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1. #INSTALL VMWARE ON MAC HOW TO#
2. #INSTALL VMWARE ON MAC MAC OS#
3. #INSTALL VMWARE ON MAC INSTALL#
4. #INSTALL VMWARE ON MAC DRIVER#
5. #INSTALL VMWARE ON MAC PRO#

People have been running ESXi on the Mac Pros soon after they released and same on M1 and Big Sur soon after things were announced at WWDC. You can rent gear one as well either direct or co-located.

#INSTALL VMWARE ON MAC PRO#

I would start with an Intel Mac mini and M1 Mac mini before you pay for the Mac Pro unless you have substantial budget for testing. There is a lot of meaningful support provided before a system is “blessed”

Lots of gear works very well before it gets officially added to that list. Each time you add three new versions, that might be a hundred tests to do with the rest of the test matrix.

#INSTALL VMWARE ON MAC DRIVER#

And not just two machines, they wrangle all the driver versions, and anything has to work with anything, so imaging testing dozens of drives and network adapters and firmware levels and more. It means they have test labs and people with the gear to test. They put substantial money and resources to test and vet and support every item on the compatible list. VMWare cares a lot about their esxi product. You get dedicated Apple Engineers and support to work through issues like you outlined. Apple offers professional services and enterprise level support if you want to pay fir it either directly or through volume of sales.Apple documents this officially in support articles. Apple allows unsigned OS to be installed on all new hardware even though they could lock down Macs and have the tool chain and hardware in place that locks down iOS and iPadOS devices (etc.).Fairly explicit terms are added recently, so read the EULA is you’re big into this or need to be professional about this scenario. The licensing terms explain how virtualization is and is not allowed.when I say "on top of" I mean replacing the existing Big Sur OS with ESXi such that booting the machine takes you straight into ESXi.Īpple doesn’t likely care what you run on their hardware as long as you buy Macs and don’t violate the license terms. These all boot and run the ESXi installer (regardless of ESXi version), but the ESXi installer never completes successfully.Īnd. not necessarily the MacPro 7,1)? And if people are able to do this, how are they doing it? I have been using UNetbootin to create bootable flash drives from ESXi ISO images.

#INSTALL VMWARE ON MAC MAC OS#

Have I missed something? Are people out there successfully installing ESXi over their MacPro7,1 machine's Mac OS Big Sur (specifically Big Sur)? Has anyone successfully installed any version of ESXi on top of Big Sur running on any Mac (i.e. But this goal is looking more and more unrealistic. My plan was to purchase Apple hardware (a rack mounted Mac Pro) so I could run, among other OSes, a virtual Mac.

#INSTALL VMWARE ON MAC INSTALL#

It boots and the ESXi installer runs, but ultimately it fails.Īnd since Big Sur has been out for 5 months and no version of ESXi (that I am aware of) will install on a machine running that, I have to conclude that VMware and/or Apple isn't serious about supporting ESXi natively on Apple hardware. Only 5 of these are Mac Pros and of those, none are the current model of the Mac Pro (MacPro 7,1).Īdditionally, from my own experimenting around, any version of ESXi (up to and including 7.0b) fails to successfully install on a Mac that already has Big Sur installed. I will skip this part to make this post shorter.I am confused about VMware and/or Apple's commitment to supporting ESXi running natively on AppleĪccording to VMware, there are only 8 Apple products that support running ESXi natively (see table below).

#INSTALL VMWARE ON MAC HOW TO#

There are a lots of online documentation how to get and install VMWare Workstation. I believe you must have installed one if you are testing all kinds of system and software.

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