VMWare Network on Mac OS X x86

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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

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166 responses to “VMWare Network on Mac OS X x86”

November 8, 2005

Ben

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?

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November 9, 2005

PauL

Are you installing on VMWare?

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November 19, 2005

PauL

Hey guys, I would appreciate if you guys can leave some comment for success installation. Thank.

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November 23, 2005

pRahEc

Installed succesfully 😉 Works with bridged network interface (NAT). VmWare version: 5.5 beta. Thanks for the info.

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November 23, 2005

PauL

thank mate for informing 🙂

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November 28, 2005

Owen Rudge

Works nicely here on VMWare 5.5. 🙂

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November 28, 2005

PauL

hey great man..

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December 14, 2005

pat

thx very much 😉 worked immediatley after reboot with DHCP

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December 24, 2005

chris

hi,

got vmware 5 and it doen’t work
do i need to update my vmware?

thx chris

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January 13, 2006

Perlan

Thanks!!!

Now working perfect on VMware 5.5

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January 15, 2006

Paul Ooi

Great! 😀

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January 18, 2006

thecarpy

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 …. 😉

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January 18, 2006

jello

i installed natively and i cant get this driver to work. The audio drive from the same source worked fine.

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February 25, 2006

FuLLY

Works great, thanks, but audio link is down :-/
Any other place to get it?
How to change locale and keybord, please.

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March 3, 2006

Bitchslap

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!

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March 3, 2006

Bitchslap

Tis OK…..pword is apparently bovinity

Thank you google!

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March 3, 2006

琮正

congrat mate!

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March 3, 2006

urcindalo

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.

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March 5, 2006

WhoAreYou

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.

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March 7, 2006

Don’tKnow

WhoAreYou

Did you remember to Add an Ethernet device in the virtual machine settings?

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March 20, 2006

Kevin

Thanks! Works great with NAT in VMware! Awesome stuff.

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March 21, 2006

Erwin (the Netherlands)

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…

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March 22, 2006

Jeroun

Thanx, worked fine after a reboot.
OS-X is up and running on VMware Workstation 5.0.0 build 13124 now.

😀

Jeroun

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March 22, 2006

Sirius Black

Thanks, it works! 🙂

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April 4, 2006

aBud

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 ?

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April 28, 2006

Duce Biggalow

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 !

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April 29, 2006

Fred

FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Work great! Thanks!!! 😀

Fred ^_^

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May 17, 2006

nix

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 🙂

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May 21, 2006

carlos

Works a treat. Thanks!

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May 23, 2006

Jordan Adler

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!

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June 5, 2006

Phil Smith

Followed the instructions, works like a charm.

VMWare Workstation
5.5.1

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July 14, 2006

Another Phil

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.

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July 15, 2006

vmware noob

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

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July 28, 2006

Cyril

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

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July 28, 2006

Cyril

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

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August 3, 2006

todd

Working great with Bridged ethernet on VMware 5.0. Thanks!

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August 13, 2006

Koas

Great info!! Works great in VMWare 5.0 Windows XP!! Thanks pal!!

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August 16, 2006

Rafael

Great, it works fine.

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August 16, 2006

bryan

looks like it works!

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August 18, 2006

Rob

VMWare Server 1.0.0 build-28343 running under Ubuntu Linux 6.06

Booted fine. Network mod worked great. Safari hangs on launch though… :-/

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August 23, 2006

Dave

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?

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August 31, 2006

pinokio

thx thx thx working very good on REALTEC8139 NIC

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October 5, 2006

Greg

worked like a charm on latest vmware server using bridged… thanks!!

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October 5, 2006

NoSpamPlease

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.

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November 3, 2006

slotboxed

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.

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November 7, 2006

hercho

Works !! you are a master! 🙂

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November 14, 2006

zbd

Thanks so much! The specified driver works well, and the network under VMWare works!
Thanks for help!!!

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December 3, 2006

rad

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

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December 5, 2006

elie

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

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December 20, 2006

Marius

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 🙂

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January 2, 2007

Irsan Tedja

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).

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January 4, 2007

nuvul

Fantastic man…

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January 16, 2007

Eli

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?

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January 29, 2007

Embrace

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

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January 29, 2007

Embrace

I also made a shot so that you can better understand my situation…

http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/7691/schermatavt0.png

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January 30, 2007

Dennis

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.

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February 11, 2007

Josh

Can conform that this also works on VMware Workstation 6 Beta, Thanks! Works great.

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February 15, 2007

Alex

Thanx! this worked great!!!!!!

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February 16, 2007

Alexey

Can anyone please provide a sound driver for that?

Thanks in advance

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February 20, 2007

Marcin

Thanks, I have ethernet now.

But I also have the same problem as rad and noob – browsers crash.

any hints?
M

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March 9, 2007

Serkan

arkadaşlar driver vmware de düzgün çalışıyor. Thx. it worked fine 😛

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April 11, 2007

Jeff

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?*

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May 12, 2007

Jos

Hey Man, this has been a great help! Now I can use Safari on my notebook to test websites! You’re great…

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May 13, 2007

dzedward

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!

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May 17, 2007

Osama

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?

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May 17, 2007

Osama

Nevermind, got it. I’m rebooting the VM now to see if the internet will work.

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May 17, 2007

Osama

Does anyone have sound from OSX running in VMWare? I thought it would make some sounds in the OS, but I hear none.

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May 26, 2007

Pop

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.

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May 27, 2007

Martinfe

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,

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May 27, 2007

AAK

i got this msg “sudo: ./install.sh :command not found”

any1 can help ?

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June 1, 2007

gs

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.

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June 2, 2007

mofo

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

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June 2, 2007

mofo

by the way i had to change the option from bridged to NAT in VMware settings

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June 15, 2007

raj

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

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June 16, 2007

矮子

wah , damn lot of good respond to this, but i am totally blind to it , what a shame

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August 3, 2007

bwfollis

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.

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August 13, 2007

Mo

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!

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August 23, 2007

FF

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

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August 23, 2007

FF

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

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August 29, 2007

sdr

works on vista with vmware 6.0

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September 6, 2007

John

worked great thanks!

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September 7, 2007

JamesB

Working here on VMware 6 & Tiger x86.

J

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September 15, 2007

Raboof

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.

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September 18, 2007

ArtCube

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

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September 19, 2007

randolf

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.

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September 22, 2007

None

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.

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September 24, 2007

Obiwan

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

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September 24, 2007

Luca

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.

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September 25, 2007

Marco

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!

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September 29, 2007

unknown

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.

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October 24, 2007

ledper

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

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November 4, 2007

Irishtr

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.

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November 15, 2007

DaMista

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?

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November 19, 2007

Gurney

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?

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November 22, 2007

JR

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.

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December 19, 2007

Christina

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.

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December 22, 2007

Olli

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!

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December 22, 2007

Olli

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

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December 23, 2007

thabc

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.

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December 27, 2007

tRIzzO

Hi! Using VMWare 5.5 and Mas OSX Darwin 10.4.1 (x86) finally my network is working properly… thx.

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December 30, 2007

Trevor

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?

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January 1, 2008

misha

Does afp work with this virtual setup?
Thanks!

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January 19, 2008

redM

Hi Paul

it wordek perfectly.
Thank you for that description!

Salut
redM

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January 23, 2008

Drrrica

Doesn’t work for tiger 10.47 or it might be it hanging. Update please?

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January 29, 2008

Luis Costa

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.

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January 31, 2008

Bergomi

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

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February 8, 2008

george

What is the password ???????????

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February 10, 2008

Jan

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.

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March 11, 2008

Sean

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

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March 13, 2008

jb

Cheers mate, brilliant!

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April 4, 2008

mojo

Worked perfectly

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April 17, 2008

ili

there is no connection on my network list

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April 17, 2008

joe

I’ve just installed VMware on an imac but I’m unable to access the shared drives on the windows workgroup. Can anybody help?

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April 19, 2008

kpax

Just wonderfull

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May 23, 2008

gotcha

I could not get built-in-ethernet in the network section.
Any suggestions?

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June 2, 2008

Tom

Worked great – using NAT

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June 11, 2008

etherscape

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 !

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July 10, 2008

dar

Thanks so much^_^ I can use network.

with tiger x86 deadmoo with vmware 7

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July 22, 2008

Graci

Thanks so much, now I’m able to use the net

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August 20, 2008

KenFulton

Can it be use in my wireless network adapter?

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September 18, 2008

base64

got it working with OSX leopard in vmware, after a bit of hacking, thanks!

using bridged mode is essential!

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September 25, 2008

Nilac

How did you get it working on OSX leopard? I can’t!

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September 26, 2008

Tony

I followed the instructions and the network worked once. I then shut down at some point and have not been able to get it to work again. I tried the same steps that worked before.

One thing to note is that this is a laptop computer (high end one). I have wireless Ethernet and wired. When I first got it to work I was wireless. At the moment I am wired. Does that make any difference? I tried the same steps while wired. I have tried switching back to wireless and that doesn’t help. It still doesn’t connect.

Any ideas?

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September 26, 2008

Tony

With the help of reading above I got it working! I read back a few posts and saw someone say to delete the ethernet0.virtualDev = “e1000” line in the config file. I did that and it found the card and now it works.

Isn’t the Internet and people like you cool?

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September 26, 2008

Tony

Now I have another problem with DVD booting. Does anyone know a good place to get answers about that?

I have a legit upgrade CD to Leopard 10.5.4. I put the CD in and the VMWare Mac sees it. I hit install and it asks me to reboot. I do that and during boot I get a VMWare error about not having DMA turned on for the DVD drive. Well, I do have it turned on in the host computer.

Anyone?

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September 27, 2008

trevanian

Finally working thanks to Bergomi for his re-config Ethernetcard to NAT (with DHCP).
Thanks to PCWiz and this site!

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October 5, 2008

Rhyder

i still cant get this to work….

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October 6, 2008

Mehshan

Worked greate! Using OSX Tiger 10.4.8 on VMWare Workstation 6.5

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October 23, 2008

Dave

Worked perfectly as described thanks

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January 9, 2009

bacenacho

after i type the sudo ./install.sh
it olway sas that the comand is not found
and the password that i use is bovinity
reboot
and nothing still no networking

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March 26, 2009

Steve

I’m a newbie Apple user and I had a few initial problems but finally got it working.

First off I just double clicked the install.sh file not realising that you have to run that file from within Terminal

Initially I didnt know how to run terminal I did a search for it in Finder and ran it from there but you can click on harddisk and applications etc..

Then I had trouble in that I didnt realise that once you change to the directory “CD/desktop/network” you must type “sudo ./install.sh”. I’d been typing “./install.sh”

Finally for password I tried “bovinity” which didnt work and then I tried my logon password (which I’d previously changed) and that worked.

Thanks guys!

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April 5, 2009

Crox

Worked instantly. THank!!

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April 7, 2009

John A. Bilicki III

Thanks a ton Paul, that worked perfectly! Though I did have to do a quick search to find out how to open the terminal however it wasn’t very difficult. Now I can test OS X browsers. 🙂

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April 9, 2009

Carlos

Worked perfectly as per your instructions.

Thanks for your help.

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April 20, 2009

Thatguyoverthere

When I set the iso as the disk drive it says ‘Operating System not found”.

It always says this when the disk iso isnt JaS OS X 10.4.8 SSE2 SSE3 PPF1 PPF2.iso (not the exact name, thats what i remember)

can anyone help with this?

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April 22, 2009

free2air

dear Paul! please help me ! i have another problem, i’m using the same mac os in wmvare, i solved the problem and hte network works, the second problem that i have, is that macos doesn’t recognize the soundcard, do you know how can i solve that problem ?!?!?!

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May 16, 2009

Bernd

I can confirm Maxxuss-AMDPCNET-v1.0_1043.zip also work with VMWare workstation 6.5.2 build-156735 and iATKOS_5i. Thanks for those guidelines!

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May 28, 2009

Bootvis

Nice it works on 10.4.8 and VMWare player. Next step: how do I upgrade to 10.5?

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May 29, 2009

rib

Yes, got it to work!

Running 10.4.8 jas on VMware 6.1.

v1.0 didn’t work, but 1.043 worked fine

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May 31, 2009

macic7

Works perfectly on VirtualBox 2.2.4 on Windows 7 x64 host.

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June 3, 2009

RuudB

Works great!

VMWare Workstation 6.5.2 and 10.4.8
v1.0 did’nt work but v1.0_1043 work’s fine

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August 9, 2009

jonathan

Dudez, you ROCK! FINALLY it works after 2 late nights of antisocial hacking around in a terminal. Thank God Im a unix geek! 😀 The thing that finally got it for me was installing the Maxxuss-AMDPCNET-v1.0_1043.zip kernel extension (note the 1043), AND deleting the ethernet0.virtualDev = “e1000” in vmware vm config file. Awesome! Thanks for everyone who contributed, especially the russian dude who wrote the Maxxuss driver, you ROCK. Now I can finally fall deeply in love with Mac OS-X and eventually go buy one! 😀

My kit: Mac OS-X 10.5.2 (some pre-fab vmdk from the pcwiz dudes in canada, shout out!!)
VMware workstation 6.5.2 build 156735 on WinXP SP3
IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad T60 (shock, horror! :P), intel core-duo, 1gb ram

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August 26, 2009

douchie

VMWare 6.5.2.156735 / Windows 7 x64 / OSX 10.5.2. Worked like a charm,

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August 29, 2009

David

Can someone help me? I have no idea how this works or it’s supposed to work.

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August 30, 2009

komar

I have windows 7 RC, the VMware player, and got the OS X system up and running. It’s all on the same single drive. I just want to create a shared folder so I can pass files between the two OSs. How can I do this?

I’ve been trying for a couple of hours and just cannot decipher the advice in this thread. Can someone help me out? Thanks!

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November 18, 2009

cypherx

DID NOT WORK.

VMWare Workstation 7.0.0 build-203739
Mac OSX 10.5.2 Kalyway build

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December 9, 2009

Westwind

After a couple attempts, it is working for me. Safari and Firefox are running very slowly though.

I’m running OS X 10.4.8 in VMWare Player on Windows 7, on an Acer Aspire 4730Z laptop.

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December 17, 2009

TuanNguyen

You are pro. Thank you. It can work on VMWare server 2.0.

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February 21, 2010

折腾2天终于装好max os x了 : : zhanggang.net

[…] PCnet32 ，网上折腾了半天，总算找了一个可下载的地址：http://www.paulooi.com/2005/10/15/vmware-network-mac-osx-x86/ 这上面也有安装介绍呢，网卡驱动下载地址： […]

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March 28, 2010

dickson9898

Great help to fix the problem. I use Maxxuss-AMDPCNET-v1.0_1043 driver on Mac os Kalyway 10.5.2

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April 13, 2010

Emoney

Works one time with VMware 6.5 good job

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May 12, 2010

chondondo

works fine

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May 27, 2010

Pinwire.com » VMWare – OSX – CentOS – WinXP Mashup!

[…] are some websites I found usefull during this project: http://www.paulooi.com/2005/10/15/vmware-network-mac-osx-x86/ http://www.aegisryan.com/2005/09/11/simplest-installation-of-mac-osx86-in-vmware/ […]

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June 19, 2010

GermanY

Thank you man !
Work great!!!!
First try – instant network connection!

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June 24, 2010

Stavros

It works great, thank you very much

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January 16, 2011

iMac

Excellent! v1.0_1043 works like a charm!

My config:

DELL POWEREDGE T105 AMD64 OPTERON
VMWARE WORKSTATION V7.1.3 BUILD 324285
MAC OSX86 LEOPARD 10.5.4 FOR AMD CPU

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January 22, 2011

How to Setup Network and Internet Access in Mac OS X Leopard in VMware Virtual Machine

[…] point.Download the Maxxuss-AMDPCNET-v1.0_1043 driver from this link.3) The installation steps are available here.4) Once driver installed properly, check the bridged and NAT modes mentioned in part 1.v.1.0 1043 […]

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February 1, 2011

Apple & Whatever – Install Mac OS X on vmware

[…] tutorial with instructions for all types of systems This → One is with screenshots This → is for networking MAC OS X86 on VMware After trying all this, the internet / In-Built ethernet / LAN didn’t work, so i modified the […]

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February 24, 2011

anurag

i hv a problem….. in the terminal whn i put the command “sudo ./install.sh” it asks me for a password and whn i enter the password it says
“-k is no longer used; ignoring.
no work to do; check options and try again.
usage: kextcache [options] [–] [kext or directory] …
kextcache -system-mkext [options] [–] [kext or directory] …
kextcache -prelinked-kernel [options] [–] [kext or directory]
kextcache -system-prelinked-kernel
kextcache [options] -prelinked-kernel
kextcache -update-volume [options]
kextcache -system-caches [options]
use kextcache -help for an explanation of each option”

wat to do now.. pls help…
and also i dont hv sound in os

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April 21, 2011

Rogerio

This works like a charm. Good work guy.

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August 5, 2011

xGonFer

Excelente aporte… funciona a las mil maravillas!!!, muchas gracias!!!

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August 5, 2011

xGonFer

Excelent!!! +++, works wonderfully, thank you very much!!!

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August 12, 2011

David

Thank you! …. I’m up and running with VMWare 7 and OSX 10.4…. One note… It did not “activate” my network until I went into system preferences -> network….. A dialog popped up telling me it detected a new network interface and to check the settings….. I changed nothing… Clicked apply, and everything started working…. Just an FYI for any other mac illiterates out there.

Eternal peace & love
-D

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October 23, 2011

Network Unidentified

Network Unidentified…

[…]VMWare Network on Mac OS X x86 | paulooi.com[…]…

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January 13, 2012

Peter

Hello,

for me this is not helping.
i use VM Ware Server 1.0.10

can this be caused of that i do not use WorkStation but Server?

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April 28, 2012

Outlaw_Junkie

Installed it in OSX 10.6.
After installing the .sh file didn’t restart the VM.
Changed the network settings of VM and it worked instantly.
ENV:
VMWARE version 7
Win 7 64 bit

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