Inquiries from customers on the support for ESXi on the latest 2019 Apple Mac Pro 7,1 has slowly been trickling in since the release of the system in late December. Officially, VMware currently does not support this platform and until we have a unit in-house to investigate further, this is the official stance. Move to Azure seamlessly using VMware’s HCX technology and continue to manage your environment using the same VMware tools you already know: vSphere Client, NSX-T, Power CLI, or any popular DevOps toolchain. Ensure operational continuity when redeploying your vSphere-based applications to Azure, and avoid the complexity of application.
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Many of you may have wanted to run a Mac OS X virtual machine in your vSphere setup but get hit with the error that darwin11–64Guest is not supported, as outlined in VMware KB 2006093. As the KB explains that this is because you must be running Apple certified hardware to run a Mac OS X virtual machine. I’m sure that this has to do with the licensing of the OS X product. But you may want to run a vm or two to test software in your environment.
The Workaround
Luckily the heavy lifting to get around this has been done by InsanelyMac user Donk. He has created an unlocker tool for non-Apple hardware to be able to boot Mac OS X virtual machines. His tool works for other versions of VMware like Workstation but I’m going to focus on using it for ESXi.
There are two different versions of his unlocker utility, one for ESXi 5.0/5.1/5.5 and another for ESXi 6.0. Make sure that you use the appropriate utility for the version of your ESXi host.
How It’s Done
ESXi 6.0
Download Mac OS X Unlocker for VMware V2 (currently V2.0.6) from the InsanelyMac download page.
- Extract unlocker206.zip to a folder on your computer.
- Upload the contents to a datastore on your ESXi host.
- Put your host in maintenance mode.
- Enable the ESXi shell by following these directions if you haven’t already done so.
- Open the ESXi shell.
- Navigate to the directory on the datastore where the unlocker was uploaded to:Where Datastore is the datastore name where the patch file was uploaded to, and DirectoryName is the directory you created on the datastore.
- Make the install script executable.
- Run the install script.
- Reboot the ESXi host:
- Exit maintenance mode, and enjoy.
- Use the darwin.iso file in the tools folder to mount and install VMware Tools.
ESXi 5.0/5.1/5.5
Download Mac OS X Unlocker for VMware (currently V1.3.0) from the InsanelyMac download page.
- Extract unlocker-all-v130.zip to a folder on your computer.
- Upload the contents to a datastore on your ESXi host.
- Put your host in maintenance mode.
- Enable the ESXi shell by following these directions if you haven’t already done so.
- Open the ESXi shell.
- Navigate to the directory on the datastore where the unlocker was uploaded to:Where Datastore is the datastore name where the patch file was uploaded to, and DirectoryName is the directory you created on the datastore.
- Make the install script executable.
- Run the install script.
- Reboot the host.
- Exit Maintenance Mode, and enjoy.
- Use the darwin.iso file in the tools folder to mount and install VMware Tools.
Installing Mac OS X
You have to follow certain instructions to install Mac OS X from the installation media. It’s not complicated but it’s not straight forward either. You can view these instructions on the VMware website:
Summary
This quick little fix has been working for me on two virtual machines running Mac OS X 10.10. In the two weeks I’ve been running them I’ve yet to have any issues, performance or otherwise, with using this fix or using the virtual machines. I hope this article helps solve the issue of running Mac OS X on non-certified non-Apple hardware.
In one of my ESXi host we have found the alert mentioning the NFS IP Conflict and it points the specific MAC address as the owner . I was looking to find the HostIP which is causing the conflict and found some various options to find the results from both the ESXi VM level and hope it will be useful to share the information.
Method 1 – Simple commands
First by using the below command and it will search all the VMFS datastores and give the result with the appropriate VMX which is very useful to find the MAC of any VM vnic.( Below command is from the Reference Link )
find /vmfs/volumes | grep .vmx$ | while read i; do grep -i “00:50:**:**:**:**” “$i” && echo “$i”; done
If it couldn’t get the result then it will give the empty message.
Other Options :
Display the list of known network neighbors in the ARP and ND cache for all VMkernel network interfaces using one of the command
Next if we want to list the Mac of the VMKNIC then we can use the below command Assassins creed for mac download.
esxcli network ip neighbor list
By using the VMware debug mode we can try the below command
vmware -l
To Determine the MAC address of an ESX Hosts administration interface.
# ifconfig |grep -i hw
The output appears similar to:
vswif0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:41:5A:59
The MAC address is found in the first line after HWaddr. In this example, the MAC address is 00:50:56:41:5a:59.
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Note: The ESX host uses self-generated addresses starting with 00:50:56 (as opposed to the burned-in address of the interface itself).
Alternatively, review the outputted information and MAC addresses from the command esxcfg-nics -l.
Method -2 – DHCP Server
Another way to find the Mac address is from the DHCP Server , Go to the Scope – Address Lease , It will list all the IPs with the Mac address but it will help only for the DHCP IPs and not for the static address .
Method-3 – ARP
Next step is to try the ARP command which will give the list of recently resolved IP addresses to MAC address mapping from the ARP cache.
To populate the ARP table, ping a broadcast IP address to get a reply back from all hosts listening on the same subnet.
For example :ping 10.10.10.255
To list the ARP table, run the command:
arp -a
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Have a try on both from the ESX and the Vcenter so that we can get more chances to find the IP.
Method 4 – find the manufacturer.
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If you suspect the MAC is from any hardware like printer then we can try the below link to find the manufacturer.
Method – 5 How to find the MAC of the ESXi servers using the PowerCLI.
Pls see the below reference link for the info of the script and I just copied the main content of the script here.
2 4 | Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter | ` Format-List -Property * |
The Get-VmMacAddress function use the function to find the MAC of the VM using the powerCLI.
Method -6 – Free Tools
Lot of free tools are available in the internet like IP Scanner but the tool have to scan the entire network .
Reference: