You would first need to disconnect it from the host and connect to the Mac via VMWare’s Removable Devices menu.Ģ. IOUSBFamily-378.pkg: allow the virtual OS to recognize USB devices. For complete functionality, I installed the following 2 patches and rebooted the system again:ġ. The updated system rebooted just fine, showing 10.6.8 correctly in About This Mac. However, with some free time at hand, I still decided to go ahead and properly update my system to 10.6.8 using the built-in Software Update. You’ll need at least 10.6.4 for the trick to work. Following this trick, I opened my ist located at System/Library/CoreServices, and changed the version number to 10.6.7 or higher:Īfter a reboot, the new version was shown in About This Mac and xCode installed and worked just fine! Notice that this would fail (xCode installs but behaves erratically) if your current system is too old, e.g. It should be noted that most of xCode and iOS SDK will work just fine without the extra features in 10.6.7 – the minimum version requirement is just Apple’s lazy way to reduce development and support efforts by forcing users to upgrade to their latest release. Well, if you don’t want to read the rest of this post, there is an easier way. However, recently I needed to upgrade my xCode to version 4.2 in order to support the latest iOS SDK, and to my surprise, Xcode 4.2 requires at least 10.6.7 for installation. For some time, the setup has been working perfectly fine for me, mostly for iOS development, since I don’t own a Mac. In my previous articles ( this and this) I have shown you how to setup a working Mac OS X 10.6.4 system running on your PC using VmWare Workstation.
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