VMware Fusion 8 Pro license, you can download a 30-day trial to give it a spin. There is an even cheaper VMware Fusion 8 license which should be more than suitable for most persons need. Fundamentally, VMware is a program which allows the user to install and run OS X that is Intel-based as well as one with AMD processor. This convenience makes VMware Player the most appropriate program to use for this purpose.
Can I convert my trial license to a permanent license? After the evaluation period has expired, you will be prompted to enter a license key. If you have purchased the product you will have received a new license key. Enter the purchased license key when prompted to unlock the full 'unlimited' version of the software.
To take advantage of complimentary email support for up to 18 months, your license key must be registered. If you purchased the product from the VMware Online store, your license key is automatically registered. If you purchased from a reseller, you need to manually register your license key in My VMware.
Please consult this for detailed instructions on license key registration. How do I license my copy of VMware Fusion? To license VMware Fusion, simply enter a purchased license key during product installation in the license key field. Alternatively, you can enter your serial / license key from the 'VMware Fusion' drop down menu in the product. Choose 'License' in the drop down menu, enter the serial / license key and choose 'OK.'
Complimentary email support is activated as soon as your VMware Fusion license key is registered. If you purchased the product from the VMware Online store, your license key is automatically registered. If you purchased VMware Fusion from a reseller, you need to manually register your license key in My VMware. Please consult this for detailed instructions on license key registration.
Earlier this week, Apple announced their next version of Mac OSX at their annual developer's conference called. For those of you who are part of Apple's Development Program and would like to test drive the latest Developer Preview, you can quickly and safely do so by running it inside a Virtual Machine using either VMware Fusion or VMware vSphere. Disclaimer: It is important to note that Mac OSX 10.10 is not officially supported by VMware because Apple has not officially GA'ed, however it will run fine for the most part. UPDATE (07/26/14) - I was able to install the latest OSX Yosemite public beta using the same instructions listed below.
It is highly recommended that you perform an upgrade using the.app from an existing installation of Mac OSX to Yosemite for optimal performance. There are currently some known issues with a fresh installation which may cause some problems, this is currently being investigated by VMware Engineering. Installing OSX Yosemite on Fusion: For Fusion users, I recommend using the latest and selecting OSX 10.9 as the guestOS. If you have any feedback on the Tech Preview of Fusion, be sure to leave a comment on the. Here are a couple of screenshots going through the upgrade as well as a successful boot of Mac OSX 10.10. Installing OSX Yosemite on vSphere: For vSphere users, you will need to be running vSphere 5.5 and using Virtual Hardware 10 which provides support for Mac OSX 10.9 as a guestOS. If you need to perform a fresh installation of OSX, you can follow the detailed instructions which requires a quick format of the underlying virtual disk before starting the installation.
Below is a screenshot of Mac OSX 10.10 running on vSphere on top of my Apple Mac Mini. Here are a couple of things I noticed about the current Beta of OSX 10.10:. Installing VMware Tools does not work and just seems to hang. If you need VMware Tools, make sure you install it before upgrading. After upgrading from OSX 10.9 to 10.10 running on VMware Fusion 6.0, it seems to hang after reboot.
It feels a bit sluggish, potentially from being the first Beta drop Even with some of these issues, I still think it is pretty cool that you can run a Beta version of OSX that was literally released a couple of days ago. I know VMware Engineering is already hard at work on figuring out the issues and optimizing OSX 10.10 to run just as smooth as past releases of Mac OSX. I am confident by the time Mac OSX Yosemite GA's, that it will be running flawlessly!
I also would like to thank Regis Duchesne for sharing some tips on getting OSX 10.10 up and running. Hi William, I recently installed ESXi 5.5u2 on my Mac Mini Server (Mac Mini 6,2 ) via your custom ISO. I am using vSphere Client downloaded from my ESXi server on a Windows 7 Professional VM running in Fusion 7 Professional. I am not able to create any VM’s with hardware version 10 from the vSphere Client, thus I have no option to create OSX VM’s past OSX 10.7.
Are creating ESXi VM’s with hardware version 10 only possible with vSphere Web Client? Also, I tried uploading an OSX 10.8 VM from Fusion 7 Professional to my ESXi host and it times out. So the Fusion 7 Professional upload VM to ESXi host is not working as it should. I thought I saw somewhere that vSphere Client from ESXi 5.5 Update 2 could handle VM’s with hardware version 10, but I am not given a choice past hardware version 8. Hello William, great article! I have Vmware Workstation v11.1 & I can create VM’s up to hardware level 11 on my esxi 6.0 host.
I’d like to buy an older Mac Pro 5.1 but I wonder If that will cause problems with regards to the vm hardware level / OS support in the future. The Mac pro 5.1 is on the HCL but how will things look in a couple of years? Alternatively I could buy a Mac mini late 2012 but I read that quite a few people are experiencing heat issues when running esxi 6.0 on a mac mini laet 2012; any comments / suggestions?