besweeet Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 (I also get practically the same results with 10.9 Mavericks, so I've been using my good 'ole 10.8.3 Mountain Lion VM for a long time.) With VMware Workstation 10, I simply can't boot Yosemite 10.10. Here's what a verbose boot looks like when booting safe mode: And without safe mode: I also tried adding CPUIDMAX to -v, but it didn't do anything. It just sits there. I have no idea what to try... Hopefully someone here might know what to do. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/302068-cant-boot-yosemite-1010-in-vmware-workstation-10/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
besweeet Posted October 28, 2014 Author Share Posted October 28, 2014 Nobody? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/302068-cant-boot-yosemite-1010-in-vmware-workstation-10/#findComment-2077651 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donk Posted November 4, 2014 Share Posted November 4, 2014 http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/268531-workstation-8910-player-456-and-fusion-456-mac-os-x-unlocker/?p=2081145 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/302068-cant-boot-yosemite-1010-in-vmware-workstation-10/#findComment-2081151 Share on other sites More sharing options...
besweeet Posted November 4, 2014 Author Share Posted November 4, 2014 http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/268531-workstation-8910-player-456-and-fusion-456-mac-os-x-unlocker/?p=2081145 Just tried it. Here's the Command Prompt output: VMware gets stuck at the same place when verbose booting. HA! Spoke too soon. Booted up just fine (albeit slower than my existing 10.8.3 VM). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/302068-cant-boot-yosemite-1010-in-vmware-workstation-10/#findComment-2081159 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donk Posted November 4, 2014 Share Posted November 4, 2014 Good - the unlocker should work on WKS10/ESXi5/FUS6 but the code has chnaged in the beta products and will need some hard work to make an unlocker for them. Hoever as you have found the speed issue was seen in Fusion 6 (=WKS10) )and was fixed in Fusion 7(=WKS11 du in 1Q2015). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/302068-cant-boot-yosemite-1010-in-vmware-workstation-10/#findComment-2081162 Share on other sites More sharing options...
besweeet Posted November 4, 2014 Author Share Posted November 4, 2014 Good - the unlocker should work on WKS10/ESXi5/FUS6 but the code has chnaged in the beta products and will need some hard work to make an unlocker for them. Hoever as you have found the speed issue was seen in Fusion 6 (=WKS10) )and was fixed in Fusion 7(=WKS11 du in 1Q2015). Ah, I see. Looking forward to Workstation 11, then . Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/302068-cant-boot-yosemite-1010-in-vmware-workstation-10/#findComment-2081167 Share on other sites More sharing options...
besweeet Posted November 5, 2014 Author Share Posted November 5, 2014 New issue: no input at all from my mouse or keyboard... I can't tell if the VM froze or if it's just not picking up my input devices properly (although my other 3 VMs work fine). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/302068-cant-boot-yosemite-1010-in-vmware-workstation-10/#findComment-2081386 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle F. Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 For a working input try including "USBBusFix=Yes" (without quotes) in with the kernel flags at boot. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/302068-cant-boot-yosemite-1010-in-vmware-workstation-10/#findComment-2081425 Share on other sites More sharing options...
besweeet Posted November 5, 2014 Author Share Posted November 5, 2014 For a working input try including "USBBusFix=Yes" (without quotes) in with the kernel flags at boot. That worked, though the cursor was sluggish until I installed VMware Tools (as expected). The animations (such as dragging a small window around) are very sluggish, probably 5~ FPS. Time to mess with the SVGA driver. Quick update: I didn't install the SVGA driver, since people claim that it doesn't help with Yosemite's sluggish animations. I installed the Yosemite VMware Tools (http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/files/file/31-vmware-tools-for-os-x-darwiniso/) with no help. I guess I'll just wait for VMware Workstation 11 as others mentioned. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/302068-cant-boot-yosemite-1010-in-vmware-workstation-10/#findComment-2081551 Share on other sites More sharing options...
besweeet Posted November 12, 2014 Author Share Posted November 12, 2014 Latest issue is iMessage not working (error during activation). I can't do the Chameleon NVRAM fix as I can't get VMware to boot Chameleon (in addition to the Chimera version) no matter what, just standard EFI booting. No idea what to do. EDIT: Turns out the VMX was causing it to not boot Chameleon. Just getting the dreaded "still waiting for root device" error. Once I get past that, I think I'll be good. EDIT 2: Had to boot with cpus=1. Now, I get stuck at the same place I got stuck at earlier in the boot process (above screenshots). However, that's when booting the VM as a Windows 7 machine. If I set it to being a 10.9 VM, it'll get stuck in an endless "can't find..." loop right after it loads mach_kernel. No idea what to do now... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/302068-cant-boot-yosemite-1010-in-vmware-workstation-10/#findComment-2084301 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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