Hackintosh’ed!

I have finally laid my hands on Mac OS X, after scouring the internet – a virtualized one though!

A few prerequisites are required.
1. Vmware Workstation 7, but I ran it on vmware player anyway.
2. Premade OS X Virtual Machine, you can easily download it.
3. Darwin_snow.iso, which you must use it to boot with your image everytime.
4. 64-bit Intel processor with Virtualisation Technology.

The specifications that I ran on:
1. Lenovo x200
2. Intel(R) Core™2 Duo CPU, P8600 @ 2.40GHz
3. 64bit Windows 7
4. 4GB Memory (RAM)

It isn’t all just plug and play. A few minor tweaks are still required at your end.
1. Turn on hardware virtualization at your bios, under cpu settings.
2. Modify ‘guestOS = “darwin10-64″ ‘, in your .vmx file settings.
3. Boot it, of course. : )

Tada! Mac OS X 10.6.2 “Snow Leopard” is loaded. The premade image comes with a default account called ‘User’. Password is blank and you have to change that under Account Settings, before you can perform sudo for your administrative tasks.

To change your screen resolution, add the following in the main body (before </dict>) to your /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist, and reboot.
<key>Graphics Mode</key>
<string>1280x800x32</string>

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