yosemite installation failed on ESXi 5.5

[chenzhu_an]

Hi,

 

I'm sorry that I posted this on OSx86 Installation section, and then realized that this should be a better place to post this. So, if you see the duplicated post there, pardon me please.

 

 

 

I made myself an iso image by using the instructions on http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/293481-how-to-create-a-bootable-iso-from-the-mavericks-installesddmg/

 

Then, I created a brand new VM from my vSphere client on my ESXi 5.5, and used the above iso file to boot. 

 

Everything is booting fine, but the installation failed.

 

I got the following error messages in /var/log/install.log:

 

Oct 23 09:04:01 Mac OSInstaller[393]: Disabling system idle sleep.

Oct 23 09:04:01 Mac OSInstaller[393]: X /Volumes/os: Missing CoreServices.

Oct 23 09:04:01 Mac OSInstaller[393]: OSI: com.apple.pkg.BaseSystemResources remapped external root path to: /

Oct 23 09:04:02 Mac OSInstaller[393]: Won't convert to CS, machine is not a portable

Oct 23 09:04:02 Mac OSInstaller[393]: Repairing file system.

Oct 23 09:04:02 Mac OSInstaller[393]: Evaluating 1 disks

Oct 23 09:04:02 Mac OSInstaller[393]: Evaluating SKDisk { BSD Name: disk1s2 Mount point: Not Mounted Role: kSKDiskRoleLegacyMacData Type: kSKDiskTypeHFS }

Oct 23 09:04:02 Mac OSInstaller[393]: Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.

Oct 23 09:04:02 Mac OSInstaller[393]: Checking extents overflow file.

Oct 23 09:04:02 Mac OSInstaller[393]: Checking catalog file.

Oct 23 09:04:03 Mac OSInstaller[393]: Checking multi-linked files.

Oct 23 09:04:03 Mac OSInstaller[393]: Checking catalog hierarchy.

Oct 23 09:04:03 Mac OSInstaller[393]: Checking extended attributes file.

Oct 23 09:04:05 Mac OSInstaller[393]: Checking volume bitmap.

Oct 23 09:04:05 Mac OSInstaller[393]: Checking volume information.

Oct 23 09:04:05 Mac OSInstaller[393]: The volume os appears to be OK.

Oct 23 09:04:05 Mac OSInstaller[393]: File system check exit code is 0.

Oct 23 09:04:05 Mac OSInstaller[393]: Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.

Oct 23 09:04:05 Mac OSInstaller[393]: Evaluating 1 disks

Oct 23 09:04:05 Mac OSInstaller[393]: Evaluating SKDisk { BSD Name: disk1s2 Mount point: Not Mounted Role: kSKDiskRoleLegacyMacData Type: kSKDiskTypeHFS }

Oct 23 09:04:05 Mac OSInstaller[393]: Evaluating 1 disks

Oct 23 09:04:05 Mac OSInstaller[393]: Evaluating SKDisk { BSD Name: disk1s2 Mount point: Not Mounted Role: kSKDiskRoleLegacyMacData Type: kSKDiskTypeHFS }

Oct 23 09:04:05 Mac OSInstaller[393]: Repair completed successfully.

Oct 23 09:04:05 Mac OSInstaller[393]: Evaluating 1 disks

Oct 23 09:04:05 Mac OSInstaller[393]: Evaluating SKDisk { BSD Name: disk1s2 Mount point: /Volumes/os Role: kSKDiskRoleLegacyMacData Type: kSKDiskTypeHFS }

Oct 23 09:04:05 Mac OSInstaller[393]: os is a valid target.

Oct 23 09:04:05 Mac OSInstaller[393]: OSIInstallElement <OSIInstallRecoverySystemElement: 0x7fd348445800> errored out:Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=0 "The operation couldn’t be completed.

Oct 23 09:04:05 Mac OSInstaller[393]: ------- Install Failed -------

Oct 23 09:04:05 Mac OSInstaller[393]: Operation: Ensure recovery system failed, Failure Reason: Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=0 "The operation couldn't be completed. Undefined error: 0"

Oct 23 09:04:05 Mac OSInstaller[393]: open on /Volumes/os/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.installer.osmessagetracing.plist: No such file or directory

Oct 23 09:04:05 Mac OSInstaller[393]: Enabling system idle sleep.

Oct 23 09:06:29 Mac OSInstaller[393]: Can not connect to /var/run/systemkeychaincheck.socket: No such file or directory

 

 

 

Here is my VM info:

Model Name:       Mac

Model Identifier:     VMware7,1

Processor Speed:    2.95 GHz

Number of Processors:     1

Total Number of Cores:  4

L2 Cache (per Core):  256 KB

L3 Cache:   8 MB

Memory:   4 GB

Boot ROM Version:       VMW71.00V.0.B64.1404140612

SMC Version (system): 1.16f8

Serial Number (system):     VMWVk2ZxeEb0rc92Xth44Cs3Q

Hardware UUID:    564D99C5-E11B-D2B7-3DD9-7B61E380ACDD

 

 

 

Can someone help please?

 

Thank you.

 

[chenzhu_an]

Resolved myself.

 

I used the script from Shela in this post: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/290949-how-to-install-os-x-10x-snow-leopard-lion-mountain-lion-and-mavericks-in-vmware-workstation-910-or-player-56/?p=2074610

 

The .dmg created this way works perfectly.

 

Now, the only problem is, the screen resolution is stuck at 1024*768. Keep researching...

 

Thanks, everyone.