The VMWare team has released some days ago the second beta for VMWare Fusion 2.0.
This new beta brings tons of new features on the table like Unity 2.0, Multiple Snapshots,
Better Video and Graphics, and last but not least support for more client OSs,
including Leopard Server !!!
Virtualizing Mac OS X Server inside Mac OS X sounds really interesting, specially for atv4mac. People running Leopard will be glad to install Mac OS X Tiger inside a VMWare to run atv4mac! But we need to do a little hack to VMWare Fusion since it only supports Mac OS X SERVER virtualization.
See more details around the hack, click the link below
The following items are required to start the hacking process:
- Retail DVD of Mac OS X Tiger (or Leopard)
- VMWare Fusion Beta 2 installed
Verify you installed VMWare Fusion Beta 2.
Then Open a Terminal window and type the following commands:
sudo bash
cd "/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/isoimages"
mkdir original
mv darwin.iso tools-key.pub *.sig original
perl -n -p -e 's/ServerVersion.plist/SystemVersion.plist/g' < original/darwin.iso > darwin.iso
openssl genrsa -out tools-priv.pem 2048
openssl rsa -in tools-priv.pem -pubout -out tools-key.pub
openssl dgst -sha1 -sign tools-priv.pem < darwin.iso > darwin.iso.sig
for A in *.iso ; do openssl dgst -sha1 -sign tools-priv.pem < $A > $A.sig ; done
exit
Your VMWare Fusion is now hacked to allow installation of Mac OS X Tiger/Leopard.
I am looking for a Tiger Retail DVD, please contact me if you can help.
There are no Intel Tiger Retail DVD, doh !
Need to hack the Tiger Install DVD that came with your mac !
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1. Ross Kimes Says:
September 3rd, 2008 at 9:53 pmDo you think this will work with a Tiger disc that came with a MacBook (i.e. a non-retail one?
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September 4th, 2008 at 12:05 amWell I can’t seem to get it working with the MacBook discs…it is stuck at the grey Apple screen, no spinning wheel or anything.
Even with a retail disc, Front Row is not included, so you would still have to figure out how to work that out (which I was not able to do).
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3. admin Says:
September 4th, 2008 at 1:12 amRoss, nope it is not possible with a Macbook Tiger disc, I tried also yesterday. Well it should be possible, but you need to hack the OSInstall.dist file which is located in “/System/Installation/Packages/OSInstall.mpkg/Contents”. I tried but then I could not boot from the ISO I made, maybe I need to burn it on a DVD.
If anyone can provide me an original Tiger RETAIL DVD, I would be more than happy.
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September 4th, 2008 at 1:15 amThis may be kinda far off, but since AppleTV is just a trimmed down version of OSX and we can download the entire AppleTV OS, would it be possible to install AppleTV straight to VMware and bypass Tiger altogether?
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September 4th, 2008 at 1:23 amWe probably could do that, but I don’t want to host and distribute warez content. The solution with Tiger does not break copyright since everyone has a Tiger DVD (except me) and I don’t need to distribute any patched copyrighted files. ATV4mac does neither distribute any copyrighted content, it is 100% legal. And I want to keep it that way.
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September 4th, 2008 at 12:29 pmI got to thinking, and I do not think that Apple made any retail DVDs for Tiger (well Intel anyway). They made PPC retail disks, but any Intel Mac came pre-installed with Tiger, so there was no reason to made Intel retail DVDs.
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September 4th, 2008 at 2:45 pmRoss, you are right, Apple never made Tiger Intel retail DVD, only PPC.
Therefore I guess I will need to hack OSInstall.dist anyway… -
September 4th, 2008 at 3:07 pmi am downloaded a patched torrent at the moment, but would much rather be able to use the real thing, so please let me know if you are to be figure out how to do it. Thanks.
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9. Unteins Says:
September 10th, 2008 at 10:31 pmHas anyone got this to work? When I try to install Tiger I get a hard crash and can’t get anywhere.
I’d really like to run ATV4Mac in VMWare so I can use it on an iMac I use as a TV in my room.
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September 10th, 2008 at 10:34 pmI have not yet. I am not going to give it any more attempts because there should be an update coming soon (for compatibility with iTunes 8). I am hoping that the update will move the OS to Leopard. If that does not happen, I may just break down and buy one lol.
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September 11th, 2008 at 8:18 amI own an AppleTV and I like it. It works great, on my tv. But I want to use it in my room on my iMac. FrontRow works well enough, but I like the AppleTV better. With the iMac I can also play DVDs which is a huge plus (it would be cool to be able to launch DVD Player from within FrontRow or AppleTV)
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12. Ryan Says:
September 25th, 2008 at 1:55 pmI have entered all the commands in Terminal, however, VMware Fusion just won’t recognize my retail copy of Tiger. Am I missing something?
I opened terminal, entered in all the commands. Then clicked “New” to create a new virtual machine in VMware Fusion 2, and the first step of finding an installation disk returns no results, and I am forced to “Continue without disk”
Any ideas?
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September 25th, 2008 at 2:31 pmTurns out that I Tiger Retail Disk will not work because any Retail Version of Tiger is PPC, not Intel. VMware won’t be able to virtualize the PPC version of Tiger, it needs Intel.
We seem to be out of luck until we figure out how to install from a System Restore DVD.
Admin, did you ever figure out a way to do that?
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14. rain Says:
October 10th, 2008 at 10:57 amLeopard under Fusion runs fine.
I tried to run it under VMware Workstation 6.5 but even after i copied darwin.iso together with it’s .sig file to the workstation folder Leopard still hangs at boot.
Probably VMware has disabled booting the Leopard VM on Windows and Linux.
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15. Bob Says:
October 28th, 2008 at 4:19 pmI think that Leopard VM’s are not supported on windows and linux versions of vmware fusion since apple only allows Leopard VM’s to be installed on macs, so VMWare Fusion didn’t bother making Leopard VM’s workable in Windows or LInux. But, anyway, thanks for the terminal commands! Leopard works fine!
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16. Northwestern Guy Says:
December 26th, 2008 at 8:28 pmIm getting error
EBIOS Read Error: Error 0×31
Block 0 Sector 64Any Ideas? im using a Retail Leopard 10.5 with-in Leopard 10.5.5 and have done all the Terminal Patches…do i need to patch the Leo img as well?
September 6th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
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