{"id":2040,"date":"2014-11-07T09:29:57","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T09:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/?p=2040"},"modified":"2016-04-07T13:28:44","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T13:28:44","slug":"unable-to-start-mac-os-x-vms-on-esxi-host-after-uploading-from-vmware-fusion-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/?p=2040","title":{"rendered":"Unable To Start Mac Os X Vm\u2019s On Esxi Host After Uploading From Vmware Fusion 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Unable-to-start-Mac-OS-X-VM\u2019s-on-ESXi-Host-after-uploading-from-VMWare-Fusion-7-Tips-and-Tricks-from-a-Mac-Admin.pdf\">Unable to start Mac OS X VM\u2019s on ESXi Host after uploading from VMWare Fusion 7 | Tips and Tricks from a Mac Admin<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Migrating-OS-X-VMs-from-VMware-Fusion-7-Pro-to-ESXi-5.5-Der-Flounder.pdf\">Migrating OS X VMs from VMware Fusion 7 Pro to ESXi 5.5 | Der Flounder<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Basically add<\/p>\n<div class=\"codecolorer-container text default\" style=\"overflow:auto;white-space:nowrap;\"><div class=\"text codecolorer\">smc.present = &quot;TRUE&quot;<\/div><\/div>\n<p>to the .vmx file that has been uploaded<\/p>\n<pre>To boot up the Mac OS X VM successfully, following steps must be followed on the vSphere Client \u2013\r\nPower OFF the restored VM.\r\nRight click the VM and click on \u2018Edit Settings\u2019.\r\nClick on \u2018Options\u2019 tab on top.\r\nClick on \u2018General\u2019 under \u2018Advanced\u2019.\r\nClick on the \u2018Configuration Parameters...\u2019 button seen on right. A new window will pop up with various parameters.\r\nClick on \u2018Name\u2019 and everything will be sorted alphabetically. Look if \u2018smc.present\u2019 is already there.\r\nIf it is present and its value is \u2018false\u2019, then, change it to \u2018true\u2019.\r\nIf \u2018smc.present\u2019 is completely missing, then add it -\r\n     - Click on \u2018Add Row\u2019 and add the following values\r\n     - In the \u2018Name\u2019 column, type - smc.present\r\n     - In the \u2018Value\u2019 column, type - true\r\n     - Click on \u2018OK\u2019\r\n     - Power ON the VM<\/pre>\n<p>Other Keys that might be handy are<\/p>\n<pre>SMBIOS.use12CharSerialNumber = \"TRUE\"<\/pre>\n<pre>serialNumber = xxxxxxxxxxxx<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unable to start Mac OS X VM\u2019s on ESXi Host after uploading from VMWare Fusion 7 | Tips and Tricks from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-info-on-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}