macOS VM management by Jamf

PiyushVerma91
New Contributor

Hi All,

I am just thinking if there is a way to manage macOS Virtual Machines hosted on AWS by Jamf Pro?
Also, what all the possible way to have macOS VMs and its management by Jamf pro?
Thanks,
Piyush Verma

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mschlosser
Contributor

I've done this in the past; not cloud hosted per se, but with other VM environments; from what I remember you have to set the vm serial number somehow so device enrollment will work; it also helps helps to set the model identifier:

In the form of:

devices.smbios.serial=""

devices.mac_hw_model="MacPro7,1"

added to the .vmx file of VMware. ; When I do this, I'll usually remove two letters from the host serial; and replace them with VM, etc. Hope that helps

sdagley
Esteemed Contributor II

@PiyushVerma91 AWS EC2 Mac instances are real hardware (Mac minis), not VMs. There is an AWS blog post regarding how to manage those instances via Jamf Pro: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/automate-the-enrollment-of-ec2-mac-instances-into-jamf-pro/