USB 3.0 is a new feature with VMware’s Hardware Version 11 and not supported on Hardware Version 10.ĥ. In the USB & Bluetooth settings, set it to use USB 2.0 instead of USB 3.0. In the VM settings, go into USB & BluetoothĤ. Once the VM is created and you’ve set your preferred memory, processor and memory settings, shut down the VM and then go into the VM settings.ģ. In my testing, 10.10 runs fine even when the VM’s selected OS is 10.9.Ģ. VMware Fusion’s setup process will not allow a 10.10 VM to use Hardware Version 10. Note: If you’re planning to upload a 10.10 VM, choose OS X 10.9 in this window. Create a new VM and choose an appropriate OS. Setting Fusion-built VMs to use Hardware Version 10ġ. Downgrading to Hardware Version 10 will not be necessary if transferring to an ESXi 6.x server. Update: 3-30-2015 – If you are running ESXi 6.x, both VMware Fusion 7.x and ESXi 6.x support VMware’s Hardware Version 11. A fully-updated ESXi 5.5 server running on Apple hardware.Without this check succeeding, the VM assumes it’s running on non-Apple hardware and will then hang during the boot process (which is why I was seeing the hang in my previous upload attempts.) This attribute allows the VM to check and detect that it’s running on Apple hardware. The upload process to ESXi 5.5 will not tranfer the necessary smc.present = “TRUE” attribute from the Fusion VM’s. VMware Fusion 7 Pro will build VMs by default using VMware’s Hardware Version 11.ģ. ESXi 5.5 supports up to VMware’s Hardware Version 10.Ģ. There’s three issues to be aware of when uploading OS X VMs to ESXi 5.5:ġ. There are a few things to know about if you want to upload an OS X VM to an ESXi server running 5.5, so I’ve put together a procedure for those who want to leverage Fusion 7 Pro to upload OS X VMs. New blog post – Unable to start OS X VM's after uploading to ESXi from Fusion 7
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