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 !

This is really HUGE, no I mean HUUUGE !

Finally looks like someone smart has developed a solution for booting and installing Mac OS X on a PC using the original retail (unpatched!!) Mac OS X DVD. W00t is the word!

EFiX is a USB dongle that should allow you to run the orignal DVD on any PC. All you’ll have to do is put the DVD in your drive and start the installation. Isn’t it great.

They planned to release the hardware on 23rd of June, check them out: efi-x.com

Now you don’t have any excuses anymore! Go buy Mac OS X!

netkas got a version of the hardware to test it…

video here

Wow, just can’t believe it! 10.5 kernel sources released by Apple!

www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.5/xnu-1228/

It was like a year go, JaS released the 10.4.8 Mac OS X86 DVD (link).

Now it is time for the new Leopard Mac OS to get his X86 version!
What’s so special with that version? Well, simple. It runs on a Windows PC!

And this time it’s a ToH release. Version RC2 is what you want!

Tip 1: BS:misc
Tip 2: md5 of correct RC2 iso is 83909703A60283FFC8F3DA1D8A8594F0

IRC: irc.osx86.hu – #leopard – #10.5

Rumors say this is the final release of Leopard.

Check it out running on a… PC!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtQQcHz7h5M

We’ll talk here about the most easy and clean way to dual boot Vista & OS X86.
And guess what boot manager we will use? Yes, Darwin Bootloader from OS X.

You will need for this tutorial:

– Windows Vista installation DVD
– JaS OS X86 10.4.X installation DVD

I recommend the following disk partitioning:

– 3 primary partitions: 1- Windows Vista / 2 – OS X86 / 3 – OS X86
– 1 extended partition (containing several HFS+ or FAT32 or NTFS partitions)

Having 2 primary OS X86 partitions is really cool for testing new OS X86 install.
For instance, you can have Mac OS X86 10.4.9 running on the first, and the latest
Leopard WWDC Preview build 9A466 running on the second… 

Click on the link above to read the full tutorial in the extended post.Thank you for looking further in this post, let’s begin the tutorial.

Step 1: Install OS X86 10.4.x on the second primary partition

Step 2: Make the first primary partition active to install Vista

Boot up OS X and in a terminal window,

sudo fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0
flag 1
quit
reboot

Step 3: Install Vista on the first primary partition

Step 4: Restore OS X86 in the MBR

Boot off JaS OS X86 dvd in single user mode (press F8 & type -s). At single user prompt,

fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0
flag 2
update
write
quit
reboot

Step 5: Make the first partition active back to boot up Vista

At this point OS X86 should boot up and in a terminal window,

sudo fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0
flag 1
quit
reboot

Step 6: Restore Vista on the MBR

Upon reboot, Vista will show “\Window\system32\winload.exe” corrupted.
Insert Vista disc & follow directions to recover.
Reboot & check that Vista boots up fine.

Step 7: Make second primary partition active to use Darwin Bootloader

Boot off JaS OS X86 dvd in single user mode again (press F8 & type -s). At single user prompt,

fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0
flag 2
quit
reboot

Here we are! The final release! Tiger is done!
10.4.9 Intel SSE3 only NoHPET & NoNX combo update package for Mac OS X86 is out!
Download now!

JaS strikes again! But this time he is not alone.
Kudos to semthex and anonymouss (netkas) for their hard work on the kernel.
And to the entire community of course.
Keep tha shit rollin’!

For the nostalgics, check:

www.macgeekblog.com/blog/archive/2006/10/14/jas-10-4-8-combo-sse2-sse3-is-out.html

Can’t wait for leo!