Last two weeks i tried to install Mac OS X Tiger x86 into my PC after i got to know that Mac OS was able run on x86 machine. I found many sites do guide the installation of Mac OS x86. There are various way to install the OSx86 but what i want to show here is a very simple installation with the use of VMware Workstation 5.
Why i created this guide is because i was mad while facing the problems during installation. What i wanted to do is just try it on VMware but i found myself stupid after i get to know the installation.
This is the screen shot of Mac OS Tiger running on my VMware 5.
Firstly, you must have the following files & software before you start your Mac OSx86 installation:
- tiger-x86 image file. [tiger-x86.tar.bz2]
- VMware Workstation. [ I'm using VMware Workstation 5]
- Minimum 6 Gigabytes hard disk space.
INSTRUCTIONS:
Step 1: Install VMware Workstation into your PC.
Step 2: Extract “tiger-x86.tar.bz2″ file into any folder. You can use WinRAR to perform the extraction. Please remind that the data files from “tiger-x86.tar.bz2″ is 6 gigabytes size. So please make sure you extract it into a sufficient free space hard disk drive and the hard disk partition format/type is NTFS.
( if your partition is FAT32 or older format, you will be facing extraction error because FAT32 supports a single file size up to 4 gigabytes only. [ I encounter this problem twice before i get to solve this. my stupidity.. 
]
Step 3: After everything is ready & VMware is installed, launch the VMware Workstation now.
Step 4: Now select “New Virtual Machine” icon or go to menu “File”->”New”->”Virtual Machine”.
Step 5: At first dialog screen, click “Next”. In “Virtual machine configuration”, select“custom” and click “Next” button.
Step 6: For “Virtual machine format”, select “New-Workstation 5″ and click “Next” button.
Step 7: When asking about “Select a Guest Operating System”, select “Other” from the radio button. And Select “Other” also from the drop down list of “Version” selection.
Step 8: In “Name the Virtual Machine”, you are about to name your virtual machine name and select the location of your virtual machine. You can give any name for the virtual machine but i chose “Tiger” as the name. Now, “Browse” to the folder that contains the extracted files of tiger-x86 image [tiger-x86.tar.bz2]. Your folder should have following files: floppy.flp, tiger-x86.nvram, tiger-x86.vmdk, tiger-x86.vmsd, tiger-x86.vmx, tiger-x86-flat.img, and some .log files.
Step 9: After select the location of the folder, click on “Next” button. You will be seeing a message dialog box about “…Having two virtual machines installed in the same location can cause problem…”. Just click “Yes” from the message box.
Step 10: Now you will have to specify the amount of memory allocated to the virtual machine. If you have large memory in your PC, you can allocated more to the virtual machine else i would recommend to allocated at least “Recommended memory” size [green pointer] from the dialog box. Just click on “Next” button again once you specified the amount of memory.
Step 11: In “Network Connection” options, choose “Do not use a network connection” for now and click “Next” button.
Step 12: In “I/O adapter” types, select “Buslogic” from SCSI Adapters.
Step 13: Now you will see the “Disk” dialog box, select the second option, “Use an existing virtual disk” and click “Next” button.
Step 14: After you chose to use an existing virtual disk, you are required to select “the existing disk file”. Thus, just browse to the extracted folder and select the virtual machine disk file. The filename is “tiger-x86.vmdk”. After select the file, just click on “Finish” button. Then the message box will totally disappeared from the screen now but the VMware Workstation is still there. Don’t worry.
Step 15: Mac OS Tiger x86 is ready to launch now. Just select “Start Virtual Machine” from “Tiger” virtual machine or click on the Green Arrow button ( PLAY button) on the top left corner of the VMware.
CONGRATULATIONS!! You shall enjoy your Mac OS Tiger x86 in your VMware now.
Looks like you have done a great job here.
Cheers !!
Hope that you guys can try it out without any problem. It is good to try for a new OS like Mac & Linux.
Hope you guys like it.
Guys, i found out another way that doesn’t need to do so many steps.
you just select “Open Existing VM or Team”, then browse to where ur .vmx file located. After selected it, you just play it. However, virtual machine settings is predefined if you choose to use this method. So if you want to make any changes on that virtual machine, you need to click on the “edit virtual machine” and do whatever you want for the changes.
I will post another Fast & Easy Installation of Mac OS Tiger in VMware later.
thanks for the guide, what about networking, does it work
One more thing, how is the speed comparing to installing on a harddrive, thx
Actually there is another very simple way to do it with VMware for Tiger. As the earlier comment, i mentioned that i would post another guide for that but unfortunately i did not. So sorry for that but i will keep my word until i found a place to stay in. The simple way is something like this, you just SELECT existing VMWare file & browse to your downloaded tiger-x86.vmdk. Just as you open an existing file and it will work. You may require to change the virtual machine configuration to meet your needs.
About the networking stuff, i can’t manage to test it out because the Tiger in my PC is very slow. Will try it out when i get a clean HDD. If you don’t mind, i can send some link for the guide to your email.
Enjoy the MAC~! I was playing around with my Boss’s G4 now. kekeke
i’ve tried it. it worked. but it’s working real slow. sluggish. anyway to speed up things in vmware? i also can’t get the itunes to work.
i checked out some forums and it discussed using ppp for networking…….however i’m stumped, does anyone know an easier way or has d steps to do it?
Need some help, installed as described, but the os just hangs on the apple boot screen, got a pic of an apple with a “clock” going round the outside. Left it for a couple of hours but got nothing. any ideas as to what could be wrong?
yeah, i’m also have problems with it going incredibly slow, does anyone know how i could speed it up? i have an external 300gb hd which i could maybe partition or something, but i don’t know if that would od anything. any thoughts?
To speed the system up, open the hard drive.
Now double-click Library and then Extensions
Delete the file AppleTPMACPI.kext
If asked for password for deadmoo, the password is bovinity
Now empty the trash and restart Mac OS X Tiger
The reason is that this file searches for an Intel chip, using lots of the system’s resources, causing the system to respond extremely slow.
witzer, dave, raju, & josh:
Very sorry that i just managed to reply you guys here. I have been searching the “speed” problem but unfortunately it is limited information. However, i’m very appreciate that we have Albert’s help here.
According to his guide, we need to remove the “AppleTPMACPI.kext” files from the /Library/Extensions folder. and empty the trash before restarting Mac OS.
Please refer to his comments bout the guide.
Anyway, I will try this after i reinstall Tiger in my VMware because i just formatted my PC last few weeks
. hehehe
ok, how do you go to the hard drive and then through library etc. to delete that file when OSX isnt booting? i checked my C drive and i didnt find any of those folders, how to you physically get to that file? thanks
and also, im running an AMD 2400+ ~1.99GHz, not 64-bit, and a geforce 5200FX 256MB 8x AGP video card
if you need any more information just ask
Sethham, i to am running on AMD 2400+… could this be a problem?
also is there a way to view the tiger virtual hard disk through my standard os? ie can i delete the file without booting into tiger?
alternativly the fact that we are running AMD’s could be a problem?
Same problem, It boots and appear the apple with the thing going round but that’s all, I leave it for 6 hours and nothing, maybe it is because I’m using an AMD system?
System: A7N8X-Deluxe, 2800XP Barton, 1Gb Ram, S-Ata Stripe HD, FX5200, Win Xp Pro Sp2.
Thanks.
Just foud this…
You need a SSE2 or SSE3 capable cpu, download CPU-Z to find out. If you only have SSE2 and not SSE3 then only x86 binarys will work because for ppc binarys you need Rosetta which requires SSE3…
me only running SSE…
sethhman, you have to go to the hard disk inside Mac OS X tiger (when it is done booting), not in your Windows C: drive. After Tiger is done booting, inside the VMWare virtual machine screen, you will see a hard disk icon on the desktop of Tiger.
I can confirm that what Albert is saying is true… removing the file will drasticly speed up the system.
Oh btw: its located: /System/Library/Extensions/ and not just plain library/extensions
You can actually speed it up about 10-20% more. Just create it as custom, Linux and linux unknown. Read that somewhere and it works too.
Enjoy…
the problem is that it NEVER gets done booting, i load the image and boot up and all i get is the apple logo and the spinning circle thing
i cant access the hard disk because it doesnt finish booting
do i need to go into more detail?
ok so i’ve been hearing a lot that you need SSE2 or 3 for this to work
i ran a diagnostic and found out my computer only has SSE, so thats probably the problem and i can quit this whole deal until i get another computer, right?
sethhman: ya, it works in SSE2 or SSE3 but not SSE computer. So sorry that i didn’t mention that in the guide. I tried it in my Centrino Laptop but the drawback is the performance is very slow. I did not try to speed up the Tiger by removing the files according to albert guide. It seems really helpful. sethhman, may be u can try it in other computer if you get a chance to do so because it sounds nice if we can run Mac in our normal PC.
What happens if you remove the file on a pc with SSE2 and then try it on SSE pc?
raju: this im not very sure. may be Albert will help u in this question. Currently i only have one pc with centrino processor. So i can’t really test it out also. I doubt the chances of success is very low for that. Anyway, you can try it and tell us the outcome. That could be a good try.
will give it a go when i go home for xmas- got an intel at home…
Thus, just browse to the extracted folder and select the virtual machine disk file. The filename is “tiger-x86.vmdk” When i try to do this is keeps teelling me that this is not a virtual machine disk file. Can you help me Thanks
man this is an awesome thing worked with no problem. This is much simpler than the other guides I have attempted. I read alberts speeding up help and I think I will try that now. Is there any way to use networking with it yet or is that still being developed by these brilliant people that developed this thus far.
packman: what do you mean by keep telling you that your file is not a virtual machine disk file? did you extracted the file properly and the file that you point to is it .vmdk extension? would you mind to describe more details so that we can have big picture of your problem.
guys, i really glad that this post really help you guys with my little effort in installation guide. As if you read the earlier comment, i promised to comeout another simplest installation. I will only do that once i move in new house and get internet connection.
If you guys find other better solution, hope you guys share to us as well.
Just found a link that will help get networking to work…thought I would pass it along:
http://www.paulooi.com/2005/10/15/vmware-network-mac-osx-x86/
On mine (10.4.1) the sudo password is: bovinity
I’m using VMWare 5.5 and networking is working great. Next I’m looking for sound drivers…
I get an error message that says “Failed to retrieve disk information for “C:\Documents and Settings\……etc…..\tiger-x86.vmdk”
“The specified file is not a virtual disk”
I don’t know what is going on here. Does anyone have a working virtual disk that you can e-mail me, or does anyone know a solution to my problem. I really want to run OSX on my PC.
Please help me ASAP. Thanks.
Hi, I’ve got same problem that MG, “The specified file is not a virtual disk”; please help me. Thanks.
please show me where i can download mac_tiger.iso and when I can download fastest in day. thank you verymuch
MG & Fran: maybe u should try another “tiger-x86.tar.bz2″.
Tu Hai: I just go http://www.thepiratebay.com to search for “tiger x86″. the link is http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3368775
My copy of tiger-x86.tar.bz2 is also gone now… because it is stored in my external hdd and my external hdd cannot be detected at all since last week… damn it..
i found this, its pritty simulatr but with screenshots!
Click here to go to the link
Thanks for the guide!
Thanks!!!
how do i change my username and password, currently it says deadmoo curtis. how do i change this?
Now how exactly do I install Mac OS X onto my actual HD?
Should I burn Ubuntu Linux Live CD and try or what?
I want to install it Mac OS X so I can have both Windows XP and Mac OS X on my HD otherwise it was a waste of $$$ on OS X Tiger!!
Is there any way to force it to start in a higher screenresolution, or maybe change somehow ?
MG & Fran: Change place of image directory!!!!
c:\Docs …..\…..\… is TOO long.
Try c:\Mac
anyone try porting this to vmware player? I’d love to get it working in that.
Also, I overwrote the contents of tiger-xe6.vmx. I have no bit-torrent here at work, so can someone please post the contents of that file?
whoops, the above file I reference is tiger-x86.vmx (I made a type above)
I tried your procedure for booting OSX in VMware. It was easy to follow but I got some errors. First it said that “VMware Workstation cannot open default input sound device: A device ID has been used that is out of range for your system.” I disabled the audio device and was able to continue. But then I got a kernel panic. “Unable to find driver for this platform: “ACPI”. Do you have any ideas?
“The specified file is not a virtual disk”
That has happend, becuase u are using fat32 system, which cannot operate with so big files. So it has extracted only 2Gb of file,…..so that is why your file is “damaged”. Try installing on NTFS.
The root password for deadmoo version is bovinity
Just change it to what else you want, and you will be able to have FULL acces on the configs
Where can I find audio, locale and keyboard drivers for use on vmware 5.5?
Thanks.
Spanish, plis:
Me sale un mensaje :
Your virtual machine has sent an ATAPI (CD-ROM) command that is supported only when programming the drive via DMA. You will need to configure your guest operating system to use DMA when communicating with DVD/CD-ROM devices.
Note that some operating systems will report DMA is available without actually using it. In those cases, normal CD-ROM operations will still be available, but special features will only be available if you reconfigure the virtual device as a SCSI device.
That I need to make?
Thank you
instructions on setting up higher screen resolutions can be found here :- http://www.xplodenet.com
Thanks for the great guide! Got it booted and networking is working!
Now, I’ve heard so many great things about “Quicksilver” that I thought I would give it a try. No luck though! When I launch it the icon “zooms” and then disappears. None of the hotkeys seem to work. Has anyone gotten it working? Or is there something wrong with this release?
I got it working on my P4-M based laptop with SSE2. My desktop which is an Athlon Mobile 2000+ running at 3000+ speeds with SSE only hung on the apple screen. I got the networking running per the tutorial above. Removing that file and changing the type to Linux/Other Linux sped things up to the point where it is almost useable on my laptop with a 2.2Ghz P4-M chip with 1gb of ram (512 allocated to vm).
I have one big problem. Safari comes up but whenevever I browse to a location off of the home page it crashes entirely. Any thoughts?
Stiph
the same problem as packman and others here the file tiger-x86.vmdk expanded in 1kb size and the contaning folde is in 2+GB while the whole tar archive is 6GB…I aleady extractd this archive in NTFS partion…is there is any other source for this file… and thank you Skyfish for your efforts ..and thank you all
AppleTPMACPI.kext is actually a dir not a file. to remove it, you might want to boot up the VM in single user mode.
Mount the filesystem in read-write mode..
“/sbin/fsck -y”. (Type this without the quotes, of course.)
“/sbin/mount -wu /” (This mounts the volume “/” with read/write access.)
and then ..
rm -rdf /System/Library/Extensions/AppleTPMACPI.kext
Reboot and you are good to go ..
to: Qatea-Ultra-OS
Use winrar for unpacking.
Does anyone know if I can enable shared folders in vmware and where it would live? Is networking required for this to work?
I got the Error :
Darwin/x86 boot v5.0.122
95 MB memory
VESA 2.0 16 MB (V M ware, Inc. VBE support 2.0)
Use …
hd(0,1) tiger-x86
boot :
When I press ENTER there will be an error message as :
“Error parsing plist Fileloading Darwin/x86″
I can not get into the Tiger system anyway.
How to solve this problem?
Thank you
hi! please , i have problem , when i install mac osx 86 in my PC , i have problem , plz some one can help me,(*** VMware Workstation internal monitor error ***
vcpu-0:VMM fault: regs=0×5a2c, exc=14, eip=0×8908d
There is a problem in this version of VMware Workstation.
We rely on your feedback to improve the quality of our product. Please submit a support request that describes the problem at our Web page “http://www.vmware.com/info?id=8″. Do not forget to attach the log file (D:\My Virtual Machines\vmware.log) and the core file (D:\My Virtual Machines\vmware-core.gz).
To collect files to submit to VMware support, run vm-support.vbs.
We appreciate your feedback,
— the VMware Workstation team.
Thanks
windows LSD
Pross:3.06
Ram 512
Card Grafic: nvdia 7600 silent
Hard disk 80 G
THANKS
does anyone have a link to this file that isn’t a torrent?
i can’t do them at school because of the firewall…
[...] Hace tiempo que quería probar el tema de tener Mac OS X en un PC convencional. Primeramente decir que lo quería probar con fines de ver el rendimiento y hacer pruebas, en ningún caso para usarlo de forma asidua. Siguiendo a pies juntillas lo que se nos dice en esta guía, tienes Tiger “corriendo” en un santiamén (nótese el entrecomillado). Es necesario tener 7.28GB libres de disco duro, 1.28 GB para el archivo comprimido (que se descarga muy bien de Bittorrent, encontraréis el enlace al torrent en la guía que os enlazo) y 6GB para la máquina virtual. [...]
“The specified file is not a virtual disk”
I had also such problem. Finally I have realised, that the problem is in unpacker. Neither Total Commander nor WinRar was able to correctly extract tar.bz2 (I am not sure which step failed – bunzip or tar). Resulting image was then only about 2GB in size instead of 6GB. When I have extracted the archive in Cygwin environment using standard (GNU?) bunzip2 and tar, everything went correctly.
the mac file could be downloaded on shareaza
Howdy,
I have the same problem as Thanawat (error parsing plist…). Does anyone know what’s the problem and how to solve it? Thanks very much.
i installed the 10.4.1 using “tiger-x86.tar.bz2″ on vmware 5.5, and after bumping up the speed by deleting” AppleTPMACPI.kext”
here are the current stats:
Most usual applications like safari, finder, email, ichat, address book, iphoto, ical, terminal, quicktime, preview, sherlock, stickies are working
dvd player, itunes, sound, software updates, OS updates, installing new applications, flash are not working. (anybody have any possible solution)
Network working perfect , tutorial from http://www.paulooi.com/2005/10/15/vmware-network-mac-osx-x86/
Safari working perfectly, but cannot update,
OSX 10.4.1 cannot do updates.
could anyone please post a new and latest .tar.bz2 or a new .iso please, or possibly post solutions for the above mentioned glitches.
BTW, thanks to all who contributed to make this, we r so close to perfection…
cheers!
Raj
Dudes! this rocks
now i can start testing home made widgets on Apple Dashboard and Vista Sidebar 
thanks a lot!
add my first time it ran slow but after removing that CPU file thingy its allmost like the real thing
Hi guys have a problem after installing mac osx darwin x86 have intel pentium 4 2.8 ghz with a 160 gigs hard disk space support sse n sse2. after a fine installation the system by first reboot gave
b0 error. can someone tell me what does mean and how i can run mac os darwin properly on my system
thks
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Nick November 21, 2005 | 1:29 am
I can confirm that what Albert is saying is true… removing the file will drasticly speed up the system.
Oh btw: its located: /System/Library/Extensions/ and not just plain library/extensions
You can actually speed it up about 10-20% more. Just create it as custom, Linux and linux unknown. Read that somewhere and it works too.
Enjoy…
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I noticed that too, but i cant find file even there.
Plz help me!!
The proof that it can be done is (ahem) done, but that leaves most people with an ass backward slow OS running in a windows bubble.
Whats now needed is a way to configure the VM to run at a decent pace. Any thoughts aside from deleting AppleTPMACPI.kext (which helps a lot I admit)?
Information ought to be free!
yo i have a problem i NEED to uninstall mac os x pls help me on doing that
i had windows xp beforei downloaded mac os x to it pls hepl pls pls pls pls pls 
lol email:chaingang_2007@hotmail.com
What about the resolution? After i installed the macos on vm, its resolution is only 1024*768, and i cannot change it in the vm settings or macos;(
3q~
has it got a virus one it ?
Dose any one have a cdkey for vmware version 5 that i can use i have 4.5 but not one for 5
I am using VMware Workstation 6.0.2 i Have the file you told me to get. Every time i try to install it just says “Operating system not found” it does not even get to the boot loader. Could you please help me?
Everything goes ok until
Step 14: After you chose to use an existing virtual disk…. The filename is “tiger-x86.vmdk”. After select the file, just click on “Finish” button. Then the message box will totally disappeared from the screen now but the VMware Workstation is still there. Don’t worry.
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After this when i click Finish nothing happens.. The Windows never closes I can cancell or Back .. finish doenst work… I reinstall VMWare 6.0.2 and still nothing..
AM I doing somthing Wrong? Pleas help me ….
Great guide worked first time, but do you no how to “dd an image to the hard drive” i have read other guides to make a native dual boot but i am unsure of how to dd an image i want to do it this way as i have not got a dvd to burn
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I downloaded this file tiger-x86 from torrents as will as FTP but gives error at the time of extraction.Please give some other location so I can download complete file.
You have done a great job !!!!!
Please guide me if I am doing some thing wrong!!!!!!!!!!
Shaikh majeed try getting the most up to date verison of winrar off of winlab.com, it happened to me too.
How do i install stuff when i execuete the file to install a small space in the sock comes then dissappears. Please Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Hello all, i just did this today, the first boot didnt work, i think mac os froze, cause i couldnt do anything once it got to the desktop… second one worked, accept IT IS FRICKEN SLOW and just changing the data and time took FOREVER (maybe like 5 minutes or more…) its alot slower then running xp in vmware… but ummm about 700mb to the ram, not sure about the cpu, but vmware only shows it as one core……
but other then that, seems fine just to test a few things out on… havent tried to get network to work but gonna do that now
how do i install apps on this? and how do i get it to detect my memory stick?
thanks,
Hi,
I need to install Leopard 10.5.3 on my XP machine. I am unable to find its image file. Can I only buy the OS and install using the above method onto my windows XP machine?
~sam
I installed it like mentioned, but when i run it, it doesn’t load past the apple logo and says “you need to restart your computer” then it says it in 3 other languages. When i restart the VM it just does it again. Is there a way around this?
works absolutely perfect!! ive been looking about for a leopard VMware image, none to be found, tho there are lots of cracked .iso’s, tried at least 5 different versions, iatkos kalyway etc in vmserver, none got passed initial boot, only got …preparing to install…but never does, just hangs…
THIS however (even tho its tiger) worked 100%, tho it was dog slow, then saw the trick for deleting that .kext file, now it flies!!!
cheers guys
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Thank you very much skyfish.
You help to create a MAC OS X Tiger x86.
Thank you.
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