lolmannz Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 Hi guys Sorry for the simple questions here, I did search but couldn't find any conclusive results that were easy enough to understand. First of all I would just like to know what Donk's unlocker actually does? From what I read here with the recent development of running OS X on ESXi requires patching with the unlocker. However my current host is running a few other VMs and I would like to not patch the hypervisor for stability reasons. Is there any possible way to install 10.6 / 10.7 server without modifying the ESXi files? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/268538-os-x-106-107-on-esxi-5-without-unlocker/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donk Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 Hi guys Sorry for the simple questions here, I did search but couldn't find any conclusive results that were easy enough to understand. First of all I would just like to know what Donk's unlocker actually does? From what I read here with the recent development of running OS X on ESXi requires patching with the unlocker. However my current host is running a few other VMs and I would like to not patch the hypervisor for stability reasons. Is there any possible way to install 10.6 / 10.7 server without modifying the ESXi files? Use a darwin.iso approach. However I also run Linux and Windows VMs and the changes ar actually very minor and in no way should affect stability. Basically adding some text to 3 files, and changing 2 other bytes to 00. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/268538-os-x-106-107-on-esxi-5-without-unlocker/#findComment-1750652 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lolmannz Posted September 24, 2011 Author Share Posted September 24, 2011 Can you give me a link to some resources on how to do it via the darwin.iso approach? So far I've only found methods which involve adding FakeSMC however I haven't had any luck, keep getting stuck on a white screen with beachball. What about installing OS X Lion in Fusion 4, then putting FakeSMC inside. After using vCenter converter to add it to the host? I understand the unlocker doesn't do much, but if there is any way to run OS X on my ESXi host without modification I'd still very much prefer that. TIA. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/268538-os-x-106-107-on-esxi-5-without-unlocker/#findComment-1752277 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donk Posted September 24, 2011 Share Posted September 24, 2011 Can you give me a link to some resources on how to do it via the darwin.iso approach? So far I've only found methods which involve adding FakeSMC however I haven't had any luck, keep getting stuck on a white screen with beachball. What about installing OS X Lion in Fusion 4, then putting FakeSMC inside. After using vCenter converter to add it to the host? I understand the unlocker doesn't do much, but if there is any way to run OS X on my ESXi host without modification I'd still very much prefer that. TIA. Well you are going to have to change the tools installed on ESXi anyway so I don't see the problem. Start here but I don't do any of that sort of work anymore. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=243274 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/268538-os-x-106-107-on-esxi-5-without-unlocker/#findComment-1752330 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lolmannz Posted September 24, 2011 Author Share Posted September 24, 2011 Ah yeah you're right. I ended up using the unlocker and it works great. Thanks a lot for your help and your good work on the unlocker! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/268538-os-x-106-107-on-esxi-5-without-unlocker/#findComment-1752498 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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