Many of you may have wanted to run a Mac OS X virtual machine in your vSphere setup but get hit with the error that darwin11–64Guest is not supported, as outlined in VMware KB 2006093. As the KB explains that this is because you must be running Apple certified hardware to run a Mac OS X virtual machine. I’m sure that this has to do with the licensing of the OS X product. But you may want to run a vm or two to test software in your environment.
The 2nd step is for VMware Workstation people only. VMware Player people can skip to the next step. Select 'Create a New Virtual Machine'. Choose 'Typical (recommended)' and press 'Next'. Select 'I will install the operating system later'. Select 'Apple Mac OS X' under Guest operating system and choose 'macOS 10.14' under Version. Use this tool to make VMWare Completely Support Mac OS X Mac OS X Unlocker for VMware V2.0 1. Introduction - Unlocker 2 is designed for Workstation 11, Player 7 and Fusion 7. If you are using an earlier product please continue using Unlocker 1 Versi.
The Workaround
Luckily the heavy lifting to get around this has been done by InsanelyMac user Donk. He has created an unlocker tool for non-Apple hardware to be able to boot Mac OS X virtual machines. His tool works for other versions of VMware like Workstation but I’m going to focus on using it for ESXi.
There are two different versions of his unlocker utility, one for ESXi 5.0/5.1/5.5 and another for ESXi 6.0. Make sure that you use the appropriate utility for the version of your ESXi host.
Vmware Mac Os X Guest Unlocker For Amd Phenom 3How It’s DoneESXi 6.0
Download Mac OS X Unlocker for VMware V2 (currently V2.0.6) from the InsanelyMac download page.
ESXi 5.0/5.1/5.5
Download Mac OS X Unlocker for VMware (currently V1.3.0) from the InsanelyMac download page.
Installing Mac OS X
You have to follow certain instructions to install Mac OS X from the installation media. It’s not complicated but it’s not straight forward either. You can view these instructions on the VMware website:
SummaryVmware Mac Os X Guest Unlocker For Amd Phenom Windows 7
This quick little fix has been working for me on two virtual machines running Mac OS X 10.10. In the two weeks I’ve been running them I’ve yet to have any issues, performance or otherwise, with using this fix or using the virtual machines. I hope this article helps solve the issue of running Mac OS X on non-certified non-Apple hardware.
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