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Mac OS Mountain Lion 10.8 on VMWare Fusion
I have a MacBook Pro 2015 which is capable of running MacOS 12 but I've been stuck back at MacOS 10.14 Mojave just to keep my Adobe Creative Suite 6 running. I'd like to move the applications to a ...
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Sticky mouse pointer when using VMware Horizon Client
I'm using VMware Horizon Client Version 2406.1, Build 8.13.1 (11490701655) on a M2 Mac Studio connecting to a Windows 10 workstation. In single monitor mode it works fine, but when using two or all ...
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Why is this displayed when I open the pvm file (saved from Parallel Desktop) with VMware fusion?
There is an ARM Windows machine in my Parallel Desktop. Just now I tried to switch to VMware Fusion. I opened the pvm file with VMware Fusion and it was convert as a vmwarevm file then. Now I tied ...
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Mac as virtual machine guest: How to use multiple displays?
I'm working on a test environment for testing Mac software. The plan is to use virtual machines (for example VMWare or Parallels) and install older versions as guest operating system, allowing me to ...
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Can I run a virtual machine from my iPad?
I have a Windows virtual machine that I want to open it from my iPad using VirtualBox, Vmware client, or any free App that allows me to open a virtual machine file (I assume it is local to my iPad).
I ...
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No allow button in security and privacy preferences
When trying to install VMWare in MacOS Catalina, under security and privacy system preferences and then general, I do not see a way to allow what it needs to work properly. Even when I unlock the ...
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How to install macOS Catalina on a 2013 iMac in VirtualBox?
I own a 21.5-inch, late 2013 iMac (with a couple hardware upgrades, namely RAM and hard drive) running macOS Catalina 10.15.7 (this is the latest macOS compatible with my specs).
I'd like to run macOS ...
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How to get VLAN tagging working in MacOS?
I have a 2020 Intel iMac running 14.5 Sonoma with 3 physical Ethernet interfaces, each attached to a switch port on different VLANs (12, 51, and 203). I have a virtual lab set up in VMware Workstation ...
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How can I enable cross-OS cut-and-paste in Windows 11 with VMWare Fusion 13 on M1?
I just set up a new MBP with M1 Pro.
macOS: Ventura 13.0.1
VMWare Fusion: 13.0 (Pro license)
I installed Windows 11 into a VM based on this guide. I installed VMWare Tools and they appear to be ...
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Blurry display in Windows 10 on VMware Fusion Pro on MacBook Pro Retina
I have a 15 inch mid 2015 MacBook Pro Retina with El Captian on it. I recently installed VMware Fusion Pro in that and created a new VM and installed Windows 10 64Bit. The problem I'm having is that ...
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vmware fusion heavily interferes with displaylink manager on macbook with m2 chip
I'm running a macbook pro with m2 chip. In order to get to use multiple monitors instead of just one I've attached a dockingstation to my mbp. I'm also using the display link manager application to ...
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Install macOS ARM in VMWare Fusion on an M3 Mac
I'm trying to install a macos arm64 VM, but there's no such option on VMWare Fusion now,
On Intel Mac I can install the VM from recovery partition. Is there a way to do that on MacOS?
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VMware Fusion Player vms cannot use IPV6?
Host is a Mac mini X86 running Sonoma 14.2.1, VMware Fusion Player Version 13.5.0 (which are current as of this writing.). Guest vms include Windows 11, macOS Sonoma 14.2.1, and a Linux, where I was ...
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Even with Parallel on an M2 or M3 Mac, do we need the ARM binaries for the VM?
I am exploring VMWare and Parallel to be able to run Ubuntu or other Linux as a VM. However, I found that Ubuntu seems to only have a server version which is compiled for ARM?
Likewise, if we'd like ...
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osascript keystroke character case with VMware web console
Looking to get the ability to simulating typing a password into a vm console. Figured osascript and keystroke should be the answer.
If I run the following I get what I believe to be the correct ...
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Windows 11 keeps redoing intallation steps on VMware
I have a Macbook pro 2019 with Intel core i7.
I have successfully installed Linux using VMware. The location of that VM is on a LaCie hard drive. I'm now trying to install Windows 11. I have done it ...
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Access VPN Connected in VMWare Windows 10 in Macbook Bigsur
I have Macbook Pro which has windows installed in VMWare Fusion. I have VPN installed inside windows 10 and i can connect and access websites.
Is there a way i can connect VPN in windows and proxy it ...
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Running Vagrant on Apple Silicon (M2) with v.gui=false
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I've recently upgraded from an Intel MBP to an M2 MBP, so I had to update my Vagrant. Reading around led me to first download the latest VMware Fusion Tech Preview, then update my Vagrant ...
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How can I run an Intel-based macOS in a virtual environment to test my app? [duplicate]
I am a developer. I've written a native app for macOS on my MacBook Air (with the Apple M2 chip.) Now I need to test it for an Intel-based CPU. When I build my app in Xcode, it is supposed to cover ...
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How can I get the lead out for creating a Snow Leopard Server virtual machine under VMware?
I have a DVD for Snow Leopard Server, and I have an MBP running Monterey and under it VMware Fusion 13.0.2.
I am trying to make a virtual machine, allocated 4G RAM for the guest OS, and disabled side ...
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Cliffhanger while attempting to setup Snow Leopard in Fusion
I'm following the instructions in this article, "Installing Snow Leopard in VMware Fusion", to create a Snow Leopard virtual machine.
I downloaded the ISO from https://archive.org/details/...
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VMware Fusion Ubuntu is stuck on black screen and can't load anything
I am using VMware Fusion to open up an Ubuntu VM on my Mac. The screen currently just shows up as a black screen and doesn't load anything. I have access to VMware Preferences but can't access the ...
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Is it possible to run VMware Fusion in the background to hide the windows and icons it produces?
I have multiple virtual machines setup in VMware Fusion.
Some of them are only servers (like Ubuntu), which I want to run without seeing the VMware Fusion icons or windows, a little like VMware ...
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MAC OS X Mavericks 10.9.0 installation on VMWare Sphere Client 5.1 [closed]
i want to test something on mac os x (Open VPN) and because i do n't have this os in my local machine i decided to install it on my dedicated server.
so i created a virtual machine on vmware sphere ...
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All sound in macOS virtual machines is white noise
I am running macOS virtual machines in VMware vSphere 7.0.3 (ESXi Host is a Mac Pro 5,1). I have everything from Snow Leopard to macOS Mojave - all of the VMs have this issue. This is fully supported ...
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Can I run any lower than my current version of macOS through a virtualisation or emulation environment like Parallels?
My goal is to have access to the install of my old Mac on my new Mac without operating two Macs side-by-side. The configurations are:
Old Mac:
El Capitan 10.11.6
Intel processor
New Mac
Ventura 13....
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Time Machine inside a virtual macOS installed through VirtualBox? I want to backup the virtual macOS, not the host macOS. Possible?
And then I want to do something even more voodoo. I want to take this Time Machine backup (from a virtual macOS) and install it on a real MacBook. Feels like it is going to explode, but maybe not.
My ...
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Attempt to resize (expand) a virtual disk in macOS Mojave not working - VM is hosted in VMware vSphere (similar to Fusion)
I'm attempting to expand a vDisk in macOS Mojave, but it's not working. The VM is hosted in VMware vSphere (similar to macOS Fusion on an Intel Mac).
I'm following this VMware KB article
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Can I install a hypervisor on the Windows system which I installed using a Boot Camp on MacBook?
I'm using MacBook Air 2020. I installed a Windows system using Boot Camp Assistant a few days ago.
I'm not sure if Boot Camp is a type 1 hypervisor, but I heard that we can't install a hypervisor on ...
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Corresponding ipfw rules in MacOS for this Iptables rules
I need to give Internet access to a VM under Vmware fusion 7 in Host-Only mode. I know how to do it in Linux, with the following IPtables rules:
sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
iptables -A FORWARD -o ...
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Copy & Paste is not working in my Kali Linux Virtual Machine
I am running VMWare Fusion 11.5 Pro on Mac OS X 10.15 Catalina
Copy & Paste is not working in my Kali Linux and my host (Mac OS X)
I checked the settings I see this
I search around, people ...
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easy way to manage VMware ESXi on Mac OS X
I'm a VMware guy, running a dozen of ESXi ... and i'm also a mac user and I've had it with launching VMware Fusion to boot my Win7 to work on vSphere client...
Am I missing something? Sys Admins and ...
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Using Time Machine with Virtualization (Parallels, VirtualBox, VMWare, etc...)
Since a single small change to a VM file should (I think) cause the entire multi-gigabyte file to be backed up again, are there any ideas I can use to more effectively backup my machine?
Assume that ...
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How to disable SIP when Big Sur or later macOS is installed in a VMware Fusion Player virtual machine
I have Big Sur installed in a VMware Fusion Player virtual machine. I desire to disable SIP. With an actual physical Mac, the usual method would involve first booting to internal macOS Recovery, then ...
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VMWare Shared Folders empty on macOS virtual machine from macOS host
I'm trying to share the macOS Big Sur host's Downloads folder with a virtual machine that's also on Big Sur. As you can see from the screen grab below, Enable Shared Folders is checked, the Downloads ...
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Disable System Integrity Protection on OS X running on VMware
I have an instance of OS X El Capitan running on VMWare Workstation 10. I need to make changes to /System and therefor have to disable System Integrity Protection. How do I access recovery mode on ...
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How to update virtual machine disk space in VMware Fusion?
I'm using Windows 7 on VMware Fusion.
In the hard disk settings of the virtual machine I've set Disk Size to 65GB, I've selected pre-allocate the space and applied.
However when I run Windows 7 I ...
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VMWare Fusion Bootcamp loads wrong volume
I added a VM inside VMWare Fusion using the built in method for adding a bootcamp partition that runs off the actual partition rather than cloning it.
Instead of the Bootcamp VM opening Windows 10, it ...
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Is VMware Fusion Player a suitable substitute for Bootcamp?
The goal is to be setup a Catlina (iMac 27-inch 2015, 32GB core i7) Machine with USB Fax Modem capability. I have an Apple USB Fax Modem, however I am open to the idea of purchasing the US Robotics ...
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Will background apps run during screensaver?
Perhaps I am rendering an image VIA Blender, or what is happening at the time of writing this post, creating a VM. If I put my Mac to screensaver, will background apps continue to run? Like would ...
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Is there a way to run a macOS guest virtual machine on an M1 / Apple Silicon host?
On an Intel Mac it was possible and legal to run a "Mac-on-Mac" VM, i.e. to run macOS within a virtual machine hypervisor running on macOS. Does any product or demonstration exist for the ...
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Setup a macOS VM in Parallels from recovery partition without company defaults from Remote Management
I started a new job as software developer a few months ago, and I got a company MacBook Pro for work from home that I'm also allowed to use privately.
I haven't used a MacBook before so given the ...
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How to Remove "Others" from the login page
Hi, I turned on my pc today and I was surprised by the screen I got.
I can't log in with my user because I have the only one. The main user in the case.
Can anybody help me?
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How to list the virtual machines running on my macOS? [closed]
I use minikube running a local K8s cluster in my macOS, it will running a virtual machine on my macOS, I have a question about it.
how to list the virtual machines running on my macOS?
and how to ...
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Monitor VM network with Little Snitch
I've upgraded to Big Sur (yep, late to the party), VM Ware Fusion 12 and Little Snitch 5.
I get that kernel extension are no longer valid and VM Ware now uses the Apple network API.
Previously I could ...
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Virtual Machine of real bootcamp that's on external drive
So I have a Bootcamp / dual boot setup where my iMac has a bootable Windows installed on an external SSD. I would like to be able to boot that SSD using VMware or something similar whilst natively ...
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How to make VM1 connect to fakedns server on VM2?
I am trying to create a mini malware analysis environment between a few MacOS VMs to analyse the network activity of MacOS malwares.
Some context about the VMs:
Both VM are MacOS Catalina 10.15
Both ...
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How to add ovftool to Catalinas path?
I have installed VMware ovftool using the regular installer, which installed it in the /Application folder. I now want this added to the global path, so I added it to /etc/paths, see following output:
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Is it possible to install an iPhone app in MacBook Pro?
I use an application WeChat in my iPhone a lot, as typing on a smartphone is less convenient than typing on a keyboard, I would like to be able to use that application on my MacBook Pro.
The OS in my ...
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Forcefully un-suspend a Parallels VM without starting Parallels
I recently updated to Mac OS X 10.12.5, which is a beta version as of right now, and Parallels Desktop has subsequently refused to start. It sits for a little bit with a spinner and then quietly dies. ...
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