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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?

 

 

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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..."

 

 

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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.

 

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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

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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.

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