Donk Posted March 16, 2012 Author Share Posted March 16, 2012 ESXi 5.0.1 released and this is in the notes. I have yet to try the unlocker on it. Support for additional guest operating systems – ESXi 5.0 Update 1 adds support for Mac OS X Server Lion 10.7.2 and 10.7.3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeqR Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 Donk: Glad you saw this. One thing they claim to fix is the inability to attach USB devices to VMs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSoK Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 ESXi 5.0.1 released and this is in the notes. I have yet to try the unlocker on it. Support for additional guest operating systems – ESXi 5.0 Update 1 adds support for Mac OS X Server Lion 10.7.2 and 10.7.3. Donk, Thanks for the heads up, I only checked the other day, and nothing new, will update over the weekend and see how L and ML fair. Cheers, MSoK. P.S. Sorry I forgot your birthday last month, belated best wishes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donk Posted March 16, 2012 Author Share Posted March 16, 2012 Unlocker works as does 10.7.3. Trying Mountain Lion but getting root device errors. UPDATE: OK now booting and installing MSoK - thanks another year gone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sebus Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 Download size 590Mb, that is TWICE bigger then the original ESXi 5 installer... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sledgehammer89 Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 Great, Unlocker 1.0.2 work with ESXi5 Update 1. 10.7.3 work as expected without using the older LSI kernel module! EyeTV + TurboHD Stick still work like a charm. Now it's time for Lion Server to go productive to replace my Linux server. Thank you very much for Unlocker! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
savestheday Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 Donk, How did you get Mountain Lion up and running? I've updated, used your unlocker, Mountain Lion gets further than it did before (past the root device error) but now I'm getting a: ACPI_SMC_PlatforumPlugin::pushCPU_CSTData - _CST evaluation failed I've tried it with both smc.present = "TRUE" and smc.present = "FALSE" Thx! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Menno Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Lion 10.7.3 works great under ESXi 5.0 U1. Lion 10.7.4 and Mountain Lion DP2 both don't work anymore. They need FakeSMC.kext and smc.present = "false" (FakeSMC takes over) because it can't read some keys from the builtin smc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donk Posted March 20, 2012 Author Share Posted March 20, 2012 This doesn't look so good. Apple have obviously changed something in the kernel and now the core of VMware is not returning the requested SMC values. I don't have an answer for now, so steer clear of 10.7.4 on ESXi. May well also affect other products. UPDATE: OK so looking for 2 keys that VMware does not emulate. Back to the drawing board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x1nick Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 Hi all Been toying of the idea running Mac OSX with VGA passthrough to a graphics card, had some success with windows on this. But guess the first step on the mac front is to get the OS actually running! Host system is: CPU: Xeon E3 1245 Mobo: Asus P8B-WS (C206 chipset) RAM: 32GB Corsair Running ESXi 5 (5.0.0 469512) on a 4GB USB stick Didnt seem to have any issues installing the latest version of the esxi install script. I had a Lion 10.7.3 dmg image which I have convered to an ISO and uploaded to my datastore, then mapped the VM CD drive (running in IDE mode) to the ISO file. When booting I would just get stuck on the apple logo... So in a few previous posts I saw how to specify boot options and I get the output on the attached image. I read that the only way round this is to boot from a USB stick containing the installer? Im fairly clued up around the command line, but by no means a pro! Just new to all this, own a mac book pro but iv got toys and want to play! and see whats possible with ESXi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSoK Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 Hi all Been toying of the idea running Mac OSX with VGA passthrough to a graphics card, had some success with windows on this. But guess the first step on the mac front is to get the OS actually running! Host system is: CPU: Xeon E3 1245 Mobo: Asus P8B-WS (C206 chipset) RAM: 32GB Corsair Running ESXi 5 (5.0.0 469512) on a 4GB USB stick Didnt seem to have any issues installing the latest version of the esxi install script. I had a Lion 10.7.3 dmg image which I have convered to an ISO and uploaded to my datastore, then mapped the VM CD drive (running in IDE mode) to the ISO file. When booting I would just get stuck on the apple logo... So in a few previous posts I saw how to specify boot options and I get the output on the attached image. I read that the only way round this is to boot from a USB stick containing the installer? Im fairly clued up around the command line, but by no means a pro! Just new to all this, own a mac book pro but iv got toys and want to play! and see whats possible with ESXi Not sure if this is related, but I have just posted a reply in Donk's ESXi topic, the point is I have installed Lion 10.7.3 using the dmg file on ESXi 5 U1, see below. I built a new ESXi Server with U1 Build 623860, and used the Lion 10.7.3 dmg copied from the content of a brand new App Store download to SL, and the install ran without any problems, having installed the 102 unlocker before I started. Previously I have not been able to use the dmg, and iso did not work either, so had to create a USB stick, or use the Apple USB stick, but that is 10.7.0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x1nick Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 Cool, need to get hold of a 8GB stick, only got a 4GB here which isnt enough, will see what I can find over the next few days and report back! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rokkhan Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 I have installed ESXI 5 with an AMD Phenom II CPU. ¿Could I install SL or Lion server with this unlocker? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSoK Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 I have installed ESXI 5 with an AMD Phenom II CPU. ¿Could I install SL or Lion server with this unlocker? rokkhan, Sorry, in a word no, vanilla OS X has no support for AMD processors, you would have to find a modified kernel version to support your CPU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
segaflex Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 Hallo i am a new User on this Board. I want install OSX 10.6 server on a ESXI 5 .0.0 i have patched the ESXI successfull with Unlocker 1.0.2, but when i start the Installation there is a Problem: EFI iscsi mount HDD unsuccessfull where is the Problem, my mistake? The DVD from OSX server is an original !! please help me... the Host: Gigabyte Board 16 GB Ram i5 2,80 GHZ 4 Core Nvidia Graphic 8400GS lg Juergen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
segaflex Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 Hallo all after installing 5.0.0 U1 it works fine.... lg Juergen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruy_Go Posted May 4, 2012 Share Posted May 4, 2012 Hi, thanks for help us. I have a ESXi 5.0.0 Build 469512 running on Intel Core i7 2600k // 8GB DDR 3 // Intel MotherBoard DH61CR // I've success to Install OSX Snow Leopard 10.6.3 on this scenario. So to make this VM, i followed this steps. 1 - Download the file: unlock-all-v102.zip to ESXi datastore and Expand the file. 2 - Enter on unlock-all-v102/esxi folder and run install.sh 3 - Reboot the server. 4 - Create the VM with recomended installation 5 - With ssh, edit the vmx file and put this code into the file: cpuid.1.eax = "0000:0000:0000:0001:0000:0110:1010:0101" 6 - Save and quit of editor. 7 - Finally Edit the VM with vSphere client. 7.1 - Click on Edit Settings, and Add a SCSI Device. 7.2 - Choose your DVD Rom Drive, And set the Device Node to: SCSI (0:1) 8 - Power On the Virtual Machine and when the VMWARE Logo appears, hit F8 9 - Select Boot Manager 10 - And Finally Select EFI SCSI CD/DVD Drive. Install Your OSX and be Happy. Sorry about my poor english. If u need help just contact-me at: umhost.com.br Thank you all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sledgehammer89 Posted May 10, 2012 Share Posted May 10, 2012 UPDATE: OK so looking for 2 keys that VMware does not emulate. Back to the drawing board. 2 keys? In the *.vmx file? Can you tell us the 2 keys please? Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donk Posted May 10, 2012 Author Share Posted May 10, 2012 New version 1.1.0 released. http://goo.gl/oHx8k Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sledgehammer89 Posted May 10, 2012 Share Posted May 10, 2012 New version 1.1.0 released. Thank you. What is the "changelog"? It feels like 1.0.2: works up to newest ESXi5 and Lion 10.7.3, but with 10.7.4 there is a looong boot delay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donk Posted May 10, 2012 Author Share Posted May 10, 2012 It is a problem in the ESXi code and if you check the ESXi release notes VMware are aware of the problem. The unlocker can't fix it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bojanski Posted May 11, 2012 Share Posted May 11, 2012 It is a problem in the ESXi code and if you check the ESXi release notes VMware are aware of the problem. The unlocker can't fix it. Thanks for this info! As always, VMware Fusion Team has fixed this already with the newest Version (4.1.2). It seems to me, that Apple has removed some (or even all) 32bit Graphic drivers within 10.7.4, and this seems to be the reason for long reboot times... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donk Posted May 11, 2012 Author Share Posted May 11, 2012 Yes it has fixed it. But ESXi code moves at a slower pace. The long boot is to do with SMC key reading not the graphics drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bojanski Posted May 11, 2012 Share Posted May 11, 2012 You're right! What do you think: would it help to use the 10.7.3 SMC Key and replace it over the new one? If, yes.. what's the path to this file? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donk Posted May 11, 2012 Author Share Posted May 11, 2012 No it is due to the emulation code in vmx executables. You can use FakeSMC to fix it and set smc.present = "false" in the vmx file. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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