IT Technology: Running OS X 10.9 Mavericks VMware Image Within Windows OS and Intel Processor

Follow these steps to download and install working OS X 10.9 Mavericks pre-installed VMware image for Windows 7, 8 or 8.1 on Intel processor computers. Doing a fresh installation of OS X 10.9 on VMware workstation by Apple’s original DMG file is not so easy. Sysprobs already published a guide about how to install Mavericks on VMware from DMG file. Instead of going through those difficult tasks, you can simply download this pre-installed and configured image and use it quickly. Because of  this is made by vanilla kernel (without modifying the original kernel), future software updates also possible with it. The steps are as follows:

1.  Make sure that your physical computer supports hardware virtualization technology (vt-x). Mostly all the recent desktop and laptop computers support virtualization technology nowadays. In some computers this feature is already activated, in others it should be activated manually in computer BIOS settings. Please refer to the link below for more information:
http://www.sysprobs.com/disable-enable-virtualization-technology-bios

2.  Download Mavericks retail image from the link below:
http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=PsJWZS6x

3.  After downloading and extracting, go to VMware Unlocker - Mac OS X Guest folder. Right click on install.cmd file and select run as administrator option. ( or you can start the command prompt as administrator in Windows 7 computer and execute install.cmd from command prompt)

4.  Open the vmx file of retail Mavericks virtual machine.

5.  Before starting virtual machine, you can modify the settings in next screen. I have increased the RAM to 2GB and number of processors to 2.

6.  Power on VM now. If VT-X is enabled properly and unlocker worked fine, you could see the initial configuration screen without any issues.

7.  After doing few configurations, you will land on well working Mavericks virtual machine.
* Note: Sound and network work fine in this method without installing VMware tools. It is already having multiple screen resolution options which normally come only after VM tools installation. Also, full screen mode and auto adjust screen size did not work after installing tools. Therefore, I do not see any valid reasons for VMware tools on OS X 10.9 except VMware shared folder. If you need VMware shared folders on Mavericks with Windows 8 or 8.1 or 7 to share Windows OS folders and drives with guest OS, then continue the installation.

8.  Mount the (attach to VM’s CD drive) darwin.iso file which is included in same folder.

9.  When CD drive opens automatically, double click ‘Install VMware Tools’ and begin the installation.

10.  After restarting, to make sure that VMware tools have been installed properly, go to VM in menu and see for below option. If ‘Reinstall VMware tools’ option is available, that means it’s already installed and working inside virtual machine.

11.  Go to settings of virtual machine and add a Windows 8 or 7 host folder/partition. While setting up, you can select ‘Read Only’ if you like to protect the host data.
* Note: VMware shared folder doesn’t require any network connectivity or configuration between host and guest. This purely works with VMware tools and integration services. So, it is very simple to configure and use without network connectivity.

12.  Inside Mavericks guest OS, you can access VMware shared folder in Computer as shown below.

Alright! Your Mavericks is good to go now!


References:
1.  Working OS X 10.9 Mavericks VMware Image For Windows OS and Intel Processor
http://www.sysprobs.com/working-os-x-10-9-mavericks-vmware-image-for-windows-os-intel-processor

2.  VMware Workstation 10, 9 and 8 Unlocker to Run Mac OS X Guests in Windows 8 and 7
http://www.sysprobs.com/vmware-workstation-8-0-8-0-1-unlocker-to-run-mac-os-x-guest-in-windows-7