You should now see that VMware Tools are running in the vSphere Client. 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.
#ESXI MAC OS VMWARE TOOLS HOW TO#
This article explains how to compile open-vm-tools for Debian 10 arm64.ĭebian 10 (arm64) installed as a Virtual Machine on ESXi-Arm Fling. Installing Mac OS as a Guest OS on a VMware VM. Unfortunately, a compiled version of open-vm-tools for arm64 is not available for many common Guest Operating Systems, so you have to compile them from VMwares Repository at GitHub.
#ESXI MAC OS VMWARE TOOLS FOR MAC OS X#
A comment that came up yesterday on Twitter was that VMware Tools did not exists for Mac OS X guests and this would make it difficult to manage Mac OS X guests on vSphere. Debian is also the basis for many other distributions. 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. It is one of the oldest and the most popular edition for personal computers and servers.
With the recently released ESXi Arm Edition Fling, you want to make sure that you have them installed.ĭebian is a Linux distribution composed of free and open-source software, developed by the community-supported Debian Project. They are essential when running VMs on ESXi.
VMware Tools is a set of utilities and drivers that improve the performance and management of your Virtual Machines.