Mac OS X 10.6 is successfully installed on VMWare Workstation 7.1.2.

After some hard downloads and hard work, I finally installed Mac OS X 10.6 on my office machine, and an installation disk of 6.4 GB. In, the Office restricted traffic of MB, which made people easy.

The VMware Workstation I use is 7.1.2, and Darwin is used during boot. ISO has never been successful, and the boot was successful with rebel EFI, but after the operating system was installed, it died in the gray Apple status. Later, the optical drive settings on the virtual machine were modified, in the optical drive settings of virtual machine settings, there is an advanced option to change the optical drive type to SCSI, you can install Mac OS X 10.6 normally.

(Updated on 2011.10.03: Installation tutorials in China seem not quite new. In this post on the insanelymac website, we summarized various situations of installing MACOs in VMware. Please read them with patience. Someone has written a VMware unlocker program abroad. because Apple does not permit MACOs to be installed on virtual machines, this unlocker Program Patches VMware, the MACOs 10.6 option can be displayed on the VMware interface, which is much easier to install. After installation, you can directly start the MACOs with the VMware BIOS without any boot disc, however, the startup process is a little slow)

Programmers are busy, countless operating systems can be used, countless programming languages can be used, and countless applications are waiting to be written.

After working on Mac, I will install xcode. I saw that the installation package was 4 GB, and I had to go to the office from home. I had to register an apple account to download this item. I downloaded 3.2.6.

The original laptop also supports the VT technology. You have to enable this option from the BIOS settings. The important thing to remember isAfter the settings, completely turn off the computer power, and then re-open the powerInstead of restarting directly, remember that I almost thought my laptop would not support VT. Finally, I started mac on my laptop, but I was asked to upgrade Mac OS to 10.6.6 when I installed xcode.

Download xcode3.2.5 again. Does this version have low requirements for Mac OS versions? Finally, I found that it still does not work. I am also prompted to upgrade the Mac OS. After clicking upgrade, there will be 9 GB of free space, it seems that it is best to allocate more than 20 GB of hard disk space When configuring the Virtual Machine (space is required for upgrading the Mac operating system and xcode, so 40 GB is allocated at one time when creating the virtual machine to avoid future troubles! The space I allocated at the beginning was too small. Although it was easy to resize in VMware, it was not recognized in Mac after expansion. Later, a colleague successfully expanded the hard disk capacity by using the disk tool in Mac ). After all the installation is complete, the Mac is upgraded to 10.6.7, xcode is 3.2.5, and 20 GB of hard disk space is about 2 GB. It seems that it is not easy to use dedicated Mac machines for development! So far, it has saved thousands of dollars to buy Mac machines and can be used for iPhone and iPad software development. (Note: The 3.2.5 virtual machine is retained after the upgrade to xcode4 !)

A small problem occurs in a virtual machine. After the Mac in the virtual machine is sleep, the mouse cannot find it. You must manage the power in the Mac.Disable sleep and power-saving settingsOnly.