VMware player is available for free for personal non-commercial use for Windows but whether such a VMware Player for Mac is available for free download, that is the question. Part 1: Is There A VMware Workstation Player for Mac OS X? Part 2: Top 5 Alternatives to VMware Workstation Player for Mac. That’s because VMware program doesn’t support and restricts installing macOS on VMware whether its VMware Workstation or Player or fusion so macOS unlocker for VMware Workstation 15.
I don’t own a MAC so I thought I would have some fun and see if all the “Buzz” is true about running MAC OS X on a Windows 8 System (lab system with pre-release) using VMware Workstation.
After a couple of hours of downloading and tweaking, and re-downloading and re-tweaking, I can tell you that it does work, kinda!
Before you get too excited let me qualify it by saying “don’t get your hopes up too high” because it won’t replace your Windows.
By default, VMware product does not support creating a Mac OS X virtual machine directly, there is no such an option at all. To install and run Mac OS X operating system in a VMware virtual machine on Windows/Linux/Mac OS X, you have to setup an unlock patch for your VMware product (it can be VMware Workstation, VMware Workstation Player, VMware Fusion or VMware ESXi/vSphere Hypervisor) first. By default VMWare doesn’t support Mac OS X VM but a patch created by DrDonk enables users to create a Mac OS VM in VMware Workstation, VMware Workstation Player and VMware Fusion or VMware ESXi/vSphere Hypervisor Extract the unlocker-master.zip and run “win-install.cmd” as administrator. On this page, select “I will install the operating system later” and click Next. Guest OS Installation. Yes, you’re right, select Apple Mac OS X and OS version then hit Next. Personalize and select a preferred location for the virtual machine and click Next. Name Virtual Machine.
Not Like Fusion or Parallels
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Unlike running Windows on a MAC using Parallels or Fusion, running Lion on a Windows 8 System is clunky and slow. And because the image you are installing has been hacked by someone to make it work, updating Lion crashing the install so I recommend taking snapshots or clones so you can start over until you get things working.
VMware 8 MAC (is there such a thing?)
After about 5 tries I was able to get VMware Workstation, Windows 8 and MAC Lion running pretty smooth, I also hacked (applekey “S” at boot) and reset the root since I didn’t know who created the image and I didn’t want someone from a strange place accessing my vMAC or vLion (vmware 8 mac).
Here’s the Link for you to Try It
Warning! Always scan images for Root-kits
If you have the time to spare or you just have to see for yourself here is the link> Install and Run Mac 10.7.1 Lion OS X from VMware Pre Installed Image (Note: all the links for downloading the MAC image can be found at SYSPROBS)
Here’s a Video byPCSolutions
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY6LQky5pEM
Note: Running MAC OS X on a Windows system or any hardware other than Apple hardware is not supported or approved by Apple.
For Hyper-V Enabled Hosts:
CPU Requirements:
Intel Sandy Bridge or a newer CPU
AMD Bulldozer or a newer CPU
Host Operating Systems:
Windows 10 2004
Minimum Requirements to Run Container Runtime on workstation Windows Host Operating Systems:
Windows 10 1809 or higher
Minimum Requirements to Dark Theme support on Workstation Windows Host Operating Systems:
Windows 10 1809 or higher
For 3D Hardware Accelerated Graphics Support:
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Hardware Requirements:
For Windows hosts, a GPU that supports DirectX 11 is required.
For Linux hosts, the latest NVIDIA proprietary drivers are required.
For Linux hosts, AMD devices are not supported
Software Requirements:
64-bit Host Operating System:
Windows 8 or higher
GNU/Linux with NVIDIA drivers that support OpenGL 4.5 and above
Guest Operating System
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Windows 7 or higher
GNU/Linux with vmwgfx
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*With exception, the following CPUs are not supported:
Intel Atom processors based on the 2011 “Bonnell” micro-architecture (e.g. Atom Z670/Z650; Atom N570)
Systems using Intel Atom processors based on the 2012 “Saltwell” micro-architecture (e.g. Atom S1200, Atom D2700/D2500, Atom N2800/N2600.
Systems using AMD processors based on the “Llano” and “Bobcat” micro-architectures (e.g. code-named “Hondo”, “Ontario”, “Zacate”, “Llano”)
In addition, the following CPUs are supported:
Intel processors based on the 2010 “Westmere” micro-architecture (e.g. Xeon 5600, Xeon 3600, Core i7-970, Core i7-980, Core i7-990)
For a complete list of supported host and guest the operating systems visit the VMware Compatibility Guide.