El Capitan virtualization

[jonvdp]

Has anyone been succesful to run 10.11 on a VM (ESXi 6)? The installer seems to work fine but upon completion of the install the machine reboot to the crossed out circle.

[jimmy-swings]

What hardware are you running ESXi on? I've successfully launched the first beta in Parallels on my local MBP.

[cindySingh]

Well, for me on VMWare Fusion, 10.11 worked. I exported .ovf and imported on a different VM, works ok.

[donmontalvo]

<redacted>

[jonvdp]

I'm currently running the esxi on a Mac Pro (2015). I'll post some screenshot on Monday of the error I get on while in verbose mode

[calumhunter]

Ok in Fusion, had to disable SIP to install the vmware tools though.

[donmontalvo]

@calumhunter How the heck did you get your <redacted> VM to boot into Recovery HD to disable <redacted> so you could install the VMWare Tools?

[calumhunter]

boot up the vm and hold down command-r

but the recovery hd utility doesn't work with fusion - throws a mach error.

instead i just ran

sudo nvram boot-args="rootless=0”

on the el capitan vm has the same effect but it will be going away soon so hopefully vmware work out how to get the recovery hd utility method to work

If you're on a fast machine you might need to edit your vmx file to add:

bios.bootdelay = "5000"

That makes vmware wait 5 seconds before it boots, gives you a chance to hold command-r

Also i created the VM using AutoDMG and then VFUSE so not sure if that makes any difference

[donmontalvo]

Works, just a couple typos that maybe JAMF Nation mangled.

Use dumb quotes here:

sudo nvram boot-args="rootless=0"

This one is case sensitive (note capital "D"):

bios.bootDelay = "5000"

Works great, thanks dude - I'm in like Flynn!

el-capitan:~ admin$ sw_vers -productVersion
10.11
el-capitan:~ admin$ ls -l /Library/Extensions | grep VM
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  102 Feb  6 17:01 VMwareGfx.kext
el-capitan:~ admin$

NDA For obvious reasons, moving conversation to the new developer.apple.com forum, where some threads already exist like this one.

Don

[emily]

Admittedly, I used a netboot image to create a Yosemite VM, then upgraded to EC. That worked just fine. I think some of the problems with VMware Fusion are the VMware Tools won't install on EC, but if they're installed before upgrading it seems to work fine.

Some folks may find this useful: Re: Mac OS 10.11 and VMware Fusion

[donmontalvo]

Good point, we went down the fresh OS route for the test VMs.