside the vmware-darwin-200 folder.No. 7: This I had the most trouble with, and I’m still not sure what it’s saying (more a reflection on me than the writer). In the Taranfx guide, you use an iso called darwinsnow to trick VMware into booting first your installer—I used a retail DVD—and then your installed 10.6. To do that you select the iso, then connect it by right-clicking the DVD icon on the lower right of the VMware window. After that it boots normally.Again, thanks for the work to make these instructions.
Here’s the link to the Taranfx guide. Thanks for this great write-up, Bob. It worked like a great!A couple of comments:1.
You mention that we should download and install the Ensoniq package, but don’t make it clear how to do so. I initially downloaded it to Windows but I couldn’t understand how to add it to the VM, until it hit me that it had to be installed from inside the OS X itself. I downloaded it from there and sure enough, it installed like a charm. I got sound!2. I’m noticing the sound is a bit choppy, whether I’m playing a youtube clip or an mp3 file. It’s dissapointing.
Is there any way to improve it? I have a couple of sound cards on this box (SoundBlaster and SigmaTel). Is there any way to get the VM to use those?Thanks!
I doubt I can help out much with that, since I only run Intel CPUs. This post may (or may not) help you with that, from the Insanely Mac forums:.
In addition, you could try Googling for other hits.Of particular interest in that post is what he says in step #1: “AMD cant boot with vanila sic kernel”. It would seem to me that, if you have to jump through hoops to get Snow Leopard to launch on a stand-alone AMD machine, it probably won’t be easy (or even possible) it will be to get it to work within a VMware image on a box with that processor.Somebody else here may have been through this already, though, and might be able to give you better feedback. This is awesome. I’d been trying to install SL on Virtual Box using the tutorial at taranfx for a while now with no luck.
This worked, for the most part, like an absolute charm. A couple of things:1. No matter what, I couldn’t get the image I made with my legit copy of Snow Leopard to work. Just wouldn’t boot. In the end I had to download a dmg (snowleopard10a432userdvd.dmg).2. Couldn’t use dmg2iso on either the legit dmg or the non-legit one.
Said a plist was corrupt. In the end, from the same site I downloaded dmg2img which makes an img not an iso but it worked perfectly and VMWare will load an img anyway.3. Despite having a Core I7 with 6Gb RAM, and having devoted 2GB of that RAM and 2 cores to the VM, the VM still runs pretty slowly. Any tips on speeding things up?Thank you anyway — this is a great and very helpful post. Actually, any active VM will “freeze” in this fashion whenever the HDD on which it lives becomes inaccessible (by, for example, powering off).
I experienced this early on while I was creating my VMware VMs because I housed them on a Western Digital My Book Studio Edition II, which had a nasty tendency to try to be “green” by putting itself to sleep at unpredictable times of its own choosing. I had to force the device to stay awake on my schedule (see my other post about it here on the Mental Moshpit if you’re interested).Aside from that, I did experience inexplicable freezing of the Mac OS X VM using “Leopard” (10.5.x) if the VM was left idle for too long, or was not the topmost window (I never really figured out which it was). I’ve yet to experience that with the “Snow Leopard” VM, but that may be because I’m aware of the proclivity, and I try to keep it busy while it is running. I’ve been meaning to just leave it idle in the background to see if it actually does freeze like “Leopard”, but haven’t tried it yet. I installed snow L successfuly. The first time i installed it the network worked instantly, After i rebooted the network showed an auto ip address.
I have tried everything to get it to get back on my network to no avail. What am i missing. It is set to dhcp, the vmware virtual network settings are correct. I dont know how to make this thing work again on the network. But as far as the os function, that it does.
From the time i hit the power on to readiness is under a minute!!!! Better than windows 7 on boot!!!! All i need now is how to restore the network to full functionality. Performance is relative, of course. A task that takes 12hrs 30min to complete on my Intel-based 64-bit Mac mini 10.6.x takes only 9hrs under my “Snow Leopard” VMware image when the image is run on a 3.2GHz i7 machine under Windows Vista. (For the curious, the task is building Qt 4.7.0.)Empirical evidence suggests that a VMware image will not run as fast as a stand-alone installation on dedicated hardware when that hardware is at least similar to the image host (the test between the Mac mini and the i7 machine is of course not an apples-to-apples comparison, no pun intended).
So, if you run OS X on a pretty capable Mac, and then run the VMware image on a machine that is comparable (or not as powerful), then, yeah, your image will likely suffer from such performance comparisons. Theoretically, the VMware Tools that are installed in the OS X VM should enable drag-and-drop.
However, I’ve not been able to make it work, having had to resort to using FTP between the VM and my host (if somebody reading this has gotten drag-and-drop to work, please post your solution). I doubt the VMware Tools for Snow Leopard is actually sanctioned by VMware, so it might be a collision with some Apple-specific mechanism (like “Unity”) that is causing the grief.However, I think a lack of drag-and-drop is a small price to pay for having network and sound. I think I had the same problem with Ubuntu and XP, no drag n drop, good good idea with ftp ? and great to have sound. This is a Dell 1564 5i M430 2.27GHz 64bit 4GB Ram Win7 Home, for anyone who needs to know, will it work. I used UltraISO to convert the DMG file to ISO as I couldn’t get dmg2iso working, the results made me think the file was corrupt.I just updated from 10.6 to 10.6.4, coolAnyone know how to get internal webcam working, or have a link on how to enable it?
Thanks bob for your quick reply, you saved me from returing this laptop to Dell. Thanks for the guide! I just did this on my i5 laptop (gateway nv79) and it works great. Upgraded to 10.6.4 via update manager no problem. Running xcode 3.latest + iphone sdk 4.1, happily building my haXe projects.One thing bit me on the install, though: I made the initial virtual drive size too small (15gb).
When I went to expand it later to install xcode (8gb) diskutil wouldn’t allow me to enlarge the existing partition. I tried a variety of approaches but could never seem to make it happen. In the end, I just deleted the partition and reinstalled everything. From what I could gather, it was actually some snow leopard issue. How much do amerigas drivers make. Of course, I could be completely wrong. I’m pretty sure I’ve done this same operation w/ centos + vmware but it really doesn’t come up often enough for me to make a confident statement.In hindsight, I probably could’ve just mounted the other partition at /Developer, but at the time I didn’t know what an installed xcode would look like.At any rate, thanks again for pulling all the info together!
Apple should thank you too. I didn’t see myself putting out the $600+ to tinker around with their platform.
But now, if I make something worthwhile, I’ll definitely be buying apple hardware and joining the developer program. Unfortunately this doesn’t completely solve the problem, not for my anyway.
Now and then I get a gray error box while booting the OS in a couple of different languages.Normally this is temporarily solved by rebooting the HOST machine. But then it happens again. I think it might have something to do with suspend/hibernate (on Windows), but I’m not sure.Also, my machine does a few strange sounds when I’m using Mac OS X in VMware, it doesn’t happen with any other OS. I’m afraid this could damage my laptop somehow, or no need to worry?I also tried to updated to 10.6.5, but it didn’t work, I’ll reply below in the appropriate comment. Regarding 10.6.5, I don’t have an answer for that at the moment. I’ve not personally upgraded from 10.6.4 yet, so I’ve not encountered your problem.Did you make a snapshot before upgrading? If so, you can just roll back to it and recover your installation.
If not, well, it is always good policy to make a snapshot of your current VM prior to upgrading the operating system just in case things go wonky. Every update to the operating system has the potential to damage the VM (as you’ve discovered). This is particularly true in the case of OS X: Apple has a history of, and a penchant for, ignoring backward compatibility in their software support.When I get a chance, I’ll give the update a try and see what happens. Meanwhile, if you can’t recover your VM from a snapshot, at least you have the instructions on this page to re-install.
After creating a snapshot, I performed a software update. Since there were other updates available other than 10.6.5, I applied all the other updates first and then rebooted to make sure none of them caused issues. No problems were found.I then applied the 10.6.5 update. Although the update didn’t seem to require it, after it completed, I rebooted the VM. Once it was back up, I checked the “About This Mac” dialog, and it shows that 10.6.5 is indeed installed.
I opened a terminal window, and can type into it without any noticeable glitches.I appear to have full mouse and keyboard control with 10.6.5 installed. I’d recommend you start from scratch, re-install a fresh Snow Leopard, and then try the update to 10.6.5 again before you install any other software. I’m also having this problem and worse. I didn’t have any other updates like you bobhood, I installed all of them before when I first installed Mac OS X and it was working fine.I tried to update to 10.6.5 and as soon as it finished installing everything, the updated required me to restart, there was a dialog on the screen. However, just like SWTestuer, I couldn’t control the VM, no mouse and no keyboard, had to reset the VM.After that I couldn’t boot the machine anymore, I got the error I described in my comment above (gray error box while booting).
Snow Leopard Server Iso
And a host reboot didn’t solve the problem this time, it never booted at all.I did create a snapshot before the upgrade and restored that. But I was only able to boot the system after rebooting the host like I’ve been saying.I don’t know if it’s relevant (I think it is, somehow) but I’m doing this on a Intel powered i3-330UM. Thank you Bob Hood, VMware, and the other folks in the back room that made this possible Thank you.I came across this tutorial yesterday evening. By the time I went to bed I had OS X 10.6 installed and completely updated to 10.6.5 without issues. However, after installing Safari 5.x I get the ‘beach ball’ when connecting to Facebook.com and ESPN.com (naturally, Apple.com works). I didn’t have time this morning to investigate so i installed Opera (Apple.com download page) to check weather, facebook, etc.Do you have any ideas/suggestions as to what can be done to get Safari working properly?Again, many thanks to the team that made it possible to run MAC OS X on an Intel IC7 processor using HP hardware, Windows 7 64-bit and VMWare Workstation 7.
After having problems installing OS X in a VirtualBox VM, I went to VMware Workstation 7 and it worked great, especially after seeing some of the tips here. I’m now updated to 10.6.6 and only found myself frustrated at the lack of being able to use common Windows keyboard shortcuts in OS X, incorrectly assuming they might be universal.
Some keyboard remapping for select applications resolved that to my satisfaction, so now I’m pressing along and learning more about how OS X works.In the process, and being that I use Adobe products on my Windows 7 PC, I was interested in installing some Adobe trials for the Mac, first going with Photoshop CS5. I got this message when try install Mac OS X SL 10.6.1-10.6.2 “Mac OS X is not supported with software virtualization. To run Mac OS X you need a host on which VMware Workstation supports hardware virtualization.”I’m using HP DV6000 series Notebook.Processor: AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-56 1.8GHzHaradware Virtualiztion is enabled in BIOS.Host Operating Systems is: Windows 7 ProfessionalVMware Workstation 7.I’ve searched diffrent forum for the solution.But al in vain.Please give me a solution so that I can use Mac On my notebook. When i download darwin-wks7.zip, it says “Archive: /home/max/Downloads/darwin-wks7.zip/home/max/Downloads/darwin-wks7.zipEnd-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is nota zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In thelatter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found onthe last disk(s) of this archive.zipinfo: cannot find zipfile directory in one of /home/max/Downloads/darwin-wks7.zip or/home/max/Downloads/darwin-wks7.zip.zip, and cannot find /home/max/Downloads/darwin-wks7.zip.ZIP, period.”i’m running ubuntu 11.04, but that shouldn’t effect zip files. InsanelyMac has a thread on doing a binary mod to VMWare Workstation/Player.
This mod turns on all kinda of Mac OS X emulation stuff in VMWare Workstation and adds a Mac OS X 10.5/10.6 Server entry. Note that Audio isn’t in the hardware list but you can always add it.Even on this setup Mac OS X requires hardware virtualization but the positive thing is that you do NOT have to manually create the vmx. You can create it from the gui. It also enables the emulated efi so Mac OS X installs more natively. Note I added “cpuid.1.eax” and “pciSound.playBuffer” myself. The first is a cpu mask so that 10.6.3 boots (kernel bug and fixed in 10.6.4 and newer) and second is trying to reduce the latency in the audio. Didn’t really work all that well and I’ll probably remove it.
Hi Bob,Great Post. I have some problems that I suppose you can Help me. I have an Alienware Aurora, 16 Gb of RAM, with Windows 7 ultimate.
I have followed the steps you have suggested and there are some problems:1) dmg2iso does not work in Windows 7 I have a XP virtual machine and it crashes too;2) My machine virtualizes, no problem. I have VMWare version 7. When I try to start for the first time a new virtual machine, generated as you suggested, specifically when the darwin.iso starts I receive a message that the operating system has blocked the execution. So I cannot create a Snow Leopard Machine;3) A friend succesfully generated a Virtual machine with iDeneb 10.5. I can run it in my Alienware with your darwin.iso (the setup.cmd install worked perfectly).
The machine is running but with a 40gb hard disk. I have expanded with VmWare the disk, I could generate a Coriolis CD to expand my partition but I could find a way to boot from a CD.My intention was to generate a Snow Leopard machine but for some reason my machine does not accept to run the darwin.iso when the machine initializes so I tried with a machine 10.5 generated by others. But this machine does not allows me boot frm CD.Can you help me!!!Thanks in advance. @mvbaffa1) you are correct, dmg2iso doesn’t work in Win7 even in compability mode.
I used UltraISO, been using for few years and works pretty much with anything you trow at it. I got a full version of pirate bay.2) & 3) I dont fully understand.
You don’t need the darwin.iso untill the installation of snow leopard has completed. OR if you meant vmware-darwin-200 distribution, that you install within win7 using command promp i.e run cmd, navigate to the directory “vmware-darwin-200” once in it, type ‘setup.cmd install’hope this helps. Hi Bob,It is working now.
My problem was that my chipset, Sandy Bridge, is new and I had to run a procedure unlock a specific version of VMWare. With this specific build of VMWare 7.1.3, the unlock process and your setup it worked. I do not have now, I am at work, the exact address of the thread that suggested the unlock process but as soon as I get home I will post it.Just one problem I could Upgrade to version 10.6.7 but the Chrome is not woking OK for videos. When I show an youtube movie the window becames transparent and we can see behind it and safari is crashing even after the update. I tried to simulate the installation on my 32bit AMD Vista VMware 8 using your instruction, but with EmpireEFI4AMD.iso.
It boots up correctly and asked to change the mac install DVD, which I went to the CD/DVD settings and change from EmpireEFI4AMD.iso to Mac OS X 10.6 install DVD, as it attempts to continue, a dialog box popped up “The CPU has been disabled by the guest operating system. Power off or reset the virtual machine”Did I do anything wrong or missing anything in the process?