Install Mac OSX in VMWare Fusion 3

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How to Install Mac OSX (Snow Leopard) in VMWare Fusion 3

Install Mac OSX Snow Leopard in VMWare Fusion 3 needs some tricks, else you'll obtain error like this:

"The guest operating system is not Mac OS X Server"

Patch VMWare Fusion 3 in this way:

sudo bash
cd "/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/isoimages"
mkdir original
mv darwin.iso tools-key.pub *.sig original
perl -n -p -e 's/ServerVersion.plist/SystemVersion.plist/g' < original/darwin.iso > darwin.iso
openssl genrsa -out tools-priv.pem 2048
openssl rsa -in tools-priv.pem -pubout -out tools-key.pub
openssl dgst -sha1 -sign tools-priv.pem < darwin.iso > darwin.iso.sig
for A in *.iso ; do openssl dgst -sha1 -sign tools-priv.pem < $A > $A.sig ; done

After this patch, you need to create an ISO image from your retail version Mac OS X Snow Leopard install disk (you can use Disk Utility app).

Mount the ISO turning it into a fake Mac OS X Server install disk in this way:

touch “/Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD/System/Library/CoreServices/ServerVersion.plist”

At this point you can create the new virtual machine in VMware Fusion for your Mac OS X Server 10.6 64-bit using the just created ISO as the OS disk image.

After the installation completes, the new virtual machine will boot and give you the “guest operating system is not Mac OS X Server” error. Let it shut down.

Now edit the vmx config file of the just created virtual image and change line: