#Os x mavericks vmware player 7 install
In Workstation 10 "Create a New Virtual Machine" and choose "Typical" and "Browse." to the location of your ESXi 5.5 ISO, you should get a little pop up below the selection windows saying "VMware ESXi 5 detected." If you get the pop up the wizard will skip straight to the "Name the Virtual Machine" screen, if not or you selected "I will install the operation system later." Next> select "VMware ESX" as the "Guest operating system" and "VMware ESXi 5" as the "Version". Installing ESXi as a Virtual guest in Workstation 10 I have broken the "How to" in to three sections, firstly installing ESXi as a guest in Workstation 10, secondly installing the unlocker in the guest ESXi host and finally installing OS X in the nested ESXi host, sections two and three are equally valid for a physical ESXi host as well as a virtual (nested) ESXi host.ġ.
The process is actually very straight forward, firstly your Intel processor must support VT-x +EPT (Extended Page Table, Intel's branded name for Second Level Address Translation) and both must be enabled in BIOS, below is a link to the "About Intel Virtualisation Technology" web site which shows which processors support both VT-x and EPT: However the stumbling block has been the ability to pass-through the hardware VT-x to more than one layer of virtualisation (Nested), with the latest virtualHW version 10 products Workstation 10, ESXi 5.5 and Fusion 6, (Player 6 does not support ESXi virtualisation) we can now run OS X in a nested instance of ESXi in Workstation which might be useful for development purposes as well as a technical exercise?
#Os x mavericks vmware player 7 how to
This support was available in ESXi 5.1 but it is only with the release of Workstation 10 and ESXi 5.5 that I have followed up on the capabilities and got them to work for OS X.ĭonk did some of the original documentation on how to run ESXi under Workstation with Jim Mattson of VMware, as VMware have used nested virtualisation for a long time, if you have ever been on one of their training courses you will more than likely have been using nested instances in the labs, and I know VMware use nested virtualisation in the development cycle. Great news, however what is really interesting, is one of the "unsupported" features of VMware products is "Nested Virtualisation" which if your Intel CPU supports VT-x +EPT (or AMD's AMD-V +RVI, not relevant for Vanilla OS X, but useful for other OS's) will allow nested 64-bit VM's to run like Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012 R2, Hyper-V and OS X. VMware Workstation 10 and ESXi 5.5 have now been released and thanks to the latest Unlocker (1.2.x) from Donk and Zenith432 supports OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), 10.7 (Lion), 10.8 (Mountain Lion) and 10.9 (Mavericks) on non Apple hardware.
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