omf Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 I've been running Yosemite (clean, retail installation) on VMware Workstation 11 (Windows 8.1 host) for a while now. It works perfectly (with Beamoff running) with the one irritating exception that it randomly freezes. I can still SSH into Yosemite when it's in this state, so it looks to have something to do with the GUI alone. When this happens, I can either wait for it to unfreeze (anywhere from a few minutes to 10 hours) or just reboot. I know others have reported the same thing, but I'm wondering if anyone out there is running this configuration WITHOUT any freezes. Is there some magical combination that will allow this to work more reliably? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omf Posted June 11, 2015 Author Share Posted June 11, 2015 How about this: if you're running Yosemite on VMW and you get random freezes, would you post a note here so I know I'm not alone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subjectdenied Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 with virtualized yosemite i saw this behaviour too, i found that it seems to happen on quick scrolling actions like scrolling a page in safari. it seems to be gone with el capitan developer preview, however beamoff doesn't work in 10.11 (yet? quartz debugger also crashes), so it's a bit laggy at the moment. however everything else seems to work great (with the expception of icloud, which i really don't need) after installing osx guest tools, i'm even able to boot my native osx-installation inside the vm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omf Posted June 11, 2015 Author Share Posted June 11, 2015 That's great to hear about El Capitan! And, yes, the freezing seems to happen more frequently with scrolling, although I've seen it happen when basically nothing was going on, too. I'll keep my fingers crossed for El Capitan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
microapple200 Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 with virtualized yosemite i saw this behaviour too, i found that it seems to happen on quick scrolling actions like scrolling a page in safari. it seems to be gone with el capitan developer preview, however beamoff doesn't work in 10.11 (yet? quartz debugger also crashes), so it's a bit laggy at the moment. however everything else seems to work great (with the expception of icloud, which i really don't need) after installing osx guest tools, i'm even able to boot my native osx-installation inside the vm how did you managed to install vmware tools with El Capitan ? because I couldn't install the lates darwin iso (from fusion 7.1.1) it says the programm is not compatible with the current version of system Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subjectdenied Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 maybe i don't have the latest version (by mistake), not exactly sure. but i remember seeing this message myself. on thing i'm pretty sure is, you need rootless=0 kernel parameter what i would like to know: i did not boot to el capitan natively after installing the vmware-tools inside the raw-disk based vm, is there a way to block the vmware-dependent kexts from loading when booting using clover instead of using the osx-partition directly with vmware's efi-implementation? all i know from trial-an-erroring with this setup by using yosemite is, that the vmware-kexts do constantly fail and load in a loop, so booting native with them was impossible in yosemite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subjectdenied Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 just tried booting el capitan with vmware guest additions installed natively and it worked, only had to relogin to icloud and appstore again - so it seems we now can boot osx partitions inside a vm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
microapple200 Posted June 14, 2015 Share Posted June 14, 2015 maybe i don't have the latest version (by mistake), not exactly sure. but i remember seeing this message myself. on thing i'm pretty sure is, you need rootless=0 kernel parameter what i would like to know: i did not boot to el capitan natively after installing the vmware-tools inside the raw-disk based vm, is there a way to block the vmware-dependent kexts from loading when booting using clover instead of using the osx-partition directly with vmware's efi-implementation? all i know from trial-an-erroring with this setup by using yosemite is, that the vmware-kexts do constantly fail and load in a loop, so booting native with them was impossible in yosemite You are right we need rootless=0 here is a guide on how to install the vmware tools in OS X 10.11 : "In order to completely install the VMware Tools, without problems (and without error messages or unexpected quits): 1. Open the OS X 10.11 VM's Terminal and do this command: sudo nvram boot-args=rootless=0 ... and quit the Terminal. 2. Reboot the OS X 10.11 VM. 3. Mount the darwin.iso 4. Set the Tools' window to list or column view (El Capitan's icon view, doesn't seem to work in Workstation, currently). 5. Copy the Tools installer to the VM's Desktop, and eject the Tools' mounted disk image. 6. Run the Tools installer: it should proceed without problems, this time. 7. Before rebooting, open again Terminal and do: sudo nvram -d boot-args ... and quit the Terminal. 8. Reboot the VM. (As an extra safety, one could reboot the VM directly after the Tools install, and execute the last Terminal command after the reboot, and then of course reboot the VM again: but probably this isn't needed.) Once installed correctly, everything seems too work, with the Tools..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omf Posted June 14, 2015 Author Share Posted June 14, 2015 I just tested and verified that if you have Yosemite freeze up on you under VMW, you can SSH into it and run the command "sudo killall -HUP WindowServer". This will close all running applications and kick you back to the logon screen. Just an alternative to forcing a reboot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxeL__17 Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 I have the same problem, running Yosemite on Fusion 7.1.2, with the latest VMware tools installed. I just disabled Beamoff autostart, the UI is a little bit slower/sluggish but definitively more stable! With beamoff running at login it's simply unusable on my machine (it freeze after few minutes). Ciao Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckremes Posted October 1, 2015 Share Posted October 1, 2015 I can confirm that this happens to me too. It happened quite often running 10.10.3 but since I recently upgraded to 10.10.5 the freezes happen less often. This is all under VMWare Workstation 11 running on a Windows8 host. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omf Posted October 6, 2015 Author Share Posted October 6, 2015 Just reporting back in: the freeze-ups have either gone away entirely or are happening much less frequently in the last couple of months. I haven't made a change to my environment or installed anything new, so I have to assume the change came about after updates from Apple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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