MAC ON YOUR PC

By September 9, 2015IT Solutions

Ever wanted to have a mac, but don’t want to spend $1,000+ on one? What if you could run OS X Lion on your PC and have the best of both worlds for half the cost? We’ll show you how! This guide will show how to setup a fully working OS X Lion 10.7 on a Windows machine. This process will take about an hour but most of the time is spent downloading files. What you need:

  • A laptop or desktop computer that supports virtualization (most newer computers do).
  • At least 1 GB of RAM (the more, the better).
  • VMWare Workstation (You can either pay for this software or pirate it via torrent usingwww.thepiratebay.se and www.vuze.com ).
  • VMWare Hard Drive (vmx files, it is in a self-extracting .exe file)
  • OS X Lion (VMDK File)
  • Make sure that you have enabled Virtualization in the BIOS of your computer. This is usually disabled by default by computer manufacturers.
    1. Run the Mac OS X Lion VMware Files.exe file you downloaded from the above link. This will extract the files needed into a folder called Mac OS X Lion VMware Files.

 

    1. Open the folder and goto the unlocker folder, choose VMWare Workstation unlocker folder, and run the .bat file. It will close on its own when it’s finished.

 

    1. Open the same folder again, except this time go into the Mac OS X Lion folder and run the .vmx file. This should open it up in VMWare Workstation.

 

    1. On the left column, click on Edit Virtual Machine Settings. In the Memory tab, you can edit how much RAM OS X will get. In the Sound tab, change to Specify host sound card, change it to your sound card. After the machine has started and sound doesn’t work, change to Use default host sound card.

 

    1. At the bottom of the box is an Add button, click it. Select Hard Disk from the left, click Next. Choose Use and existing virtual disk.

 

    1. Browse for the Mac OS X Lion Installer.vmdk that was downloaded from the link above. Click Finish. Click OK to close the box.

 

    1. On the left column, click Power on this virtual machine.

 

    1. If a box asks to repair the image, click Repair. Once the box comes up, click I copied it, click OK. A message about the CD Drive may come up, just click OK.

 

    1. The machine should power up in a few moments, ready to go. For ease of use, click in VMWare Workstation, click File > Add to Favorites.

 

    1. You should now have a Install Mac OS X screen. At the top, click Utilities then Disk Utility. Select the 42.45 GB Hard Disk. Click on the Erase tab. Now you can name your hard drive what you want. Then click on Erase. Click Erase again.

 

    1. Once the process is done, close out of the Disk Utility box, the Install screen will come back up. Click Continue, Agree. Select the 40GB Hard Disk to install Lion. Click Install. The process will take about 30 minutes. Once it’s done, the account setup will start. Once that’s done, Lion will start.

 

  1. To be able to use the machine in full screen, in OS X open Preferences, click on Displays. Now select the resolution of your monitor. Now in VMWare, click on the Full Screen button on the toolbar (10th button from the left).

And you’re done! You can now run Mac OS X on your PC and install programs on it like garageband, Xcode, etc!

UPDATING TO 10.7.4

  1. Visit support.apple.com and download each individual patch: 10.7.1, 10.7.2, 10.7.3, and 10.7.4.
  2. Install 10.7.1 like normal, and reboot when finished.
  3. Open Terminal, found in Applications > Utilities and type in the following code, including the trailing period at the end: 
    cp -r /System/Library/Extensions/AppleLSIFusionMPT.kext .
  4. Now install the 10.7.2 update, but don’t reboot when it’s finished. Instead, reopen the terminal and type the following code: 
    sudo rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/AppleLSIFusionMPT.kext
    sudo cp -r AppleLSIFusionMPT.kext /System/Library/Extensions
  5. Reboot.
  6. Repeat the same steps for installing 10.7.3 with the same code as above.
  7. Once you have 10.7.3 installed and you’ve rebooted, open the terminal and type the following code, including the trailing period: 
    cp -r /System/Library/Extensions/AppleLSIFusionMPT.kext .
    cp -r /System/Library/Extensions/AppleSMC.kext .
  8. Install the update, but don’t reboot until you’ve entered the following code in the terminal: 
    sudo rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/AppleLSIFusionMPT.kext
    sudo rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/AppleSMC.kext
    sudo cp -r AppleLSIFusionMPT.kext /System/Library/Extensions
    sudo cp -r AppleSMC.kext /System/Library/Extensions
  9. Reboot and you’re done!

FIXING RESOLUTION & AUDIO ISSUES

If you have no sound, make sure you’ve added your sound card to your Mac OS X VMware.

  • To fix sound, goto http://sourceforge.net/projects/vmsvga2/files/Audio/ and download/install EnsoniqAudioPCI_v1.0.3_Lion.pkg
  • To display more screen resolutions, goto http://sourceforge.net/projects/vmsvga2/files/Display/ and download/install VMsvga2_v1.2.3_Common_Installer.pkg