MAC OS X in VMWare

Ok, Im not sure if this is the right place but...

Im running XP right now, and I wanted to install OS X in VMWare. I have a Mac Mini disk. VMWare will not boot off of it. I created an ISO from the disk, but VMWare won't boot off of the ISO either. Is there a way around this?

Thanks
-Amir

I assume it's the intel mini and osx? When you're booting up, you need to hit one of the bios hotkeys to get into the bios setup. typically these keys are one of del, f2, f8 or f10. Then you need to go select boot order and change it so it tries to boot off the CD first.

Although logically, you'd just install vmware player on windows with the osx vmware image, so i don't know what's weird about your setup.

Yes, its an Intel Mini and OS X. I have tried changing the boot order so that VMWare boots off of a CD, but I still get the message saying "No bootable CD, floppy or Hard disk was detected"

I'm not sure what you mean by installing VMWare player. I don't have an OS X VMWare image. Thats what I am trying to get. Unless I'm confused, of course.

Thanks
-Amir

Oh right, I understand you. If you own vmware, you could just create a blank image from windows in the vmware program, insert the OSX disc and create it that way.

Yeah, thats what I am doing. The problem is that when I instert the IS X disk, and boot up the new virtual machine, the VM does not see the disk as bootable, and thinks that theres nothing to boot off of.

Thanks
-Amir

There's a switch you can tick inside vmware, where you select the cd drive to allow access to, i believe.

There is indeed. I have tried to set that for my drive (D, for the ISO I made, and for a drive I mounted with the ISO (E. Still, none of them boot. All get the same message.

Thanks
-Amir

the license for OSX says you need a Mac, this is done by reading a ROM on the board, VMware doesn't support the ROM and you probably don't have one (they can be copied from a mac motherboard that you own), so even if it did boot you wouldn't legally be allowed to run it (and it would enforce that), if you are on real Mac hardware then you need something that can support the ROM needed by the Macs OS, MOL is able to correctly (and legally) boot OSX from Linux, but its PPC/Linux only, i know of no similar software that can do Intel OSX on windows (PearPC will do PPC OSX on windows, but its sllllllooow)

as for the exact reason it won't even see it as bootable, well that's because an Intel mac does not have a BIOS, it has EFI instead, VMware dose not support booting EFI (to my knowledge at least) so it can't boot OSX at all

there are some hacked versions of OSX out there that can be obtained illegally and made to work in VMware, but the hacks are very specific and lead to a very buggy OS that can't be upgraded (all upgraded will break everything), its just not worth it

It sounded to me like he was running it on his mac mini...

even if it is, VMware still can't emulate EFI and give the guest OS access to the Mac ROM, both are needed to boot OSX

I see... I read an article somwhere that said it was possible, but I gess they used the cracked version.

Thanks
-Amir