VMWare Network on Mac OS X x86
Paul Ooi posted on Saturday, October 15th, 2005 at 09:40 in Technology category.trackback | RSS 2.0
How to make your Mac OS X x86 network works with VMWare Workstation???
After Mac OS X has been installed on VMWare Workstation, you will found that the network is not working or the network card it’s not recognize by Mac OS X. You can get the network driver here and follow the instruction below.
Select the ISO file you have downloaded as your CDROM drive
Create a new folder on Desktop(for example network), copy the files from the “CDROM” into the new folder.
Open up the terminal, navigate the to driver folder, run install.sh file and reboot
After reboot, I _think_ your network is working now.(bridge,nat or host also work). Hope it helps. For more information and support please visit the driver’s website
November 8th, 2005 at 18:12
after i reboot…it says…”the cable for Built-in Ethernet is not plugged in.”with a red light…instead of “Built-in Ethernet is currently……..”
why’s that?
November 9th, 2005 at 11:08
Are you installing on VMWare?
November 19th, 2005 at 19:13
Hey guys, I would appreciate if you guys can leave some comment for success installation. Thank.
November 23rd, 2005 at 22:04
Installed succesfully
Works with bridged network interface (NAT). VmWare version: 5.5 beta. Thanks for the info.
November 23rd, 2005 at 23:26
thank mate for informing
November 28th, 2005 at 06:34
Works nicely here on VMWare 5.5.
November 28th, 2005 at 09:04
hey great man..
December 14th, 2005 at 03:45
thx very much
worked immediatley after reboot with DHCP
December 24th, 2005 at 21:30
hi,
got vmware 5 and it doen’t work
do i need to update my vmware?
thx chris
January 13th, 2006 at 06:56
Thanks!!!
Now working perfect on VMware 5.5
January 15th, 2006 at 10:36
Great!
January 18th, 2006 at 01:18
it worked fine, thanks ….
I just installed the driver on opendarwin … I will get an intel mac and enjoy mac os x the ‘legal’ way ….
January 18th, 2006 at 07:09
i installed natively and i cant get this driver to work. The audio drive from the same source worked fine.
February 25th, 2006 at 09:29
Works great, thanks, but audio link is down :-/
Any other place to get it?
How to change locale and keybord, please.
March 3rd, 2006 at 04:21
I am running the deadmoo image under VMW 5.5 and cant seem to get the networking working. Any ideas what the password is when prompted?
Thx in adv!
March 3rd, 2006 at 04:33
Tis OK…..pword is apparently bovinity
Thank you google!
March 3rd, 2006 at 09:28
congrat mate!
March 3rd, 2006 at 23:08
I just installed the OS X 10.4.3 8F1111g DVD you can find as a torrent.
The installation in VMware Workstation 5.5.1.19175 (Gentoo Linux 64 bit as host) went fine, but the first reboot after installation showed a message telling me Maxxus’ network card wasn’t installed properly.
So, I just installed it manually from the ISO installer provided in this very same page. This time I saw no warning message whatsoever after a reboot. However, I still get no connection. “Built-in Ethernet” is visible but grayed-out in the Network control panel.
Does anybody have any clue? As a regular OS X user at home (PPC), I’d like to be able to use it under Linux through vmware, since this way I could use 3 OS’s simultaneously at work, and relief myself from carrying my PowerBook.
Thanks in advance.
March 5th, 2006 at 23:36
I just installed on VMWare 5.5 and after rebooting the computer detected a new serial port. built in ethernet port is grayed out. I am using the deadmoo image.
March 7th, 2006 at 19:22
WhoAreYou
Did you remember to Add an Ethernet device in the virtual machine settings?
March 20th, 2006 at 06:19
Thanks! Works great with NAT in VMware! Awesome stuff.
March 21st, 2006 at 20:27
I was trying hard to make this work, but thanks of your information its now working.
Now i’m gonna try to get the sound working as well.
I got the same problem as the guy above the: Deadmoo/bovinity thing…
I never heard of the sudo command so i did forget it the first time….
Its not working very fast, because i need some extra memory…
March 22nd, 2006 at 04:42
Thanx, worked fine after a reboot.
OS-X is up and running on VMware Workstation 5.0.0 build 13124 now.
Jeroun
March 22nd, 2006 at 21:31
Thanks, it works!
April 4th, 2006 at 09:48
Hi,
What are the hardware requirement for this to work. Since the OS should see the emulated VMWARE network card, how come the installation state that it works on AMDNET ?
April 28th, 2006 at 13:29
Hey, this worked a great, green light all the way,
I have seen many questions asking what “deadmoo” s administrator password is, it is “bovinity”………. enjoy !
April 29th, 2006 at 03:23
FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Work great! Thanks!!!
Fred ^_^
May 17th, 2006 at 21:17
if you are using premade image from Bittorrent tiger-x86-flat.img (tiger-x86.tar.bz2) with administrator pass bovinity and you are using
Vmware player instead of workstation, just put ethernet0.present = “TRUE” in your tiger-x86.vmx instead of ethernet0.present = “FALSE”.
Then do all the steps are in this article and reboot. It’ll work.
Great fun
May 21st, 2006 at 18:08
Works a treat. Thanks!
May 23rd, 2006 at 22:56
I’m wondering if you guys could help. I d/l the tiger-x86.tar.bz2 and tried starting it up using VMware player and it looks like it is going into OS X but then OS X tells me that I need to restart my computer. I restart the player but it still gives this message. Any way around this?
Thanks!
June 5th, 2006 at 09:35
Followed the instructions, works like a charm.
VMWare Workstation
5.5.1
July 14th, 2006 at 23:27
Another thumbs up - it didn’t work at first but then I did the add ethernet adapter thing in VMWare, and it worked on a reboot.
July 15th, 2006 at 00:40
I got the networking working with your tips, but I experience almost unbearable browser crashing (safari) using the deadmoo image. Do you have any tips for fixing that issue?
installed Ie5 and firefox and neither of those two apps will even run.
(vmware 5.5)
thanks,
AJ
July 28th, 2006 at 03:56
to [Jordan Adler]:
i think you should type in “-v” during start-up, see if that helps
to nix:
where is this tiger-x86.vmx file? i want to config it!
to everyone:
ive got past thru all steps except i am still getting red light saying “The cable for ethernet is not plugged in”, im sure ive sticked rj45’s both ends right . also i have added a new network port called “ethernet” and config’ed it to DHCP (tried DHCP manual too), i guess my luck ends here
ps: my built-in ethernet is gray’ed out and im on the tiger-x86.tar.bz2
July 28th, 2006 at 05:59
sorry ive found out where the tiger-x86.vmx is, it was right next to the tiger-x86 image file. even with the line TRUE/FALSE modified it still didn’t work after re-dd’ed under linux
so far ive tried everything including adding a new network port with the default active “PCI FireWire Slot PCI”, tho it was really not much of chance since the “Built-in Ethernet” was grayed out.
is there any other way we can get the network to work, or to active the “Built-in Ethernet”?
ps: when i installed the Maxxus’ network patch either with “./load.sh” or “./install.sh” it returned ” kextload: MaxxusAMDPCNET.kext loaded successfully”, still uncertain what were there left to do
August 3rd, 2006 at 10:39
Working great with Bridged ethernet on VMware 5.0. Thanks!
August 13th, 2006 at 00:21
Great info!! Works great in VMWare 5.0 Windows XP!! Thanks pal!!
August 16th, 2006 at 10:19
Great, it works fine.
August 16th, 2006 at 22:26
looks like it works!
August 18th, 2006 at 04:34
VMWare Server 1.0.0 build-28343 running under Ubuntu Linux 6.06
Booted fine. Network mod worked great. Safari hangs on launch though… :-/
August 23rd, 2006 at 18:13
I’ve managed to get the ethernet installed, by my host PC is connected through a Microsoft ISA server which requires authentication. I’ve tried setting up the socks proxy in the system configuration to point to the proxy server, and entered my username and password but no joy - any ideas?
August 31st, 2006 at 01:59
thx thx thx working very good on REALTEC8139 NIC
October 5th, 2006 at 13:19
worked like a charm on latest vmware server using bridged… thanks!!
October 5th, 2006 at 18:54
Hi! With OSX 10.4.6 Maxxuss driver fails to load. It refers to IONetworksomething class that it is as the superclass of the Maxxuss driver is a wrong version. Does anyone have any url where can be downloaded the Maxxuss rebuilded driver for 10.4.6, or another solution for this problem? thanx.
November 3rd, 2006 at 22:03
The 10.4.3 driver in the rapidshare link in this google cache page works fine on 10.4.7. The driver that was automatically installed during initial install of 10.4.7 did not work. I deleted it and installed the above driver, rebooted (and saw it loading during the bsd part of the boot) and it worked.
November 7th, 2006 at 11:20
Works !! you are a master!
November 14th, 2006 at 18:47
Thanks so much! The specified driver works well, and the network under VMWare works!
Thanks for help!!!
December 3rd, 2006 at 23:04
My mac osx vmware works fine (I suppress the AppleTPMACPI.kext file). But, as “vmware noob”, IE or Fireffox crash when I launch them and Safari often crash. Any tips ?
thx
December 5th, 2006 at 18:21
hi,
I have the same problem as Jordan, when I start tiger in VMware, darwin loads and then tells me that I need to restart.. I restart the machine and I did not work, I restarted the player and it did not work either.,
-v did not work, -x did not work …
HEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPPPPPPP PLEASEEEEEEEEEeee
December 20th, 2006 at 04:43
Thanx man very much. Works fine on VmWare Workstation 5.5.2 running under Windows XP Pro SP2. Works internet on my Mac, great work man
January 2nd, 2007 at 07:34
I found that I didn’t have to do the install above. All I did was:
1) Set Mac OS X to pick up the IP settings from the DHCP server.
2) Shut down Mac OS X VM.
3) In VMware for WS, go to “Edit virtual machine settings”, and select “Ethernet” from the Hardware/Device list.
4) Select “NAT” instead of “Bridged” on the Network Connection List on the right.
5) Restart your Mac OS X Machine. You should now be able to connect to the Internet (although your IP address will be in a different range to your host machine, your Mac OSX VM would basically be on a separate subnet to your host machine).
January 4th, 2007 at 22:22
Fantastic man…
January 16th, 2007 at 16:21
Works Great! thanks a lot for the driver, you made my Mac experience alive.
now I’ll be a little perky and ask gor Sound Driver. Is it exist?
January 29th, 2007 at 12:24
Hi! i got network card configured but i still can not connect to internet.
When i installed vmware i set up 10.0.0.1 as ip is it right? connection is enabled…but i can not ping. Thanks
January 29th, 2007 at 12:29
I also made a shot so that you can better understand my situation…
http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/7691/schermatavt0.png
January 30th, 2007 at 02:54
Works fine here…
I use VMWare 5.5 and te tiger-x86-flat.img (tiger-x86.tar.bz2)
I had to change the line ethernet0.present = “TRUE” in tiger-x86.vmx instead of ethernet0.present = “FALSE”.
After this I run the install.sh with the Terminal and my connection was set up.
February 11th, 2007 at 22:36
Can conform that this also works on VMware Workstation 6 Beta, Thanks! Works great.
February 15th, 2007 at 02:54
Thanx! this worked great!!!!!!
February 16th, 2007 at 18:06
Can anyone please provide a sound driver for that?
Thanks in advance
February 20th, 2007 at 12:23
Thanks, I have ethernet now.
But I also have the same problem as rad and noob - browsers crash.
any hints?
M
March 9th, 2007 at 14:58
arkadaşlar driver vmware de düzgün çalışıyor. Thx. it worked fine
April 11th, 2007 at 14:10
I need help, I’m not sure what to do. Everytime I am in terminal, I am stuck. I tried dragging the install.sh(From my folder and the Cd-ROM) into the terminal and press enter but it always says that
MaxxussAMDPCNET.kext not located. Not found. Or something like that. I also notice in the commands of the terminal, they refered to the System/Library/Extension/IOs…..kext/…/…/… something like that.
Please reply as soon as possible!!
*BTW - R u Malaysian?*
May 12th, 2007 at 03:08
Hey Man, this has been a great help! Now I can use Safari on my notebook to test websites! You’re great…
May 13th, 2007 at 00:59
this is great, high tech stuff right here. the only thing i cant get to work is firefox. it downloaded fine, installed fine, but it wont launch. o well, Vista and OS X all in one, cant get much better!
May 17th, 2007 at 06:56
How am I supposed to get the file from my native os to OSX running in VMWare? I can’t download the file directly to OSX because the internet isn’t working yet, so how do I get the driver into OSX?
May 17th, 2007 at 07:21
Nevermind, got it. I’m rebooting the VM now to see if the internet will work.
May 17th, 2007 at 07:22
Does anyone have sound from OSX running in VMWare? I thought it would make some sounds in the OS, but I hear none.
May 26th, 2007 at 16:27
This driver is great. Works on Win XP, VMware WorkStation 5.5.
I do have one problem though. Safari crashes all the time.
Any fix for this?
(I have deleted the AppleTPMACPI.kext file for a speed boost, maybe that is the cause?)
Thanks.
May 27th, 2007 at 06:20
Didnt work for me. But I get it work adding a second Network device and editing the VMX file. On “Ethernet1.virtualDev =” I write “e1000″ with “”. I start x86 and put the TCP/ip configuration.
I was using VMWare Server 1.0.1 ans Jas for AMD 10.4.7
Thanks,
May 27th, 2007 at 17:14
i got this msg “sudo: ./install.sh :command not found”
any1 can help ?
June 1st, 2007 at 01:11
Thanks for the instructions, the networking works great. Safari seems to have problems under vmware though. It is crashing while parsing web pages. Does it have to do with the non supported SSE3 instructions on my CPU or it is a vmware issue? I just wonder if installing the OS natively (on the same PC architecture) would solve the problem. Any comments appreciated. Thanks, George.
June 2nd, 2007 at 22:19
about the slow speed: from Tech|ZONE;
A problem has been noted that some computers run very sluggishly with Mac. In Mac, go to: System/Library/Extensions and remove AppleTPMACPI.kext and then restart Mac. Mac should now run MUCH faster.
omfg now with the CPU speed at 5% and internet working im in apple heaven
June 2nd, 2007 at 22:37
by the way i had to change the option from bridged to NAT in VMware settings
June 15th, 2007 at 12:35
awesome, everything and the network works perfect!! though running itunes fail and installing applications fail as well.
thanks a lot guys…u owe a lot!
best wishes
June 16th, 2007 at 03:47
wah , damn lot of good respond to this, but i am totally blind to it , what a shame
August 3rd, 2007 at 10:04
I am new to MAC. By the pic Embrace published I can see he has FireFox running! Mine does nothing. Is there a trick? I copied the .dmg file to the applications folder - but it does nothing but bounce the icon when I click it.
August 13th, 2007 at 00:22
Thanks to your link to Maxxuss’ driver, I just got Darwin 8.0.1 installed (with networking!) on the final release of VMWare Fusion—many thanks!
August 23rd, 2007 at 22:47
i got this msg “sudo: ./install.sh :command not found
just copy everything after the $
(and not everything before the $)
and hit enter
$ cd desktop/network/
$ sudo ./install.sh
$ sudo reboot
FF
August 23rd, 2007 at 22:55
when asked for password type
bovinity
and wait for response
after response and if you did all correctly
at the command
sudo reboot
Virtual Mac will reboot
August 29th, 2007 at 00:33
works on vista with vmware 6.0
September 6th, 2007 at 00:57
worked great thanks!
September 7th, 2007 at 19:51
Working here on VMware 6 & Tiger x86.
J
September 15th, 2007 at 22:28
For those trying to run tiger-x86 in VMWare (I use version 6):
Instead of deleting AppleTPMACPI.kext, you can also use a startup option in the boot loader. When you start the virtual machine, press the SPACE bar (when prompted) to input boot options. Then type:
platform=X86PC
then hit ENTER to continue booting. Your system will work just as fast as if you deleted the AppleTPMACPI.kext file. I’m not sure if it is the same as deleting the file or not, but my system works fine. At the very least, this should help you get into the system quicker to delete AppleTPMACPI.kext!
good luck.
September 18th, 2007 at 05:38
password for the osx.rar vmare image os OS X 10.4.7 is not bovinity
does anyone now what it is? Seems to be running as user Tom on toms-computer
Thanks
September 19th, 2007 at 10:52
Got the network to work! And also “platform=X86PC” works also. It speeds things up very well and fixed my hanging at the boot screen problem. I’ve tested both of these on vmware workstation 6.
September 22nd, 2007 at 06:56
Note that 10.4.7 and above require http://video.paulooi.com/Maxxuss-AMDPCNET-v1.0_1043.zip !!! That works like a charm.
The zip linked above will yield the error message “23maxxuss_driver_AMDPCNET is not compatible with its superclass, 20IOEthernetController” if loaded directly.
September 24th, 2007 at 01:49
I could have install the driver but the system is so slow now. I have a AMD 3600+ and i asingned 512mb RAm to the vm
September 24th, 2007 at 21:48
Thank you a looooooooooooooooot!!!!Now,internet works on my Hackintosh(erm,OS X86 on VMware Server).But I’ve a problem with sound(doesn’t work).Can you send me the driver at luca_thegamemaker@hotmail.it?Thanks.
September 25th, 2007 at 22:18
GREAT:: late hacknight without ucces on networking.. glad i ran into the driver at http://video.paulooi.com/Maxxuss-AMDPCNET-v1.0_1043.zip !!! Worked right away now, thought i went nuts last night
On ACER M5500 Q6600 VMware6 all fine now!
September 29th, 2007 at 23:11
thanks, it just all f***** up os x. I get a “You need to restart your computer” message every time i try to log on. Because of your f****** driver i got to reinstall os x.
October 24th, 2007 at 11:31
Thank so much for the info about the new driver … i was install and my tiger work in my vmware server …
Thanks very much Really
November 4th, 2007 at 23:58
Im running latest version of VMWare 6.0 (recent build as of 11/3/07) Installed OS X x86 10.4.8 JAS2 with Intel Patch. I have a Core 2 Duo 2.4Ghz 2GB Ram, I assigned 1GB RAM and setup the e1000 in the vmx like the posts said. I even used the MaxxussAMDPCNET files accordingly and still no joy
The closest I get is the network adapter gets an IP and I can ping the Guest OS IP in OSX as well as Ping the Host (XP SP2) IP. But I cannot ping my gateway/router or anything beyond that. I really would like to get this running because it will be a great tool for testing various things that I need to do.
November 15th, 2007 at 08:46
It’s a no go here
Not sure where exactly the problem is. I’m running VMware server 1.04 on a CentOS 5 64Bit machine. OS X (JaS 10.4.8) installs fine but I can’t get networking to go. Starting OS X, there’s no network interface shown in “network status”, the Adapter “Built in Ethernet” is available though (shows in “network port configurations”. When I disconnect the Interface from VMware, the Built-in-Ethernet adapter instantly shows up in the “Network Status” box, first with a red light and then orange, telling me it has a self assigned IP address. When I reactivate the Interface, nothing changes. The interface still has its 169….IP address and nothing works. Dunnily enough, I noticed that the MAC address of the interface is “00:00:00:00:00:00″ and not the MAC address given in the config file of the VM. I guess that’s the problem but how do I convince OS X to use the proper MAC address?
November 19th, 2007 at 09:38
It worked fine. I have net acces now, but why can’t I install any packages from the net? Even Fink say This program is for i386 not x86, bailing out. What’s that about?
November 22nd, 2007 at 18:18
GREAT! Works like a charm. (Workstation 6 / Tiger 10.4.1)
Next problem: No sound. I notice a lot of people have the same problem. Any solution available?
Thanks a lot.
December 19th, 2007 at 02:01
I’m not able to get it to work for some reason. I rebooted after following the instructions on workstation 6 and it still refuses to connect.
December 22nd, 2007 at 08:13
Hallo Christina.
More or less the same to me. The only thing i get is either ” no such file or directory”or, “command not found”. This becomes really frustrating!
December 22nd, 2007 at 08:59
It works. But you have to put the items into the networkfolder without that MaxxussAMDPCNET folder. Otherwise the direction will not work in the terminal. Sounds really stupid, but if one isn’t used to terminal work it could last a long time until you get it. Thanks
December 23rd, 2007 at 14:34
it work in VMware Workstation ACE Edition. I just add a new network card and install Maxxuss-AMDPCNET-v1.0_1043.zip. os will indicate a new network card for use and u can set what u want.
December 27th, 2007 at 00:14
Hi! Using VMWare 5.5 and Mas OSX Darwin 10.4.1 (x86) finally my network is working properly… thx.
December 30th, 2007 at 01:18
I have the same issue as DaMista. I get an ip address but i am unable to ping anything or resolve DNS. The Mac address that the OS shows is 00:00:00:00:00:00. I loaded the drivers per the instructions above and peformed the “e1000″ fix mentioned above. Still no luck. I am running Vmware Workstation 6.0.1 with OSx 10.4.8. Any ideas?
January 1st, 2008 at 04:26
Does afp work with this virtual setup?
Thanks!
January 19th, 2008 at 04:19
Hi Paul
it wordek perfectly.
Thank you for that description!
Salut
redM
January 23rd, 2008 at 01:28
Doesn’t work for tiger 10.47 or it might be it hanging. Update please?
January 29th, 2008 at 07:05
Hello
I have Dual Quad with Realtek RTL8168/8111 network.
I cannot install the network driver it is always giving me this error” 20maxxuss_driver_AMDPCNET is not compatible with its superclass, 20I0EthernetController superclass changed?
Kextload: a link/load error occured for kernel extension MaxxussAMDPCNET.kext load failed for extension MaxxussAMDPCNET.kext”
I Have Vmware version 6.0.2 build-59824 with windows xp SP2 with all updates.
thx.
January 31st, 2008 at 06:09
Hello
now, network and internet access works fine.
- after installation of MaxxussAMDPCNET driver (v1.0_1043) shutdown VM
- in vmx-file delete the line ethernet0.virtualDev=”e1000″
- start VM
- Mac OS find new network card (PCI Ethernet Slot)
- shutdown VM
- re-config Ethernetcard to NAT (with DHCP) in VMWare
- start VM
That’s it!
VMWare 6.0.2-59824, Windows XP SP2
February 8th, 2008 at 15:44
What is the password ???????????
February 10th, 2008 at 20:35
I managed to get a working OS X in VMWare with working sound and network. I used the following:
-VMWare Workstation 5.5.3
-Mac OS X 10.4.8 [JaS AMD-Intel-SSE2-SSE3 with PPF1 & PPF2].iso
-Maxxuss-AMDPCNET-v1.0_1043.iso
I have used 2 ethernet devices in VMWare, one NAT and one bridged. I could use Safari to get on the internet. Both nic’s where DHCP client.
March 11th, 2008 at 21:39
well just like everybody did , follow the steps and it works like a charms , right now visitingthe apple website although its a bit slow but iys running until then i have think about my memory upgrade , i fell in love with MAC OSX :-s
COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
Config :
VMware 6.0.2 ACE Edition
758 Ram
2.8 CPU
64 M Graphic Card
Oh Thx alot :p
March 13th, 2008 at 05:34
Cheers mate, brilliant!
April 4th, 2008 at 00:18
Worked perfectly
April 17th, 2008 at 00:06
there is no connection on my network list
April 17th, 2008 at 10:53
I’ve just installed VMware on an imac but I’m unable to access the shared drives on the windows workgroup. Can anybody help?
April 19th, 2008 at 03:12
Just wonderfull
May 23rd, 2008 at 02:51
I could not get built-in-ethernet in the network section.
Any suggestions?
June 2nd, 2008 at 00:35
Worked great - using NAT
June 11th, 2008 at 06:37
Success!!!
Setup:
VMWARE Workstation 6.04 on XP PRO SP3 2Gigs RAM
10.4.8-Tiger VmWare image
Networking works with Maxxuss-AMDPCNet-v1.0_1043.iso !
July 10th, 2008 at 14:18
Thanks so much^_^ I can use network.
with tiger x86 deadmoo with vmware 7
July 22nd, 2008 at 10:04
Thanks so much, now I’m able to use the net
August 20th, 2008 at 15:03
Can it be use in my wireless network adapter?