– Copy the link created before ( ~/temp/SnowLeopardVM.vmdk) to this location vmwarevm file and click “Show Package Contents” – Open Finder and go to the location where you saved the VM * Replace /dev/disk3 accordingly and change ~/temp/SnowLeopardVM to wherever you want to put this link on we will move it laterĪ file named SnowLeopardVM.vmdk will be created in ~/tempįile -> New -> More options… -> Create a custom virtual machineĬhoose Apple Mac OS X > Mac OS X Server 10.6 64-bit vmware-rawdiskCreator create /dev/disk3 fullDevice ~/temp/SnowLeopardVM ide – $ cd /Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library – Use $ diskutil list to get the external drive device handler (something like /dev/disk3, which I’ll use as an example) When you’re done, plug the drive in the host machine with VMware installed. – Start the setup as usual and when it asks in which drive you want to install, choose the external drive as target – Plug the external drive to the machine and format it with a GUID Partition Table and HFS+ Journaled – Boot the installer DVD from your machine as you normally do – my MacBook wouldn’t boot it, so I used a spare Mac mini to do this – VMware Fusion installed on host computer Vmware Fusion Snow Leopard Printable
#Vmware tools for mac os x snow leopard install#
– Spare external HDD to install OSX on (40GB+ recommended)
– Machine able to boot the Mac OS X Snow Leopard Installer (either DVD or USB) – VMware Fusion 6.0.3 (latest version as of this post)
#Vmware tools for mac os x snow leopard pro#
– MacBook Pro 13″ mid-2012 running Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5 I didn’t use Parallels or others because I don’t like them. “Built from the ground up for the Mac, VMware Fusion 3 leverages Mac OS X Snow Leopard’s advanced architecture with a new 64-bit core engine and native support for the 64-bit kernel.īut it’s not documented anywhere, not actually supported and took me so fucking long to find my way. I needed to do a very quick test on Mac OS X Snow Leopard, so I thought “I’ll just setup a VM really quick, do my stuff, and delete it”.Ĭan anybody tell me if vmware fusion works with MAC OS10.6 (snow leopard)? I was about to buy it but I still need some software in my windows virtual machine and I am not sure if the new OS already supports vmware fusion (I have VMWare 2.05 and Leopard 10.5.8 on a Macbook 2.4 Ghz, 4 GB. Installing Snow Leopard (Client) on VMware Fusion 6.0.3
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