How To Install Fully Functional Mac OS X Lion Virtual Machine inside Windows 7.Follow the screen instruction to complete installation.Double click Install VMware Tools icon to start VMware tools installation.Open Finder from OS X desktop and select CD/DVD ROM device.Mount the ISO file to Mac OS X Guest operating system.
Extract a ISO file (darwin.iso) from the zip archive file.Follow the following steps to install VMware tools in OS X:
VMware tools provide few GUI enhancement experience for Mac OS X guest. The installation may take a while to finish:įinish Mac OS X Installation Finally, the Mac OS X installed and the first screen appear as follow: Start Mac OS X InstallationFollow the screen instruction to continue Mac OS X installation:Ĭonfirm the installation on the new disk created: A label for the new disk may specify in the option: Prepare a disk for Mac OS X installationNext, start Disk Utility to prepare a disk for Mac OS X installation:Ĭreate a new Mac OS X partition by using the Erase option. A Mac OS X installation screen should appear as follow: Start Mac OS X MachinePower on the virtual machine. Next, add Mac OS X Lion Installer disk ( Mac OS X Lion Installer.vmdk) by creating a new VMware hard disk. Prepare Mac OS X InstallationThe machine setting may change to suit the environment. Press “ I copied it” button to state the virtual machine is a cloned instance. A dialog prompt for the virtual machine instance state: Start the virtual machine Mac OS X Lion.vmx. Prepare a Mac OS X machine Extract pre-configure Mac OS X Lion VMware workstation files from Mac OS X Lion VMware Files.exe in a new folder: You may continue the next step to configure and run Mac OS X Lion on VMware workstation 8.