Step 9: Once the installation is completed. Customize your installation with minimum set of printer drivers and language options for a lightweight trouble free installation experience. Make sure you format your virtual hard drive in “Mac OS Extended (Journaled)” format using Disk Utility. From here on, simply follow the onscreen setup instructions to install OS X Snow Leopard. Step 8: Wait for a couple of minutes for the Installation Setup screen to show up. This will enable the system to boot OS X DVD using verbose mode. If the boot screen doesn’t appear for you, try booting it in verbose mode by pressing “F8” key after selecting “c” option, and then enter “-v” (without quotes). OS X boot screen with Apple logo should now appear. Step 7: Now go back and select “c” option (Boot DVD) from the prompt which you got in Step 5 to boot from the OS X retail DVD. Insert OS X Snow Leopard retail DVD in your DVD drive and select the “Use physical drive” option. To do this, right click on CD/DVD option found in lower right most corner of your VMware window and select settings. Step 6: Now you’ll have to point your virtual machine to OS X Snow Leopard retail DVD instead of “darwin_snow.iso”. You should now have a screen similar to the one shown below. Step 5: Now power on the virtual machine and hit “F8” key. Point it to “darwin_snow.iso” which you downloaded in Step 2.

Step 4: Click on “Edit virtual machine settings”, select CD/DVD (IDE) option from left hand side and then and select “Use ISO image file” option. Step 3: Start VMware Workstation and open up “Mac OS X Server 10.6 (experimental).vmx” file which you downloaded in Step 2. Step 2: Click here to download pre-made modified version of Snow Leopard.vmdk and darwin_snow.iso files required to get this thing to work. Step 1: Download and install VMware Workstation 7. If you like OS X Snow Leopard, Get a Mac.

This guide is for informational purposes only. Note: We don’t in anyway encourage downloading Apple software via file-sharing / torrent sites and run it in an virtualized environment under Windows. If you meet all these requirements, you can then install OS X Snow Leopard in VMware under Windows and can enjoy the best of both worlds. You’ll need to have a system with an Intel processor which supports hardware virtualization, original OS X Snow Leopard retail disk, VMware Workstation 7 and Windows 7, Vista or XP installed as host operating system. The following step by step guide will help you in installing Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard as a guest virtual machine in Windows 7.

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