Is someone able to update macOS Catalina on VMWare with an AMD processor?

[Defcon0]

Hello,

 

after lots of trouble I was able to install macOS Catalina 10.15 on VMWare Workstation 15.1. The latest VMWare Workstation 15.5 showed up "Failed to start the virtual machine" after I set

 

virtualHW.version = "10"
smc.version = "0"
cpuid.0.eax = "0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:1011"
cpuid.0.ebx = "0111:0101:0110:1110:0110:0101:0100:0111"
cpuid.0.ecx = "0110:1100:0110:0101:0111:0100:0110:1110"
cpuid.0.edx = "0100:1001:0110:0101:0110:1110:0110:1001"
cpuid.1.eax = "0000:0000:0000:0001:0000:0110:0111:0001"
cpuid.1.ebx = "0000:0010:0000:0001:0000:1000:0000:0000"
cpuid.1.ecx = "1000:0010:1001:1000:0010:0010:0000:0011"
cpuid.1.edx = "0000:1111:1010:1011:1111:1011:1111:1111"
featureCompat.enable = "FALSE"

in the VMX file.

 

I have a Ryzen 3700X. I read that we have issues especially with AMD cpus running macOS in a VM.

 

After I did some configuration in the now running macOS Catalina VM, I ran the integrated updater to 10.15.3. Afterwards the VM stuck in the Apple logo.

 

• Has anyone also experienced this and got beyond this? Since I use the macOS VM to deploy my iOS app to the AppStore I guess I might have to update often, so this would be a major pain to always have to reinstall everything!
• Is this also a problem on Intel CPU-based host systems? Or are there updates possible?

 

Any help is highly appreciated.

 

Bye Defcon0

Edited March 9, 2020 by Defcon0

[shmox]

Me too, can't update stuck at apple logo, can anyone please help ?

[arielsonf]

I had the same problem on my ryzen 2600 and solve it putting in Processors 
Number of processors: 1
Number of core per processor: 1
Unfortunelly the performace is really bad :(