silentnodee Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 Hi, Hello! This is my first post and I am less than literate in OS X and running it in Virtual Machines and the like. In fact, I have only gotten this far by watching and reading tutorials so please, forgive me if I do not provide enough information. Please let me know if you need more information. Firstly, here are my PC specifications: CPU: Pentium G3258 (Overclocked to 4 GHz, Virtualization enabled) GPU: Gigabyte GTX 660 OC 2GB Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H81M-H (No USB 3.0, Revision 2.1) RAM: 4GB Primary Storage: 120GB SSD Secondary Storage: 80GB HDD Architecture: 64-bit I am using VMware Workstation 12.1.1 Player. I should mention that: I have added smc.version = "0" to both Yosemite's and El Capitan's vmx file. I have ran Unlocker 2.0.8 as administrator Issue 1, El Capitan Ideally I would have liked to run El Capitan in VMware but after following such tutorials online, in which multiple people made it look so easy, I ran into this Kernel Panic on booting: Click here to see the Kernel Panic - I linked this image to save on post space. Here are my settings for this VM: Memory Processors Hard Disk CD/DVD Network Adapter USB Controller Sound Card Display I have researched the "cpu 0 caller" error but couldn't find any information relating to the specific error code of '0xffffff8008b9b0d4'. Because of this Kernel Panic I tried Yosemite instead, which leads me to my second issue. Issue 2, Yosemite After failing to boot El Capitan I decided to try Yosemite instead. However, when booting it freezes/gets stuck half way. Click here to see the stall at 50% on boot The settings for Yosemite are exactly the same as for El Capitan in Issue 1. Conclusion If I could get either of these VM's to work then I'd be satisfied. Thank you for taking the time to read my post. I will greatly appreciate any advice given. - Silent EDIT: I researched more, "The G3258 isn't natively supported" is a comment often seen. People have suggested faking the CPUID to 0x0306A0 (I'm not even sure what CPU this comes from) but this is a method used in Clover? How I'd translate this over to VMware I have no idea (Is it even possible?). Thoughts? EDIT 2: After even more research I added these 2 lines to El Capitan's vmx file from a topic about CPUID's in VMware: cpuid.1.edx = "00001111111010111111101111111111" cpuid.1.eax = "00000000000000000000011011110001" According to OS X it thinks my CPU is now a "2 x 3.04 GHz Intel Core 2 Solo". It worked! Hopefully this post will be helpful to other people if they come across the same problems I have. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sebus Posted June 18, 2016 Share Posted June 18, 2016 Basically c*r*a*p processor gave you all the troubles. Well done solving the problem! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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