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Henri
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‎02-19-2020 10:25 AM

MacPro Rack 2019 & ESXI 6.7 U3 (full patched) & DarwinPanic: panic(cpu 1 caller 0xffffff7f83b1db8d): "DSMOS: SMC read error K0: 133"@/BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/DontStealMacOS/DontStealMacOS-30.0.1/Dont_Steal_MacOS.cpp:191

Hi,

have here a brand new MacPro 2019 running with VSphere 6.7 U3 (latest) and try to get run our OSX VMs on the Mac.

We have currently MacPros 2012 with ESXi 6.5 (latest) to host our VMs and would like to migrate to newer ESXis.

This is a fine machine and works very well (with two Intel quad 10Gbit nics and a Samsung 1,6 TG NVME PCIe card).

It's superb to have so much PCIe slots and memory at a single Intel 16 core.

The Linux guests are okay, but I get this message, running an Apple MacOS 10.15 (even with 10.14) on a Apple MacPro 2019.

Do you have any (beta) update to bring the right SMC call simulation this machine?

Thanks a lot in advance

Henri

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scott28tt
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‎02-19-2020 12:32 PM

This may help: https://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2020/01/esxi-on-the-new-2019-apple-mac-pro.html


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dariusd
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‎02-19-2020 03:28 PM

We do not yet have any public releases (including public betas) with support for the T2-based SMCs in the 2018 Mac Mini and 2019 Mac Pro.

We are working on it, but I do not have anything I can share publicly right now, sorry.

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Darius

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Henri
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‎02-19-2020 10:04 PM

Hi darisud,

thanks a lot for the information. Is there any (closed) beta, where I could participate?

We would also buy better licenses, as soon this works.

Thanks

Henri

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dariusd
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‎06-15-2020 09:56 PM

Apologies for the substantial delay in my reply here, Henri.  A colleague just brought this thread to my attention again after it fell "off my radar".

Since I last posted here, ESXi 6.7 P02 has been released, and that release includes a fix for the problem which prevented macOS guests from running in ESXi on Mac hosts with the T2 security chip (e.g. 2018 Mac Mini, 2019 Mac Pro).  William Lam has a nice blog post about it​ which is probably worth a read, discussing the various improvements as well as the limitations around support for these recent systems from Apple.

I hope that it meets your needs.  If not, please do get back to me with feedback.

Thanks,

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Darius

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