While most of the VMWare guest hardware is virtualized, the guest VM CPU reflects the same CPU features the physical host CPU has. This guide details the additional work that is needed to run OS X 10.8-10.12 with an AMD CPU under VMWare. If your AMD CPU supports SSE3 and SSSE3 (and SSE4.1 for OS X 10.12): The installation should be pretty simple: 1. Install VMWare Workstation 8.0.6 / 9.0.4 / 10.0.4 / Player 6.0.4. Prepare an installation ISO from the untouched 10.8 (Mountain Lion) DMG using. Create a new VM (select 'Mac OS X 10.8' as the guest operating system). Set your 'number of cores per processor' to 1 (the number of processors can be set to more than one).
Trying to run macOS 10.12 (Sierra) inside VMware Workstation Player 12 (patched), on Windows 10 Pro 64-bit on a laptop with AMD PRO A10-8700B R6. However, on starting the VM, I get the warning popup, which says: 'This virtual machine requires AVX2 but AVX is not present. This virtual machine cannot be powered on.' However, CPU-Z tells me that both AVX and AVX2 are supported by the above AMD processor. How can one proceed to solve this issue? TIA, f74 falcon74, Vanilla OS X / macOS does not support AMD processors, so to progress you will have to install a modified kernel that supports AMD processors. The CPUID masking technique was tried by Donk, but could not get a consistently working OS X VM.
SO I think a modified kernel is the best solution. This is the current version of VMware Tools for OS X / macOS from the VMware CDS repository for Fusion 11.0.2 Please note: In the latest VMwareGfx.kext from Fusion 8.5.5 onwards VMware have discontinued the 2D-Acceleration code, and graphics performance is better now, thanks to Zenith432 for the update. To check for the latest version visit The various VMware Tools downloads are located under the packages folder for each version. Instructions for extracting darwin.iso - Download the file above - Extract com.vmware.fusion.tools.darwin.zip.tar - darwin.iso is located in the 'payload' folder com.vmware.fusion.tools.darwinPre15.zip.tar com.vmware.fusion.tools.darwin.zip.tar. Here is a new utility to patch the EFI firmware in VMware Workstation and Fusion to allow the non-server versions of Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and 10.6 (Snow Leopard) to run. Yoiu will need macOS unlocker 3 if you are using Workstation on non-Apple hardware. I still have to find a way to do this on ESXi as the UEFIPatch utility will not run in the ESXi console.
This currently supports: Workstation 11/12/14/15 on Windows and Linux Workstation Player 7/12/14/15 on Windows and Linux Fusion 10/11 on macOS Please read the readme.txt file for details. Readme.txt. MacOS Unlocker V3.0 for VMware Workstation +-+ IMPORTANT: Always uninstall the previous version of the Unlocker before using a new version. Failure to do this could render VMware unusable.
Later on the guide, we will see the full procedure to set up macOS High Sierra on our Mac OS X virtual machine, as well as how to install the VMware tools. VirtualBox The creator of VirtualBox was the German corporation Innotek GmbH, back in 2007.
+-+ 1. Introduction - Unlocker 3 is designed for VMware Workstation 11-15 and Player 7-15.
If you are using an earlier product please continue using Unlocker 1. Version 3 has been tested against:.
Workstation 11/12/14/15 on Windows and Linux. Workstation Player 7/12/14/15 on Windows and Linux The patch code carries out the following modifications dependent on the product being patched:. Fix vmware-vmx and derivatives to allow macOS to boot. Fix vmwarebase.dll or.so to allow Apple to be selected during VM creation. Download a copy of the latest VMware Tools for macOS Note that not all products recognise the darwin.iso via install tools menu item. You will have to manually mount the darwin.iso for example on Workstation 11 and Player 7. In all cases make sure VMware is not running, and any background guests have been shutdown.
The code is written in Python. Prerequisites - The code requires Python 2.7 to work. Most Linux distros ship with a compatible Python interpreter and should work without requiring any additional software. Windows Unlocker has a packaged version of the Python script using PyInstaller, and so does not require Python to be installed. Limitations - If you are using VMware Player or Workstation on Windows you may get a core dump. Latest Linux products are OK and do not show this problem.
+-+ IMPORTANT: If you create a new VM VMware may stop and create a core dump. There are two options to work around this issue: 1. Change the VM to be HW 10 - this does not affect performance. 2. Edit the VMX file and add: smc.version = '0' +-+ 4.
Windows - On Windows you will need to either run cmd.exe as Administrator or using Explorer right click on the command file and select 'Run as administrator'. Win-install.cmd - patches VMware win-uninstall.cmd - restores VMware win-update-tools.cmd - retrieves latest macOS guest tools 5. Linux - On Linux you will need to be either root or use sudo to run the scripts. You may need to ensure the Linux scripts have execute permissions by running chmod +x against the 2 files.
Lnx-install.sh - patches VMware lnx-uninstall.sh - restores VMware lnx-update-tools.cmd - retrieves latest macOS guest tools 6. Thanks - Thanks to Zenith432 for originally building the C unlocker and Mac Son of Knife (MSoK) for all the testing and support. Thanks also to Sam B for finding the solution for ESXi 6 and helping me with debugging expertise. Sam also wrote the code for patching ESXi ELF files and modified the unlocker code to run on Python 3 in the ESXi 6.5 environment. History - 27/09/18 3.0.0 - First release 02/10/18 3.0.1 - Fixed gettools.py to work with Python 3 and correctly download darwinPre15.iso 10/10/18 3.0.2 - Fixed false positives from anti-virus software with Windows executables - Allow Python 2 and 3 to run the Python code from Bash scripts (c) 2011-2018 Dave Parsons. Guide Installing OS X 10.8-10.12 Under VMWare Workstation 8 / 9 / 10 / Player 6 with AMD host CPU.