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Installing Yosemite on Workstation 11 and ESXi 5.5


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Greetings!  This is my first post on this forum (by the way, love the quizzes to get access to be able to post!)  I am trying to install Yosemite on either Workstation 11 or ESXi 5.5, whichever will work for me.  So far, neither of them do.  :P

 

I've followed along with the thread here and have done what I believe to be all that is required.  However, neither have worked.

 

The following are screenshots I took with what is happening:
 

On Workstation 11:
Here

 

I also received the error "The CPU has been disabled by the guest operating system. Power off or reset the virtual machine." when starting Yosemite on Workstation 11.

 

On ESXi 5.5:
Here

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks!!

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First of all, make sure you pay attention to the details in the README for Unlocker2. It specifically says that you should set the VMware hardware version to 10. Also, I recommend choosing OS X 10.9 from the drop-down when telling VMware what version you are installing. I had trouble when I used 10.10 but no trouble when I used 10.9 (even though I installed 10.10).

 

Second, once you are installed make sure you set the darwin.iso up to mount in the guest. Install those tools ASAP and reboot.

 

I can't help with the ESXi question.

 

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Thanks for the info.  I tried rebuilding with the tips you gave and I still come up with the same problem.

Of course, I guess I should mention that I am using an AMD chip.  That shouldn't be a problem, correct?  I know I can get Mountain Lion to work, but would like the latest version running if I can.

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Thanks for the info.  I tried rebuilding with the tips you gave and I still come up with the same problem.

 

Of course, I guess I should mention that I am using an AMD chip.  That shouldn't be a problem, correct?  I know I can get Mountain Lion to work, but would like the latest version running if I can.

 

Yes AMD is an issue you need to use an AMD built kernel. You cannot use the released version of any OS X without modification on AMD.

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