It worked flawlessly, and blazing fast! I was able to install, and use Tiger normally, as all later versions of virtualized OSX! I followed this line of solution, and retrieved the information about my MacBookPro processor, and then added the CPUID information to the. vmx file, and faking the processor as reporting to be another one. The solution they found was to mask the CPUID as an earlier processor by adding a line to the. Upon investigating and searching, I found a topic in InsanelyMac about this error occurring when people tried to install SnowLeopard on modern CPUs as Core i7, as the OS does not recognize modern CPU it was not designed for. You will need to power off or reset the virtual machine at this point.'Īltough I was able to virtualize all later OSX (from 10.5 to 10.9), no luck with Tiger. 'The CPU has been disabled by the guest operating system. However, as soon as I powered on the virtual machine, at the grey Apple logo, I got a VMWare error: Sometime ago I tried to virtualize OSX Tiger 10.4.9 with install DVD from my MacBookPro 2007.

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