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Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Installing Mac OS X El Capitan 10.10 on Vmware ESXi 6.0


After a long struggle of 48 hours, I could finally able to install the Apple's latest Mac OS X El Capitan v10.11  on a Virtual Machine (VM). The experiment was conducted on Vmware ESXi 6.0 virtualization platform running over physical IBM Server X3650 M3.


Following are the installation steps:

Setting up ESXi for running Apple Mac OS X 

Vmware ESXi 6.0 doesn’t support OS X out of the box.
  1. So, the first thing you need to do is to customise the hypervisor layer by executing