Although instructions for installing this are included with the archive, it simply takes a “setup.cmd install” from within the extracted folder to complete. This distribution will need to be installed into your VMware Workstation 7 directory. This will create a folder called “vmware-darwin-200/” that contains all the archive’s files. Grab vmware-darwin-200.zip, and extract its contents. You’ll be using this in a couple of places, so remember where you saved it. Download darwin-wks7.zip and extract its single file, “darwin.iso”. If you plan to use a converter other than the one I’m recommending, beware of converters that create ISOs that are considerably smaller than the original DMG.

I used dmg2iso to convert my retail DMG to ISO. Since you’ll need to use the ISO version for this tutorial, you might want to find that instead, allowing you to skip the next step. Use your favorite search site to find the DMG. This will only work with the retail version of the operating system DMG. First, get yourself the retail version of Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). Here We Go… Before you begin making any modifications, please read through these instructions at least once, just to make all the steps are clear and that you haven’t missed anything.

I give particular credit to Talyn’s post in that forum for giving me the clue to use the ISO image instead of the DMG, and for the Ensoniq audio driver link. I did some cherry picking of steps from a number of places (most notably, the Insanely Mac forums). I actually did very little experimentation/exploration this time. In fact, in this version (I’m using 7.0.0 build-203739), you can install VMware Tools yourself, and enable sound! Workstation 7 appears to have greatly improved support for the Mac operating systems to the point that installing Snow Leopard into a virtual machine is much easier than it was with Mac OS X 10.5.6 under VMware 6.5.2. Snow Leopard) into a VMware Workstation 7 virtual machine. You know how things get easier with practice? Well, there wasn’t much required for this feat: Installing Mac OS X 10.6 (a.k.a. Welcome to Snow Leopard: Mac OS X 10.6 and VMware Workstation 7

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