The sound and network worked out of the box, no additional settings required. After reboot, you must be seeing the full/larger screen and several display screen resolutions. Restart the virtual machine once the installation completed. It will ask for the password, the ‘Lion user’ password is nothing ( blank password). Once it is mounted inside guest OS automatically, execute the ‘install VMware tools’ file.
The darwin.iso file is located under VMware Unlocker – Mac OS X Guest\VMware 8.x Series\Tools in extracted location. I recommend taking a snapshot before proceeding further steps.Īttach the darwin.iso file to CD/DVD drive of working virtual machine.
We can use this file to install VMware tools inside the Lion OS X guest machine to get multiple display resolutions and better performance. Anyhow, the darwin.iso file is included in this download. I do not understand the exact reason why the VMware tools is not installed on this image. Screen Resolution and Display Improvement
If all steps are correct ( specifically step 2 and 3), you should be seeing the working Lion OS on VMware with your Windows 10 computer. (I did this demonstration in 2012 ? )ĥ) Power on the virtual machine. I increased to two processors and 2GB of RAM.
Increase the number of processors and RAM size based on your physical computer capacity. You can modify the virtual machine settings before power it on. Go to ‘File’ on the menu and select Open, browse the Mac OS X Lion.vmx. Mostly you will not need to use the bypasser since most of the recent computers have the virtualization supported processor.Ĥ) Now open the pre-configured virtual machine file. You will find VMware Unlocker – Hardware Virtualization Bypasser in this download. So, VMware will not check the VT support for guest Operating systems.
If your physical computer is pretty old and not having VT support, then there is a patch available to bypass VT check. Read our guide about enabling and checking VT on Intel or AMD computers Once the patch is applied successfully, do check whether ‘ Apple Mac OS X’ OS type is appearing under guest Operating Systems.ģ) Also, your physical computer must have VT supported processor and it should be enabled on motherboard BIOS.
Incase these patches do not work for the version you have or you want to know more about how to unlock VMware workstation, read this guide about VMware Unlocker on Windows The same download folder is having VMware unlockers for several versions. We need to use ‘VMware unlocker’ for this purpose. Make sure that the destination is having enough disk space to extract the files and use the VM in future.Ģ) We have to unlock the VMware workstation program to host Mac OS X as a guest virtual machine. In case, your Windows OS is not extracting the file, you can download the 7-zip utility from the official site here. It is compressed by the 7-zip utility and in exe file format. Please note that these methods are only for testing purpose.ĭirect download links How to Use Lion OS X 10.7 VMware Image on Windows 10ġ) The download is having a set of required files with VMware disk (VMDK) and configuration (VMX) files. I’m giving the exact download links (as requested by owner) which will open after showing ads. We earlier published a guide about the fresh installation of Lion OS X on VMware, if you prefer to install the OS from scratch, you can try this method. This Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 pre-installed VMDK VMware image can be downloaded either from a torrent or direct file hosting site. But the torrent file or the pre-installed image links are available on the internet. Though he used to be active for while, now we can’t find any trace of him. (Optional) Select Connect At Power On to connect the device when the virtual machine powers on.Ĭlick Edit and select Connected next to the datastore ISO file to connect the device.This pre-installed image was created and uploaded by ZackehSoul. In the Virtual Device Node drop-down menu, select the node that the drive uses in the virtual machine. To locate a virtual machine, select a datacenter, folder, cluster, resource pool, host, or vApp.Ĭlick the Related Objects tab and click Virtual Machines.Įxpand CD/DVD drive, and select Datastore ISO File from the drop-down menu.
Right-click the virtual machine and select Edit Settings. If an ISO image file is not available on a local or shared datastore, upload an ISO image to a datastore from your local system by using the datastore file browser. To install a guest operating system and its applications on a new virtual machine, you can connect the CD/DVD device to an ISO file that is stored on a datastore accessible to the host. Configure a Datastore ISO File for the CD/DVD Drive in the vSphere Web Client