yozh Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 So it seems the old methods of Lion installation work fine for Mountain Lion GM release. I still need to use FakeSMC on my ESXi, but no more need for applelsifusion. All the issues are post install. I`m not able to get iCloud to work at all on ESXi, on VMWare workstation it seems to work. iMessage also doesnt seem to work on eather ESXi or Workstation. This release is a lot about iCloud any suggestions to get this working ? Also the CPU is shown as Unknow any fix for this ? EDIT: iCloud Solution for ESXi If you are interested in getting this working, take extract efi bios from vmware-vmx.exe by opening it with 7zip, look in ".rsrc/BINRES". extract the 6021 file, rename it to EFI64.rom. Copy it to where the vmx file is located for the vm, add line efi64.filename = "./EFI64.rom" Thats it. start the machine and sign in to iCloud. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/280556-icloud-on-esxi-solved108-gm-post-installation-issues/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
nyolc8 Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 Check if EthernetBuiltIn=Yes is present in org.chameleon.boot.plist (or fixed in DSDT.aml like for me). And check your smbios.plist file for correct model name, serial number etc. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/280556-icloud-on-esxi-solved108-gm-post-installation-issues/#findComment-1833317 Share on other sites More sharing options...
yozh Posted July 13, 2012 Author Share Posted July 13, 2012 Check if EthernetBuiltIn=Yes is present in org.chameleon.boot.plist (or fixed in DSDT.aml like for me). And check your smbios.plist file for correct model name, serial number etc. We are not using any bootloaders for the vmware installations.... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/280556-icloud-on-esxi-solved108-gm-post-installation-issues/#findComment-1833352 Share on other sites More sharing options...
yozh Posted July 13, 2012 Author Share Posted July 13, 2012 I`m spending way too much time on this issue and not getting anywhere.... Any one with any suggestions at all ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/280556-icloud-on-esxi-solved108-gm-post-installation-issues/#findComment-1833406 Share on other sites More sharing options...
yozh Posted July 21, 2012 Author Share Posted July 21, 2012 After a week of fighting with iCloud, I think I got it ! I extracted the EFI roms from the vmware workstation 8.0.4 and used it in ESXi with vmx line efi64.filename = and it works ! iCloud that is, iMessage still no good, but that doesnt work on vmware workstation or fusion eather... If you are interested in getting this working, take extract efi bios from vmware-vmx.exe by opening it with 7zip, look in ".rsrc/BINRES". extract the 6021 file, rename it to EFI64.rom. Copy it to where the vmx file is located for the vm, add line efi64.filename = "./EFI64.rom" Thats it. start the machine and sign in to iCloud. Now to work on the iMessage ! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/280556-icloud-on-esxi-solved108-gm-post-installation-issues/#findComment-1835748 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donk Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Interesting find. One question is that Fusion 4 or Workstation 8? As no Workstation 4 around these days. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/280556-icloud-on-esxi-solved108-gm-post-installation-issues/#findComment-1835766 Share on other sites More sharing options...
yozh Posted July 22, 2012 Author Share Posted July 22, 2012 Interesting find. One question is that Fusion 4 or Workstation 8? As no Workstation 4 around these days. My bad, 8.0.4 I fixed the post now Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/280556-icloud-on-esxi-solved108-gm-post-installation-issues/#findComment-1835879 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donk Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 It never crossed my mind to take the EFI ROMs from one product and use on another. Good find and could be useful for future issues. Take what works in Fusion and stick it on ESXi or Workstation. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/280556-icloud-on-esxi-solved108-gm-post-installation-issues/#findComment-1835936 Share on other sites More sharing options...
yozh Posted July 22, 2012 Author Share Posted July 22, 2012 It never crossed my mind to take the EFI ROMs from one product and use on another. Good find and could be useful for future issues. Take what works in Fusion and stick it on ESXi or Workstation. Well if you think about it, the EFI rom is just like BIOS file, we used to move BIOS files around right ? SO why not the EFI ROMs ? I was killing my self trying to get iCloud to work and then tough about moving the BIOS files..... I still cant get Messages to come up... This is a bit more complicated I think, im thinking the device needs a valid Apple Serial # ? Because even on Fusion this is not working, I`m guessing with a bit of effort the EFI could be edited to include a valid serial #, or perhaps some how via smbios.system.serial ? I dont know still looking around, but so far does not look good, any suggestions would be appreciated... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/280556-icloud-on-esxi-solved108-gm-post-installation-issues/#findComment-1835955 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donk Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 I have started looking at decompressing the EFI files again. Sure we can do something with the contents. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/280556-icloud-on-esxi-solved108-gm-post-installation-issues/#findComment-1835977 Share on other sites More sharing options...
yozh Posted July 23, 2012 Author Share Posted July 23, 2012 I have started looking at decompressing the EFI files again. Sure we can do something with the contents. Well if you are on board I`m very sure we can get this going... I`m surprised more people are not complaining about imessage or icloud not working.... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/280556-icloud-on-esxi-solved108-gm-post-installation-issues/#findComment-1836212 Share on other sites More sharing options...
yozh Posted July 24, 2012 Author Share Posted July 24, 2012 Donk, if you need anything from me in regards to this let me know..... I really want to get iMessage going ... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/280556-icloud-on-esxi-solved108-gm-post-installation-issues/#findComment-1836643 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donk Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 I can't decompress the EFI ROM. I think VMware have changed the compression algorithm to something non-standard. Until it can be decompressed and recompressed it dosn't look hopeful. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/280556-icloud-on-esxi-solved108-gm-post-installation-issues/#findComment-1836721 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookemdano Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 @yozh (or others) Can you post instructions for pulling the EFI file from Fusion? I don't have access to Workstation and would like to update my Lion Server VM to Mountain Lion. Better yet--if this is a generic file can someone just upload to mediafire or something like that? Many thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/280556-icloud-on-esxi-solved108-gm-post-installation-issues/#findComment-1836860 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dida1337 Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 Are there any chances that iMessage will work at some point? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/280556-icloud-on-esxi-solved108-gm-post-installation-issues/#findComment-1837179 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zenith432 Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 I successfully installed OS 10.8 GM in Workstation 2012 Preview 790308 for Windows (x64). Had no problems whatsoever with the install. Patched with Donk's unlocker v1.10. Installed VMware Tools from Fusion 4.1.3. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/280556-icloud-on-esxi-solved108-gm-post-installation-issues/#findComment-1837394 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dida1337 Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 I successfully installed OS 10.8 GM in Workstation 2012 Preview 790308 for Windows (x64). Had no problems whatsoever with the install. Patched with Donk's unlocker v1.10. Installed VMware Tools from Fusion 4.1.3. iMessage is working for you? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/280556-icloud-on-esxi-solved108-gm-post-installation-issues/#findComment-1837422 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wheel Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 If you have Fusion, but not Workstation, like me, you can extract the EFI in the Terminal by executing: cd "/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library" segedit vmware-vmx -extract __VMWARE efi64 efi64.rom Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/280556-icloud-on-esxi-solved108-gm-post-installation-issues/#findComment-1837577 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zenith432 Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 iMessage is working for you? Define "working". The Messages application works. I didn't try connecting to the iMessage service, as I have no use for it. Sorry. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/280556-icloud-on-esxi-solved108-gm-post-installation-issues/#findComment-1837630 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookemdano Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 If you have Fusion, but not Workstation, like me, you can extract the EFI in the Terminal by executing: cd "/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library" segedit vmware-vmx -extract __VMWARE efi64 efi64.rom Thanks! I had to install the XCode command line tools to get segedit, but other than that it seemed to work--I ended up with a 2.1MB file. Hopefully I'll have a chance to try it out this weekend. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/280556-icloud-on-esxi-solved108-gm-post-installation-issues/#findComment-1837766 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dida1337 Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 Define "working". The Messages application works. I didn't try connecting to the iMessage service, as I have no use for it. Sorry. as in, it won't connect. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/280556-icloud-on-esxi-solved108-gm-post-installation-issues/#findComment-1838022 Share on other sites More sharing options...
yozh Posted July 29, 2012 Author Share Posted July 29, 2012 The iMessage service still does not work. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/280556-icloud-on-esxi-solved108-gm-post-installation-issues/#findComment-1838391 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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