macist 0 Posted September 30, 2020 Posted September 30, 2020 Has anyone tried and had any success to boot with a AMD Zen2 CPU from VMWare 16 esp. under Windows ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
spakk 1,839 Posted September 30, 2020 Posted September 30, 2020 6 hours ago, macist said: Has anyone tried and had any success to boot with a AMD Zen2 CPU from VMWare 16 esp. under Windows ? look here: https://www.geekrar.com/install-macos-catalina-on-vmware-on-amd-systems/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KellyK 6 Posted October 2, 2020 Posted October 2, 2020 On 9/30/2020 at 9:07 AM, spakk said: look here: https://www.geekrar.com/install-macos-catalina-on-vmware-on-amd-systems/ The instructions do not work for VMWare v16. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
spakk 1,839 Posted October 2, 2020 Posted October 2, 2020 7 hours ago, KellyK said: The instructions do not work for VMWare v16. Install VMware workstation 15.5 (trial version) as described and follow the instructions exactly, then it will work. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KellyK 6 Posted October 2, 2020 Posted October 2, 2020 12 hours ago, spakk said: Install VMware workstation 15.5 (trial version) as described and follow the instructions exactly, then it will work. OP's post is about VMWare 16, not VMWare 15.5! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
macist 0 Posted October 3, 2020 Posted October 3, 2020 Yeah I am curious about if anyone can successfully boot with VMware 16 for AMD Zen2 CPU's... When I checked the VMWare 16 release notes, can't see any big changes there. So hopefully someone can come up with a solution to boot. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
spakk 1,839 Posted October 3, 2020 Posted October 3, 2020 3 hours ago, macist said: Yeah I am curious about if anyone can successfully boot with VMware 16 for AMD Zen2 CPU's... When I checked the VMWare 16 release notes, can't see any big changes there. So hopefully someone can come up with a solution to boot. there is currently no unlocker for VMware Workstation 16, so I wrote you in my post mentioned above that you should test it with version 15.5. Where is the problem? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KellyK 6 Posted October 4, 2020 Posted October 4, 2020 15 hours ago, spakk said: there is currently no unlocker for VMware Workstation 16, so I wrote you in my post mentioned above that you should test it with version 15.5. Where is the problem? The only version that works for AMD CPUs is version 15.1 and below. Anything above that WILL NOT WORK! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
spakk 1,839 Posted October 5, 2020 Posted October 5, 2020 On 10/4/2020 at 7:25 AM, KellyK said: The only version that works for AMD CPUs is version 15.1 and below. Anything above that WILL NOT WORK! then you have to patch the "unlocker" source code if this source is public or contact one of the developers here on insanelymac to update this unlocker Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
