I’ll report here after I did. 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. 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. OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard 28 agosto 2009 OS X 10.7 Lion (Barolo) 20 julio 2011 OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion (Zinfandel) 25 julio 2012 OS X 10.9 Mavericks (Cabernet) 22 octubre 2013 OS. 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). While the virtual machine opened, on the welcome screen choose your country then click Continue. Therefore, launch VMware while it launched click on power on this virtual machine. Now you are ready to install Mac OS X Yosemite on VMware Workstation. The following faults explain why the registered host is not compatible. Have a clean install of Mac OS X Yosemite. *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. 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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