Thursday, December 31, 2020

Running other macos(newer) inside mac or hackintosh

It is a bit slow but sometimes you need some quick feature of a previous version of osx and having a virtual machine of that can quickly get you thru and be done with it. For instance in Yosemite I could run the EasyCapGrabber, it does not run on newer versions and of course I need to capture some old VHS tapes to digital.

If you search on the internet you will find quite a few pre-cooked Virtual Machines setup for VmWare but they are for the PC, well no biggie. Download the image of your choice and carry on. Make sure you also grab the admin pwd they usually state it in the site where you pull it down

Extract the files from the archive(usually a rar or a zip) there will a folder with the virtual machine
in a folder you'll find the .vmdk, .vmx, .vmxf, etc. which are for the PeeCee  all you need to do zip those files, then rename from .zip to vmwarevm and the machine is ready to go

Create a new VM in VMWare, make it of type macosx-64 bit it didn't matter it was an older previous version follow thru the basics when it asks for a HD select "existing" and point to the vmdk from above then go thru the standard setup and all is cool

Issues:
    The only issue I found is the common Networking connectivity that usually pops on most VMs, flipping from NAT to Bridged and backwards takes care of it sometimes with a reboot

   The one issue I had was when I was setting up Mojave on my trusty Mavericks(hackintosh on an E6420) all went well but the network wouldn't go. The issue was that my WiFi in my hackintosh sometimes goes bad and a reboot is needed(never got to fix it with command lines and didn't put a lot of effort on that) as a workaround I use the oldie Pdanet with some old iPhone and I'm good to go but sometimes the connectivity does not pass thru the VM, so a reboot and back to the regular WiFi and all is well. Also rebooting the VM under the pdanet connectivity on the host takes care of it so take your pick.