Network and sound/audio worked out of the box without additional installations or settings.

I recommend taking a snapshot now before proceeding further. If all settings are correct, the Mac OS X 10.8 virtual machine will start with the initial setup screen as shown below.Īfter completing the initial configurations, you should land on the mountain lion OS X desktop without any issues. I increased the RAM size to 2GB and the number of processor cores to 2 since I had core2duo physical processor.ħ) Power on the virtual machine now. Before powering it on, you can modify the processor and RAM settings depending on available hardware resources. Read more about how to use VMware unlocker to get mac OS guest support.Īfter the patch, ensure that you are getting the Apple Mac OS X option as shown below.ĥ) Once step 3 and 4 are succeeded, open ‘OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.vmx’ from extracted location through VMware workstation ‘File –> Open’ menu.Ħ) That should open the pre-installed Mountain Lion virtual machine configuration. After extraction, the size should be around 6.2 GBģ) Check and make sure your physical computer supports Hardware Virtualization Technology (VT).Ĥ) Use the VMware unlocker, which is available with downloads to patch the existing VMware workstation application. Steps to Followġ) Download ‘Mountain Lion 10.8 Retail VMware Image’ by souldevteam – It is a torrent file, so search for this file from your favourite search engine.Ģ) Use the 7z program to unzip it. VMware unlocker and darwin.iso are important.ģ) Latest VMware workstation. Most of the recent computers support these features built-in.Ģ) Pre-installed VMware image with a few tools. Prerequisites to Use OS X10.8 Mountain VMware Image on Windowsġ) Hardware Virtualization Technology (VT) enabled processor. This method is completely for testing and learning purposes only. It is highly recommended to use the latest releases except you have some special requirements to test the OS X 10.8 currently. There are many other latest versions available, we covered them here.

Mountain Lion OS X is an outdated Apple OS. Unoftuntily, the website and team are not active anymore to download the file from their website. The preinstalled image and Torrent file we talk about in this article was created by a separate team called souldevteam back in the year 2012.

In this post, we will talk about how to use the preinstalled VMware image of OS X 10.8 on a Windows OS physical computer. VMware and VirtualBox made Hackintosh easy by allowing us to use them simultaneously as a virtual machine on the same host computer.

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