VMware is a virtual machine which will let you run more than one operating system at a time on your current PC. Mac OS X Yosemite is the eleventh major release of Apple which still has amazing features and functions compared to the latest version of macOS. In order to test it. When you want to run Windows again in Mac OS X, just launch VirtualBox again, select your Windows 10 virtual machine, and click the “Start” button to boot Windows in the app. Yes, this is a complete version of Windows 10. VMware has been in the virtual machine game since 1998 and offers three different.
Mac OS is the secondmost popular operating system after Microsoft Windows. Although you arecomfortable using Windows for a very long time but there are many scenarioswhere you need a Mac OS machine.
Whether you want to develop your iOS app on Xcode, using apps like Final Cut Pro or iMovie which only comes on Mac OS, you need to buy an expensive Apple Macbook. So, without making a hole in your pocket, the alternate solution to this installing Mac OS on your Windows computer. Let’s get started with this tutorial
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Step One: Download Mac OS ISO Image file
As you are on a Windows PC, you don’t have access to Apple Store to download Mac OS. You need to download Mac OS from an external trusted source. You can download the latest Mac OS Catalina 10.15 or Mac OS Mojave 10.14 Installer files from our website.
Step Two: Download Virtual Machine for Windows
There is various free Virtual Machine software available for Windows such as Oracle’s VirtualBox. But I recommend using VMware Workstation Pro, although it’s a paid software but you can use it free for 30 days trial. You can download Vmware Workstation Pro 15 from this link.
Step Three: Install VMware Patch to run Mac OS X
- Go to the VMware macOS Unlocker page to download. Click the Clone or download button, then click Download ZIP.
- Power off all virtual machines running and exit VMware.
- Extract the downloaded .zip file in step 1.
- On Windows, right-click on the win-install.cmd file and select Run as Administrator to unlock. Also, run win-update-tools.cmd for VMware tools for macOS.
- After the unlock process is complete, run VMware to create the macOS virtual machine.
Step Four: Create an Apple Mac OS Virtual Machine
- Click File, select New Virtual Machine…
- Select Typical (recommended) and click Next.
- Select I will install the operating system later. and click Next.
- Select Apple Mac OS X in the Guest operating system section and select macOS 10.14 in the Version section. Click Next.
- In the Name, the Virtual Machine window, name the virtual machine and virtual machine directory. I personally would put it on a different drive than the system drive.
- Select the size for the new virtual disk in the Specify Disk Capacity window. This is the virtual disk to be installed macOS. Click Next and then Finish.
Step Five: Run you Mac OS Virtual Machine with VMDK or ISO file
After successfully creating an Apple Mac OS Virtual Machine, you need to run the machine with an actual Mac OS file such as Mac OS Mojave 10.14 ISO file or Mac OS Mojave 10.14 VMDK Image
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If you face any driver issues, Try installing VMware tools from the VM tab in the VMware window. Also, I would recommend assigning a minimum of 4GB RAM and 40GB of Hard Disk to your Virtual Machine.
That’s it for the tutorial If you face any issues or had any query then please let us know in the comment section below. You can also send us an email via the contact us page for personalized support.
You can run OpenSim on non-Windows computers through a virtual machine (VM).
Requirements
The purpose of running a virtual machine is to simulate a Windows environment on non-Windows computers. In order for that to happen you will need two things:
Virtual Machine Software
There are a few programs that allow you run a virtual machine. The common ones are:
We will use VirtualBox as the example in this tutorial.
Windows Image File
You will need a Windows image file (.iso) and a product key (i.e., license) to install Windows on the virtual machine. Institutional users can generally get both through Microsoft's DreamSpark website (formerly MSDN-AA).
OpenSim is currently supported on:
- Windows XP
- Windows 7
- Windows 8
Setting up a Windows 7 Virtual Machine on VirtualBox
We walk through how one may create a Windows 7 virtual machine on their computer, using VirtualBox, in order to run OpenSim. We show screenshots of most steps of this process. Your screen may look a little different. We don't delve into any details; if you have further questions, look at documentation for VirtualBox.
After downloading and installing VirtualBox from the link above, open VirtualBox. You should see a window like that shown below. Click New to make a new virtual machine:
Type a name for the virtual machine, and select the correct version of the Windows operating system. In our case, we'll be using Windows 7, 64 bit. Check with the source of your Windows image file to see if it's a 32 bit or 64 bit operating system.
Os X Windows Virtual Machines
Next, we select how much RAM we want our virtual machine to have. The virtual machine's share of RAM is taken from your computer's RAM. VirtualBox advises that you give the virtual machine less than half of your RAM. We suggest you give the virtual machine at least 1 gigabyte of RAM for OpenSim to run smoothly.
We'll need to create a virtual hard drive for the virtual machine. We choose to do this now.
We'll go with the default option, a VDI hard drive file type.
Os X Virtual Machine For Windows 10
To make sure that we don't run out of space in the virtual machine, we'll create a hard drive whose space is dynamically allocated from your computer's actual hard drive(s). However, if you're confident you won't run out of space, it's fine to use a fixed size virtual hard drive.
We've chosen to create a hard drive with 25 gigabytes of storage space. You should set the size to be at least 12 gigabytes, but you'll need more if you ever install additional programs such as Microsoft Visual Studio. After installing OpenSim, about 10 gigabytes will be used.
We've created the virtual machine; the equivalent of purchasing computer hardware and assembling it together. However, we haven't yet installed the operating system on the virtual machine. To do so, Start the virtual machine by clicking the green arrow:
Select the Windows image file from its location on your computer. This will depend on how you obtained the Windows image file, where you saved it, and what its name is.
The virtual machine should boot from the image file, and eventually you'll get a screen to start the installation process for Windows 7. Go through this installation process.
We're not upgrading, because there is no preexisting operating system on the virtual machine. Select Custom (advanced):
For any further options you're presented with, you can simply select the default options. Eventually, the installation process will reboot the virtual machine and you'll come to a screen like this:
Mac Virtual Machine On Windows
Do NOT press a key; we don't want to boot from CD or DVD. That would start the installation process from the beginning.
You'll eventually come to a screen asking for your product key. You should have this through whichever method you went through to purchase Windows 7, or to otherwise obtain a legal license. If you don't yet have a license, you'll be able to use Windows 7 anyway for a limited amount of time.
Once the Windows 7 installation process finishes, you can navigate to the SimTK website and download OpenSim. From here on, you can treat the virtual machine as a regular computer.
As a last note, you'll probably want to install VirtualBox Guest Additions onto your virtual machine. See this website for instructions.