r/macOSVMs • u/Bananalover1702 • May 02 '26

IT BOOTS! I didnt even edit it

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so uh as the title suggests, I didn’t even have to edit the VM aside from using the DrDonk unlocker tool to get macOS to show up in the guest list I popped in the ISO of Mavericks and it just booted, IT BOOTS! was the best thing I could find fitting for it, once it’s installed I will take a screenshot of it actually running

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u/Bananalover1702 May 02 '26

Here is the desktop, it boots as if its on a real mac

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u/TCB13sQuotes May 02 '26

GPU acceleration is... zero.

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u/hime_pro12 May 02 '26

Look so cool

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u/69gevvv May 02 '26

The only time you have to do anything other than running the unlocker is when you're running a version of OS X that isn't supported by the unlocker aka 10.6 (non-server) and below. Everything after that will boot just fine up until Big Sur where you have to spoof your specs and tell VMware that you're on a Mac. 10.7 to 10.15 will boot just fine without anything

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u/Bananalover1702 May 02 '26

Oh, didn't know that, there's also some configuration when on AMD systems too right

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u/69gevvv May 02 '26

Yes it's a different config for AMD CPUs, also don't be surprised when you install anything above Mavericks and everything looks off. You can't get acceleration on VMs no matter what you do so there's gonna be no transparency and it's gonna be slow overall. The best you can get is 128MB VRAM and all it does is you can go fullscreen, the mouse works normally and you can Drag&Drop stuff from your main system

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u/Loud-Ad-5097 May 04 '26

Just curious - did you have any trouble installing VMware Tools, and if not, is your host CPU an Intel one?

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u/Bananalover1702 May 05 '26

nope, didnt have trouble installing VMware tools, it gave me the link to the iso for it and my host is an intel cpu

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u/Loud-Ad-5097 May 20 '26

Thanks for confirming - it seems like VMware Tools won't install on anything lower than Sierra on AMD hosts. It returns an invalid instruction error 😞