hanz_zimmer Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 Hello, regardless of whether or not the process involves a migration from 6.7 to 7.0. Can anyone confirm or deny if this works on 7.0? I'm about to install ESXi on some new hardware in 2-3 days and need to figure out which version to install. And since this is for homelab use the ability to run MacOS is pivotal for my decision. Thanks for the work on this btw! Very much appreciated! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackharvest Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 On 4/19/2020 at 1:03 AM, hanz_zimmer said: Hello, regardless of whether or not the process involves a migration from 6.7 to 7.0. Can anyone confirm or deny if this works on 7.0? I'm about to install ESXi on some new hardware in 2-3 days and need to figure out which version to install. And since this is for homelab use the ability to run MacOS is pivotal for my decision. Thanks for the work on this btw! Very much appreciated! Confirmed NOT working on 7.0. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hugepants Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 @installdemo @hanz_zimmer @jackharvest I fixed Unlocker to support ESXi 7.0, you can download version 3.0.1 here: https://github.com/hugepants/esxi-unlocker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
installdemo Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 This is great! I'm going to give it a try now (ESXi 7) and report back... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
installdemo Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 (edited) Ok. How to I change the permission of that file (If in fact that is needed)? or do I just replace the one in the unlocker.tgz of the 3.0 release. Please advise me to the proper way (I like the other user realized that we downloaded there was no unloicker.tgz found when the install was run. update: I am sorry. I had downloaded the WRONG files. There is actually a package what stays v3.01 (esxi-unlocker-301.tgz). Use this and it worked for me. I watched the host boot and the last line was running the script of the package. All went well. ESXi 7 can NOW be used! Edited May 3, 2020 by installdemo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techrom Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 Hi folks, I just updated the repo, as there is a non-sense about the .tgz file missing : do it BEFORE installing unlocker :) Create the unlocker.tgz file : tar zcf unlocker.tgz etc/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Musicims Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 Just to confirm, I have installed Catalina on multiple ESXi hosts without any issues Thank you so much for making this happen, it is literally the main reason I switched my main workflow over to virtualized guests on a server. I can do my editing from any computer anywhere no matter how crappy it is as long as I have internet and this seals the deal! Is there anywhere I can make a donation to you and the team? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unforgiven23 Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 I've downloaded the esxi-unlocker-301.tgz file from here (https://github.com/hugepants/esxi-unlocker/releases) and all I get upon reboot is a black screen after trying to load ESXi 7.0 when it gets to the unlocker file. I then have to force power off when then tries to boot into Recovery Mode. What am I missing here to make this work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abundanceandbeyond Posted June 7, 2020 Share Posted June 7, 2020 On 5/4/2020 at 6:02 PM, Musicims said: Just to confirm, I have installed Catalina on multiple ESXi hosts without any issues Thank you so much for making this happen, it is literally the main reason I switched my main workflow over to virtualized guests on a server. I can do my editing from any computer anywhere no matter how crappy it is as long as I have internet and this seals the deal! Is there anywhere I can make a donation to you and the team? Can you encode a movie with iMovie? Want to see if the GPU carried over as the OSX VM looks like it reports 128MB Video Memory or less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schot Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 wierd.... i had it working for one boot then after some days i did a fresh boot os ESXi and all of a sudden i can not boot macOS anymore.... Weird completelky crashes and starting a boot loop from crashing to rebooting. etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David-B Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 @Donk I realize you may not be in a position to answer this, but with the upcoming migration of macOS to ARM-based CPUs, is it fair to say that the days of virtualizing macOS in VMware are nearing an end? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xilex Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 Has anyone been able to run MacOS on ESXi with Ryzen CPU? I've tried a bunch of different methods (clean ISO, recovery VMDK, bootable USB, export from Workstation), just stops on Apple logo, logs show The CPU has been disabled by the guest operating system. Wondering if I should give up on this or keep attempting. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flying_Disk Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 (edited) On 5/1/2020 at 11:39 PM, hugepants said: @installdemo @hanz_zimmer @jackharvest I fixed Unlocker to support ESXi 7.0, you can download version 3.0.1 here: https://github.com/hugepants/esxi-unlocker I've tested on ESXi 7.0 only one problem ESXi UI not started, forced from SSH with command: /etc/init.d/esxui start Edited August 31, 2020 by Flying_Disk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dataham Posted September 27, 2020 Share Posted September 27, 2020 Hi, I wanted to thank @hugepants for updating this for esxi 7. I'm completely new to this so there were a few things that took some googling to figure out. But for anyone else that's looking to do this, my experience took 2 install/reboots before I could get esxi to not crash 75% through the macOS boot. I was able to just select 10.15 OSX to get it to install and I had to use the disk utility to format the drive to APFS before it got through the prompt. I appreciate all the help and suggestions everyone had put in here. Thank you all 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Averyfreeman Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 On 8/15/2020 at 4:55 PM, xilex said: Has anyone been able to run MacOS on ESXi with Ryzen CPU? I've tried a bunch of different methods (clean ISO, recovery VMDK, bootable USB, export from Workstation), just stops on Apple logo, logs show The CPU has been disabled by the guest operating system. Wondering if I should give up on this or keep attempting. Thanks. You can virtualize MacOS with AMD CPU, but you have to use the new bootloader OpenCore. Here's an example for workstation: https://github.com/Ken5998/OpenCore-VMware-Workstation-AMD There's a TON of guides and repos, if you Google it you'll probably find something that fits your situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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