macist Posted September 30, 2020 Share Posted September 30, 2020 Has anyone tried and had any success to boot with a AMD Zen2 CPU from VMWare 16 esp. under Windows ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/345308-vmware-16-with-amd-zen2-cpu-possible/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
spakk Posted September 30, 2020 Share 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/ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/345308-vmware-16-with-amd-zen2-cpu-possible/#findComment-2738865 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KellyK Posted October 2, 2020 Share 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. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/345308-vmware-16-with-amd-zen2-cpu-possible/#findComment-2739028 Share on other sites More sharing options...
spakk Posted October 2, 2020 Share 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. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/345308-vmware-16-with-amd-zen2-cpu-possible/#findComment-2739060 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KellyK Posted October 2, 2020 Share 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! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/345308-vmware-16-with-amd-zen2-cpu-possible/#findComment-2739116 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macist Posted October 3, 2020 Author Share 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. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/345308-vmware-16-with-amd-zen2-cpu-possible/#findComment-2739153 Share on other sites More sharing options...
spakk Posted October 3, 2020 Share 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? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/345308-vmware-16-with-amd-zen2-cpu-possible/#findComment-2739188 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KellyK Posted October 4, 2020 Share 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! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/345308-vmware-16-with-amd-zen2-cpu-possible/#findComment-2739295 Share on other sites More sharing options...
spakk Posted October 5, 2020 Share 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 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/345308-vmware-16-with-amd-zen2-cpu-possible/#findComment-2739434 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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