AMD Testers needed for OSX + VMware goodness

****** AMD Testers needed ******

If you have an AMD processor that supports AMD-V please help me!

Please use this guide follow it the same as with Intel but instead of using the darwin_snow.iso use this darwin_snow_legacy.iso I have leveraged Empire EFI to boot OSX on VMware on Intel and would like to see about doing the same for AMD.

With some help from Spexfox on IRC it is looking unlikely that this method will be successful for AMD Phenom users.

There have been several reports of AMD Turion/Athlon x2 users getting this working, so long as VMware supports AMD-V on the chip (See comment #2).

I will update this guide with prasys’ latest Empire EFI boot cd within the next week or so.

****** AMD Testers needed ******

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62 comments

  1. Michael Salvia
    November 19, 2010 at 3:20 pm

    I just downloaded I will post my findings…

  2. issue
    November 29, 2010 at 3:19 am

    for vmware need ps2 kext sorry me english is bad

  3. Maximiliano
    December 8, 2010 at 12:04 am

    Hey, I have some experience, and I want to be a tester, mail me if you want.

    Regards

  4. Ghani
    January 2, 2011 at 10:09 pm

    Hi,
    I’ve an Aspire 5536 laptop (AMD X2 QL64 cpu), OSX Snow 10.6.4 never want to boot. But now I’d like to thank you for this, finally “Snow” boots up after refusing with darwin_snow.iso,
    IMPORTANT: After I installed “10.6.5 Legacy Kernel” (on this blog) and tried again to boot with darwin_snow.iso, and voila..it boots without any problem

  5. Ghani
    January 2, 2011 at 10:10 pm

    sorry I’ve forgot: for sure all is under VMWare wst 7

  6. alex
    January 18, 2011 at 5:11 am

    i used the amd normal efi empire for vitual box and it works liek a dream!

  7. calypso
    February 23, 2011 at 7:55 am

    hey all,

    i just tried this image”Mac OSX Snow Leopard 10.6.6 Intel AMD Vmware Image” available from thepiratebay. before this i used darwin snow and it kept giving error about efi returned 0. then i used darwin snow legacy available here and os x finally started to boot (though it kept giving errors about unable to load kextx on USB and USBEHCI). my problem is that both mouse and keyboard does not work in os x. im using PS2 mouse and keyb. any workarounds?

    my machine:
    amd phenom x4 9850
    4gb ram
    ati 4850 1gb
    ecs a770-ma mobo.

  8. krisyw1
    April 9, 2011 at 10:14 pm

    amd phenomII x6
    installed fine, works… just need to hunt out the patches for the rest of my hardware lol

  9. Gerard Janssen
    April 28, 2011 at 2:37 am

    It works fine for me :D

    VMware 7
    Amd phenom II x4 955
    4GB ddr3
    Asus crosshair formula 4
    EVGA 260 Super Clocked

  10. Marco
    July 12, 2011 at 12:28 am

    Help me,
    I’ve just followed instruction on this post and install go OK.
    But at restart of VM get some CPU halted message (http://i52.tinypic.com/2vtecsm.png)

    I’m on Aspire 5552G AMD Phenom II Triple core processor

    I’ve installed Macosx 10.6.6 retail

    any help
    Thanks

  11. sancho
    August 25, 2011 at 4:17 pm

    Boot in MAC OSX ==> OK
    But USB don’t work … =/ , i can’t use my mouse and keyboard :sad:
    What’s the solution ?
    Thx

  12. DeJvid
    June 20, 2012 at 5:55 am

    Hi i hope any1 can help i am AMD user, i have installed, OSx86 dvd image in vmware successfully without error, when instalation finished had restart vmachine, and now, i have that (look here: http://i50.tinypic.com/108h0lz.png), OSX will not boot just going into Shell does any1 would tell me what can i do now? Do i need to download darwin_snow_legacy.iso and load it into vmdvd drive? to keep it goin or something else? Please Help!? i would be intrested to get it working and going to be amd tester but have not clue how can i do it. Thanks for any answers…

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