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Hey guys,

 

I upgraded my Yosemite VM to El Capitan, which made it slow, and I cannot upgrade VMWare Tools using Fusion 7.1.1 darwin.iso... And BeamTools.iso hack no longer works. My question is, and I know that 10.11 is still in beta and all. But I do have a dev account so it's for legit curiosity that am doing this. But is there a way to make EC faster ? I do have latest VMWare installed and VM has 16gb RAM and 4 cores allocated to it.

 

I am on Windows 8.1 Pro x64...

 

Thanks ;)

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Hey guys,

 

I upgraded my Yosemite VM to El Capitan, which made it slow, and I cannot upgrade VMWare Tools using Fusion 7.1.1 darwin.iso... And BeamTools.iso hack no longer works. My question is, and I know that 10.11 is still in beta and all. But I do have a dev account so it's for legit curiosity that am doing this. But is there a way to make EC faster ? I do have latest VMWare installed and VM has 16gb RAM and 4 cores allocated to it.

 

I am on Windows 8.1 Pro x64...

 

Thanks ;)

 

 

"In order to completely install the VMware Tools, without problems (and without error messages or unexpected quits):

 

1. Open the OS X 10.11 VM's Terminal  and do this command:

 

sudo nvram boot-args=rootless=0

 

... and quit the Terminal.

 

2. Reboot the OS X 10.11 VM.

 

3. Mount the darwin.iso

 

4. Set the Tools' window to list or column view (El Capitan's icon view, doesn't seem to work in Workstation, currently).

 

5. Copy the Tools installer to the VM's Desktop, and eject the Tools' mounted disk image.

 

6. Run the Tools installer: it should proceed without problems, this time.

 

7. Before rebooting, open again  Terminal and do:

 

sudo nvram -d boot-args

 

... and quit the Terminal.

 

8. Reboot the VM.

 

(As an extra safety, one could reboot the VM directly after the Tools install, and execute the last Terminal command after the reboot, and then of course reboot the VM again: but probably this isn't needed.)

 

Once installed correctly, everything seems too work, with the Tools..."

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Thanks for the tip. 

 

This worked, but VM still seems to be sluggish and BeamoffTool trick seems to be broken, also as you pointed out, icon view, doesn't seem to work in Workstation, currently. Which only means that we should be patient until someone figures out a way to fix it.

 

Much appreciated ;)

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Hi, mine is much improved on what it was, since installing VM Tools as suggested above.  I still got an "installation failed" result, but clearly some parts succeded.  You might try reducing the amount of RAM you are allocating the VM.  I'm allocating 4gb, and the recommended is only 2gb.  Good luck with your VM.

 

Installed on my hardware, the EC preview tests up faster than Yosemite.

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Hi, mine is much improved on what it was, since installing VM Tools as suggested above.  I still got an "installation failed" result, but clearly some parts succeded.  You might try reducing the amount of RAM you are allocating the VM.  I'm allocating 4gb, and the recommended is only 2gb.  Good luck with your VM.

 

Installed on my hardware, the EC preview tests up faster than Yosemite.

 

Well if you are not using BeamoffTool on Yosemite it will be slow and as a result you will notice EC behaving much faster. As for me With or without CM Tools or BeamoffTool it's sluggish as some apps like tweetbot refuse to run for some reason. It could be because I did an upgrade install rather than a clean one. Who knows xD

 

Anyway, I shall wait for either Beta 2 or for someone to figure out a few things.

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