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Installing Sierra in VMWare Workstation 10


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Hello!

 

I finally succeeded. I have an old 80GB SATA hard disk which I use to experiment with Mac OS. I had a Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan installation complete with Office and other applications. Using Clover 3322 in iATKOS EC installer I managed to successfully boot it from within a virtual Mac in VMWare Workstation 10 (patched to support Mac OS). The SATA disk was connected to a SATA-USB adapter and then connected to the virtual Mac as a USB disk. I downloaded Sierra, but instead of creating a USB installation medium I stupidly tried to just upgrade by running the setup. The installation didn't succeed of course but while connecting and disconnecting the USB installer and the USB disk amd forcing several resets I finally screwed the partition and could not boot either in VMWare or natively in my PC. So I reinstalled El Capitan natively and then booted within VMWare. I successfully did all the upgrades up to version 10.11.6 and then downloaded Sierra again. This time I used Pandora's Box to create the USB installer. I booted the USB installer in VMWare and I installed 10.12 Sierra. For some reason it took a couple of hours, but it finally succeeded! It even made the sound and graphics work out of the box without having to install the VMWare Tools!

 

Thank you for creating Pandora's Box! Pity I now have to reinstall all my applications...

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I have the same position, but with pandora i can't boot on my vmware workstation 10.

Do you create a clever or similar to boot?

When i boot from usb created with pandora, can see clover boot, but when i try to install i have a message "The firmware encountered an unexpectec exception. The virtual machine cannot boot", do you know whats is this error?

 

Thanks a lot for your help.

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I think the complexity depends on the compatibility of the host machine to Hackintosh.

I installed Sierra in the patched VMWare Player on the Intel based Acer laptop straight from iso image.

I did not use any installer such as Clover or Pandora.

The whole process took about 30 minutes in total. 

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and how create the iso image?

Check out shela's script, I have tested it on both El Capitan and Sierra and the iso installs fine for both in VMware.

 

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/290949-how-to-install-os-x-10x-snow-leopard-to-el-capitan-in-vmware-workstation-1011-workstation-proplayer-12-player-67-esxi-56/?p=2279523

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Thanks for your response, i create the iso with shela script, but no boot on vmware, i see apple screen with blank line but no charge completely, i use unlocker on 10.11 or 10.12 option but don't boot, i use workstation 12.5. Any idea?

 

P.D. i use the iso created on vmware with "el capitan" on cd/dvd sata option.

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Finally!!! Works!! the problem is with the hardware compatibility if you create for 12 doesn't work, in 10 works perfect...

 

Thanks both for your help...

If you create the virtual machine using version 11 or later hardware, the default for Workstation 11, the virtual machine will not start and either hang or create a CPU core dump error message. Donk has confirmed two options to work around the issue:

 

1. Change the virtual machine to version 10 hardware.

2. Edit the configuration file (.vmx) and add the following line: smc.version = "0"

Its works but the performance on the surface pro 3 is bad, any ideas to fix it?

you need darwin tools installed becuase it adds drivers and more support and probably fix your problem

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I finally finised comparing the three latest versins of Mac (10.10 - 10.12) OSs on the VMWare Player on Linux.

I am happy to report, that with the latest Darwin.iso, Sierra runs best!
Even the pinch and zoom now works on the track pad (Windows VM cannot).
 
That's what I like about Apple. 
They are making improvement for each OS version up - different from you know who  ^_^
 
BTW, since there are no options for 10.12 profile in the VMware , I used 10.11.
Absolutely no ill effect. Everything worked exactly as theys hould.
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I finally finised comparing the three latest versins of Mac (10.10 - 10.12) OSs on the VMWare Player on Linux.

I am happy to report, that with the latest Darwin.iso, Sierra runs best!
Even the pinch and zoom now works on the track pad (Windows VM cannot).
 
That's what I like about Apple. 
They are making improvement for each OS version up - different from you know who  ^_^
 
BTW, since there are no options for 10.12 profile in the VMware , I used 10.11.
Absolutely no ill effect. Everything worked exactly as theys hould.

 

If you use Player 12.5.0 it has support for MacOS 10.12

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