Press close and restart the virtual machine manually.ĩ) After virtual machine is restarted, you will find more screen resolutions under display settings. You may need to enter your password and select the disk to continue the installation.įor some reasons, VMware tools installation failed on Mountain lion virtual machine, but nothing to worry.
Once it is loaded to CD/DVD drive, the virtual machine will automatically detect and load it on desktop as below.ĭouble click and run ‘ Install VMware Tools’ application. Darwin.iso located at same extracted place. To get more screen resolution sizes, VMware shared folder and slightly better performance, we need to install VMware tools on mountain lion virtual machine.Ĩ.) To install, load the darwin.iso file to virtual machine’s CD/DVD drive. Network and sound worked out of the box without additional installations or settings.
Install VMware Tools on Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Virtual Machine – Intel PC, Windows 7 I recommend to take a snapshot now before proceeding further. After completing all initial settings (you can skip few too), you should land on mountain lion desktop without any issues. If all settings are correct, the Mac OS X 10.8 virtual machine should start with initial setup screen of Language settings as below. I have increased the RAM to 2GB and number of processor cores to 2 as I have core2duo physical processor.ħ) Now power on the virtual machine. Before powering on, you can modify processor and RAM settings depending on available resources on physical computer.
Read more about how to use VMware unlocker to get Mac OS X guest support.Īfter the patch, make sure you are getting Apple Mac OS X option as shown below.ĥ) Once the step 3 and 4 are succeeded, open ‘OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.vmx’ from extracted location through VMware workstation ‘File –> Open’ menu.Ħ) That should open the pre installed Mountain Lion retail VMware virtual machine.
Read our previous guide about how to use VT checker tool and confirm it.Ĥ) Use VMware unlocker (which will be available on same extracted location) and patch the existing VMware workstation 7 or 8 series. VMware unlocker and darwin.iso are important.ģ) VMware workstation 8 or later versionsġ) Download ‘Mountain Lion 10.8 Retail VMware Image’ from owner’s site.Ģ) Use 7z program to unzip the download, after extraction the size should be around 6.2 GBģ) Check and make sure your physical computer processor supports Hardware Virtualization Technology (VT). I do not fully recommend VT pypasser (to skip this check) tool which is included in this download.Ģ) Pre installed VMware image with few tools. What all Required to Run 10.8 Mountain Lion Retail VMware Image on Windowsġ) Hardware Virtualization Technology (VT) enabled processor. Frankly, I do not know whether these all will work on this platform, if it works, you are lucky. Also, few users keep on asking about their Apps development and Xcode support on virtualized hackintosh. We always recommend to buy Apple hardware to run Mac OS X. You can’t get the all features of Mac OS X from this method as how it works on Apple hardware.
Do not use this method on production environment or permanently for long term.
This method is completely for testing and learning purpose only. How to use per-installed VMware image of OS X 10.9 Mavericks on Windows 8 & 7 How to install OS X 10.9 Mavericks on VMware with Windows 8 & 7 Update:By Any chance if you are looking for latest OS X 10.9 Mavericks, read our below famous guides, Also we earlier published few articles based on souldevteam blog too. Sysprobs covered several hackintosh guides with VMware and VirtualBox here.