Vmware Unlocker For Os X 1.1.0
Janet Denzel
I downloaded the file (macosx_guest_vmware_7.tar.gz) just to see what it contains (in order to help you :-) ). Did you read the README file? Because, it has very clearly given instructions that you need to do in order to this patch to work.
I am running vmware workstation 12 pro . VMware unlcoker for vmware12 pro to unlock vmware and run mac osX as guest operation system in it.In terminal type sudo bash lix-install.sh from downloaded file. Now you will have option to install mac osX in vmware 12 pro
Thank you for the clarification! Are you able to tell whether or not the most current version of unlocker also works fine with ESXi 6.7 or if its use is limited to Workstation under Windows and Linux?
Wonderful. Would it be possible to run this specially-compiled version of vmware in a docker container for use on Unraid? Or would running it in a docker container preclude it from the direct hardware access that makes it so useful in this situation?
I did some testing and ran into the same issue with Ventura - seems a known issue. See also Ventura related open issues for Auto-unlocker - even though this should probably not be seen as a Auto-unlocker issue, after all, Auto-unlocker after all only "unlocks" certain macOS versions as a target, but isn't made to work around hardware limitations like an AMD CPU.
Fusion blocks the use of regular 10.6 (not server) in the EFI ROM. To work around this, patch it using the EFI unlocker from GitHub. Uncompress in your downloads folder. Open the Terminal and run the following two commands:
Go to Finder > Applications. Right-click the Install macOS Ventura and click Move to Trash in the context menu.Preparing an ESXi HostNow that your bootable ISO image with the macOS installer is ready, you should prepare your ESXi host for the installation of macOS as a guest OS on VMware VMs. You need to enable SSH access, download the unlocker patch, copy the patch to the file system of the ESXi server, and patch the ESXi server.
In this example, the unlocker patch and the macOS Ventura installation ISO image (Ventura.iso) were created beforehand and are placed in D:\Files\ for convenience (on a local computer). The Unlocker patch in a zip archive and Ventura.iso are copied to /vmfs/volumes/datastore1 on the ESXi server. Later, you can mount the ISO image from the datastore to the virtual DVD drive of the virtual machine.
cd /vmfs/volumes/datastore1
- Extract files from the unlocker archive:unzip esxi7-unlocker-master.zip
- Set the correct permissions for the directory and extracted files in this directory:chmod 0775 -R esxi-unlocker-301/
- You can check whether the executable files have the correct permissions to run them:ls -al esxi-unlocker-301/
- Go to the directory with the unlocker files after setting the permissions:cd esxi-unlocker-301/
- You can check whether the macOS unlocker patch is installed or not by running the validation command:./esxi-smctest.sh
You can select the latest available version in the drop-down menu.Mac OS as a guest OS family and Apple Mac OS X as a guest OS version are available after applying the unlocker patch. Click Next to continue.
Note: You can see that smc.present=true configuration parameter already exists in the .vmx file of the macOS VM after creating the VM with the unlocker patch applied on the ESXi host.
However, you may need to reinstall macOS on your VM from the very beginning (format a virtual disk partition or recreate a virtual disk for this macOS VM). Sometimes, downgrading the virtual hardware version in a .vmx VM configuration file can help.Installing VMware ToolsInstall VMware Tools for macOS running on a VMware VM to improve the performance and user experience. When you apply the unlocker patch for VMware Workstation, a darwin.iso image with VMware Tools for macOS is copied to a VMware Workstation directory (manually or automatically, depending on the unlocker version).
There is an alternative way to get VMware Tools for macOS with the unlocker tool. To download VMware Tools for macOS by using the unlocker manually, you need to download the unlocker for VMware Workstation:
Upload the .iso file to the datastore similarly as you uploaded the macOS Ventura.iso and the unlocker zip archive before. We upload darwin.iso to datastore1 where other installation files used in this tutorial are located.
You can see the contents of this folder where vmware-tools-daemon is located.
- Click the System Settings icon in the Dock > Privacy & Security > Accessibility.
- Click the + button in the Accessibility section of the System Settings window.
- Browse and select the vmware-tools-daemon file, access to which must be allowed. The path to this file is:/Library/Application Support/VMware Tools/vmware-tools-daemon
- Close the System Settings window and restart the macOS VM.
- Once the VM has been restarted, open the VMware Tools installer once again. Pass all steps of the installation wizard (there should be no warnings now). When the VMware Tools installation is completed, the appropriate message is displayed. The installation was successful. Now restart macOS.
- To check the version of VMware Tools installed in macOS, run this command in the macOS terminal:/Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Tools/vmware-tools-cli -v
- Another place where you can check whether VMware Tools are installed on a VM is VMware vSphere Client and VMware Host Client. You can select the macOS VM and expand sections with the needed information.
- Right-click the VMware Tools CD icon in the top right corner of your mac desktop and eject the media. Eject the darwin.iso image file from the virtual CD/DVD drive of the macOS VM in VM settings (on ESXi).
- Click the Apple icon in the top left corner of the VM screen and click About this mac in the menu. After installing VMware Tools, the video memory was increased from 3 MB to 128 MB (you can compare this with the older screenshot made right after finishing the macOS installation on the VM).
The Workspace ONE Managed VM technology is now available for public beta. If you would like to sign up, simply navigate to -ea.vmware.com and search for Workspace ONE Managed VM. To learn more, my colleague Pim Van de Vis wrote a great post about his experience with the Workspace ONE Managed VM beta.
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