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rickrrk
Contributor
Contributor
‎06-11-2018 09:57 PM

"Attempting to start up from: Mac OS X ... unsuccessful" after updating mac

I updated Mac Os 10.12 to 10.13.5.

After restarting, Mac OS doesn't work and VMware  shows below image:

Screenshot from 2018-06-11 12-51-17.png

and after that this page:

Screenshot from 2018-06-11 12-51-20.png

I did this changes to .vmx file:

  • removing firmware
  • changing firmware from efi to bios
  • add smc.version = 0 without quotations

and also:

  • Install another mac and mount .vmdk file as second HDD, but it can not open it, and in disk utility it shows the disk as below:
    Screenshot from 2018-06-11 18-00-20.png

I attached vmware.log file:

vmware.log.zip
4 Replies
continuum
Immortal
Immortal
‎06-12-2018 04:34 AM

Running MAC OS VMs on non-Apple hardware is considered to be illegal by Apple lawyers.
So unfortunately we cant help you.

Ulli


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Do you need support with a VMFS recovery problem ? - send a message via skype "sanbarrow"
I do not support Workstation 16 at this time ...

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ewatkins01
Contributor
Contributor
‎06-18-2018 07:29 AM

I am seeing the same issue but I am running on Apple hardware.  I am running ESX 6.5 on a Mac Pro Desktop and when we upgraded a VM running on it, the VM ended up in this non-bootable state.

Can you provide any help in this case?

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RDPetruska
Leadership
Leadership
‎06-18-2018 12:58 PM

Try asking in either the Fusion forum (since that is the Mac host product) or ESXi forums.

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ewatkins01
Contributor
Contributor
‎06-19-2018 07:05 AM

With some additional research I was able to determine the fix.


The ESXi version must be at least 6.5.0 U2 in order to run MacOS 10.13.  Once I upgraded my ESXi host this morning the VM powered on and everything is working as expected.

Hope this helps someone else.