April 23, 2010

MAC OS X Leopard needs Intel-VT or AMD-V to be virtualized in VMWare


This is what happens when you try to virtualize OS X Leopard on VMWare Workstation 7 and you don't have a hardware that allows hardware virtualization:

MAC OS X is not supported with software virtualization. To run MAC OS X you need a host on wich VMWare supports hardware virtualization.

To achieve the hardware virtualization, you need specific hardware that supports it, I mean a processor and a motherboard.

The list of Intel-VT and AMD-V processors are listed here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_virtualization

2 comments:

  1. Hello! :D
    I got to virtualize Mac OS X Leopard without hardware virtualization, but now I try to install Snow Leopard when it begins to see the Apple logo, restarts the virtual machine. Is there any way to install Snow Leopard without VT-x/AMD-v?

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