This virtual machine cannot be powered on.” “This virtual machine requires AVX2 but AVX is not present. This is due to a corrupted vmx file: Try using a backup of vmx file or make a new VM and edit the vmx file carefully
“Feature ‘cpuid.ds’ was absent, but must be present.” “The CPU has been disabled by the guest operating system” Once all installed then go back to settings and set to MacOS 11 Change the “Apple Mac OS X” to “Microsoft Windows” then click OK. Once the settings window opened beside the “Hardware” tab click on “Options”. OK, to fix that just Power off the Virtual Machine, then select the VM click on Settings. It’s highly suggested (probably required if you have the latest vmware 16 installed) that you manually kill all vmware-related executables AND services through the task manager before running the patch.Īpple logo? Once you powered on the virtual machine, then I am a hundred percent sure that you will be stuck on Apple Logo. Make sure to format the drive as macOS extended journaled.įor those having trouble getting unlocker working. VMware Workstation Unlocker for macOS support: Link for downloading the VMware Workstation Unlocker tool and the mac OS Big Sur iso file is down below so make sure you download them all. Steps to install macOS in VMware Workstation 16: NOTE: THIS METHOD ONLY WORKS FOR INTEL CPU’S, FOR AMD CPU’S FOLLOW THIS LINK Install macOS 11.0 Big Sur on VMware Workstation 16! Yes, you saw it all right!
