You need to prepare the installation medium on a real Mac computer (or in a working Mac OS X VM), setup the proper boot loader, patch the software, and modify the VMX configuration file. Installing the Mac OS on VMware which is based in Intel-based is not straight forward. We have already mentioned several guides to install Mac on Windows computer by using virtualization technology, you can check them here to find out the latest version.

Obviously, we can’t expect a good performance inside the VM, but overall it will be a good experience to learn and test macOS on Windows computer.

Do not use in the production or permanent use. The following method is completely for testing and learning purpose only. In this guide, we discuss the 10.6.4 version which can be upgraded to a certain level in VMWare on your Windows computer. If you are looking for the pre-installed Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard VMware image, then this post will be useful to find out the correct image and show the steps to install it on VMware Player or Workstation.

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