4fr33 Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 (edited) Most people with AMD processors cannot install macOS on VMware Workstation. I solved the problem like this: I added this entry to the .vmx file hw.model = "MacBookPro16,4" board-id = "Mac-A61BADE1FDAD7B05" smc.version = "0" cpuid.0.eax = "0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:1011" cpuid.0.ebx = "0111:0101:0110:1110:0110:0101:0100:0111" cpuid.0.ecx = "0110:1100:0110:0101:0111:0100:0110:1110" cpuid.0.edx = "0100:1001:0110:0101:0110:1110:0110:1001" cpuid.1.eax = "0000:0000:0000:0001:0000:0110:0111:0001" cpuid.1.ebx = "0000:0010:0000:0001:0000:1000:0000:0000" cpuid.1.ecx = "1000:0010:1001:1000:0010:0010:0000:0011" cpuid.1.edx = "0000:0111:1000:1011:1111:1011:1111:1111" board-id and hw.model can be changed to another, e.g. on an iMac: hw.model = "iMac20,2" board-id = "Mac-AF89B6D9451A490B" All Apple models are listed here Edited January 14, 2022 by 4fr33 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasedykstra Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 You're a legend, this helped out with everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SGM Posted October 1, 2023 Share Posted October 1, 2023 It didn't help. I have tried everything I could find online in 2 days, and still unable to boot. AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, VMWare 17. I get an error message saying "Your computer restarted because of a problem. Press any key or wait a few seconds to continue starting up.", and this loops forever. Apple logo, then VMWare logo, then this error, then the Apple logo, then VMWare logo, then this error... infinietly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TANGCLA Posted November 2, 2023 Share Posted November 2, 2023 On 10/1/2023 at 7:05 PM, SGM said: It didn't help. I have tried everything I could find online in 2 days, and still unable to boot. AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, VMWare 17. I get an error message saying "Your computer restarted because of a problem. Press any key or wait a few seconds to continue starting up.", and this loops forever. Apple logo, then VMWare logo, then this error, then the Apple logo, then VMWare logo, then this error... infinietly. With Ventura onwards, AMD Ryzen CPUs won't work. The latest version you can install is Monterey (12.7). Refer here: https://github.com/DrDonk/unlocker/wiki/AMD-CPUs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miko Miko Posted November 24, 2023 Share Posted November 24, 2023 This did not work on my AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core Processor. And I had to change the virtualHW.version from 20 to 10. Like this (virtualHW.version = "10") in the VMX file to get it to work. Hope it helps anyone with same CPU. Reply Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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