Once connected navigate to /vmfs/volumes/datastore/, replacing datastore with your actual datastore name. Make sure you extract the files somewhere on your client before transfer and connect to the ESXi host using the user root. Click Start and then close all the open dialogs.ģ.Transfer the Unlocker-files to the host using any SFTP client. The dialog Services Properties should appear and from here you can click on SSH->Options and choose Start and Stop with host. From here click on Properties in the upper right corner where it says Services. In order to do that, login to the host using VMware vSphere Client and navigate to Configuration->Security Profile. You will need to register on the site in order to download the Unlocker tool.Ģ.You need to enable SSH server service on your ESXi host. So, the first thing you need to do is to customise the hypervisor layer by executing an Unlocker script by. VMware ESXi 6.0 doesn’t support OS X out of the box. Before deployment, you must read EULA for Apple Mac OS X license, given link at the end of this HOWTO.ġ. In this HOWTO, provided the steps to create an Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks as a VM in ESXi 6.0 Host for a test case scenario.

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Server, 10.6 Snow Leopard Server, 10.7 Lion client or server, 10.8 Mountain Lion client or server and 10.9 Mavericks client or server are fully supported on VMware Fusion while running on supported Apple hardware.

The End User License Agreement (EULA) for Apple Mac OS X legally and explicitly binds the installation and running of the operating system to Apple-labeled computers only. According to Apple licensing policies, VMware only supports the virtualization of Apple Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) client or server, Apple Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) client or server, Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) client or server, Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) client or server, Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) client or server, 10.6 (Snow Leopard) server and 10.5 (Leopard) server. We all know VMWare start to supporting Mac OS X as VM on latest ESXi hypervisor releases.

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