#Mac os x yosemite emulator pc how to#
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Make sure you are ready to downgrade your operating system by checking in with what version of OS X you already have and ensuring you have enough hard drive room to download the older version.

#Mac os x yosemite emulator pc install#

In this article, we’ll take you through everything you need to download and install an old OS X on your Mac.

#Mac os x yosemite emulator pc how to#

Hopefully you found this informative, I found it interesting and thought I should share my experience.Try free ✕ How to Install Old OS X on Your MacĪlthough you might think that going back to the old macOS is not possible by looking at the App Store Updates tab, it’s actually quite easy to do.

#Mac os x yosemite emulator pc update#

At the time of this writing OS X El Capitan is now available, if you want to apply it, go fetch the update from the App Store and install it!.

Click on your User account and select Login Items, click the + and browse and select beamoff.

Extract the BeamOff application to somewhere on your VM.

Alternately you can download BeamOff zip and do this yourself if you prefer.

Mount the Beamoff Tool.iso similarly to VMware Tools in the step previous.

This tool disables beam synchronization which in turn improves OS X VM performance.

If you want to take it a step further to improve the VM performance there is tool called BeamOff which is included in this file we downloaded in step 1.

The VMware Tools installer should pop right up, just click Install VMware Tools and then reboot upon completion.

Go to CD/DVD and go to Browse and mount the darwin.iso file.

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Right click on the Mac OS X 10.9 VM on the left side and go to Settings.

You may have picked up on it when we ran win-update-tools.cmd for OS X Unlocker… it pulled down the latest and greatest for us to mount and install. Once complete it’s now time to install the latest VMware Tools onto the newly created OS X VM.

The machine will boot up and take you through the OS X setup process, it’s very quick and painless.

Now power on the Virtual Machine using Power on this virtual machine or by right clicking and going to Power > Start Up Guest.

If for some reason you don’t see this option, look at re-running the OS X Unlocker steps, it needs to be Run as Administrator. This option is not available by default, the OS X Unlocker we ran earlier has exposed this option. The important option here is Version which is on the Options tab.

You can keep the default resources if you prefer or bump them up, I personally bumped them up to 8 GB and 2 vCPU.

Either by right clicking on the Mac OS X 10.9 object on the left side panel or via the tabbed window.

Select the Mac OS X 10.9.vmx file and select Open.Run VMware Workstation or VMware Player and select Open a Virtual Machine.Note: if something goes wrong or you’d like to restore the original files for your VMware application you can run win-uninstall.cmd.

Browse to the folder where you extracted OS X Unlocker and Run the following files As Administrator ( win-install.cmd and win-update-tools.cmd).

It does this modifying some core VMware system files. OS X Unlocker essentially patches the installed VMware product so Mac OS X can be installed.

Extract the contents of OS X Unlocker onto your computer.

Download the latest OS X Unlocker, at the time of writing it is version 2.0.8.

Confirm VMware Workstation or VMware Player is installed correctly, and close the program.

Install VMware Workstation or VMware Player, I chose the Workstation route since I already had it installed.

#Mac os x yosemite emulator pc rar#

This rar file contains VMware prepped OS X files (vmx, vmdk) for use with VMware products. 6 GB), within this file is a file called Yosemite 10.10 Retail VMware.rar, this needs to be extracted to a location of your choice, preferably onto a SSD. It does a good job at showing the basic steps, however it doesn’t explain much along the way, I figured it would be good to break this down and explain it. I raked over some sites that stated it was not possible, I found that rather funny I mean how is it not possible doesn’t Mac run on Intel hardware nowadays anyhow? Then I stumbled on this video. It had been an interest of mine recently to run Mac OS X on my powerhouse PC at home, but I wanted it to run as virtual machine. Whether I like to admit it or not they do make a highly polished quality product. I’ve never been a Mac fan, but I do have to say that our family does have several Apple products in our home, 2 iPads and an iPhone… for the kids and my wife.