With the release of vSphere 5, virtualizing Apple Mac OS X as a guest OS was possible and fully supported from VMware. To do so, you would need to be run ESXi on Apple hardware either the now deprecated Apple XServe 3.1 or an Apple Mac Pro. A comment that came up yesterday on Twitter was that VMware Tools did not exists for Mac OS X guests and this would make it difficult to manage Mac OS X guests on vSphere. I guess it may not be that well known or just an assumption, but VMware Tools does in fact exists for Mac OS X guests and it is also documented in the VMware Tools installation guide.
It is still amazing to me to see the number of guest OSes the vSphere platform supports and perhaps virtualizing Mac OS X is still relatively new for folks and hence the initial assumption about VMware Tools not being available. In any case, I thought I take you through a few screenshots of installing VMware Tools for a Mac OS X 10.7 guests running on my Apple Mac Mini.
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In the screenshot below, we can see that VMware Tools is not detected in the guest OS and we have a option to install VMware Tools, so we go ahead and click on that.
This will mount the darwin.iso to the VM from the vmimages directory of the ESXi host and you can proceed with the VMware Tools installation.
Upon finishing the installation, you will be asked to reboot the guest OS and now when we take a look at the VM summary view, we can see VMware Tools is now running in our Mac OS X guests.
Note: For instructions on installing Apple Mac OS X as a guest OS on vSphere, please refer to this tech note.
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Table Of Content
1- Requirements
2- Download Mac OS X 10.11
3- Mac OS X Unlocker for VMware
4- Install virtual operating system Mac OS
5- Install VMWare Tools
6- You may be interested
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1- Requirements
2- Download Mac OS X 10.11
3- Mac OS X Unlocker for VMware
4- Install virtual operating system Mac OS
5- Install VMWare Tools
6- You may be interested
1- Requirements
In this document, I will guide you how to install Mac OS 10.11 on VMWare. First of all, you must ensure that your computer have been install VMWare. VMWare version 12 is highly recommend.
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2- Download Mac OS X 10.11
Download Mac OS X 10.11 (Backup Link)
3- Mac OS X Unlocker for VMware
You need to unlock Mac OS for VMWare before creating a virtual operating system Mac OS on VMWare. To do this, you need a software. Download Unlocker 2.0.8 at:
Note: You need to register an account to download, register an account is free.
Or download from Google Drive (unlocker208.zip):
4- Install virtual operating system Mac OS
Open VMWare, and click 'Create a New Virtual Machine'.
Create an empty folder to create Mac OS virtual machine. For example, 'F:VMwareOS X 10.11'.
Visual Machine is created.
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You need to configure the hardware.
If you want to install Mac OS to iOS programming, you need to have a space of 4GB RAM for virtual machine.
Remove the hard drive of virtual machine to create a new hard drive which points to Mac OS file that you have downloaded earlier.
Click to add a new hard drive.
Select the location of Mac OS 10.11 image file, that you have downloaded previously.
It is not necessary to expand the drive, with Mac OS, 40GB is enough to install iOS programming tools. Here I expand to 100GB.
Wait until the expansion of hard drive completed.
Disconnect the CD whenever you power the virtual machine.
it is very important to configure virtual machine. Open file 'OS X 10.11.vmx':
Add:
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OK now you can run virtual machine Mac OS:
5- Install VMWare Tools
VMWare Tool is a tool that allows you to manipulate between 2 Windows that you are running and Mac OS that you are running on VMWare, such as copy & paste the files, ... And now you need to install it.
Point to the darwin.iso files in the tools of unlocker that you downloaded earlier.