Install Mac OS X Snow Leopard on a PC using VMware

Install Mac OS X Snow Leopard on a PC using VMware

install VMware tools:
As a noob the best solution I found was to power up the Snow Leopard installation then use Safari to re-download the Snowy_Vmware_files.tbz2 file mentioned in the installation instructions. Open (click click)the file in Finder which then unarchives it into a Snowy_VM folder. Inside that, the darwin_snow.iso can be deftly mounted with a right click >>open>>disc image mounter (i’m new to hacks)which then prompts to install VMware tools. The SL screen res is fully adjustable after that. Back to the snowy_vm folder where one can unarchive EnsoniqAudioPCI.mpkg.tar.gz with another swift clickclick and then rclick>> open with >> installer which prompts the sound driver installation. And presto! Perfect sound via my soundblaster audigy, and 1680×1050 res. A convoluted but effective method.

crash on power off:
edit vmx from “smc.present = true” to “smc.present = false”

Change Graphics Mode:

How to Increase Mac OS X Snow Leopard Virtual Machine Screen Resolution on VirtualBox and VMware

Increase Screen Resolution with Wide Screen support for Mac OS X Virtual Machine in VMware Player and Workstation

change the screen size by pressing F8 on boot and entering “Graphics Mode”=”WidthxHeightxDepth” (Including “).
For example:
“Graphics Mode”=”1280x1024x32″

And for screen refresh rate you can add @Rate so you get:
“Graphics Mode”=”1280x1024x32@75″
32 (Depth) as in 32-bit colors.