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The solution (which in my case reclaimed almost 6GB from a 12GB vmdk) is as follows: Often the VMware disk file bloats quite a bit compared to the actual amount of data in the disk image, because when files are deleted in the Mac VM, they continue to consume space in the vmdk.
To get sound, I found I needed to download the Ensoniq PCI audio driver from sourceforge and install it inside the VM.
For 10.6, the included sound drivers don’t work. The VMware tools include the ability to share folders between your virtual Mac and your real Mac (see ‘Virtual Machine’ -> ‘Sharing’. After this second reboot, from the ‘Virtual Machines’ menu select ‘Install VMware tools’. After installation and reboot, again select ‘Software Update’ and this time select only ‘Apple Software Installer Update’. It’s around 1.1GB so download and install may take some time. Select ‘Software Update’ from the Apple Menu, click ‘Customize’ and select only the 10.6.8 combo updater. If you do not do this, the tools installation will fail with the error ‘CSMERR_TP_NOT_TRUSTED’ in the installer log. Normally installing VMware’s drivers and tools is an easy process, but due to a bug in 10.6, you need to first install several system updates. Complete the setup process by adding a new user etc. The system will install and automatically reboot. Rosetta may be useful if you plan to run older PowerPC applications. The printer drivers and translations are large and may not be needed. After selecting the disk to install to (easy, there should only be one), you may want to click ‘Customize’ and remove/add packages. You should soon see the Snow Leopard installation screen. Click the triangle in the middle of the black VM screen to start the VM. Also in the same menu under ‘CD/DVD (SATA)’, select ‘Connect CD/DVD’. In the ‘Virtual Machine’ menu go to ‘CD/DVD (SATA)’ and select ‘Choose Disc or Disc Image’. To install, all you need to do at this point is re-open VMware Fusion and show the VM which disc to use for the installer. Remove the line that has ‘sound.virtualDev = “hdaudio”’. Below the line reading ‘firmware = “efi”’ add:. Open ‘Snow Leopard.vmx’ in Textedit by right clicking, selecting ‘Open with’ and choosing ‘Textedit’. Copy the two EFI ROM files from the unlocker folder to this folder (e.g. Right click the Snow Leopard VM, selecting ‘Show Package Contents’. Navigate to ‘Documents’ -> ‘Virtual Machines’ in the Finder. If the command succeeds, you should have two new files, EFI32-MACOS.ROM and EFI64-MACOS.ROM in the efi-unlocker-master folder. Open the Terminal and run the following two commands:Ĭd /Users/$USER/Downloads/efi-unlocker-master To work around this, patch it using the EFI unlocker from GitHub. In the ’Settings’ dialog, click ‘Add Device’, select ’Sound Card’ and click ‘Add’įusion blocks the use of regular 10.6 (not server) in the EFI ROM.
For destination, I put it in ‘Documents’ -> ‘Virtual Machines’ -> ’Snow Leopard’. In the ‘Virtual Machine Summary’, click ‘Customize Settings’. Operating system: ‘Apple OS X’ -> ‘Mac OS X Server 10.6’. For the installation method, select ‘Create a custom virtual machine’. Here is how I got it to work:įusion doesn’t officially support 10.6, only 10.6 server. 
Installing Snow Leopard today in a Fusion VM is not particularly difficult, but I did find a few complications. I’m a big fan of Fusion as it allows one to test/experiment with all manned of different operating systems, without of course having to buy any hardware or risk breaking you main machine. Fortunately, at the time VMware’s Fusion product did allow running the prior 10.6 release, and I have relied on this more than a few times in the years since. As it happens, I did more or less the same dance nine years ago when Apple released MacOS X 10.7 Lion and remove the ability to run older PowerPC applications via Rosetta.
Eventually I will probably have to upgrade and resort to running my old software in a virtual machine. I am as result sticking with the prior release (macOS 10.14). Last year’s macOS 10.15 Catalina release removed support for all 32-bit applications, including for example Lightroom 6 and Photoshop CS6. When it comes to running older software on current systems, Apple has a pretty poor track record.
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