Emulating Mac OS x in vmware

[nilsk123]

Has anyone succesfully gotten mac os x to run in full screen in vmware? It runs fine, but i cant set it to the non standard resolution of 2160 by 1440, so i have black barts on both sides.

Also its scaled to be reaaaaaally really small. It's workable but hmm.

Has anyone fixed these issues?

 

[ctitanic]

One of the reasons why some prefer MacOS is, according to them, that it's more stable than Windows. So. Why one would want to run a more stable system from one that according to them, it's not so stable? is not the end result unstable?

 

[nilsk123]

One of the reasons why some prefer MacOS is, according to them, that it's more stable than Windows. So. Why one would want to run a more stable system from one that according to them, it's not so stable? is not the end result unstable?

I have my reasons to want to run mac os x occasionaly.

 

[GreyFox7]

I believe the license indicates it will only work on pure Apple Juice... nothing filtered or watered

 

[Lobo]

Yep, OS X will only run on VMware Fusion – on the Mac. VMware Workstation won't run it by default, unless you install a hack, which might be the reason you got through the installation routine at all. For some reason VMware feels a strong calling to heed Apple's license, so they limit it intentionally.

Of course, OS X expects only to find specific Hardware, limited by the variations of Mac models.

You might have to fiddle around with the virtual monitor adapter or install proper kexts. I tried the same with OS X Lion back in the day and all I remember is that it was a pretty sluggish experience, so I didn't pursue it much further.

If your PC isn't totally out of the ordinary, you might just want to try installing it on a separate partition and run it kind of like Bootcamp backwards. I did that for quite a while and it ran nicely.