Create a new virtual machine in VMware Fusion. Touch “/Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD/System/Library/CoreServices/ist”Ĥ. – Mount the new disk image and turn it into a fake Mac OS X Server install disk with the following command in Terminal: – From Disk Utility’s File menu, choose “New > Disk Image from ” from the File menu, set the image format to “DVD/CD master” and create the disk image. – Launch Disk Utility, select the device for your optical drive (note that this is NOT the Mac OS X install disk, but rather the device that has mounted it the device should be named something like “HL-DT-ST DVD-RW GH41N”). – Insert Mac OS X Snow Leopard install disk into your optical drive. ‘Mac OS X Install DVD’ in the column browser choosing your DVD *DEVICE* in Disk Utility, Create a fake Mac OS X Server install disk from a Mac OS X Snow Leopard install disk (retail version) as follows: Openssl dgst -sha1 -sign tools-priv.pem įor A in *.iso do openssl dgst -sha1 -sign tools-priv.pem $A.sig done ģ. Openssl rsa -in tools-priv.pem -pubout -out tools-key.pub Apply the darwin patch as follows in terminal:Ĭd “/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion” Ĭd “/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/isoimages” These instructions were cobbled together from previous posts with a lot of trial-and-error:Ģ. How to create a virtual Mac OS X 10.6 (“client”) machine using VMware Fusion 3.1.3. KR’ and some findings of my own … Working for an iMac running Lion 10.7.0 and VMware Fusion 3.1.3 as host system. After appearing to work with NAT to start with, I later couldn’t connect to Apple’s update servers as I was trying to update my VM to 10.6.8. The only additional thing I did was set my networking as Bridged, not the default of NAT. I’m placing it here for posterity, as I’ve just followed it and it worked just fine (though I did not have to do steps 8-10).

Hopefully, since Apple changed the licensing to allow clients to run virtualized, VMware will allow this without workarounds in the next version.Īnyhow, way down in the comments, SirB posted the most current method that works.

I found this post telling you how to run a Mac OS VM (client, not server) which has been updated quite a few times as VMware has changed their detection mechanism. Running Snow Leopard under VMware Fusion 3.1.3 on Lion

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