Darwin is the Open Source operating system from Apple that forms the basis for Mac OS X, and PureDarwin is a community project to make Darwin more usable (some people think of it as the informal successor to OpenDarwin). One current goal of this project is to provide a useful bootable ISO of Darwin 10.x and Darwin 9.x.
Darwin is the Open Source operating system from Apple that forms the basis for Mac OS X, and PureDarwin is a community project to make Darwin more usable (some people think of it as the informal successor to OpenDarwin).
One current goal of this project is to provide a useful bootable ISO of Darwin 10.x and Darwin 9.x.Another goal of this project is to provide additional documentation. More...
Documentation and quick hints
Please see the right-hand side navigation bar (under 'Pages') for wiki documentation. Note that due to the migration of this content from Google Pages to this GitHub Wiki some links might be broken. In this case you should be able to find the correct page in the right-hand side navigation. It would be very kind if you could fix the wiki in this case.
See the Changelog for recent updates of this Wiki.
NEW! Getting the code
We have just finished migrating the project repository from Google Code, to GitHub, and encourage visitors to use the GitHub repository for both contribution, and checking out the latest build source.
Additionally, as an interim measure, a version of PureDarwin Xmas with a fixed boot sector, which is compatible with QEMU is also available.
Status
MacPorts is running on PureDarwin 9, potentially giving us thousands of open source software titles.
The screenshot above shows a PureDarwin 9 system created from the scripts in our repository, running on real hardware, using TightVNC and XFCE from MacPorts.
This page shows where we currently are (see the current blockers).
As of now, you can either build a PureDarwin system yourself based on the information on this site and our and Apple's Open Source and DarwinBuild source code repositories, or download 'PureDarwin Xmas', a developer preview of the operating system based on Apple's Darwin 9 sources and other Open Source projects.
At the same time, the PureDarwin project would like to invite the community to discuss, participate and contribute.
The developer preview is available for download as a pre-configured virtual machine for VMware Fusion 2.0 on Macintosh, and the code used to generate it is available in a Subversion/Mercurial repository form.
A minimal PureDarwin system known as 'PureDarwin Nano' is also available, where only one process is running (a shell).
Credits
We would like to thank
- Apple, Inc. for releasing Darwin as Open Source
- kvv and _wms for their continuing help
- Adam Baxter for finding a Gold Sponsor to provide a hosted Mac mini from MacStadium
- David Elliott for his work on boot-132
- The Chameleon team for their work on boot-132
- The xnu-dev team for their work on the XNU kernel
- Stuart Crook for his work on PureFoundation
- Guillaume Verdeau for his work on X.Org
- Rafirafi for his work on Generic Platform kexts
- Mac OS Forge
- The DarwinBuild project
- The MacPorts project
- The folks at #macosforge, #macports, #macdev, #opendarwin, #puredarwin,
- Everyone else contributing to Darwin
Gold Sponsor
Special thanks to MacStadium for sponsoring a hosted Mac mini.
About This File
This is the current version of VMware Tools for OS X / macOS from the VMware CDS repository for Fusion 11.1.0
Please note: In the latest VMwareGfx.kext from Fusion 8.5.5 onwards VMware have discontinued the 2D-Acceleration code, and graphics performance is better now, thanks to Zenith432 for the update.
To check for the latest version visit http://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desktop/fusion/. The various VMware Tools downloads are located under the packages folder for each version.
Instructions for extracting darwin.iso and darwinPre15.iso
- Download the files above
- Extract com.vmware.fusion.tools.darwin.zip.tar
- darwin.iso is located in the 'payload' folder
- Extract com.vmware.fusion.tools.darwinPre15.zip.tar
- darwinPre15.iso is located in the 'payload' folder
What's New in Version 11.1.0See changelog
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