Steps to Create Bootable Lion OS X Installer Imageġ) Attach a new 5GB virtual hard disk (VMDK) file to a working Snow leopard Virtual machine.ħ) Modify the plist file to enable the kernelcahce that we copied to the new installer disk. Why Do We Need to Create this Installer Image?ġ) There are no boot loaders available to boot the original Lion installer file in VMware.Ģ) The installation package is available in the DMG format that can’t be used in the virtualization platforms. But if your goal is still installing older versions of Mac OS X on old hardware, then this article will be invaluable for helping get the job done! Things you Need to Have:ġ) Working Snow Leopard Virtual Machine in VMware or VirtualBoxĬheck our earlier guides to install Snow Leopard on VMware or on VirtualBoxĢ) Lion Leopard Installation DMG (It is easily available on the Internet.
NOTE: The guide you are reading now was published over ten years ago. I managed to install Mac 10.7 Lion onto my Windows 7 32-bit by following the steps in this article! The guide will show you how to make a bootable Lion OS X image that can be used on VMware or any Intel-based physical computer. If we need to boot a virtual machine either on VMware or VirtualBox, we need to modify the installation medium to continue the Mac OS X installation. This includes the discs' directory structure, the boot code, and attributes attached to the files.Usually, the OS X installation DMG file will not work on the virtualization environment or non-mac computers. In addition to the duplicated data from a physical disk, ISO files contain all necessary filesystem information from the original medium. The ISO standard the ISO files are based on is the ISO-9660 standard. Much more information is saved this way than simply copying files from one disc to another where important information like the disc header information can get lost. These copies can function as backup CDs since they do not differ from the originals regarding content. ISO files are used to create exact copies of CDs, DVDs, or other media saved on discs like a CD-ROM.
The content of the ISO is an exact copy of the content of the original DVD or CD the disc image was created. ISO is the most common disc image format for both CD and DVD.
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