ThinkpadFan Posted August 4, 2018 Share Posted August 4, 2018 (edited) First off let me tell you that your tool (@ Donk) has been extremely helpful in many ways, just as all the forum posts and suggestions everyone here has been nice enough to make. My question is: of all those trying out ESXi, has anyone tried using it with Vmware Horizon? I know MacOS VDI sounds insane, but it would be really nice. Maybe at some point even Nvidia would allow a GRID driver for this. (The last one is more or less a joke, I doubt the current market players would allow for anything like that.) Thanks! Edited August 4, 2018 by ThinkpadFan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anish Posted August 12, 2018 Share Posted August 12, 2018 unlocker2.10 helped me on windows 10 x64 VMware 14, thankyou very much friends for sharing your hardwork. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrGimper Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 (edited) On 4/25/2018 at 9:32 PM, El Capitan said: It most certainly does! Made an image of my previous esxi 6.5, updated to 6.7.0 and everything works. Be careful though: read the release notes, certain CPUs have been deprecated and said CPUs will result in the purple screen of death! Sterling work dear chap! You are greatly appreciated. Excited that ESXi support may be coming back (or is back in experimental form!) Are you using the ESXi stuff from the repo that contains the unlocker-esxi-300.tgz file? I'm running ESXi 6.7.0 (Build 9484548) ... which version are you running this unlocker on successfully? Many thanks G Edited August 23, 2018 by MrGimper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Capitan Posted August 26, 2018 Share Posted August 26, 2018 On 8/23/2018 at 4:43 PM, MrGimper said: Excited that ESXi support may be coming back (or is back in experimental form!) Are you using the ESXi stuff from the repo that contains the unlocker-esxi-300.tgz file? I'm running ESXi 6.7.0 (Build 9484548) ... which version are you running this unlocker on successfully? Many thanks G ESXi 6.7.0 (Build 8169922) and Unlocker 2.0.9 (on a standalone server). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAngeli Posted August 29, 2018 Share Posted August 29, 2018 On 4/8/2018 at 11:45 AM, Zenith432 said: @SAngeli: As desribed here sudo defaults delete /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver.plist DisplayResolutionEnabled and then after restarting virtual machine sudo /Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Tools/vmware-resolutionSet 1920 1080 Hi, I recently updated my Mac to High Sierra and this setting does not work any longer. When I run the first command I get this error: Domain (/Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver.plist) not found. Defaults have not been changed. What should I do? Thanks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrogBlastTheVentCore Posted September 4, 2018 Share Posted September 4, 2018 (edited) Hi All, I've been having serious problems in using VMWare and simply cannot get it to boot my virtual Mac running El Capitan and after two days of fiddling am at my wit's end. I always get this (see image): I have tried various installations of VMWare but as I have an older i5 (4 core i5 750) I am restricted to using version 12. I have installed unlocker 2.08, 2.10 and 2.11 (and removed it before reinstalling) but nothing has helped, versions 2.10 and 2.11 seem to install smoothly. I have added the smc.version = "0" text to avoid another error and even tried the virtualHW.version = "10" instead of the default 12. I've checked and fiddled with everything but the virtual machine always gives that message a few seconds after the white Apple logo appears. I'm using a preconfigured .vmdk file which I downloaded. I know my machine is compatible because I created a working El Cap virtual Mac a few years ago so now think some software is causing an incompatibility. I've recently upgraded my graphics card too. As this seems to be the place were these black arts are understood, any help would be greatly appreciated. I only need the virtual Mac as I've overwritten my working El Cap Hackintosh drive to install High Sierra (successfully) then seemingly wrecked the system by installing a Nvidia card driver. The USB installer also no longer works so I can't create a new one to try again. Motherboard is Gigabyte P55 USB3 with 14GB RAM, i5 750 (4 cores). Many thanks, Frog Edited September 4, 2018 by FrogBlastTheVentCore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donk Posted September 6, 2018 Author Share Posted September 6, 2018 On 9/4/2018 at 8:19 PM, FrogBlastTheVentCore said: "I'm using a preconfigured .vmdk file which I downloaded. " That's probably the issue. You have no idea what is in the VMDK, and could easily have somerthing that is causing the problem. The unlocker works fine when used with the downloads from Apple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrogBlastTheVentCore Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 On 9/6/2018 at 11:36 AM, Donk said: That's probably the issue. You have no idea what is in the VMDK, and could easily have somerthing that is causing the problem. The unlocker works fine when used with the downloads from Apple. It turned out that the VMDK file was fine. It turned out that the issue was a bios setting HPET Mode (High precision event timer) was set to 32 bit and it needed to be set to 64 bit. In Bios virtualisation or vt-d also needs to be enabled. Hope this is of use to people, VM Ware worked like a charm after this and this bios issue also affects Virtual Box which presumably uses similar methods and would also not work unless these setting are correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron44126 Posted September 25, 2018 Share Posted September 25, 2018 Workstation 15 is out today. Anyone brave enough to try it ...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tam116 Posted September 25, 2018 Share Posted September 25, 2018 No trouble with with Workstation Pro 15 and Unlocker 2.1.1 on Windows 10. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naki Posted September 26, 2018 Share Posted September 26, 2018 I can try today or tomorrow, guys. Will let you know the outcome! Windows 10 user here too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donk Posted September 27, 2018 Author Share Posted September 27, 2018 (edited) I will be checking the unlocker soon, but I am finishing a new version for ESXi first. Plus I am actually on holiday in Croatia and have other priorities until next week, . I forgot to say that I did test it on the beta versions of Workstation 15 and it worked OK. Edited September 27, 2018 by Donk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pirilletti Posted September 28, 2018 Share Posted September 28, 2018 Unlocker 2.1.1 works fine with Vmware 15 under Win 10 Enterprise LTSB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tim551 Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 I've been trying to set everything up for the past 6 hours! I think my unlocker won't work, because it can't find the path where vmware is stored. Tried different versions, but none will work :( anyone has an idea? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naki Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 (edited) On 9/26/2018 at 5:31 PM, Naki said: I can try today or tomorrow, guys. Will let you know the outcome! Windows 10 user here too. Sorry for the delay - it works fine! Tried on 2 PCs, will update 3rd PC too in a bit. EDIT: I used Unlocker version 3.0.1 for VMware Workstation 15, not the older versions. Edited October 21, 2018 by Naki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donk Posted October 21, 2018 Author Share Posted October 21, 2018 There is a new version 3 releaed. Please use that as i will no longer be supporting v2. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naki Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 (edited) 41 minutes ago, Donk said: There is a new version 3 released. Please use that as i will no longer be supporting v2. Oops, sorry - I indeed used version 3.0.1, sorry for not being clear. Thanks for the warning. Edited October 21, 2018 by Naki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donk Posted October 21, 2018 Author Share Posted October 21, 2018 There is a new topic for v3 so best posting in that thread. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Silva Posted November 1, 2018 Share Posted November 1, 2018 Hi I'm using Windows 7 x64 and unlocker210, my VMWae player is 14. When I try to run win-install.cmd .. I'm running the app as administrator the cmd file closes without patch the files... How to solve? Thanks 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donk Posted November 1, 2018 Author Share Posted November 1, 2018 Try the new version 3.0 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asdf48659 Posted December 28, 2019 Share Posted December 28, 2019 could you please mention there is a new version at the top of the old threads? I installed 2.0, then 2.1, only to find out there is a 3.0 thanx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asdf48659 Posted December 28, 2019 Share Posted December 28, 2019 (edited) http://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desktop/fusion/11.5.1/15018442/packages/com.vmware.fusion.tools.darwin.zip.tar script does not work because this file gives a 404. this applies to 2.1.0 and 3.0.2 latest existing is http://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desktop/fusion/11.1.0/ a workaround is to add these in line 100+x of gettools.py urlpost15 = 'http://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desktop/fusion/11.1.0/13668589/packages/com.vmware.fusion.tools.darwin.zip.tar' urlpre15 = 'http://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desktop/fusion/11.1.0/13668589//packages/com.vmware.fusion.tools.darwinPre15.zip.tar' but still MacOS does not appear in the list of OSes. Edited December 28, 2019 by asdf48659 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atlantius21 Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 I have same issue. I changed url address and installed without errors, BUT there is no MacOs option in VMWare Player? How to solve this? Is maybe there new version unlocker? Or we need to wait new version? I have VMPlayer v15.5.1 build-15018445 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atlantius21 Posted January 18, 2020 Share Posted January 18, 2020 Ok, I fixed unlocker 3.0.2 https://drive.google.com/open?id=1HnGdShbdeEYZuXEDswEM-I5eYOPvjCjh Tested on VMware Workstation v14.0.0 - works Doesn't work on VMware v15. And you need to install python 2.7 because win-install.cmd run "python gettools.py". So, if you don't have python installed, patch doesn't work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naki Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 (edited) On 9/27/2018 at 9:14 AM, Donk said: I will be checking the unlocker soon, but I am finishing a new version for ESXi first. Plus I am actually on holiday in Croatia and have other priorities until next week, . I forgot to say that I did test it on the beta versions of Workstation 15 and it worked OK. It is "soon" yet? Has the time come? Donk, can you please respond - are you dumping/stopping any development of macOS Unlocker, please? And we should not count on anything further with it? OR can we expect a new, official version somewhere in Q1/2020, or at least in Q2/2020? Please update us on the status of this, so we have a basic idea of what is, and what is not going on here. Edited January 19, 2020 by Naki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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