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If your VMWare virtual machine gets stuck on the Apple logo

1. Exit VMWare. Make sure it’s not running.

2. Go to My Documents/Virtual Machines/mac_os_x (or wherever you store your virtual machine files)

3. Edit the mac_os_x.vmx file with a text editor such as Notepad

4. Find a line saying smc.present = “TRUE“

smc.present = "TRUE"

5. And set it to FALSE

smc.present = "FALSE"

If you restart your virtual machine now and wait patiently for a minute or two it should finish the boot process successfully.

Update: 2017

As pointed out by the user jack in the comment section (many thanks): In case you get stuck at 30% forever, shutdown the VM, set smc.present back to TRUE and reboot.