Yes, just right click on the virtual machine file (on your mac), select "Show Package Contents", then select the first file that says "Your Operating System" -s001.vmdk or the biggest file and copy it to your flash drive or whatever you are going to use to transfer it to your windows machine. That .vmdk file is compatable with vmware workstation and virtualbox (a free version by oracle, but you need hardware acceleration).
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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
Hi Rigo, no it shouldn't take that long to install... What hardware resources have you give the VM? CPU and memory? Are you using an SSD? What point does the install get stuck? What version of VM workstation are you using? Please let me know. Thanks!
Hi again. I haven't tested what happens when VMware workstation is upgraded. I think if you don't see the option to create a macOS virtual machine, you'll need to rerun macOS unlocker. Hope that helps!
So is this working with vmware 15.5 and windows 10 version 1909? I want to create a new install myself with a mac image. And second question: can i use the same unlocker for older versions of mac osx like Tiger (intel?) 2ff7e9595c
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