Pre prepared Leopard virtual machine for VMware Workstation 6, VMware Fusion, VMware Server (requires a tweak to work) and VMware Player. No configuration necessary, working out of the boxl. Please buy a Leopard license before using this. This is strictly for educational purposes to show that it can be done on a virtual machine.
Intel or AMD processor that supports SSE3 (Intel SSE3 works out of the box, but AMD SSE3 needs patching before it will work.)
This has now been confirmed working on VMware Fusion as well!
It is possible to get this to work with SSE2 but you have to do that yourself
This release is Leopard Flat Image + 10.5.2 Update + netkas 9.2.0 SpeedStep kernel + mac.nub SMBIOS with the necessary VMware tweaks
It comes in a ready to go directory that contains everything you need to boot and use it in VMware, just navigate to the config file and open it as a vitual machine in VMware
By default RAM is set to 1GB, adjust this if necessary
Ethernet does work with a little bit of simple configuration. It wasn't autoconfigured in this release so use the easy instructions at the bottom to get Ethernet working
USB does not work, which is not a surprise seeing as it didn't work in Tiger on VMware either
Sound works partially, but its laggy and not practical at all
The default username is pcwiz and the admin password is pcwiz
Time Machine fix is not applied and Time Machine is not configured. I didn't think Time Machine is practical considering you can make VM snapshots in VMware, but if you want to use it apply the Time Machine fix from here (download it, put it into an ISO and mount) and configure another virtual hard drive and format it with Disk Utility and configure Time Machine to use the new disk
There is 8.3 of free space left on the disk for your use (add another virtual disk if you need more space)
The virtual CD-ROM is not configured to Connect at Power On because it slows boot. Once you are booted into Leopard, connect the virtual CD-ROM by right clicking the CD icon on the bottom right of the VMware window and clicking Connect. Use the Edit option in that same menu to configure drive and ISO settings
No QE/CI at the moment
just unrar the files and click on FreeBSD 64-bit.vmx and it starts itself as long as you have vmware installed on your machine
install directions can be found at below link-
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