Installing Snow Leopard in Vmware Workstation 7

Prerequisites...
Patience
VMware Workstation 7
Basic knowledge of OS X and the terminal
Previous boot-132 experience
Retail Snow Leopard 29.99 DVD (as an ISO)
A pre-made Snow Leopard VMX (included)
dariwn_snow.iso (included)
Intel Based Processor

----- Step 1 -----

preparing the image
Open VMware, load the vmx that came with this pkg
edit the vmware settings to match your needs
set the darwin_snow.iso as the cdrom media.
save your settings
----- Step 2 -----
Installing
Start up your OS X VM
once at the darwin boot prompt eject the darwin_snow.iso and load your Snow Leop
ard ISO
Install Snow Leopard as normal

reboot**
**note:
FakeSMC causes kernel panics on reboot in Snow Leopard for some reason.
Just ignore the Kernel panics.

---- Post Install ----

TAKE A SNAPSHOT before updating or making any other chages to the VM.
Use Apple Software Update
Reboot
Take a Snapshot
Install Vmware Tools
Reboot
---- Caveats ----
It seems that for some reason it takes about 10 reboots before Snow Leopard will
boot normally into the VM. you will get stuck at the apple logo for about 3-4
reboots, then you will get to the dekstop but only get the beachball of death.
Keep rebooting and eventually you will get to the registration form, once the re
gistration form loads you will be smooth sailing from now on.
You will always need to use the darwin_snow.iso to boot your vm but this is a sm
all price to pay for having Snow Leopard in a vm right?

-P|astikman

Thanks to PolishOX for forcing me to do this the right way