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#COPY A VM ESXI 6.5 MAC OS X#
Without it Mac OS X might not awake from sleep and in general be very unreliable.
#COPY A VM ESXI 6.5 INSTALL#
It’s very important to install the VMware Tools as soon as possible after the install has finished. Please note that you must format the hard drive using the disk utility before it will be visible in the install wizard.
#COPY A VM ESXI 6.5 ISO#
Complete the wizard, mount the ISO and install Mac OS X as usual. Then create a new vm, select Typical and you should be able to select Other and then Apple Mac OS X 10.10 (64-bit). As usual open your datastore and transfer the iso to wherever you normally store your installation files.
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The next step should be fairly simple if you have used ESXi before. Once done it should have created a file called ElCapitan.iso on your desktop. This will take some time, so just be patient. Now ensure that the script file has execute permissions by running chmod +x ElCapitan.sh and run with sh. Paste the following into the script file and save: Open the terminal and change directory to /tmp using command cd /tmpĬreate a new script file: nano ElCapitan.sh Once downloaded minimize or close the installer. Note, you need a real Mac in order to download and convert the El Capitan installation disk. Grab the El Capitan installer app from the Apple Appstore. esxi-install.sh in order to install the Unlocker.ĭownload and create the bootable OS X El Capitan ISO Now cd into the uploaded directory and ensure the ESXi scripts have execute permissions by running chmod +x esxi-install.sh. Create a new folder ( mkdir) called tools and transfer your unlockerXXX directory. Once connected navigate to /vmfs/volumes/datastore01/, replacing datastore01 with your actual datastore name. Make sure you extract the files somewhere on your client before transfer and connect to the ESXi host using the user root. Transfer the Unlocker-files to the host using any SFTP client. Click Start and then close all the open dialogs. The dialog Services Properties should appear and from here you can click on SSH->Options and choose Start and stop with host. From here click on Properties in the upper right corner where it says Services. In order to do that, login to the host using VMware vShpere Client and navigate to Configuration->Security Profile. You need to enable SSH on your ESXi host. Please note that you will need to register on the site in order to download the Unlocker tool. So, the first thing you need to do is to customise the hypervisor layer by executing an Unlocker script by. Vmware ESXi 6.0 doesn’t support OS X out of the box. Setting up ESXi for running Apple Mac OS X The experiment was conducted on Vmware ESXi 6.0 virtualization platform running over physical IBM Server X3650 M3. Installing Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11 on Vmware ESXi 6.0Īfter a long struggle of 48 hours, I could finally able to install the Apple's latest Mac OS X El Capitan v10.11 on a Virtual Machine (VM).