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.
Basically the OS install sees the Proc ID and knows it isn’t Mac hadware and invokes a kernal panic and shuts down then VMware restarts the install, and panic again and thus the loop. If it doesn’t work for yours google the code and you’ll find there are a bunch of other lines you can use to try to mask the CPU ID. Every virtual machine (VM) needs to install VMware Tools to go for the best as the new MacOS Sierra 10.12 or OS X El Capitan.When you’ve finished the installation, you’re ready to experience the best of it by installing the VMware tools. Today we will Install Vmware Tools in OS X El Capitan that we had installed previously in a Virtual machine in Windows 10 How to Install Mac OS in Windows us. The answer is no since Mac OS X packages differ from the Linux installres, but it is possible to automate the installation of VMware Tools for Mac OS X guests. After quickly looking into this, I realized there are actually several options that are available to customers and it would depend on how you would like to install VMware Tools and what. Installing VMware tools on a FreeBSD (Mac OS 10.4.8 Intel Supported) Janne123 Mar 28, 2008 3:45 PM Hi, so I've got a guest installed on my Vista machine (32bit) using Mac OS 10.4.8 as a FreeBSD environment.
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.
Vmware Tools Mac Os Sierra
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.
Install Mac Os On Windows Vmware
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.