I tried to hard reboot Mac computer, but nothing showed up. And when I completed the update process, tried to start the computer. ' I upgraded my iMac into latest macOS High Sierra last night. Update 3: Another tip from Michael Roy (thanks Mike) is to update your VMware Tools to 11.Mac won't start/boot after macOS High Sierra update/installation, help! It will only get better from here on once it is officially supported. To be honest I don’t even have the lines with width and height, but that’s how you can define that for now. vmx file of your VM in order to test this: You have to add the following lines to the. Unless apple steps in here and releases that for earlier macOS versions, it likely isn’t coming to earlier guest OS’s) Guest OS support: minimum of macOS Big Sur as guest OS (earlier macOS versions are missing the GPU paravirtual kernel extension for this – AppleParavirtGPU.kext. Required: minimum of macOS Big Sur as host OS This is not an officially released feature, treat it what it is: Experimental This is the best thing since sliced bread. … so… next hour or so I was frantically busy installing Big Sur Beta 9 on my 2014 Mac Mini and YES… IT DOES WORK and it is SOOOO SMOOTH Looks like I will update that box to macOS 11 right now.- Wil van Antwerpen OctoIt’s all in the detailsĪlso my host wasn’t running Big Sur yet (I had only run it in a VM) Vmx| I005: AppleGPU: Apple GPU support is not available: requires macOS 11. Ohh… I had not put the svga.present='FALSE' line and now I see what other precondition I missed (silly me)… Today I was poking Michael a bit on twitter and asking about how well Metal works on Big Sur beta 9 and that it is “so hard to wait” and he tells me “but you can try it yourself already”… ? vmx settings from the presentation I got a “Invalid configuration” error (or something along those lines).īut … silly me did not look at the vmware.log file. No matter that it is only supposed to be working in a future version of VMware Fusion 12.0.Īfter adding the. So of course, immediately after the presentation I had to try. Once the feature lands… Who wants to wait? vmx settings in order to get that working. Something to look forward to.ĭuring that same presentation he also showed the. Seeing this on the list of “things to come” was already pretty great. While running a Big Sur macOS guest, he showed “Metal Support” working without a hitch… Now we have been told for years that we cannot get 3D Acceleration in a macOS guest.

The presentation was “What’s New with VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion”. The Product manager of VMware Fusion, Michael Roy, had a classic “One More Thing” item in his VMworld presentation.

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