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- #Run mac os on vmware on imac mac os x
- #Run mac os on vmware on imac install
- #Run mac os on vmware on imac Patch
- #Run mac os on vmware on imac Pc
#Run mac os on vmware on imac Patch
It will patch VMware Workstation so it will load Mac OS X.
#Run mac os on vmware on imac install
Download VMware Unlocker, extract it somewhere and install it.
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Navigate to wherever Virtualization is within your BIOS and enable it.Hit Delete when your keyboard lights up to access this. Reboot your computer and load into the UEFI/BIOS.Once you’re ready, it’s time to get going. The Mac OS X download is around 6GB so if you haven’t gotten it already, you might want to start the download ahead of time.
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#Run mac os on vmware on imac Pc
If you have an Intel PC and have downloaded the files above, we can get started. This version of Mac OS X is Yosemite and comes with VMware OS X files for use with VMware Unlocker. If you want to use another, as long as it’s compatible with VMware and Hackintosh setups you’re all good. There are lots of sources of Mac OS X and I only link to one. You will need virtualization enabled in your UEFI/BIOS, a copy of VMware Unlocker, 7-Zip and Mac OS X for VMware. You will need an Intel-based computer running Windows 10. As long as you follow these instructions exactly, you should notice no difference in terms of usability and utility between a genuine Mac and a Hackintosh. The OS will work much the same as on an Apple but within a virtual machine. Thanks Darius for sharing this with me and the community! I am sure this will come in handy for anyone wanting to test Mac OS X guests under ESXi but do not have a physical ESXi host and can easily substitute using VMware Fusion.A Hackintosh is the popular term for installing Mac OS X onto a non-Apple device such as a normal PC. Here are a couple of screenshots of performing this on my iMac at home running the same exact configuration: In our case, we did add the following two entries and we now run our Mac OS X Guest. We can also confirm this by check the Nested ESXi MOB by pointing a browser to the following URL: If you did not add the two entries above, then the smcPresent property would show up as false. This will allow the passing of the underlying SMC up into the Nested ESXi VM which will then allow Mac OS X guest VMs to properly function. The solution that Darius found was to add the following two Advanced VM Settings (VMX) entries to the ESXi VM: In the scenario above, the Nested ESXi VM is not automatically passing through the SMC from the physical Mac OS X system and hence the Mac OS X VM at the very top of the stack will not properly function. The way in which ESXi detects that the underlying hardware is Apple is by checking whether Apple's SMC (System Management Controller) is available. The reason for this is not a technical challenges, but rather a legal one per Apple's EULA. The issue with just simply doing this is that for a Mac OS X guest to properly run on ESXi, the underlying hardware must be Apple Hardware. Here is a quick diagram of the user setup: Not having a physical ESXi host to test with, the next best thing was to run a ESXi VM under VMware Fusion and then run the Mavericks guest on top of that. The user was running VMware Fusion on his physical Mac OS X system and wanted to be able to test OS X Mavericks under ESXi. You might be asking, why would anyone want to do this? Well, luckily this is not a "because you can" type of answer but was it was an interesting solution that one of our VMware Engineers ( Darius) had shared with me after helping out on this VMTN Community forum thread.