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Overview

Yay! The developer version of OS X Lion is out in the wild!!! Not going to say where I got it from, but I have it and I want to play with it!

But… Being ill-gotten and a pre-beta release, I really don’t want to install it on a hard drive and boot my iMac off of it. Who knows what crazy things could happen? Would suck if something was wrong with the file system (or a virus installed) and it wiped all attached drives!!! So, since I already use VMware Fusion for my OpenBSD web server, why not run Lion in a virtual machine!?

Issue 1. Only server versions of Mac OS X can be run in a virtual machine. Well there’s an easy way around that. Seems the system only checks for the existence of a single file, which can be created to appease the VM Gods.

Issue 2. Lion’s installation and boot process is a lot different and the VM doesn’t know what to make of it – booting from a disk image makes the VM cower into a corner and cry for help. Or just get outright hostile and tell you, «Not here, Jack!» But, as it turns out, there’s a way around that as well. Not as easy as the first obstacle, but possible nonetheless.

Step 1: Create a blank disk image.

Using Disk Utility, create and mount a new image with the following settings,

• Name: MyInstaller
• Size: 5 GB
• Format: Mac OS X Extended
• Encryption: none
• Partitions: Single partition – Apple Partition Map
• Image Format: DVD/CD master

You can name it whatever you want, but be sure to modify the steps below accordingly.

Step 2: Mount the Lion installer image.

The image I obtained mounts as ‘Mac OS X Install ESD’. If yours mounts as something different, then you will need to make any necessary changes to reflect that in the following steps.

Step 3: Mount the Base System image.

The Lion installer image contains a bunch of hidden files, to get to them you’ll need to run the Terminal application. One of these hidden files is BaseSystem.dmg which is used to boot the system.

$ cd «/Volumes/Mac OS X Install ESD»
$ open BaseSystem.dmg

The volume will mount as ‘Mac OS X Base System’

Step 4: Copy the base system.

The entire contents of the base system needs to be copied to your installer image. The ‘Restore’ feature in Disk Utility works great for this. Once that is finished, you can eject the BaseSystem image, it is no longer needed.

Please note, if you chose to «Erase destination», your installer image will now have the same name as the source, ‘Mac OS X Base System’. I rename mine back to ‘MyInstaller’.

Step 5: Setup the ‘kernelcache’ file.

First the file needs to be copied from the Lion installer image to your installer image, then the boot configuration file updated to specify the location of the file.

$ cp «/Volumes/Mac OS X Install ESD/kernelcache» /Volumes/MyInstaller/kernelcache

$ cd /Volumes/MyInstaller/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/
$ sudo vi com.apple.Boot.plist

Make sure the boot file contains at least the following key/value to specify the location of the kernelcache file,

<key>Kernel Cache</key>
<string>kernelcache</string>

Step 6: Copy the installation Packages.

Before the packages can be copied from the Lion installer image, there’s a file on your installer image that needs to be deleted.

$ sudo rm /Volumes/MyInstaller/System/Installation/Packages

$ sudo cp -R «/Volumes/Mac OS X Install ESD/Packages» /Volumes/MyInstaller/System/Installation/Packages

The copy (cp) command will take a few minutes; it’s copying a few gigabytes of data, so be patient.

Step 7: Flag the system as a server installation.

Again, in order to boot an OS X volume in VMware, it needs to be a server. The system checks for the existence of a file in a specific location; you can imitate a server installation simply by creating that file.

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$ cd /Volumes/MyInstaller/System/Library/CoreServices
$ sudo touch ServerVersion.plist
That’s it for the installation disk. Both installer images can be ejected.

Step 8: Create a virtual machine.

This shouldn’t be anything new to you, but I’ll go through each step anyway.

1. Open VMware Fusion and select «New…» from the File menu.
2. Click the «Continue without disc» button.
3. Select «Create a custom virtual machine» and then Continue.
4. Select ‘Operating System: Apple Mac OS X’ and ‘Version: Mac OS X Server 10.6 64-bit’, then click Continue.
5. Click the «Customize Settings» button, then name and save the new virtual machine.
6. Choose «CDs & DVDs» from Settings, then click «Use disc image» and select your installer image.
7. Choose «Hard disks» from Settings, deselect «Split into 2 GB files» for the pre-created hard drive and click «Apply». *

Feel free to make any other changes to the settings with one caveat, you must use a SCSI hard disk; IDE drives are not recognized by the installer after it boots. Also, if the hard disk is going to be used as a boot disk, it cannot be split into separate 2 GB files, so make sure to deselect that option when the HD is created.

Step 9: Replace the VMs NVRAM.

The default NVRAM will boot up previous OS X systems, but it will not boot up a Lion volume. I have a VM that I initially used as a Snow Leopard system. Booting into that system seems to have set the NVRAM so that it will know how to boot a Lion volume. Here is the NVRAM file from that VM. You can download it and use it in your VM.

1. Download and uncompress the nvram file.
2. Locate your VM within the Finder, right click and select «Show Package Contents».
3. Delete the current nvram file if one exists.
4. Copy the downloaded nvram file into the folder and rename it to match the name of your VM; mine is named, «Mac OS X 10.7», so the nvram file would be renamed to «Mac OS X 10.7.nvram»

Now you should be able to run the VM and it will boot up to being the installation process.

Step 10: Installing Lion.

After the installation disk boots up, the first thing you should do is run Disk Utility and format the hard drive. All the norms apply; GUID partition map, Mac OS X Extended (Journaled) format, etc. When done, Quit to return to the installer.

Continue with the installation.

When the installation is complete, it will attempt to reboot the VM using the freshly installed OS on the hard disk. It won’t boot, because it’s not a server installation.

Step 11: Forcing the VM to boot from the CD.

VMware will not let you change the startup disk in the VMs settings, so you’ll have to force a change while the VM is running.

Start the VM. As soon as you see the vmware splash screen, hit the escape key. This will bring you to a boot menu, select «Boot Manager»

This will then bring you to another menu where you choose which device to boot from. With «Mac OS X» selected, you can look at the ‘Device Path’ info on the right side of the screen to see the path to the default OS X boot device (this should be the hard disk). You can then move through the list to determine which device would be the CD to boot from. (The Pci or Scsi numbers will be different.) If you choose the wrong device the first time, you can just restart the VM and choose another until you get it right.

Step 12: Flag the new system as a server installation.

After the VM boots from the install disk again, run the Terminal from the Utilities menu.

I labeled my HD, «OS X Lion HD» when I initialized it, so I would enter the following to ‘touch’ the system,

# touch «/Volumes/OS X Lion HD/System/Library/CoreServices/ServerVersion.plist»

Now you can quit the Terminal, choose Startup Disk from the Utilities menu and restart from the hard disk.

Screen Shots

The following screen shots are from a few of the steps above… for visual edification.

Final Thoughts

After running through these steps a few times and trying to force failures, for some reason even the things that wouldn’t work originally are now working!? I haven’t been able to figure out why this is happening? For instance, I can now create hard drive images that are «Split into 2GB files» and I no longer need to repartition the hard drive before installing the OS?

Sources

Instructions for installing Leopard client in VMware were from, blog.rectalogic.com

Mac OS X 10.4.8 Tiger x86 VMware Installation Guide

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Ever wanted to try out the famous Mac OS X operating system for yourself without getting a mac? Now you can, by using the x86 emulation software VMware Workstation (or Server), and to make it better, on a PC running Windows! Read on for more information:

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Ever since Apple made the move to Intel processors, hackers have been trying hard to modify the x86 version of OS X to run on a PC. And, of course, they have indeed succeeded in doing it. Various hackers have released hacked ISO torrents that can be installed on PCs. However, this violates the Apple EULA agreement and there are legal issues with using the ISOs. The legal ways to obtain a copy would be:

1) Become an Apple Developer ($500 membership)

2) Buy a real mac, deactivate the copy of OS X and install it on a PC (this way would be pointless because the whole point is to run OS X without getting a mac). This way also somewhat violates the EULA because the agreement says that you can’t run OS X on non-Apple hardware.

Its best to get a legal copy of the ISO because then you can install the software without worry about malicious software or about the software phoning home.

With that said, lets begin.

System Requirements:

• Processor supporting SSE2 or SSE3 instructions (Use CPU-Z for Windows to check)
• Windows 2000 or higher/Linux (Mandrake, SUSE, or Red Hat)
• 6GB minimum hard drive space
• DVD-RW drive if you are burning the ISO

Software Requirements:

• VMware Server (Free) or VMware Workstation 5 (commercial, recommended) or higher. VMware 6 is recommended.
  Note: VMware ACE Editions apparently do not work with networking in Mac OS X. Read More
  Attention Vista users: VMware Workstation 5.5 will not work. You need Workstation 6
• Mac OS x86 ISO; For test purposes ONLY, in this guide the «JaS Mac OS X 10.4.8 Intel/AMD SSE2 SSE3 PPF1+PPF2» ISO will be used. Mac specific DVDs cannot be used.
• Burning software to burn the ISO to DVD (optional, recommended)
• Blank 4.7GB DVD+R/DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD+RW disc (if you are burning)
• Daemon Tools or Virtual Clone Drive (if you are not burning the ISO)

Step 1: Install software

Install all the software that is required. VMware is mandatory. If you are going to burn the ISO file to a DVD (recommended), you will need burning software such as NTI CD/DVD Maker or Nero Burning ROM. If you aren’t going to burn the disc, then you will need drive emulation software such as Daemon Tools or Virtual Clone Drive.

Step 2a: Burn the ISO (if you are burning)

Use your favourite burning software to burn the ISO image to DVD. Insert the bruned DVD into your optical drive.

Step 2b: Mount the image (if you are not burning)

Mount the OS x86 DVD ISO file in Daemon Tools or Virtual Clone Drive (You can use Alcohol 120% if you want). You cannot mount the ISO directly in VMware because VMware cannot properly read HFS+ images (thats the format the Mac OS ISO is in)

Step 3: Configure VMware

Note: In this guide, VMware Workstation 6 will be used. VMware Server or Workstation 5 can be used, but Workstation 6 is strongly recommended.

• On the home page, click «Create new virtual machine» to bring up the dialog below:

• Make sure «Typical» is chosen and click Next
• Important Note: If you are installing directly to a physical drive or partition (ignore this tip if you don’t know what this is, its an advanced option) choose the Custom option and when you get to the screen that deals with hard drives, set VMware to access a physical partition or disk

• Choose Other as the Guest OS and choose Other for the version. Click Next
• Note: There are several Guest OSes that you can choose for Mac OS X. The best are:

– Windows NT <--- Works very well
– Other , Other
– Linux , Other Linux
– Other , FreeBSD

• Speed-up tip: Store the virtual machine in a partition or hard disk that is separate from the current partition/hard disk that you are currently using. This will make the virtual machine somewhat faster.

• Click «Use network address translation (NAT)» if you are using a official legal copy of OS x86 or «Use host-only networking» if you are using a hacked ISO image (for test purposes, of course 🙂 to prevent Mac OS X from registering itself during installation

• Choose a disk size (6GB is minimum). If you choose 6GB, you will have 1.5GB of space left after installation for your own programs. Any size is OK as long as you have the hard drive space. Check the «Allocate all disk space now» checkbox (not necessary, but it improves speed). Choose «Split disk into 2GB files» if you are putting the virtual machine on a FAT32 partition. Click Finish and wait till the virtual disk is created.

• Click on «Floppy» and click Remove (You don’t need floppies for OS X)
• Click on «Memory» and on the right, adjust the memory amount to about half your actual system memory.

• Click «CD-ROM (IDE 1…» and on the right, select your virtual image drive/physical drive from the drop-down menu. Click OK to return back to Home. Close VMware Workstation or Server.
• If you wish, you can click «Add» to add a USB Controller (not tested)

Step 4: Edit VMware config file

• Navigate to the folder where you placed your virtual machine
• Add the line: paevm=»true» to the end of the file
• Note: For networking in 10.4.8, add the line ethernet0.virtualDev=»e1000″ to the file
• Note: Sometimes, the line scsi0.present=»TRUE» won’t work. Change it to scsi0.present=»FALSE». However, on the test machine, this was not required.
• Speed-up tip: set the guestOS line to «guestOS = «darwin»
• Save the file. The end result should look somewhat like this:

Mac Os 10.12 Vmware Image

• Note: If you make any changes to the virtual machine in the VMware interface after editing the file, all changes will be lost

Step 5: Configure VM BIOS

This is not exactly necessary, but it will make the VM a lot faster

• Go back into VMware and click the green triangle to start your machine
• Quickly click inside the VM window (this lets you control the VM)

• Use the keyboard and Disable «Legacy Diskette A:»
• Go into the Advanced tab >> I/O Device Configuration

• Disable all Serial ports, Parallel ports, and Floppy Disk controllers
• Press F10 to save and exit. The machine will reboot.

Step 6: Partition/Format the hard drive

• If you have mounted the ISO/inserted the DVD, the machine should boot to the DVD. It prompts you to press any key to continue Mac OS X installation. Click inside the screen and press a key to start the installer
• Note: If you are using a JaS 10.4.8 image without PPF1, the image will not boot in VMware.
• After a long log/script of commands, the friendly installer screen will come up telling you to choose a language. Choose a language and click the Arrow to Continue
• The DVD will prepare the installer and the main screen will come up
• In Disk Utility, choose your VMware hard drive from the left. In the main area, click the Partition tab
• Give the partition a name
• Make sure the format is set to «Mac OS Extended (Journaled)»
• Click Partition, Partition

• Once the process is done, click the red X button to close Disk Utility and relaunch the installer
• Note: If you are using a JaS 10.4.8 image that is not patched with PPF2, the new partition will not be usable. Get a new image OR use a previous version image (10.4.7, etc.) to partition.
• Choose your newly formatted virtual HD and click Continue again

• The Printer Drivers and the Hardware support are useless. You can install the Language Translations and Additional Fonts if you use a language other than English. You can install X11 if you want to (It lets you run Linux packages). Finally, choose the patch that is right for your CPU (AMD or Intel). Choose everything you need and click Install
• At the end, the virtual machine will restart
• Note: If you get a Kernel stack error in VMware after installation, ignore it and click OK
• After the machine restarts, if all goes well, Mac OS X should boot!

• Speed-up tip – After installation, go to SystemLibraryExtensions and delete AppleTPMACPI.kext if it exists

END OF INSTRUCTIONS

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Notes:

• Press Ctrl + Alt to toggle between host and guest OS
• VMware Tools is currently not available for OS X so you cannot run the VM at high resolutions. Some hackers are working on a way to use the Linux VMware Tools image to install it on OS X
• The processor speed is equivalent to that of a low end G3

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