besweeet Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 Now that VMware Workstation 11 is out, does anybody know if Yosemite performance is any better (and if iMessage can be activated on it yet, for that matter)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
11Al Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 I think the real problem in Yosemite is its resources request much more than Mavericks. Even many old Macs have experienced problems after upgrading to Yosemite, slow down, graphic glitches etc., while Mavericks ran great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSoK Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 No unlocker support available for Workstation 11. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
11Al Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 Hopefully there is a way to uninstall VMW svga 2? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSoK Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 Hopefully there is a way to uninstall VMW svga 2? 11Al, Not sure if it still works but Zenith432 did create an uninstall script, see link below: http://sourceforge.net/projects/vmsvga2/files/ Also, re-installing the VMware tools should remove the guestd-packages patch if installed to support guest-fit for the VMsvga2 driver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
11Al Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 I need help. I saw that Yosemite runs much better with beam sync disabled, but I wonder if possible enable quartz composito, GJ and 2D Extreme on VM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NSCXP2005 Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 Does anybody know how to get this working with VMWare Workstation 11 and Yosemite? It would be good to be able to run it in full screen with the same resolution as the host PC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruthan Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 I read whole 15 pages, but still not 3D acceleration and this a shame, i think that there are plenty developers whose would like to teste there SW in virtual machine. I my case, i would like to test Unity3D games, if would be at least 10 percent of perfromance of physical machine it would be good enough, for most of test cases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sven A. Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Hello! I'm trying to use the VMWare display driver in a virtual MacOS/X instance in QEmu (KVM) running MacOS/X . I known, that the orginal driver is not supported anymore, so I'm trying to use the VMWare Fusion 7.0 driver (VMwareGfx.kext). But the driver is not used and I tried many things. The kernel seems to load the driver, but cannot use it?! gfx: Loaded com.vmware.kext.VMwareGfx Version 0230.49.77 Build 2304977 (Nov 20 2014 14:49:06) gfx: svga: Start: Traces not available gfx: gfx: start: svgaDev.Start failed. I specified the "-vga vmware" option when starting qemu, but it makes no difference to the "-vga std" option. Any tips what to check or to try? Or maybe there is an existing manual available? (I tried the old and unsupported Svga2 driver (1.2.5), but it hangs during boot.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Co-ords Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 I used the latest 7.1 VMware tools but the performance is just as bad as before sadly on Yosemite. Without a new VGA driver I'm afraid the performance will never be as it was on Mavericks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zenith432 Posted January 12, 2015 Author Share Posted January 12, 2015 You need to install JasF's beamoff.app to disable beamsync. I used the latest 7.1 VMware tools but the performance is just as bad as before sadly on Yosemite. Without a new VGA driver I'm afraid the performance will never be as it was on Mavericks 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Co-ords Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 I really appreciate this, thanks very much You need to install JasF's beamoff.app to disable beamsync. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrdutchie Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 I installed this in VMWare , and now I have all the display sizes, but now the screen is black, and I see some desktop icons, but I don't have the bar at the bottom. Also Unable to access any menus from the top. Background is black. Any suggestions ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrdutchie Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 Spent all day on this, and cannot get it to work. As soon as I install the SVGA driver, the screen turns black.. and the whole system still crawls.. Attached it the log file after I installed the SVGA Driver Any suggestions???? mylog.txt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donk Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 You need to install JasF's beamoff.app to disable beamsync. Fusion 7.1.1 tools seem to have fixed the problem. No need for beamoff now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJTagy Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Not sure why, but I still need to turn off beamsync even after 7.1.1 tools installed... Although it's not as bad as before the current version. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donk Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 Not sure why, but I still need to turn off beamsync even after 7.1.1 tools installed... Although it's not as bad as before the current version. I did some more testing and I agree. 7.1.1 tools is an improvement over 7.1.0 tools, but still get best subjective performance using beamoff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zenith432 Posted February 19, 2015 Author Share Posted February 19, 2015 I did some investigating. Code to disable beamsync calls 2 functions: CGSSetDebugOptions, CGSDeferredUpdates. I searched all files in VMware Tools 7.1.1 for these strings, and they're not there. So Tools 7.1.1 doesn't disable beamsync. I've also noticed that if I set beamoff.app to run on login (using the login items in preferences) - it doens't always work. I have to run it manually again. As if there's some problem running it too soon after boot. Another thing I noticed is that even with QE on a hackintosh (non-virtual machine), disabling beamsync helps graphics performance. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andim Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 I have a Yosemite Guest running on a Linux host, VMWare 10 (with latest update). For VMWare Tools I tried both 7 and 7.1.1 (as found here). Still, I only get 1024x768 resolution, no other options. Is there any way to debug this/to fix it? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
besweeet Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 I have a Yosemite Guest running on a Linux host, VMWare 10 (with latest update). For VMWare Tools I tried both 7 and 7.1.1 (as found here). Still, I only get 1024x768 resolution, no other options. Is there any way to debug this/to fix it? Thanks! I still see 1024x768 only in the list, too, but I can adjust the window size and it changes the resolution to exactly whatever my window size happens to be. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andim Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 @besweet Thanks, that does work! (It is a little more difficult with my setup, since I am only remoting into the machines, but at least I can use higher resolution.) Many thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Martin Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 Is this branch still under the development? and any update later? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donk Posted September 6, 2015 Share Posted September 6, 2015 Is this branch still under the development? and any update later? No this is no longer under development as the VMware drivers now have the same capabilities. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kosakgroove Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 Hi guys Itried to get Tiger on VMWARE with your help but to no avail. I found VirtualBox to work better with it... I have everything working except for proper QE/CI and proper screen resolution, but it still works pretty decently without it. Is there any knowledge you could take from VMWARE and apply it to VIRTUALBOX? Check out the video I made as proof of concept of waht I've achieved. It's practically a vanilla installation.. The only error I get is on boot is GFX0 family matching specific fails Anyone knows how to extract acpi tables from VirtualBox or from OSX Tiger? Any ioreg utilities? I cant find any for Tiger.. If I could, at least I could try and do something about the graphics... Thanks for your help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aphex6b Posted April 3, 2016 Share Posted April 3, 2016 try qemu with vfio passthrough. If your hardware can do that (VT-d) but u will need a dedicated gpu, i tried multiple configurations on VMware (ESXi) and i could get nothing working (tested only multiple nvidia cards that normally work under OSX86) im not sure what you are trying to accomplish by using tables from a virtualised solution for getting good graphic emulation support. Since real OpenGL / Quartz support in a VM seems a no-go. Best would be to test the older based Zenith drivers with Guestpatches.pkg (forgot the name) incl -svga boot switch? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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