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. 
@jack, sorry about it. if you close working virtual machine by close button in VMware player, it will save the virtual machine state to disk. I think before it completes the job, you shut down your host windows XP.
Don’t go for 10.6 update, it will not work on non VT computers.
I will update you about VMware tools installation when you successfully restore the machine.
Good luck,
@rajiv, I suggest to have a look at this post
Download darwin_legacy boot loader and try
On the same machine(crashed previously) I did a fresh installation of xp & vmware-player. Previously before crashing I was able to run the SL without any problem, although entire OS got crashed.
Now everything is same but process is stuck on apple logo. I don’t have a VT enabled processor.
Any ideas?
Cheers
One more thing: As far as I remember previously while loading it was showing FreeBSD(on console) but now same .vmx file at the time of start-up it’s showing Darwin-x86. I am a bit confused here?
BTW I am on AMD( No VT)
Hoping to see the SL screen again….
Cheers
@jack,
Its a strange situation. Are you running the same version of VMware? Change processor core to one if you set more than one.
OS will be FreeBSD but while booting it may show Darwin-x86. You can ignore this message. if VT is not available or disabled then this image should work straight away. Restart host and try several times, it may work.
Let us know the result.
Yes, everything is same, image, machine and vmplayer. The only difference is that this time I am trying on a freshly installed xp. As I mentioned I don’t have VT enabled processor. may be I’ll try on win 7 later.
BTW, Do you think that post install tools such as .NET framework, DirectX or any thing is causing the problem?
I’ll let you know if any thing comes up.
Thanks
@Jack,
There will not be any connection between post install tools and Virtual machines.
Try your best
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Hi,
I’m having a problem, when i play the virtual os, all i get is a loading screen (apple logo and loading “circle” on a grey back). Im on win7 x64.
Plz help? thanks
@Tinusz,
Have you disabled Virtualization Technology (VT) on BIOS.
More information available here http://www.sysprobs.com/disable-enable-virtualization-technology-bios
VT should be disabled for this method. Let me know if it works.
Thanks a lot, this works great for me. I have ubuntu running on my Toshiba satellite laptop with vmware 3.01. Loaded on the first go itself.