Virtualizing Leopard (In Progress)

Here are the steps I used from DVD to virtualized Mac OS X Leopard:

Convert DVD to Sparse Image [1]:

• Insert the OS X Leopard DVD (not the bundled OS install; needs to be retail install disk)
  
• Open Disk Utility
• Create "New Image"
• Name can be anything
• It's easiest to save on your desktop
• Size: 8.0GB (Dual Layer)
• Encryption: None
• Format: Spare Disk Image
• Click the image you just created and then click the "restore" tab for that.
• Drag the "Mac OSX Install DVD" image into the source and then drag the image you just created into the destination field.*
• Click Restore
• Go grab a soda . . . Take a Nap . . .

* I didn't do this. Rather, at a Terminal prompt, I ran `mount` to see what disk the install DVD was at and used that as the source. For my setup, that was /dev/disk2s3.

Convert Sparse Image to ISO:

• Eject the sparse image
• From Terminal:

hdiutil makehybrid -o ~/Desktop/leopard.iso -iso -joliet ~/Desktop/leopard.sparseimage
Reading Driver Descriptor Map (DDM : 0)…
Reading Apple (Apple_partition_map : 1)…
Reading Macintosh (Apple_Driver43 : 2)…
Reading Macintosh (Apple_Driver43_CD : 3)…
Reading  (Apple_Free : 4)…
Reading Macintosh (Apple_Driver_ATAPI : 5)…
Reading Macintosh (Apple_Driver_ATAPI : 6)…
Reading  (Apple_Free : 7)…
Reading Patch Partition (Apple_Patches : 8)…
Reading disk image (Apple_HFS : 9)…
...............................................................................
Elapsed Time:  9m 45.349s
Speed: 13.9Mbytes/sec
Savings: 0.0%
created: /Users/Web/Desktop/leopard.iso.cdr

Change the Darwin support utils ISO to use Leopard client semantics versus server semantics [2]:

• From Terminal:
  

  sudo bash
  cd "/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/isoimages"
  mkdir original
  mv darwin.iso tools-key.pub *.sig original
  perl -n -p -e 's/ServerVersion.plist/SystemVersion.plist/g' <> darwin.iso
  openssl genrsa -out tools-priv.pem 2048
  openssl rsa -in tools-priv.pem -pubout -out tools-key.pub
  openssl dgst -sha1 -sign tools-priv.pem <> darwin.iso.sig
  for A in *.iso ; do openssl dgst -sha1 -sign tools-priv.pem < $A > $A.sig ; done
  exit
  

Start VMWare Fusion and create a new VM:

• Applications -> VMWare Fusion
• From Menu, File -> New
  
• Click "Continue without disc"
• Select "Use operating system installation disc image file:" and choose the ~/Desktop/leopard.iso file
• Click Continue
• For "Operating System", select "Apple Mac OS X"
• For "Version", select "Mac OS X Server 10.5"
• Click Continue
• Click Finish and save
  

[1] http://notepad.bobkmertz.com/2007/10/making-back-up-copy-of-osx-leopard.html
[2] http://www.macgeekblog.com/blog/archive/2008/09/03/hack-vmware-fusion-2-virtualize-tigerleopard.html