Many of you may have wanted to run a Mac OS X virtual machine in your vSphere setup but get hit with the error that darwin11–64Guest is not supported, as outlined in VMware KB 2006093. As the KB explains that this is because you must be running Apple certified hardware to run a Mac OS X virtual machine. I’m sure that this has to do with the licensing of the OS X product. But you may want to run a vm or two to test software in your environment.
![]() The Workaround
VSphere Web Client has always been intended to be the replacement for the Desktop client, and many of our users have tried to embrace this during the vSphere 5.5 and vSphere 6.0 periods, spending their time working within the Web Client even with the Desktop client available. Reddit client for mac and windows server 2012. However, running VMware vSphere (the ESXi hypervisor, in particular) can take some time and resources if you opt to run it on physical servers. The first hurdle is the cost of the one, or handful, of physical servers you would use to create a vSphere lab.
Luckily the heavy lifting to get around this has been done by InsanelyMac user Donk. He has created an unlocker tool for non-Apple hardware to be able to boot Mac OS X virtual machines. His tool works for other versions of VMware like Workstation but I’m going to focus on using it for ESXi.
Vmware Esxi Client
There are two different versions of his unlocker utility, one for ESXi 5.0/5.1/5.5 and another for ESXi 6.0. Make sure that you use the appropriate utility for the version of your ESXi host.
How It’s DoneESXi 6.0
Verbal assistance with windows for mac clients. Download Mac OS X Unlocker for VMware V2 (currently V2.0.6) from the InsanelyMac download page.
ESXi 5.0/5.1/5.5
Sonicwall global vpn client for mac. Download Mac OS X Unlocker for VMware (currently V1.3.0) from the InsanelyMac download page.
Installing Mac OS X![]()
You have to follow certain instructions to install Mac OS X from the installation media. It’s not complicated but it’s not straight forward either. You can view these instructions on the VMware website:
SummaryVmware Vsphere Client 5.5 Download
This quick little fix has been working for me on two virtual machines running Mac OS X 10.10. In the two weeks I’ve been running them I’ve yet to have any issues, performance or otherwise, with using this fix or using the virtual machines. I hope this article helps solve the issue of running Mac OS X on non-certified non-Apple hardware.
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