Mac OS X Lion 10.7.1 VMware Image 64 Bit
Lillia Iniguez
So, starting from a point of having access to the Lion download, having the installer image within that download extracted onto a USB stick, and also have a bootable copy of a working Lion image, what is the simplest way to get a clean minimal Lion install working within either Parallels or VirtualBox on Mountain Lion?
I did something similar a while ago. I had to clone my running computer to a USB disk. Then set up a basic VM with 2 disks, the first disk with minimal install of OS X, the 2nd virtual disk with enough capacity to hold the contents of the running computer.Then boot up the VM, attach the USB drive with the cloned system, then clone from the USB drive (within the VM) to the 2nd virtual disk.Then shutdown the VM, and edit the settings to boot from the 2nd virtual disk (likely this could be achieved using System Preferences from with OS X on the Virtual Machine, and selecting start up disk).Once completed when you boot, you will boot from a cloned image.
I go to File --> New, click "Install from disc or image," select the corresponding InstallMacOSX.dmg disk image file, selecting the specific OS version (I tried selecting the 32-bit and 64-bit versions in separate attempts since I'm not sure which the linked installer is) and both times when the instance reboots, it says it couldn't find a hard drive or CD-ROM drive ("No compatible bootloader found" for each one). VMware then opens a window saying "No operating system was found." I get the same error when trying Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, and I haven't yet tried other OS versions.
You cannot use the "InstallOSX.dmg" file directly to create a VM. The disk image is not bootable. It contains a single installer package, which needs to be run through Apple's Installer application to create the "Install OS X [version name].app" in your Applications folder. The catch: you cannot do that unless your Mac is supported by that operating system. For recent Macs, the upper bound is the usual problem.
The reason I say might is that Lion and Mountain Lion predate the introduction of the createinstallmedia utility which was buried inside the installer application starting around 10.9 Mavericks. I don't know offhand whether VMware Fusion uses that utility, or whether it just needs the disk images inside the application. I created my Lion and Mountain Lion VMs so long ago that VMware Fusion may have required creating a bootable installer first, and there was a different process for that with Lion and Mountain Lion.
I don't know the technical reason, but as dempson mentions, the InstallMacOSX.dmg disk image and the resulting InstallMacOSX.pkg installer aren't usable by VMware to install the OS. It's only the resulting Install OS X Mountain Lion.app application (or corresponding name depending on the OS version) that is usable as an installer. And as they explained, newer Macs can't run the older OSes, so I did this all within an existing VM running the same OS version as my computer itself.
I didn't take it any further as I don't actually want to create another VM at the moment, but from memory the next part is the VM starts up into the macOS installer, which it mounts from the disk image inside the application.
You misunderstood my post which was probably because it was hard for me to explain. I am not trying to install snow leopard. This is a VM of Mountain lion running on my Mac Pro also running Mountain Lion. What I am trying to do is import the contents from my Snow Leopard user profile into my Mountain Lion VM so that I can load it up to use on my 2nd monitor as I need it. I have a Time Machine backup of snow leopard that I am trying to import. The reason I do not want to import this to my real OS is because I have 15 years of crud I am trying to weed out slowly and very carefully. My clean install is very fast and I want to keep it that way. I want to keep it open on my second monitor and carefully pick and choose what to import. But more importantly I need to open certain apps installed from that old user account and view certain settings and then configure my accounts on the newer apps.
3) You will need either a disk image or an actual DVD of mountain lion, mount that in your VM and choose it as start up. After rebooting open disk utility and partition Mac HD which will completely erase the disk. Instead of only showing the 40GB limit it shold now show the size you created from step 2. Close disk utility and install Mountain Lion as normal. Reboot and unmount disk image so that it starts from your new installation.
This guide is part of our Mac on Windows series. In this article, we will talk about working pre-installed VMware image of Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3. This VMDK file will work on most of the Intel-based desktop or laptop computers with Windows 10/8.1 or Windows 7. Software update to the latest version of Lion OS X is possible.
I do not understand the exact reason why the VMware tools is not installed on this image. Anyhow, the darwin.iso file is included in this download. We can use this file to install VMware tools inside the Lion OS X guest machine to get multiple display resolutions and better performance.
Apple systems on Mac OS X installation disc image, use the dmg format of the original image. I recommend to search for ed2k network download (recommended), the keyword is "Mac OS X Mountain Lion dmg" or "Mac OS X Lion dmg". Described here no longer compile.
Edit the virtual machine configuration "CD / DVD" option in the "Use ISO image file" at the choice of our Mac OS X installation disc image. (Please select the browse file dialog box when the file type, select "All Files (*. *)", You can see the file name suffix for the dmg image file.) Confirmation is complete, start the VMware virtual machine.
Now let the fun part begin. VMware Workstation will now boot your VMDK image, this process might take anywhere between 1 minutes to few minutes. Depends on the system you are trying to install. If you ever run into issues, be sure to check out this guide on how to troubleshoot hackintosh.
Just a note on VMware Tools: Once I updated my 10.8.0 base image to 10.8.2 (using the App Store), I was able to mount and install the darwin.iso (VMware Tools) without error! With the base release it had failed to install.
hey i tried installing mac os in vmware using this method ,VM boots currectly with apple logo on starting but stucks on revolving ball with umbrella like colors on it as in images shown below pls hlp.
i installed the mac os x using this method in vmware workstation 10 it boots properly but stops there after as shown in below images booting stops at blank screen with a ball with umbrella like colors on it.pls hlp
A log file is available in "C:\downloads\Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 VMware Image\Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 VMware Image\Mac OS X Lion\vmware.log". A core file is available in "C:\downloads\Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 VMware Image\Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 VMware Image\Mac OS X Lion\vmware-vmx-8008.dmp". You can request support and include the contents of the log file and the core file.
Quickly navigate back to the extracted unlock program folder "Extracted Folder Path"\Mac OS X Lion VMware Files\Mac OS X Lion\ to find the VM image file "Mac OS X Lion.vmx", then simply execute the file by double clicking on it.
Unlike running Windows on a MAC using Parallels or Fusion, running Lion on a Windows 8 System is clunky and slow. And because the image you are installing has been hacked by someone to make it work, updating Lion crashes the install so I recommend taking snapshots or clones so you can start over until you get things working.
If you have the time to spare or you just have to see for yourself here is the link> Install and Run Mac 10.7.1 Lion OS X from VMware Pre Installed Image (Note: all the links for downloading the MAC image can be found at SYSPROBS)
My diagnostics : the minimal iso lacks the tools to finish a proper vmware installation. As it is, it doesn't recognize the vmware emulated hardware layer and does not install the software (perl, make, gcc) necessary to install vmware tools.
A macOS virtual machine can be created only from a valid macOS image. Such images must be signed by Apple. If you find out that a macOS image has an outdated codesign certificate please try to find the respective image with a valid certificate.
I read a lot of migration tutorials and allways failed. (boot loop, bluescreens) Deleting the SCSI controller and attaching the VMDK file to the IDE controller did the job.
Thank you for pointing it out! Helped me a lot to be able to use my Win7 image created with VMWare convert in a Linux installation.
Now I can install Linux natively on my machine! YAY! One step closer to a Windows-free machine. Just needed my old Win7 installation for backup in case I might want to look up something of forgot to migrate data/setting from my old Win7.
In the Virtual Box images folder there should be several .vmdk files. Locate the top one which has no running numbers in the filename as this is the master file that contains the settings for the virtual machine:
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