Sysprobs covered several. Also we earlier published few articles based on souldevteam blog too.Update:By Any chance if you are looking for latest OS X 10.9 Mavericks, read our below famous guides,This method is completely for testing and learning purpose only. Do not use this method on production environment or permanently for long term.
Feb 17, 2012 OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion will be offered exclusively through the App Store, familiar territory for Apple since OS X Lion was provided the same way. Thankfully it’s still possible to create a bootable OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion installer from any USB drive, be it.
You can’t get the all features of Mac OS X from this method as how it works on Apple hardware. We always recommend to buy Apple hardware to run Mac OS X.
Also, few users keep on asking about their Apps development and Xcode support on virtualized hackintosh. Frankly, I do not know whether these all will work on this platform, if it works, you are lucky.What all Required to Run 10.8 Mountain Lion Retail VMware Image on Windows.
What is Inside?.1) Hardware Virtualization Technology (VT) enabled processor. I do not fully recommend VT pypasser (to skip this check) tool which is included in this download.2) Pre installed VMware image with few tools. VMware unlocker and darwin.iso are important.3) VMware workstation 8 or later versionsEasy Steps1) Download.2) Use 7z program to unzip the download, after extraction the size should be around 6.2 GB3) Check and make sure your physical computer processor supports Hardware Virtualization Technology (VT).4) Use VMware unlocker (which will be available on same extracted location) and patch the existing VMware workstation 7 or 8 series. Use the correct version of unlocker. Read more about.After the patch, make sure you are getting Apple Mac OS X option as shown below.5) Once the step 3 and 4 are succeeded, open ‘OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.vmx’ from extracted location through VMware workstation ‘File – Open’ menu.6) That should open the pre installed Mountain Lion retail VMware virtual machine. Before powering on, you can modify processor and RAM settings depending on available resources on physical computer. I have increased the RAM to 2GB and number of processor cores to 2 as I have core2duo physical processor.7) Now power on the virtual machine.
If all settings are correct, the Mac OS X 10.8 virtual machine should start with initial setup screen of Language settings as below.That’s it, we are almost done. After completing all initial settings (you can skip few too), you should land on mountain lion desktop without any issues.I recommend to take a snapshot now before proceeding further. Install VMware Tools on Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Virtual Machine – Intel PC, Windows 7Network and sound worked out of the box without additional installations or settings.To get more screen resolution sizes, VMware shared folder and slightly better performance, we need to install VMware tools on mountain lion virtual machine.8.) To install, load the darwin.iso file to virtual machine’s CD/DVD drive. Darwin.iso located at same extracted place.Once it is loaded to CD/DVD drive, the virtual machine will automatically detect and load it on desktop as below.Double click and run ‘ Install VMware Tools’ application. You may need to enter your password and select the disk to continue the installation.For some reasons, VMware tools installation failed on Mountain lion virtual machine, but nothing to worry. Press close and restart the virtual machine manually.9) After virtual machine is restarted, you will find more screen resolutions under display settings.
Also, the full screen mode (from VMware menu bar) will work now.VMware Shared Folders on Mountain Lion 10.8 and Windows 7Few users reported that drag and drop of files between Mac OS X guest and Windows host is not working even after VMware tools installation. Yes, it is not working and we can’t complain about it, because VMware is not officially supporting Mac OS X virtualization on non Apple hardware. So, we need to live with it.But, if you like to transfer files between Mac OS X guest and Windows host frequently without any types of networking connectivity or network sharing, then you can use VMware shared folders feature. This will work only after VMware tools installation.You can access specific folders or partitions of Windows 7 host OS thorough VMware shared folders from Mountain Lion guest OS.
That will enable the file transfer back and forth easily. It is nothing to do with networking or network file sharing, it is completely a different technology.To set it up, go to virtual machine’s settings and Enable the folder sharing first. Then, add the partition or folder of Windows host.Wait for some to mount this drive or folder inside Mountain Lion virtual machine.You will find a new drive under computer on OS X. By opening the drive you can access the hosts’ shared drive or folder.Depending on the mode you selected (with read-only or not), you can save the data too.This is really fast and easy to transfer files and folders between Mac OS X 10.8 guest and Windows host machines.Enjoy and play around with 10.8 Mountain Lion retail version on VMware! IMessage on Mountain Liion, Can’t get this baby to work. Here’s the problem.iMessage checks the System Serial Number – if it’s not a VALID apple device number, iMessage won’t work.and guess what – it’s not a valid number.
This is the number shown by System Information.System Serial Number: VMWVk3VS65lFQP5LgB7iOnenANot a valid Device Serial Number,not to be confused with the Hardware UUID.000-1000-8000-000C29DEEDFD.There is a boot loader called Chameleon that is supposed to fix this – but it doesn’t make the slightest difference.So – if anyone has made any headway on this, it’s be interesting.The other nice thing would be to be able to fix the sound – properly. IMessage.Still searching for a solution. Onboard camera working on my Toshiba + Win 8 + OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.
And VMWorkstation 9.How To.Start VMWorkstation.Do not start the Guest OSGo to the tab along the top that says VMClick on Removable Devices— if you have an onboard camera – as I do on the toshiba laptop –click on Importec USB camera. It will then tell you that each time the VM starts, it wil ldisconnect the camera from the host. OK, continue.Close the VMWorkstation, then start it up again, then the Mac OSX, and test it by starting PhotoBooth.It should work – unless you have some sort of strange arrangement. Does anyone know the location and name of the boot files for this Mac version? And how to change them.I have found/Library/Preferences/SystemConfigurationand/Extrawhich contain things like/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/org.chameleon.boot.plistand/Extra/org.chameleon.boot.plist. It seems I’m on a false trail anyway I think.
This type of install, that is, running as a VMWare machine under VM Workstation, means that the Mac is booted by means other than anything that will read SMBios.plist, or the com.apple.Boot.plist files.I am unable to discover how it actually does start up the mac. But, there are two files that it uses, config.ini and preferences.ini. Maybe they can be tweeked to reflect a startup scene that will read the SMBios files. Or something can.However – this is also probably the wrong Blog to be asking, as apart from about one post a month – I appear to be the only one reading this. Mac OSX 10.8.4, after update from Check for Updates1.iMessage will not work. There are some patches on the Soludev site, but very mixed results.
Mostly it just crashes. The problem is, that iMessage needs to see a valid Apple Mac serial number. And it doesn’t on this setup.
You can check this under “About My Mac”, and various links I have been looking at on earlier posts. Nothing I have done so far will get it to swap in a genuine serial number.
The Souldev site has moved things around a bit. Everything downloadable is available here.If you are successful with the imessage patch, great. I can’t get it to work, it just crashes my system.2.I have video working with the native apps, like PhotoBooth, BUT – with Skype, iTunes, VLC, YouTube etc etc, I have sound, but only a black video display port.
Where there should be a video, there is only a black square. I can not discover how to fix this yet. My system has a built in webcam – Toshiba Laptop L630, and the camera works – except in Skype.3.Sound remains very patchy. I’m pretty sure it’s caused by latency in transfering it to the host system. Not sure but haven’t looked much at fixing it yet.4. I have the original VMTools installed – but after upgrading my VMWorkstation to V9 (legal copy) I think I may have broken something – although everything seems to still work. Not too sure what VMTools does in total yet.Needed: Fix for the video thing problem, and some way of patching that pesky iMessaage thing.
Apple today (July 25, 2012) announced that OS X Mountain Lion, the ninth major release of the world’s most advanced desktop operating system, is available as a download from the Mac App Store.With more than 200 innovative new features, Mountain Lion includes iCloud integration, the all new Messages app, Notification Center, system-wide Sharing, Facebook integration, Dictation, AirPlay Mirroring and Game Center. Mountain Lion is available as an upgrade from Lion or Snow Leopard.“People are going to love the new features in Mountain Lion and how easy it is to download and install from the Mac App Store,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing.“With iCloud integration, Mountain Lion is even easier to set up, and your important information stays up to date across all your devices so you can keep editing documents, taking notes, creating reminders, and continue conversations whether you started on a Mac, iPhone or iPad.”. AvailabilityOS X Mountain Lion is available from the Mac App Store.
Mountain Lion requires Lion or Snow Leopard (OS X v10.6.8 or later), 2GB of memory and 8GB of available space.OS X Server requires Mountain Lion and is available from the Mac App Store for $19.99 (US). The OS X Mountain Lion Up-to-Date upgrade is available at no additional charge from the Mac App Store to all customers who purchased a qualifying new Mac system from Apple or an Apple Authorized Reseller on or after June 11, 2012.Supported Models. iMac (Mid 2007 or newer). MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer).
MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007 or newer).