I liked your analysis. It is informative, but my experience with vmware a few years ago was better than with parallels. But I switched to dual boot because I was using Windows machine more often than mac OS.
So this was the installation guide, and I hope it helps you to install Kali Linux on PC or macOS using VMware fusion and all of you to explore. If you are a beginner, I would recommend taking this Kali Linux tutorial.
Vmmac Vmware Fusion 8 Pro For Mac
Not sure if this will be helpful or not, but I have been able to change the resolution of my Mac OS X vm's by using the esxi command line 'vim-cmd vmsvc/setsreenres' command. This appears to work for any vm that has vmware-tools installed. I use this command since I often connect to vm's running on esxi via my 11" macbook air and it has a screen resolution of 1366x768. By issuing this command I am able to change the VM's screen resolution. To use the command, log into the host esxi that the vm is running on and issue this command:
according to my vmware rep, this was included in the fusion 8.1 update . . . .but I don't see the tool in the application bundle anywhere, and the GUI doesn't show any different behavior. HAs anyone figured out how to fix this using only Fusion 8.1?
I actually upgraded to Fusion 8.1 and just doubled check and the utility is indeed part of the latest VMware Tools (10.0.5) and the vmware-resolutionSet utility is located under '/Library/Application Support/VMware Tools'
Mark, I was just hunting for the same solution. Just yesterday, I copied the script from my Fusion 8.1 vmware tools folder to one of my ESXi 6 OSX guests. Running that command every time you reboot is obviously not optimal, although... it might have a performance consequence, I don't know. In my particular application, if there is a slight performance hit, it won't matter.
I tried the 10.0.5 vmware tools on OSX 10.11.3 running under ESXi 5.5 and the keyboard stops working using both vmrc and thick-client console, so that's a no-go for me. The earlier tools (9.9.2) do not have this issue.
Hi William,First, many thanks for your posts.Then, it worked simply for me (mac mini esxi server with updated vmware tools and a 10.11 WM) by simply adding more total video memory to 128Mo and setting max resolution to 1920 to 1080. No need to modify the vmx file in this case. Using sudo makes the change persistent.
I wonder if there's a way to disable vmware display completely? I'm passing through videocard in mac os x VM, and don't need internal display at all. With Windows I can disable it in settings, is there a way to do so in Mac os X on VmWare?
I had the problem, that your solution doesnt work on workstation 12.5.5 and windows 10. I've recreated the vmx file as hw gen 10 version. after that everything works as expected with latest vmware tools. hope this helps.
I recalled that reinstalling vmware-tools and rebooting could fix the kernel extension not starting. Doing so not only allwed vmware-resoluton to running properly but also the corner dragging started working (was not working because vmware-tools was not running).
I tried all of these tips plus a few found elsewhere and no luck. I'm running Mac OS X Mojave 10.14.2 inside of ESXI 6.5. In order to get that to work, I had to use -unlocker/releases, which works beautifully for running OS X inside ESXI. However, when I run "sudo ./vmware-resolutionSet 1920 1080", I get the following response:Requested Resolution: 1920x1080Effective Resolution: 1176x885
I really hope for a definitive tutorial that puts an end to the hassle and confusion we are having for that application. People in this forum are very helpful and I think that one may help us in that so that we have a full guide with all the instructions needed
Ironically, I just through up my own forum topic regarding this. Now that this is up, looks like I will move all discussion over here. Like a previous poster, I am also a student. I know there are preview versions of VmWare fusion that are made for the M1s, but I know that Parallels is the best way to go since it offers the most support.I can get sighted assistance installing Windows for the first time, but I would be curious as to how to best access and run the machine as well as do things such as pausing, resuming, and shutting down. Also how does one switch between Mac and Windows environments?Thanks all,Gus
okay so... I use paralleles, but in order to install it/get windows runnning on it. you need a program called VoCR. Read teh Readme.md and download it. it's pretty straight forward. You'll also need a version of windows that can run on ARM systems.This will tell you what you need: Before I got my m1, I used vmware fusion, but apart from setting up Parallels, I find Paralells easier to use than VMware. For one, the ability to go to the control panel, file manager, shut down the system, etc, are all in the menu bar of the app, so if your brain's just in mac mode, you can do things that way. Now to remapping keys... I use Karabiner. Can't remember if that's on the app store of if I downloaded it, but either way, google it.If you have any more question, let me know.HTH.
Hi, regarding the issue of the command key getting past to both Mac and the VM, when I used VMware fusion on an older MacBook I used to exit the VM by using the window chooser which I activated on the trackpad - two finger double tap on the left of the trackpad.
Once the .iso is finally uploaded to the datastore, it's now time to prep our ESXi host with the ability to run macOS in a VM. The unlocker is written python that modifies the vmware-vmx file to allow macOS to boot. Without this unlocker, the machine simply doesn't work and is suck in a sad infinite boot loop.
This occurs because the darwin.iso doesn't exist in the directory "/usr/lib/vmware/isoimages." Which is fine as these are the iso images that shipped with this version of ESXi that I installed. According to the KB 2129825 we have a few options in resolving this. I'm going to simply go with the option to download the latest VMware tools for this specific OS. 2ff7e9595c
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