Sorry, you're running MacOS inside VMware Player on Windows 7. Doing so means you have violated the EULA of Apple and VMware (and have had to hack this to get it to work). This is obviously illegal and so we cannot and will not help you with your problem here.
The entire VMware community do not hack an OS to run on an unsupported platform, so no, it doesn't. When you violate the EULA of multiple companies and apply a hack to circumvent various protections, you do not receive support or assistance from a site run and maintained by the vendor whose policy you have flouted.
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You're clearly not happy, but that can't be helped. Running a hacked OS on an unsupported platform constitutes a violation of multiple EULAs and the members of this community cannot be complicit in said violation. You'll have to help yourself.
Apple's software license for macOS only permits the software's use on computers that are "Apple-branded."[4] However, because modern Macintosh computers use Intel-based hardware, there are few limitations keeping the software from running on other types of Intel-based PCs.[5] Notably, companies such as Psystar have attempted to release products using macOS on non-Apple machines,[6] though many Hackintosh systems are designed solely by macOS enthusiasts of various hacking forums and communities.[7] While commercial circumvention of the methods Apple uses to prevent macOS from being installed on non-Apple hardware is restricted in the United States under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA),[8] specific changes to the law regarding the concept of jailbreaking[9] have placed circumvention methods like these into a legal grey area.
On January 10, 2006, Apple released Mac OS X 10.4.4 with the first generation of Intel-based Macs, the iMac and the MacBook Pro. These machines used Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) platform firmware instead of the older style BIOS found on most x86 motherboards at the time. On February 14, 2006, an initial "hack" of Mac OS X v10.4.4 was released on the Internet by a programmer with the pseudonym crg92.[13] Within hours Apple released the 10.4.5 update,[14] which was then hacked by the same author within two weeks.[15] On April 3, 2006, Apple released their 10.4.6 update[16] and again patches were released within two weeks that allowed users to install most of this update on non-Apple computers, although this did not include the updated kernel in 10.4.6. In June 2006, an updated MacBook Pro was released for the 10.4.7 Mac OS X update for non-Apple computers using the 10.4.4 kernel.
Up to the release of the 10.4.8 update, all OSx86 patches used the 10.4.4 kernel with the rest of the operating system at version 10.4.8. However, the newer frameworks relied on the newer kernels and this led to users of 10.4.8 encountering many problems. Apple also started making more use of SSE3 instructions on their hardware making it even more difficult for users with CPUs supporting only SSE2 (such as older Pentium 4s) to get a fully compatible system running. To solve this problem, hackers from the community released kernels where those instructions were emulated with SSE2 equivalents, although this produced a performance penalty.
When "Snow Leopard" was released, Russian hacker netkas created a version of Chameleon that can boot Mac OS X v10.6. The main problem was that many people were forced to modify DSDT or use kexts due to some specific issues. As soon as possible modbin and dmitrik released test versions of kernel that allow to boot Snow Leopard on AMD machines. Stable XNU kernels for v10.6 were released by Qoopz and Pcj. There are some popular builds based on Retail by the name Universal (Intel only), Hazard, and iAtkos. Since v10.6.2 Nawcom, Qoopz, and Andy Vandijck have been working on Legacy kernel for unsupported CPUs.
Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) is a specification that defines a software interface between an operating system and platform firmware. Since emulating the EFI does not generally require copying or modifying macOS, it is considered by some hackers to be the legal way of installing macOS on non-Apple computers (despite being untested in courts).[citation needed]
The work started with EFI emulation in the form of David Elliot (dfe)'s modified version of Boot-132 called "Darwin/x86", which has a "FakeEFI" system that emulates EFI.[60] In early November 2007, a group of hackers (fronted by a Russian hacker known as Netkas), using Elliot's code, developed a method[61] of emulating an EFI environment using a specially modified Darwin bootloader.[62] In practical terms, this meant that regular PCs meeting a set of hardware requirements could now be "seen" as real Macintosh computers by the OS, allowing the use of unmodified, "stock" Apple kernels (as long as the CPU supports it) and thus giving more transparent and reliable operation. Several methods for real world deployment of this innovative solution have arisen around the Internet. An explanation of this achievement along with a usage guide was provided by the website DigitMemo.com.[63]
Boot-132 is a bootloader provided by Apple for loading the XNU kernel.[66] In mid-2008, a new modified BOOT-132 came on to the scene.[67] This method allows users to conduct the Leopard-based OSx86 installation using a stock, retail-purchased copy of Mac OS X Leopard and eradicates the necessity of a hacked installation like JaS or Kalyway (mentioned previously). The Boot-132 bootloader essentially preloads an environment on the system from which Leopard can boot and operate. The bootloader stores the necessary files (kext files) in a .img collection or simply a folder. The luxury of this new installation method includes the ability to boot and install from a retail Leopard DVD and update straight from Apple without breaking the DMCA. The only possible problem here is that it breaks the macOS EULA.[68]
The bootloader behaves like the Linux kernel: one can use an mboot-compatible (a patched syslinux was used for the hack) bootloader that tells boot-dfe about the .img file (the ramdisk or initrd, as it's known by Linux users), and boot-dfe will then use the kexts (or mkext) from it. This new boot-dfe has been tested with the retail Leopard DVD, and it can boot, install, run Leopard without having to build a modified DVD.
Since the early developer builds of Mac OS X v10.6, members of the OSx86 community had been booting the new operating system using yet another bootloader called PC EFI provided by Russian hacker Netkas or the bootloader of the Voodoo team's Chameleon. Chameleon is based on David Elliot's Boot-132. The bootloader supports ACPI, SMBIOS, graphics, ethernet, and some other injections. It allows to boot up macOS on non-Macintosh hardware. Chameleon supports a lot of AMD as well as Nvidia graphics cards. There are a lot of forks of it by different developers; the latest version upstream is 2.2 from 2014.[69]
However, comparing Windows PCs, the Mac PCs have a more beautiful design and are easier to use. If you don't want to buy an Apple computer but want to try this operating system, you can choose to either use hackintoshes or install a macOS virtual machine on Windows.
However, installing hackintoshes is very complicated. If your PC's specs are not very bad, installing a macOS virtual machine is recommended. Then, which is the best Mac emulator for Windows? Most people will choose between VirtualBox and VMware. I am of no exception.
Do you want to run Mac on Windows? Installing hackintoshes on PC may be complicated. You can try using a Mac emulator for Windows. This post gives you a step-by-step guide on how to install a macOS virtual machine on Windows PC via VMware.Click to Tweet
I wanted to make a simple guide on how to create a vanilla OS X El Capitan virtual machine running on a Windows host. The virtual machine should be useful for testing El Capitan and also for creating installers for use on a real machine/hackintosh.
As usual, Pwn2Own 2016 will take place alongside the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, Canada. The competition, scheduled for March 16-17, invites researchers to hack Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Adobe Flash, Apple Safari and, for the first time, VMware Workstation.
Experts who manage to hack Chrome and Edge on Windows will receive $65,000, while those who break Flash running in Edge will get $60,000. The prize for hacking Safari on a machine running Mac OS X is $40,000.
For the 10th anniversary of the Pwn2Own hacking contest, Trend Micro and the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) have introduced new exploit categories and they are prepared to offer more than $1 million worth of prizes.
VM escapes were first introduced at Pwn2Own 2016 with VMware, but none of the contestants demonstrated a successful exploit. Researchers did manage to hack VMware Workstation and earned $150,000 in November at the PwnFest competition in South Korea.
In the web browsers category, Mozilla Firefox has been reintroduced this year and hacking it can earn researchers $30,000. Exploits targeting Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome are worth $80,000, while Apple Safari and Adobe Flash Player exploits are worth $50,000.
Bonuses will be awarded for SYSTEM-level code execution on Windows ($30,000) and Mac OS X ($20,000), and VM escapes ($100,000). The bonuses are cumulative so, for example, if a contestant hacks Chrome, elevates privileges to SYSTEM and escapes the VM, they can earn $210,000 in one go.
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The benefits of VMware Fusion on a Mac are immediately apparent. Before ever installing an OS, I know that I can install any Linux or Windows build on my Mac, while Workstation on a PC will never run Mac OS X. This is mainly due to Apple not opening it's operating system to other vendors, and is not necessarily a VMware issue, but it's worth noting that the only way to run OS X is on a Mac or using some crazy hack for Windows. 2ff7e9595c
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