Recent content by ashley

Now I have my Sonoma with 8 CPU and 16 gb ram (host amd 5950x) running on Eaxi8 thanks to this thread, I was benchmarking this using Geekbench 6 and the multi core CPU speed came out roughly equivalent to a mac mini m1 and single core speed roughly half that of an m1. Is this the same sort of...

thanks. The other servers I have access to are Dell Poweredge R760xd2 servers with Xeon 4514Y (2 sockets of 16 core CPU) and Dell PowerEdge MX740c blades with 2xIntel Xeon 6248R (2 sockets of 24 core CPU) with 1.2TB RAM each. They are all running vSphere8. I realise I could run DrDonk's ESXi...

Now I've got my AMD rig running Sonoma thanks to the awesome work by @tucano2000 , Is there a similar guide that could be made for Intel CPUs? Reason why is that I have a 2nd machine and would love to have Sonoma on a VM on that one as well? (I haven't tried this on an Intel Xeon system I have -...

So I'm using ESXi and not workstation so Mac OS is no longer supported on ESXi on a virtual hardware level after 7update2 - hence the reason why under 8update3 I need to set the hardware compatibility level downwards. VMware stopped supporting Mac OS on ESXi shortly after Mac announced the...

thanks, I've been using; https://github.com/DrDonk/esxi-unlocker for years and that worked well prior to Ventura on ESXi (provided that the CPU masks were set as you say). On this I haven't set up any of the CPU masks as I understand OpenCore is working its magic at that layer. I'll try with...

thanks a bunch for this @tucano2000 My home server is running ESXi 8 update 3, 128GB RAM with AMD5950x CPU. I've started off with the 1 socket by 4 cores configuration with 8GB RAM. Because type 1 vmdk's aren't supported on ESXi, I run this from the SSH console of ESXi host vmkfstools -i...