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- VMWARE PLAYER MAC OS X GUEST OS DISABLED CPU INSTALL
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I raked over some sites that stated it was not possible, I found that rather funny I mean how is it not possible doesn’t Mac run on Intel hardware nowadays anyhow? Then I stumbled on this video. It had been an interest of mine recently to run Mac OS X on my powerhouse PC at home, but I wanted it to run as virtual machine. Whether I like to admit it or not they do make a highly polished quality product. The setup almost be done.I’ve never been a Mac fan, but I do have to say that our family does have several Apple products in our home, 2 iPads and an iPhone… for the kids and my wife. Go through the setup process but DO NOT SIGN IN WITH YOUR APPLE ID, choose "Set Up Later". You may get errors, Ignore those errors, the prelinkedkernel should still rebuild just fine.Ĭlose Terminal and reboot into your hard drive. Rm -rf /Volumes/Catalina/System/Library/PrelinkedKernels/prelinkedkernel (replacing "Catalina" with whatever you named your hard drive earlier): cp -rf /Volumes/CatalinaAMD/System/Library/Kernels/kernel /Volumes/Catalina/System/Library/Kernels/ Reboot the VM back into the BIOS, select the installer and open Terminal once again. If the VM restarts and you get a ‘CPU is disabled’ error, close the error window, attempt to close the VM window, select ‘Power Off’ and reopen VMware. The Catalina installation process will be continued:


VMWARE PLAYER MAC OS X GUEST OS DISABLED CPU INSTALL
Volumes/CatalinaAMD/System/Library/PrelinkedKernels/prelinkedkernel to the Hark Disk Catalina /Volumes/Catalina/macOS Install Data/Locked Files/Boot Files/Īfter execute the command, restart the VM again. With that command, we coppy all the prelinkedkenel under the installation source CatalinaAMD Type this command in Terminal (replacing "Catalina" with whatever you named your hard drive earlier): cp -rf /Volumes/CatalinaAMD/System/Library/PrelinkedKernels/prelinkedkernel /Volumes/Catalina/"macOS Install Data"/"Locked Files"/"Boot Files"/ Once the installer has booted, click on "Utilities" in the Finder bar and select "Terminal". This is our Catalina installer that we are booting. Power off or reset the virtual machine.Įdit the vmx file by adding the following line to the bottom of the vmx file: bios.bootDelay = "2000"īack to the BIOS, Select "EFI VMware Virtual SATA Hard Drive (2.0)" and press enter. The CPU has been disabled by the guest operating system. Select the hard drive that we erased earlier with Disk Utility and press "Install". When the installer opens, press "Continue".Īgree to the terms and conditions. Select "Reinstall macOS" and press "Continue". Change "Format" to APFS and press "Erase". Select "VMware Virtual SATA Hard Drive Media" under "Internal" hard drive. Select "Disk Utility" and press "Continue".
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VMware Player /Workstation Pro 15 or higher.CPU also needs to support the SSE4.1 and AMD-V.VMware’s graphics acceleration not being compatible with macOS, you will not have any graphics acceleration in your virtual machine.
VMWARE PLAYER MAC OS X GUEST OS DISABLED CPU HOW TO

