Post on 24-May-2015
Installing Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion on VMware
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Some Important Fact about Mac OS X
Since the first few releases, Mac has omitted including the boot loader from the Mac Image and hence if you have ISO of Mac OS X, It is still unusable until you have Boot loader of Mac.
Darwin is a boot loader that is responsible for booting the Mac OS X like for Linux we have GRUB or LILO.
If you want to install Mac OS X, There are still Only three ways to install Mac OS X :
1. Install the Oldest Mac OS X which consists of Darwin.2. Make Darwin Bootable Image and once booting starts up give a path
to Mac OS X so that you will be able to install Mac.3. Install Mac OS X in VMware.
To do the Above Two Options You Need to Have Apple Mac Book or iMac .
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I don't Have Mac neither any of my friend is having
This is what you are wondering about. You Don't have it too. [ *_* ]
So what you need to have Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion installed in VMware.
Prerequisites :1. Darwin Boot loader [ Hackintosh ] 4.3 MB2. OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Retail VMware Image. 4.7 GB
You can get Hackintosh downloaded from here https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3861236/ML_VMWARE_iHackintosh.zip
For VMware Image Download this torrent http://thepiratebay.sx/torrent/7482205/OS_X_Mountain_Lion_10.8_Retail_VMware_Image_
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What's Next
Extract Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Image and Hackintosh file compressed file.
Start up VMware Workstation or VMware Player and click to open and Open then vmx file which is present in Hackintsh folder
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Click on add and add a hard disk and then click on Use Existing Virtual Disk
Select vmdk file present in your Mac OS X image folder
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Start the virtual Machine and click on “I copied it”
Select your place
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Select “Not Now”
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If you have Apple ID then Enter it, Else Skip it [ you will need apple it later on]
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Click on “Continue” and Select “Agree”
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Enter the Data regarding the Account to be created
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If you want to get Updates from apple then provide the details else just skip them
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And Your Mac is Ready!!
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Although Mac is Installed but what about shared folder and full screen
“You need to have software installed”
Go to VM → Removable Devices → CD/DVD → Settings and select ISO and Browse to Extracted Mac OS Image folder →
Mac OS Guest → VMware 8.x Series → tools and select darwin.iso
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Click on Install VMware tools
Click on Continue
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Installation will get Failed but no Problem with Failing of installation, what we needed got installed
And Its time to Restart the Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
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Here is your Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8
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