- #VMWARE WORKSTATION 14 UNLOCKER FOR MAC OS X LION INSTALL#
- #VMWARE WORKSTATION 14 UNLOCKER FOR MAC OS X LION PATCH#
- #VMWARE WORKSTATION 14 UNLOCKER FOR MAC OS X LION PASSWORD#
- #VMWARE WORKSTATION 14 UNLOCKER FOR MAC OS X LION ISO#
so to allow Apple to be selected during VM creation * Fix vmware-vmx and derivatives to allow macOS to boot
#VMWARE WORKSTATION 14 UNLOCKER FOR MAC OS X LION PATCH#
The patch code carries out the following modifications dependent on the product * Workstation Player 7/12/14/15 on Windows and Linux * Workstation 11/12/14/15 on Windows and Linux If you are using an earlier product please continue using Unlocker 1. Unlocker 3 is designed for VMware Workstation 11-15 and Player 7-15. Failure to do this could render VMware unusable. | Always uninstall the previous version of the Unlocker before using a new | If you have errors like "Python not supported" but you have python installed, change the lines inside of lnx-install.sh from 'python xxxxxxx.py' to 'python3.7 xxxxxxx.py' (if you have python 3.7 installed, otherwise try python3 or other stuff) LINUX USERS: No bundled python for you, but make sure you have python 3.0+ installed. WINDOWS USERS: Get the tool from the Releases section, you will get a bundled python distribution that avoids the virus warnings and python not found etc. I’ll report here after I did.MacOS Unlocker V3.0 for VMware Workstation I haven’t tried updating the VM to 10.7.4 yet. On the shell type ‘boot -v npci=0x2000’ and hit enter (only required for booting from CDROM you don’t have to type this at a regular system start) On the EFI screen select ‘Boot Manager’ħ.
#VMWARE WORKSTATION 14 UNLOCKER FOR MAC OS X LION ISO#
Create a new VM, select OS 10.7 64bit as guest and select the created ISO for the virtual CDROM driveĥ. Create an ISO image from the Lion ‘InstallESD.dmg’ using terminal on Mac OS: hdiutil convert InstallESD.dmg -format UDTO -o InstallESD.iso. Run Donk’s ESXi 5 Mac OS X Unlocker as mentioned in the articleģ.
#VMWARE WORKSTATION 14 UNLOCKER FOR MAC OS X LION INSTALL#
Install these updates in the following order on your ESXi: ESXi500-201112001.zip and update-from-esxi5.0-5.0_update01.zipĢ.
Simply logging directly into the host allows you to power on the VM.ġ. The guest operating system ‘darwin10_64guest’ is not supported). The following faults explain why the registered host is not compatible. *EDIT* One important thing to note the VM cannot be powered on from vCenter (error: Failed to find a host for powering on the virtual machine. Performance is pretty poor (I think this is due to the lack of graphics acceleration) so I went straight in and enabled remote management so I could now use Apple Remote Desktop to administer the server. I rebooted the VM in safe mode (hold the shift key whilst during boot) and was able to login.
#VMWARE WORKSTATION 14 UNLOCKER FOR MAC OS X LION PASSWORD#
Installing VMWare tools v5.0.0: went smoothly but after rebooting I couldn’t login to (the password seemed to be being rejected). Which also failed but back in the disk utility I was now able to partition & format the disk ready for the installation!Įverything went smoothly from here.
Launching Terminal and issuing: diskutil listĪllowed me to identify the disk: /dev/disk0Īnd issue: diskutil eraseVolume jhfs+ "OSX" /dev/disk0 The virtual disk wasn’t listed and attempting to partition/format the disk resulted in an error: Unable to write to the last block of the device The next obstacle came when trying to select the target disk for the installation.
Then attaching the USB controller to the VM: Attaching an external USB DVD ROM, enabling pass-through: This appears to be because the IDE controller is unsupported. We now see the boot is hanging at the PCI configuration stage:Īllows us to get past the PCI configuration step but now hangs looking for the installation media (still waiting for root device): Pressing F8 or configuring the VM to force entry into the BIOS on next boot allows you to select EFI Internal ShellĪnd boot verbosely by issuing the command: boot –v Unfortunately when you try and boot from the Lion installation DVD the Virtual Machine hangs on the apple logo. After countless failed attempts I’ve finally managed to get Mac OS X Lion running in ESXi 5.
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