VMWare problem (I think)

[Cake]

I've followed Xeijin's guide of installing OS X with VMWare.

It's painless untill i boot after the installation. After the grey apple screen, it just hold on to the blue background for hours. It seems like VMWare won't write to the disk. I don't have access to the native method now, so a little help would be nice

 

Hardware

 

ASRock P4i65G motherboard

Intel Pentium 4 (SS2) (Don't have more specific info avalible now, sorry)

512 mb DDR Ram

256 MB MSI gfx card

1 x Maxtor 250 gb ( Mac one )

1 x Maxtor 200 gb

Edited December 22, 2006 by Cake

[Batu]

i saw that problem when i installed Pardus (Linux Dist), when i finished installation i restart linux in vmware. Then, when linux is loading system isnt loading i just saw cursor and black screen, i restarted it, it happens again,

 

i found that vmware have problems with some linux dist. -mandrake etc- , when i searching answer i saw; before installing your OS to Vmware you have to do choose CUSTOM in virtual machine wizard and next next,,, than in select disk area you have to choose IDE options. after i read this, i tried and it worked and still working

 

i hope it works for you too

[Cake]

It still won't work...

 

This is what i did to configure in details:

 

New Viritual Machine Wizard : Next

 

Select the appropriate conf. : Custom

 

Select a viritual machine format : New - Workstation 5

 

Select a guest OS : Other -> Other

 

Name the viritual machine : Next

 

Processor configuration : one

 

Memory for the viritual machine : 512 mb

 

Network type : Do not use a network connection

 

Select I/O Adapter types : Buslogic

 

Select a disk : Use a physical disk

 

Select a physical disk : PhysicalDrive0 -> Use individual partitions

 

Select a physical disk partition : Partition 0

 

Specify disk file : Finish

 

; Finished setting up, now it's time to configure ----------- ;

 

Edit Viritual Machine setup ::

 

Hard disk (IDE 0:0) : Advanced -> Independent -> Persistant

 

CD-ROM (IDE 1:0) : Use physical drive -> (chose the daemontools img)

 

OK...

 

 

Now started the Viritual machine, pressed escape, chose CD-Rom, installed Mac, and rebooted

Now i'm back on the blue screen. Damn mac won't work!

[Cake]

After posting the post above, i went to bed and let my computer work. It's still stuck on that blue screen! Any help, please?

[wmarsh]

Check out my post:

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...9&hl=vmware

 

I think you have 2 problems:

1) Don't use OS "other". Use "Windows NT". Handles the memory differently.

2) You need to manually edit vmx file adding "paevm="true"

[Cake]

Well.. ehrm... now i'm stuck at the grey loading screen before the blue one

[wmarsh]

I've never had luck installing to physical disk using partitions.

 

On PATA disk, I have been able to install through VMware using whole disk, indep. persistant.

On SATA disk this does not work.

 

Try installing to virtual disk.

[LINUX POWER]

I've never had luck installing to physical disk using partitions.

 

On PATA disk, I have been able to install through VMware using whole disk, indep. persistant.

On SATA disk this does not work.

 

Try installing to virtual disk.

 

Can you help with getting it installed to a virtual disk? That is what I have been having problems with. Everyone else seems to be able to do that but me. Here is what I have done.

 

I went to "Create a new virtual machine"> Typical> Other and Version: Other> Name OSX in the default location> Use network address translation (NAT)> 8.0 GB, Allocate all disk space now, and Split disk into 2GB files> Finish. I also tried using Custom instead of Typical using some configuration from the guide without installing it to a hard drive.

 

I can't get passed the grey screen with the apple in the middle sad.gif I am not sure about my JaS version. I deleted this ISO, so now I am left with only the dvd I burned it to. Is there any way to find out from that? Someone told me it is the darwin version. I want to be able to run JaS inside VMware. I tried using most of the same options as someone wrote in a guide to installing it to a hard drive, but for me, having it run in VMware instead.