- Vmware install mac os x lion how to#
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- Vmware install mac os x lion pro#
There’s a number of reasons for this – too many to go into here, but I think it’s probably a case of if it ain’t broke then don’t fix it.
Vmware install mac os x lion pro#
Finish the wizard and power on the VM again you should now see the mount folder on your Lion desktop that points to your Windows 7 shared folder.I’ve not yet "upgraded" my 17 inch MacBook Pro (my "main machine" as I call it) to Lion. Go “Browse.” the folder that you wish to share to.įrom here you can pick and choose to make the folder to be “Read-only” or “Enable this share”
Go under options tab, select “Shared Folders” Pick “Always enable” and click “OK” To do this, go to the “Virtual Machine Settings” when it was powered off. So this way the VM will have access to your Windows 7 file. Optional – Enable VMware Shared Folder After you’ve had a fully working Lion you can enable the VMware share folder to your Windows 7 host machine.
Vmware install mac os x lion update#
You should be able to install the 10.7.1 update without an issue. From this moment on, you can also remove the second hard drive (the bootable Lion installer vmdk file) that you’ve added to the VM earlier. Incase in the future you done anything that messed up the machine you can always rollback to previous working state with the save of snapshot.
When you done installing Mac OS X Lion on the Virtual Machine, go download the VMware tools inside the new Mac OS X LionĪfter you finish installing the VMware tools, reboot the machine now you should have native screen resolutions.įrom now on, it’s highly suggested to take a snapshot of the working VM. Now back to the main menu, click “Power on the virtual machine” From now here just following the on screen instruction to install Mac OS X Lion. The reason you want to add another hard drive is that in the original setting, the 40GB has no OS on it, therefore VMware will try to boot off the OS from the second disk (the vmdk file) which will load and boot into Lion Installer. Click “Add.” select “Hard Disk” Click nextīrowse and find the vmdk file, click “Open”Ĭlick “Finish” when you done. Here you want to add a new hard disk which will contain the vmdk you’ve just downloaded. This will open the VMware Workstation, you should see something like the following Now navigate back to the folder \Mac OS X Lion VMware Files\Mac OS X Lion find the named Mac OS X Lion.vmx and double click. When this is done you should see something like the above screenshot. should be something like this \Mac OS X Lion VMware Files\VMware Unlocker – Mac OS X Guest shift + right click on the folder “VMware Workstation Unlocker –Windows” to “Open command window here” Go to the location you’ve just extracted the file. Make sure you have the above tool ready, after you’ve installed VMware workstation run the Mac OS X VMware unlocker
Vmware install mac os x lion driver#
VMware Workstation 7.1+ (get the latest version) or even better free version of VMware Player will work as well Download the Mac OS X VMware unlocker and other helper (***VMware unlocker link updated***) Download the Audio / Sound driver for VMware Mac OS X Lion if you want to get audio working as well (thanks to Manas commentator) Download the bootable “Mac OS X Lion bootable vmdk” (find it on Google should be around 4.12GB in size) At least 4GB of RAM At least 40 GB of Hard Drive space ***UPDATE Oct 2nd 2011*** Updated broken link for VMware unlocker, added Audio / Sound driver for VMware Mac OS X Lion To start, here are the following tools and items you need to have:
Vmware install mac os x lion how to#
How to Install Fully Functional Mac OS X Lion Virtual Machine inside Windows 7 UPDATE*** Tested and confirmed that the free version of VMware Player works just as good as VMware Workstation.