New poster so be a little (or not) kind. Just gotten around to building a new rig at home so I can finish working on my PhD. By default my work machine is MacBook Pro (13 Retina for those wanting to know) but I also use Windows for a little dev work and the odd game. I've been busy lately but I'll go right ahead and make a vmdk file for you. You will just need to set the proper settings on VMware to run the HD file.
MacOS, the operating system previously known as Mac OS X, is beautiful, stable, and typically attached to a $1000+ MacBook / iMac. If we want to run macOS on a Windows PC, without the very particular hardware required for Hackintosh, a Mac OS X virtual machine is the next best thing. And, best of all, it won't cost a dime.
Here's how to install the latest macOS High Sierra on a VMware or Virtualbox virtual machine. Unblock any international website, browse anonymously, and download movies and Mp3 with complete safety with CyberGhost,. Then again, we might just be curious about Apple's operating system and want to see what the fuss is all about.
Whatever the reason, a Mac OS X virtual machine is the cheapest way to try out the latest OS from Cupertino. Cheapest as in 'free.' Sure beats buying a four-figure MacBook Pro.
In case you are not familiar with virtual machines, it's a way to emulate an entirely different computer system within our PC. For more information, you can check out our guide: We have also covered how to create a Windows Virtual Machine, both in Windows and Linux operating systems. Creating a Windows virtual machine is exceedingly simple. It is arguably easier than installing Windows on our PC. VBoxManage setextradata 'macOS' 'VBoxInternal/Devices/smc/0/Config/GetKeyFromRealSMC' 1 After we have successfully entered all the commands, without any errors, we can close the command line, open VirtualBox and start the Mac OS X virtual machine. At first, it will show some code.then a gray screen for a few seconds, and finally the macOS High Sierra installation.
Later on the guide, we will see the full procedure on our Mac OS X virtual machine. AMD CPUs As we mentioned, the fact that Apple computers exclusively use Intel CPUs makes it harder to run a Mac OS X virtual machine on an AMD CPU.
Harder, but not impossible. Although there is no High Sierra version yet, we managed to find a macOS Sierra machine on that will work on AMD and tried it with an FX 6300 CPU. The same method is supposed to work on the latest Ryzen CPUs, but we didn't have a sample machine to try it. As for older processors, it will only work on AMD CPUs that support SSE 4.1 or SSE 4.2 instructions. We can check this on, by inputting our CPU model in the search box.
On the results, we just need to check the Features. If we find SSE 4.1 or SSE 4.2, we 're golden. To download the Sierra machine, visit. At the bottom of the first message, you will find a zip file and a Dropbox link. The compressed file contains a torrent, to download the machine. Since the file is quite large (almost 7GB), we chose the torrent method, but you can pick whichever fits you best.
Once we download it, we have to decompress it in our desired location and move onto the next step. VMware Workstation Player This time we won't need to apply any patches to VMware Workstation Player, opposed to Intel's method we described above. Thus, we can use VMware version 14, which is the latest. We can find it. If you already have version 12, you can still follow the steps below; there is no need to upgrade VMware.
Create a new virtual machine We will start by creating a new virtual machine. Choose 'I will install the operating system later' and press Next. On the next screen, tick 'Other' and pick 'Other 64-bit' respectively. Here, we can give our machine the desired name and choose a location. Hit Next once again. Store virtual disk as a single file.and click on 'Customize Hardware.' We advise you to use at least 50-65% of your available RAM and two CPU cores.
For example, if you have 8GB RAM as we do, go for 4GB on the virtual machine. In the end, we press Finish. Add the hard drive Now it's time to add our virtual drive. Click on 'Edit virtual machine settings.'
Remove the Hard Disk (IDE) and add a new drive. Choose 'Hard Disk SATA Use an existing virtual disk.'
Next, hit Browse and locate the file you downloaded from amd-osx.com. You should move the file to your desired location before you pick it. If you decide to move it afterward, you'll have to add it again on the virtual machine. Then, press Finish. If we have VMware 14, the program will ask to convert the image to the newest format. We press Convert, except if we want it to be compatible with older versions of VMware.
Finally, we press OK. We can now start the engine. We will be greeted by a black screen, where we need to press any button to continue. On the next screen, we hit Enter.
We'll see another black screen with some running code for a few minutes. No matter how long it takes, we wait patiently. Even if it appears to be stuck, give it at least 10 minutes before you try to restart the machine. At the end of this process, macOS Sierra will eventually show up. We can now move on to the first time set up. Setting up macOS High Sierra The hard part is long gone. At this point, no matter which way we chose to create the Mac OS X virtual machine, we should be on the Welcome screen.
We select our country and click on 'Continue.' If we can't find our country, we can check the 'Show All' checkbox. We can also choose a different keyboard layout, or leave the default US. Given that we went through all this trouble to create a Mac OS X virtual machine, it's a safe guess that we don't have another Mac device to transfer information.
We can sign in with our Apple ID if we have one and feel like it, but we can always skip this step and continue. After reading the Software License Agreement, in its entirety of course, if we agree, we proceed.
We select a name and an account name. If we didn't use our Apple ID, we need to create a password as well. We choose our time zone.and continue with the express set up.
We can optionally choose the Customize Settings, to tweak the location and diagnostic options. We might want to uncheck the options to send information to Apple.
After all, working on a Mac OS X virtual machine, we are far from the typical macOS user. Our Mac OS X virtual machine with macOS is ready. Install VMware tools for Mac OS X Everything seems perfect on the Mac OS X virtual machine, but even on a powerful computer, the mouse pointer might seem 'heavy' to drag. This is easy to fix, by installing VMware tools.
First, we must download, and extract its contents. From the VMware Workstation Player menu we select Player Removable Devices CD/DVD (SATA) Settings.
On the next window, we choose 'Use ISO image file' and click on Browse. We navigate to All Tool (new) folder that we downloaded, pick the VM Tool.iso and click Open. Check the 'Connected' box. Now, double click on VMware Tools disk on the upper right corner. Double-click on Install VMware Tools.
Press Continue.and Install. The installation will ask for our account's password. We confirm our request. Finally, the VMware Tools installation is over, and we need to restart our PC. Now, the Mac OS X Virtual machine will run much smoother. Troubleshooting Running a Mac OS X virtual machine is not free of problems, and we may encounter one or more of the following.
Mac OS X option missing in VMware If we can't find the 'Apple Mac OS X' option when creating a virtual machine.it means that we didn't install the patch correctly. We need to rerun the patcher, always as an administrator, and pay attention for any error messages. Error message: Mac OS X is not supported with binary translation If when starting the Mac OS X virtual machine we get the message 'Mac OS X is not supported with binary translation'.we need in our BIOS/UEFI. Unrecoverable error on VMware If we get a 'VMware Player unrecoverable error: (vcpu-0)' error.then we didn't edit the VMX file correctly, adding. Smc.version = '0'.at the bottom of it, or we failed to save the file after adding the line. Endless code lines on VirtualBox If VirtualBox doesn't seem to move on the first boot, then we might have failed to enter the commands correctly. Repeat the command line part of the guide and try again.
Did you like the Mac OS X virtual machine? A virtual machine might not be the real thing - it is, after all, an operating system running on top of our operating system. But, on a powerful computer, it can be pretty close. Did you like your new Mac OS X virtual machine? Did it work well on your PC and were you able to run the Mac OS X exclusive software you always wanted? Leave us a comment. Relevant Posts.
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Jeremiah Moberly wrote:Honestly, if I was in that situation I would most likely still buy the PC. At my comfort level with a PC I would be able to overcome any procedural differences that might be due to the difference in OS.
I don't know what your sister's comfort level with a PC and/or the Adobe Suite is yet, but I would assume the learning curve with a Mac would be just as annoying as doing it all on a PC and figuring out the differences on your own. I'm sure the teacher just doesn't want to have to troubleshoot problems or teach something he's not familiar with. As long as the software for the class is available for Windows, that's what I'd do. The only thing I'd be concerned about is whether any sort of word processing is going to be required, and whether it will have to be turned in digitally. Pages and Office don't always play nice together, and I'm sure the last thing she'd want is a frustrated professor.She knows how to use the PC for sure, but I wouldn't say she's a techie, I'd say from an IT standpoint (I help her with PC issues that arise, so effectively I am her IT) she knows how to run day to day operations on her computer, and even some week to week ones like defraging, but when it comes to troubleshooting issues she pretty much just calls me. Rod-IT wrote: We have had the same discussion in work about our graphic designers wanting mac specifically for Adobe CC, we offered them almost twice the spec Laptops or Pcs and they refused, so now they have half the spec for twice the price to do the EXACT same thing. Ah, the age-old problem.
Yep, the funny thing is at my last job, all of the video and audio editors used adequately spec'd PCs for their work, but the digital media/ digital support department (who didn't need anything but web access and file services) insisted on getting Macs (with crappy specs - all they could afford), just so they would look flashier for donors and partners. It just made our job supporting them in an AD domain that much more complicated. One OS, ok that's great in a business where standardization is your friend. $Software only works on $OS - ok we need that OS.
Should teach. Heck I'm not sure schools should require students to have a laptop/computer of their own. Yeah I'm dating myself, but school is supposed to teach and the students are not usually rich. Their family, maybe, but being bright and dedicated doesn't require money. If you are taking a course that uses computers, sure it makes sense to have one, but the school should provide labs/libraries with the essential tools. If the software is OS agnostic then.
I wouldn't try to learn an entirely new OS in addition to software while taking $FullCourseLoad because I expect that it would chew up my study time. 1995-6 - I was in art school, fairly well reputed place. I was also working 4p-midnight at the local ibm laptop repair depot - repairing thinkpads. Teacher went ballistic when i showed up with my pc laptop, photoshop. That's not the way things are done.
In the real world all the designers use macs. I said the interface is the same, i work faster on a pc. We went back and forth, publicly, in the classroom. My final argument and shut him down with. I work in the real world, I have a job, I have clients, the business world is 90% pc driven, the hiring managers will more easily give me a pc when needed. IF you are insistent, please hand me your keys to the building, I'll be here at one am to do your assignments. And i want you to sign a form disclaiming me from any responsibility of being on campus after hours.
I also need the security codes for the alarm, and for you to let the admin staff know that I'll be here from 1a till 3a on an as needed basis. Otherwise, shut the hell up and let me be.' EdT wrote: I'd just like to point out that it's not a 'MAC'. It's a 'Mac'. Mac is not an initialism like PC. And I'd also like to point out that the purchase of a Mac was 'recommended' but not 'required'.
Like others have said, I can understand wanting just one platform in order to make technical support and so on easier. But if people want to go WINDOWS - er, I mean Windows, sounds like they're perfectly able to.I'm aware how Mac is, just held the shift key too long a few times.
They pretty much told her that if she didn't use a Mac that they wouldn't help her with any specifics if she used a PC, so it's 'recommended' meaning no help for anything from us if you don't. Might as well be required. I get the rant, but have a few thoughts to share: 1) ' She asked if she could just use her PC and they said all instruction will be on a Mac, so it is highly recommended she get a Mac.' The school admitted that she doesn't have to buy a Mac, but she would suffer degraded support if she wasn't using the recommended hardware/OS. This is just like going to work in a Windows business and bringing a Mac in. If you're going to use non-standard setups you have to support yourself.
2) My understanding is that large parts of the multimedia industry run on Apple hardware. As part of getting students ready to work in industry shouldn't they be trained to use the most common tools?
I get that the students should be learning concepts, and not just keystrokes, but it is easier to manage the learning 20 students at a time when the keystrokes are all the same, and if that's on the platform that Industry is using then there shouldn't be a problem. Kevin6814 wrote: EdT wrote: I'd just like to point out that it's not a 'MAC'. It's a 'Mac'. Mac is not an initialism like PC. And I'd also like to point out that the purchase of a Mac was 'recommended' but not 'required'. Like others have said, I can understand wanting just one platform in order to make technical support and so on easier.
But if people want to go WINDOWS - er, I mean Windows, sounds like they're perfectly able to.I'm aware how Mac is, just held the shift key too long a few times. Wasn't pointing at you specifically; I see MAC far too often when referring to a Mac. MAC is the physical address of your network adapter.:).
I'm assuming they will be using the Adobe suite of products (premiere pro, photoshop, after effects, audition, etc.) and all of those work just fine on Windows. And that's always been my argument against Macs too - you pay 1.5 times the price for what you could have gotten with a Windows machine.
And I don't want to hear anything about 'Macs are more reliable' or 'Macs don't get viruses'. That's all false. If you truly think the Mac OS is worth paying 50% more, then go for it. My cousin feels that way and I completely understand. But bang for buck, PC beats Mac every time.
You're paying for a brand and a different OS.
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