mac os x 10.6.2 virtual machine for vmware

I especially recommend checking out Rich Trouton blog who has some fantastic content relating to Mac OS X and VMware. I also found a couple of recent blog articles from customers who have gone through this process that may also come in handy.

I did speak with some folks and it looks like most customers either use Apple's Migration Assistance program to migrate their data from their physical system onto a newly provisioned Mac OS X Virtual Machine or use imaging software such as Carbon Copy. I really dont want to pay to upgrade my OS either.

I have never managed physical Mac OS X systems before nor converting one into a Virtual Machine, so unfortunately I do not have any tips in that area. Are there any free VMs out there for Mac OS X 10.5.8 (Leopard) Ive looked at virtual box, but it only works for 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and onwards. The second topic was related to P2V'ing (Physical-to-Virtual) an existing physical Mac OS X system to a Virtual Machine. I found this handy online resource by VMware called Guest Operating System Installation Guide that provides the exact steps required and you will find a link for each of the supported Mac OS X systems as shown in the list below. This was actually something I ran into when I first tried to install Mac OS X in a Virtual Machine. Though the process for installing Mac OS X in a Virtual Machine is pretty straight forward, there is an additional step that you must preform before you can get started. The first one was related to the steps required for installing Mac OS X in a Virtual Machine.

A couple of weeks back I received an interesting email regarding a couple of topics related to Apple Mac OS X and vSphere.

Mac os x 10.6.2 virtual machine for vmware