Note: Though you can also edit the VMX configuration file by hand, for those that are not familiar on how to reload the configuration file, it is best you use the UI. There are two recommended ways of performing this change using either the vSphere C# Client or vSphere Web Client and instructions are listed below.
To enable it for earlier guest OS versions, you'll need to power off your virtual machine and edit its configuration to add the following option:Īs mentioned by Darius, if you are running Mac OS X VM prior to 10.9 (Mavericks) you will need to add the following advanced VM setting by first powering it off and then add the above setting. A comment that came up yesterday on Twitter was that VMware Tools. To do so, you would need to be run ESXi on Apple hardware either the now deprecated Apple XServe 3.1 or an Apple Mac Pro. The option is enabled by default for OS X 10.9 guests. VMware Tools For Apple Mac OS X Guests With the release of vSphere 5, virtualizing Apple Mac OS X as a guest OS was possible and fully supported from VMware. We have a facility to generate a 'short' serial number which should be suitable for recent Apple software. I recall seeing this question get asked awhile back, but I could not immediately find the answer but thanks to Darius Davis (VMware Engineer) who provided the quick answer. There was an interesting question that was asked the other day about changing the hardware serial number for an Apple Mac OS X guest as the generated serial number is not compatible with services such as Apple Caching Service or iMessage.
