January 24th, 2010 
Dinesh Everybody likes to see and use Mac OS X, but how many of them are ready to buy Apple hardware? It’s very rare. This free and easy steps show how you can run Mac OS X on PC without buying any special hardware or software. This is completely free for testing and experimental use only.
I already published similar steps to run Mac OS X on PC with VMware workstation, obviously VMware workstation is not a free product. This time, let’s install and run Mac OS X on your PC with free product VMware Player 3. You can run Mac OS X on any X86 Intel or AMD computers having enough of RAM to run Mac virtual machine by this method.
Installation is not much differing than earlier steps.
Follow the steps,
1) Download Mac OS X 10.5.5 X86 VMware image here. ( It’s a torrent download)
2) Download and install VMware player 3. It’s a free product.
3) Extract the downloaded image file. See here for more details. ( it will be creating Mac VMware VMX file and VMware disk files)
4) Start VMware player.
5) Click on Open a Virtual machine.
6) Browse for ‘ Mac OS X Leopard ‘ VMX file on the extracted location. Select and press open.
7) Once clicked open, you can see the following summary screen.
By default, it’s not required to change any settings here. But still you can change anything if you want, like increasing memory size.
8) You have to play around with processor virtualization option if virtualization is enabled on your PC BIOS. You can check whether virtualization is enabled or not on motherboard by running tools in Windows OS. Read more here about motherboard BIOS virtualization.
9) My working Mac virtual machine processor settings show as below. (Already I disabled virtualization in BIOS)
It worked fine even after selected two processors.
10) That’s it. Start Mac Virtual machine by pressing Start VM. I’m sure it will boot and work fine. If it hangs with Mac logo, you must check processor virtualization and disable it. Check my previous posts and some useful user comments about this.
In fact, it worked better than in VMware workstation as mentioned in previous post. This is just for testing and enjoying with Mac. This is the easiest method to run Mac OS X on PC based on X 86.
11) Mac OS X VMware image admin password
The Mac admin password is ‘ password’.
Password worked with administration tasks.
12) USB access in Mac OS X VMware image
My USB drive working fine in Mac VMware virtual machine. It can be accessed inside virtual machine without any difficulties.
13) Network in Mac OS X VMware image
Just for network test, I selected NAT as network adapter type in virtual machine option. Network is OK in this image. Mac virtual machine started communicating outside world through NAT.
14) That’s it. I showed all above steps on my Intel X 86 Core 2 Duo computer. Enjoy the Mac OS X on your PC. To get better performance, please buy Apple hardware with original latest Mac. ;)
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Worked Perfectly.
However, 2 questions. 1) Is there anyway to get it to go beyond 1024×768 resolution? 2) I went to Install the VMWare Tools, and it didn’t do anything. On the VM menu it lists “Cancel VMWare Tools Installation.” Have you installed the VMWare Tools? Any advice?
Thanks for posting this!!!
VMware tools cannot be installed on Mac. VMware tools for FreeBSD will not work with Mac OS. As you aware, VMware doesn’t support Mac as guest in their products. Because in VMware tools we can’t increase the screen resolution.
Thanks for your comment.
Hey there, this thing works great and I didn’t had to even see any other links…it worked in one shot. Currently problem which is bothering me is, I cannot install any new software as all the installers are asking for root password. If you can share us the root password, that would be great.
Thanks
Pradp
Root password is password and mentioned in this post.
my bad….thanks dinesh…i didnt even read the full article as it worked for me by step 4.
I heard that you can install vmware tools from Fusion 3 but I haven’t tried it. (http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=139178) Need help on this too. Thanks
Check this post to change resolution:
http://pcwizcomputer.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=32
(FROM ABOVE LINK)
Boot OS X
Open the TextEdit program in the Applications folder
With TextEdit, open the file: /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist
Open the file, and add these two lines (right after the Yes line if you are on Tiger or line if you are on Leopard)
Graphics Mode
1280×1024x32
Replace the 1280×1024x32 with the resolution you want
Then, in go to File >> Save As..
Save the file as com.apple.Boot.plist on the Desktop (make sure the .plist part is there!)
Navigate the the /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/ folder
Drag your com.apple.Boot.plist file on the Desktop into the folder window
When a messages appears, click Authenticate and Replace and enter your password
You’re done! Reboot OS X to see the changes
Here is an example of what the com.Apple.boot.plist file looks like with Leopard:
kernel
mach_kernel
Kernel Flags
Graphics Mode
1280×1024x32
Hi everyone,
Let’s see if I can help some of you with the display issue. First of all, yes, you can run OS X in VMWare in your computer’s native resolution and refresh rate. Go ahead and upgrade your VMWare Workstation to v7.0.1, which just came out a little while ago. I’ve found it to solve several problems compared to the initial release, v7.0. Pretty amazing what a little x.x.1 upgrade can accomplish. :)
I ran it in WUXGA 1920×1200 resolution on my Thinkpad W700, and now on another one laptop with UXGA (1600×1200). All the eye-candy that OS X offers work (and look) well, too. Going full screen, it will look, feel, and work like a Mac. Sound works just fine, although I did have to install the Ensoniq audio driver for the W700, while it worked “out of the box” with my current laptop. Networking works well and Internet speeds are fast (enough).
I just installed VMWare Player, because I read that it supposedly runs even better on it than in VMWare Workstation. It does run well, and I want to say that due to VMWare Player’s smaller footprint, maybe the additional resources that can (apparently?) be allocated to the Mac OS X virtual machine make a difference. It seems to load a little faster. Has anyone had similar experiences?
Besides the cost, what is the difference between VMWare Workstation and Player?
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