Comments on: Install Snow Leopard in VMWARE 7 Windows Edition

By: Ren

Ren — Wed, 11 May 2011 09:42:15 +0000

Thx guys for the support here! I’ve resolved the problem with the error message “Mac OS X is not supported with software virtualization” on my machine. My CPU is a Core i7 620m and though the setting for VT was enabled in the BIOS, it didn’t work. After disabeling VT in the Bios, saving it, and re-enableing it, it worked just fine. Hope this helps some of you guys!

By: machismo

machismo — Tue, 10 May 2011 22:37:49 +0000

I am having the same problem as MDH. Here are my steps:
1. Open Mac OS X Server 10.6 (experimental)
2. Set the CD/DVD drive to the darwin_snow.iso file.
3. Power it up, hit F8 to get the boot options
4. Click on the cd icon in the bottom right corner, then Settings
5. Set the CD/DVD drive to my CDROM drive and set the device status to “Connect” (I have my Snow Leopard 10.6.3 disc in the drive at this point).
6. Exit Settings, type ‘c’, hit f8 when it prompts me and then type ‘-v’ and hit enter.

At this point it runs a bunch of code and then gives me the following popup:
“A virtual CPU has entered the shutdown state. This would have caused a physical machine to restart. This can be caused by an incorrect configuration of the virtual machine, a bug in the operating system or a problem in the VMware Workstation software. Press OK to restart the virtual machine or Cancel to power off the virtual machine.”

If I restart it gives me ‘Operating System not found’

What am I doing wrong? I have a Toshiba R835-P56X with an i5-2410M processor on Windows 7 64bit.

Thanks

By: CoderB

CoderB — Sun, 01 May 2011 18:58:54 +0000

Thanks for the step-by-step. Got burnt by the ACPI thing, like a lot of folks here – but there’s enough tips here to get through it.

Thanks all!

By: AVis

AVis — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:48:40 +0000

awesome awesome awesome

By: Blackknight

Blackknight — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 16:00:51 +0000

Tried all ways to convert .dmg image file to .iso… even if it converts it does not open.
Please help me out in making an iso from dmg file…

By: vossler

vossler — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 10:28:05 +0000

I installed on Dell latitude E5400 with Intel core2 duo and 2GB of memory, yes, only 2 GB, 512 MB for Windows Xp, and the rest for Snow Leopard (original dvd).
I installed last updates, Xcode & IOS SDK, and it all works. Thank you very much everyone for your help. I only had to make a manual change, in the .vmx file, I change this line
smc.present = “TRUE” and change “TRUE” to “FALSE”
bye

By: MDH

MDH — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 02:10:02 +0000

Hi,

I have a fairly new Sony Vaio laptop. Windows 7 Pro 64-bit, 8GB RAM, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 video card, Intell quad core i5 CPU M580 @ 2.67 GHz. So I think it should be able to run Snow Leopard 10.6.3, which I bought. I’m using VMware Workstation 7.1.3 build-324285. I am not able to get past step 5. When I try that step it begins the verbose install for a few seconds and then it stops with the following error:

“A virtual CPU has entered the shutdown state. This would have caused a physical machine to restart…”

Is my problem that this setup is for 10.6 but I have the 10.6.3 retail DVD? I have gone into the BIOS to make sure the virtualization function was enabled, btw.

Help is appreciated!

By: Xiyu

Xiyu — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 06:19:08 +0000

Hi, I have enabled hardware virtualization in the BIOS, and the Securable shows hardware virtualization locked on. However, I am still getting the error “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.” Do you have any ideas? Thank you!

By: Rick

Rick — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 00:03:15 +0000

Hi all,

I wanted OSX so I could try doing some dev work for the ipad. Unfortunately I don’t have cash for a new Mac so this was really my best option.

I’m running Workstation 7.1.3 build 324285 on Win7 x64. My processor is an i7-930 and I have 12GB of RAM installed.

First try was from a DVD I had burned from an ISO, no dice. I tried a DMG file converted to ISO, no dice. I tried a DMG burned to disk by a friends Mac, no dice.. I then bought an actual retail disk and BOOM the installer started working..

However I got a kernel panic near the end of the install.

I went back and read the directions and realized I needed to kill off the printer drivers and language packs. BOOM install complete.

Then I got the ACPI-SMC error that everyone has mentioned. Thank you so much for that fix guys. I’m rockin and rolling now.

My retail OSX version is 10.6.3.

Next up is to go through all the tweaks listed here and elsewhere…

As of this posting, version 10.6.6 is available. I’m going to hold off on upgrading until I hear that it is safe…

Thank you so much for these instructions.

By: marcellus wallace

marcellus wallace — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 16:03:11 +0000

For all Invalid front-side bus frequency 6600000 Hz problems go and see here :
http://mahmood1.com/Windows_Mac_Google_OS_Virtualisation.php