Project Future

[DrDonk]

This will be some disappointing changes for some but this project does not fit my needs which was to originally fix some issues with the EFI implementation in VMware Fusion, such as not being able to boot into recovery mode. Now it has become a full blown replacement for my unlocker project which I stopped due to burnout answering the same questions and the fact there is no long term future for VMware and Intel macOS.

Now I have added AMD support, spoofing and a bunch of other things I do not need or want. The thing that nailed it for me was adding the kernel patches for Apple logins to work which I knew would break things but did it anyway. So this is all being rolled back. (macOS now thinks it is running on a real Mac and will fail as it tries to do firmware, BridgeOS updates...) No point in adding things if the basic functionality is borked.

IRL I am also retired and want to do other things and have delivered these patches and hacks for nearly 20 years.

Moving forward the project will give the same level of support that VMware do with Fusion on an Apple Mac with 2 exceptions as I now have a small Linux PC as well as Apple Macs.

1. VMware Workstation support
2. AMD CPU support

I will be removing and not supporting spoofing and any other things related to that topic. I will ensure those want to mess around with those things are not locked out.

So expect to see a stripped down version 2.5 no spoofing and no kernel patches to mask VMM.

Apologies to those who wanted these capabilities but I'm done explaining the risks and issues with pretending to be on a real Mac.

Finally everyone is free to fork and do what they want with the project, and that's a good thing.

Cheers

[CubikingChill]

I am on AMD and the VM fails to boot if I increase the CPU core allocation from 2. May I ask what are the possible reasons?

[DrDonk]

Keep the number of cpus at 2 to start and then start increasing cores. I am not sure what happens but there are some combinations that macOS does not like and panics early in the boot. This also happened to me on a real Intel Mac running VMware Fusion with the same macOS guests.

[ubidev]

This project has obvisously consumed countless hours of your life and on that, I'd like to give you all my gratitude Sir for this gem! 🥇 :)

[DrDonk]

Thank you. It was fun side project when I was a software engineer but now it’s time for other things after developing code for nearly 40 years I think I’m done. 😀

[ubidev]

We've been a long way since the days we used to code on x-large floppies ;-)
Maybe after a break you'll start having fun vibe coding stuff for your own personnal uses. You certainly have all it takes to plan/structure/spec/steer/validate any generated output from any ai clown lol