Run Vanilla OS X El Capitan, Sierra, or High Sierra in VMware Workstation 12 on a Windows Host I wanted to make a simple guide on how to create a vanilla OS X El Capitan virtual machine running on a Windows host. The virtual machine should be useful for testing El Capitan and also for creating installers for use on a real machine/hackintosh. There are many guides and videos on the net about running OS X on Windows machines using pre-made VMWare disk images but you can never guarantee what else is in there. I’ve gathered info for this guide from various threads in the of this forum eg • by • by • Credit and thanks to, and for all their hard work in creating and testing the VMware Unlocker program. Requirements • Intel PC with four or more CPU cores running Windows 7 X64 or later OS (2 or more cores needed for OS X) • 4GB or more RAM (2GB or more will be needed for OS X) • Hard Disk with at least 40GB free for Virtual Machine • • • Install OS X El Capitan app and Mac or Hack to prepare installation iso.

El Capitan Recovery Partition Sometimes you may need to boot into El Capitan's Recovery Partition to disable SIP (System Integrity Protection) to install a particular kext or application. The quickest way to achieve this is by simultaneously holding down the and keys as your El Capitan virtual machine is booting up and you see the VMware logo.

Ensure you click inside the VM window first so that your keystrokes are registered! Once you reach the GUI to select your language and are presented with OS X Utilities, open the terminal app and type csrutil disable as shown below, then reboot the VM. 341.53KB 19 downloads 329.61KB 20 downloads Adding the Recovery Partition as an entry to the VMware Boot Manager If you are unable to directly boot into the recovery partition with +, another method is to add the Recovery HD as a boot option to VMware's EFI Boot Manager. Procedure courtesy of: 1.

Once your El Capitan virtual machine has been completely shut down, open the VM's vmx file with Wordpad and add the line bios.bootDelay = '3000' Save the file and restart the virtual machine. As the virtual machine starts booting, click anywhere inside its window and press when you see the 'VMware' logo. Most likely the Boot Manager will only display one useful option ('Mac OS X') which lets you boot your OS X virtual machine but no option will appear for the Recovery HD.

Use your down-arrow key until you get to 'Enter setup'. That will take you to the Boot Maintenance Manager: 65.37KB 26 downloads 3. Don't move the focus away from 'Configure boot options'. That will take you to the 'Configure boot option' menu. 66.1KB 21 downloads 4. Don't move the focus away from 'Add boot option'. That will take you to File Explorer, in which a series of boot files are displayed.

64.75KB 18 downloads 5. Using your down-arrow key, navigate to the 'file' whose name begins with 'Recovery HD'. Amcap Full Version Download Free. You'll remain in File Explorer. 82.47KB 17 downloads 6.

Using your down-arrow key, navigate to '. You'll remain in File Explorer. 65.5KB 16 downloads 7. Using your down-arrow key, navigate to 'boot.efi'.

It is easy to install an run Mac OS X all versions (Mavericks, Yosemite and the upcoming El Capitan) smoothly on VMWare Workstation 11 inside Windows. Please be noticed that in the range of this tutorial, we instruct you to install and run Mac OS X inside Windows through VMWare.

That will take you to the 'Modify Boot Option Description'. 58.58KB 19 downloads 8. Don't move the focus away from 'Input the description'. Enter whatever description you deem appropriate. Comme Un Aimant Rapidshare Movies. For instance, enter 'Recovery HD'.

59.73KB 17 downloads 70.59KB 18 downloads 9. Then, on the same screen, select 'Commit changes and exit'. 66.97KB 14 downloads 10. From that point on, whenever you go to your virtual machine's 'Boot Manager', there'll be a 'Recovery HD' option, which is the one you should select to go to your Recovery HD. 63.81KB 13 downloads Install and configure Clover for your VMware guest In this mini guide, I'll show how to install and configure Clover for an El Capitan guest running in VMware. Why install Clover?

• Clover acts as a boot manager so you can select partitions other than your main OSX installation to boot eg the Recovery HD. • By selecting a volume and then the key, you can boot in verbose mode, safe mode or single user mode to diagnose and fix booting problems. • By setting the CsrActiveConfig in Clover's config.plist to 0x67 or 0x0, you can disable or enable El Capitan's SIP without needing to boot into the Recovery Partition.

• Finally by entering various serials in Clover's config.plist (SMBIOS and Rt Variables), you can customise your VM for iMessage/Facetime/iCloud activation purposes. Pre-requisites • Vanilla OSX 10.11 guest running in VMware as descibed in. • Clover installer - latest one or compiled with. • Clover configurator. Download the latest from and install inside your VM.

Installation of Clover. Open and run the Clover package installer by double clicking on it in Finder.

99.32KB 18 downloads 2. Read the 'Important Information' and click continue. 135.6KB 12 downloads 3.

Select the OSX partition as the target to install to (in this example, 'Macintosh HD') and click continue. 83.05KB 11 downloads 4. Click the customize button. 72.42KB 11 downloads 5. Select 'Install for UEFI booting only' and 'Install Clover in the ESP' check boxes (optionally, you can also select to install a theme eg BGM), then click install.

You do not need to install any other UEFI drivers or select any other options. 110.01KB 11 downloads 6. Provide your administrator password to allow the installer app to proceed.

74.51KB 11 downloads 7. Close the installer app once it has done its job.

You'll notice that the EFI partition is now mounted and can be accessed from the desktop. 70.12KB 12 downloads Configure Clover's config.plist with Clover Configurator.

Navigate to the /EFI/EFI/Clover folder in Finder and right click on the config.plist file to open with the Clover configurator app. 236.53KB 12 downloads 2. Click on the ACPI tab on the LHS of the GUI and make sure all the DSDT fixes and other options are unchecked. Note both 'Old way' and 'New way' DSDT fixes should be removed.

382.17KB 10 downloads 3. Click the Boot tab and uncheck all the boot arguments. The Default Boot Volume can be left as LastBootedVolume and the Default Loader as boot.efi.

Adjust Timeout value in seconds if you wish. 306.85KB 12 downloads 4. CPU tab should be empty. 262.9KB 9 downloads 5. Devices tab should be empty (uncheck USB fixes). 216.24KB 9 downloads 6. Disable Drivers tab should be empty.

285.44KB 10 downloads 7. Screen resolution in GUI tab should be changed to 1024x768 to prevent the error message 'Your Mac OS guest might run unreliably with more than one virtual core' when you run the VM with Clover. Note: If you have installed VMware tools for your virtual machine, you will still be able to resize and adjust the resolution of your VM window after you have booted into OSX. In this example, I have selected the BGM theme.

302.39KB 12 downloads 8. Graphics tab should be empty (uncheck all injections). 295.69KB 11 downloads 9.

Kernel and Kext Patches tab should be empty. 263.01KB 12 downloads 10.

For the purposes of iMessage and Facetime activation, make sure you place valid values for MLB and ROM in the Rt Variables tab - see for more details. The CsrActiveConfig can be set to 0x67 to fully disable El Capitan's SIP or 0x0 to leave it fully enabled. 206.47KB 11 downloads 11. You can leave the SMBIOS tab blank and Clover will automatically assign a valid SMBIOS for your VM based on the host CPU.

You can optionally choose to generate your own values by clicking the magic wand icon on the RHS and entering unique values for Serial Number and SmUUID. 331.44KB 13 downloads 12.

Click the System Parameters tab and make sure that Inject Kexts is set to No. Inject System ID can be left checked and optionally, a value can be specified in Custom UUID. 223.39KB 10 downloads 13. Click the Save button (bottom icon second from left), and then OK when you see 'the document config.plist is on a volume that does not support permanent version storage'. Hi, Using ESXi 6 with some real hardware pass-through.

HW that I'm using is PCIe adapter for broadcom WiFi/BT that is natively supported in OSX and Nvidia GT610 (both were working out of the box on Mavericks using myHack on a real Dell hardware). So now I've decided to go virtual but have full 3D support and real network that allows me to use continuum feature. ESXi is patched, installation went successful. Network card is recognized without any issues but video is not. I can see it in system information GPU is seen but memory is reported incorrectly (128mb instead of 2gb). So the issue is - I cannot use my video card - virtual video is taking priority. Please advise.

Sierra ISO on your Mac or Hack: 1. On your Mac or Hack, download/copy ' Install macOS Sierra.app' into your Applications folder. Download and unzip the CSI.tool (attached to this post) into your ~/Downloads folder. The commands in this executable script are shown below for informational purposes. Note: you will need approx 16GB of free space on your hard disk for the script to complete.

I ran the script on a fresh Virtual El Capitan guest and it gave out errors (see attached picture). What should I do to fix? 282.56KB 38 downloads. I ran the script on a fresh Virtual El Capitan guest and it gave out errors (see attached picture). What should I do to fix? Hi, I had this issue also.

You need to open a terminal and enter: hdiutil info and find the disk that the disk id that is showing /Volumes/OS X Install ESD For me this was / dev/disk3s2. For you it may be something else. Then enter: hdiutil detach /dev/disk3s2 (or whatever yours is). This will unmount the Sierra.app install image.

From there you can run the script as outlined. Hi, I had this issue also. You need to open a terminal and enter: hdiutil info and find the disk that the disk id that is showing /Volumes/OS X Install ESD For me this was / dev/disk3s2. For you it may be something else.

Then enter: hdiutil detach /dev/disk3s2 (or whatever yours is). This will unmount the Sierra.app install image.

From there you can run the script as outlined. Thanks Adam Thanks, but I did not have the chance to try your method. After a restart, the script worked. Whatever, now I could finally start learning about this macOS. I set this up myself a couple of weeks ago on a Dell Precision 7510. Anyway I have one small issue and a question.

The small issue is, getting itunes or xcode to recognize when I attach my iPhone. I finally found if I change the settings for the VM's USB from 3.0 to 2.0 it works. But I also have a USB Blu-ray Burner that is USB 3.0 and a few hard drives that are USB 3.0 also. So if I could get USB 3.0 to work that would be great. If not I can get by with 2.0 The second question is I realized I had installed the 32-bit version of VMware Player.

I have since downloaded the 64-bit version. How hard would it be to switch to the 64-bit version without starting from scratch? Would it even be worth it? I just know OSX has been 64-bit for a couple of versions now. And it seems a bit sluggish.

Don't even know if this would make a difference. But everything else I have is 64-bit. Thanks in advance. After some messing about with a Snow Leopard disc I had and not getting anywhere (the 'not Mac OSX Server' error), I followed the guide for macos Sierra instead. Installed successfully and appears to be very responsive running from an SSD. I was able to install the VMWare tools and there are no issues with sound/network. VMWare Workstation Player 12.5.2 build-4638234 Attached my vmx file 1.18KB 58 downloads in case it's useful.

This was on a Skylake i5 6600K system. The only slight problem I've noticed so far is some graphical glitches on widgets.