Unlocker 2.0.8 For VMware Workst
Amabella Tevebaugh
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?
I upgraded to 16, and then used the same unlocker as you from BDisp and my macOS 10.15 VM boots up just fine. I also upgraded tools using the ISO file from VMware Fusion 12 and nothing bad seems to have happened.
I can't believe how many people have downloaded MK-Unlocker. I made it by pulling a broken version of Unlocker and putting a few fixes in. It has now been downloaded over 114,000 times. Everything is working for me with Workstation 16. I continue to support a community where Unlocker is very important. Without giving too many details, it is to help people who can't afford a Mac but need macOS to use medical software that greatly improves their lives. I want to keep Unlocker alive. Unfortunately, we are short on people who are really up to speed on how the core of it works. We have been able to make minor fixes and tweaks. We are lucky that it continues to work on Workstation 16, and first reports are it still works with Big Sur. Some others that have contributed are , -projects/unlocker , and myself ( ). Dr. Donk was a significant contributor, but I don't believe he is active anymore. Does anyone know anyone else active with this project, or someone that would like to become active? Without help, it will almost certainly quit working at some point.
I don't know. That would have to be something with how VMware is detecting what Tools are installed. We are honestly lucky it still works. The people who actually built the logic in the unlocker tool have dropped out of the project. Those of us working on it now are able to make small tweaks, but not huge changes.
I leave my macOS VM running all of the time (basically using it mostly as a very heavy iMessage client). This has been stable for me for... years. Since upgrading to VMware 16.1.0 (and re-running the unlocker), I am experiencing the host freezing up from time to time. It's a full freeze (no response from keyboard/mouse, have to power off the system). It's happened twice in three days. I can't think of anything that I have changed recently other than the VMware update and I am rolling back to 16.0 to see if that makes a difference, but I was wondering if anyone else has experienced something similar?
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
That unlocker tool is actually an illegal cracking tool designed to circumvent kernel protections. You may be unaware, but what you're looking to do is very much illegal and in violation of the EULAs of both Apple and VMware. Mac OS may only be virtualized on top of official Apple-branded hardware using either Fusion or ESXi. As a result of this, we cannot comment on or help you here with your issue.
Emco unlocker (freeware - no Ads) works fine. After transfering files, just send the folder (where you copied or moved your files to on your host) to Emco file unlocker. I placed a shortcut in my "send to" folder. Fast and effecient.
So is this working with vmware 15.5 and windows 10 version 1909? I want to create a new install myself with a mac image. And second question: can i use the same unlocker for older versions of mac osx like Tiger (intel?)
Here is the download link of the working VMware unlocker that supports VMware Workstation versions 11 to 16 (all tested by me) on Windows 10, 11 and older versions 8.1 64- bit and Win 7 32-bit physical computers.Unlocker version 3.0.4The latest unlocker version (3.0.4) released by the developer in February 2022 has several bug fixes and supports the guest macOS version up to macOS 13 (Ventura). Also, this utility works on Windows 11 computers with the latest VMware Workstation Pro (v 16) and Player products.We published a few guides about installing Mavericks, Mountain Lion and Lion OS X on VMware workstation using this unlocker.
1) Since this tool will be changing and updating the binary files of the VMware workstation, it is always good practice to backup the VMware program folder before executing the unlocker.2) After downloading the zip file, extract it.3) If you have the previous unlocker version, you must uninstall it first.
To do that, right-click on the uninstallation script and execute it as administrator.Note: VMware workstation or player must be completely switched off before running this script.
If you have the older version of the VMware workstation earlier than version 11, you need the older version of the unlocker.Here is working Big Sur 10.16 on Windows 10 with VMware workstation 16.After patching the VMware workstation with this unlocker, the patch is no longer valid if you upgrade the VMware to any major versions. You may not be able to run or create macOS VMs anymore. You need to run the latest unlocker (which has the support of the VMware version you upgraded) to get the macOS virtual machine support again.
a) Visit the official site to download unlocker 2.0.7 (free registration required). This works for VMware workstation 11.b) For VMware versions 10, 9, 8 and 7, you need to get version 1.0.3.Here is the link to download.
In the older versions of unlocker, you may find different sets of files.Right-click on install.cmd file and select Run as administrator option as shown below. Also, you can start the command prompt as administrator on Windows 7 computer and execute install.cmd from the command prompt.Here is the working Mountain Lion OS X 10.8 on VMware workstation 9 with Windows 7 32-bit host after using the unlocker.
The next step is to download and extract Unlocker 4.2.6 from GitHub[^1^]. You can find the download link under the Releases section of the repository page. You will get a ZIP file named unlocker426.zip, which contains the following files and folders:
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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.
@JThundley - I agree with you regarding issues with zen. I switched to linux-lts as suggested by @jihem and OS is way more stable but unfortunately vmware 17.5.x immediately hangs my thinkpad, so i will stay with 17.0.2 for a while. Maybe new version will solve it. I also disabled huge pages as wiki suggest, but it didn't help.
@wgustowski I think there's a problem with the latest release of linux-zen. I had all kinds of weird "rcu_preempt detected stalls on cpus/tasks" in dmesg and seemingly random programs would freeze up. I downgraded to the previous version and then had trouble building vmware modules for it so I decided to try the latest vmware. I'd recommend you do the same as me and downgrade your linux-zen and linux-zen-headers and run the latest vmware-workstation. Good luck!
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