Opencore for ESXi 7 legacy CPUs - macOS Ventura 13.1 working solution

[macchrome]

ESImage profile: ESXi-7.0U3f-20036589-standard (VMware, Inc.)

Manufacturer HP Model ProLiant DL380 G7 CPU Logical processors 24 Processor type Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5670 @ 2.93GHz (Westmere no AVX nevermind AVX2!) Sockets 2 Cores per socket 6 Hyperthreading Yes, enabled Memory 103.99 GB

NB: USB controller 1 must be of type USB3.1 (USB 1.1 is deprecated under macOS Ventura)

Procedure is quite simple:

• Attached a working VMWare workstation - IPSW OS.dmg used - Ventura macOS 13.1-22C65 VM (vmdk) to an existing Monterey ESXi VM (spoofed to iMac17,1 for compatibility with OpenCore Legacy Patcher)

• https://github.com/dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/archive/refs/heads/main.zip

• Satisfy build requirements: eg: pip3 install requests ...

• Execute: OpenCore-Patcher.command

• Create EFI

• Copy created EFI to EFI partition

• Made sure that it was possible to boot Monterey from opencore.efi; then with addition of NoAVXFSCompressionTypeZlib-AVXpel.kext and CryptexFixup.kext was able to boot macOS Ventura.

• iMac18,3 profile used in VMX: basic requirement for macOS Ventura

https://github.com/macchrome/compilers/releases/download/Opencore-esxi-legacy-cpu-0.01/Opencore-esxi-legacy-cpu-rev2.7z

[mikeyo]

ESXi has always shown the macOS options without the unlocker. Only VMware know why!

Can you replace the opencore files in the Vm I gave you with these please? My fault I'm using Jinja2 and templates to create plists and I had a typo.

Archive.zip

Lets see if this boots properly and isntalls, stay tuned

[DrDonk]

To install you will need to add another virtual disk to install to, but just see if you get to the Recovery Assistant.

[mikeyo]

so far so good -

[DrDonk]

This will be an Internet based install. Also as debug you will need to select the drive to boot during the installer reboots. This isn't the case for the release OC version it should auto select the correct boot drive. I'll send that over once this proves to be working.

[mikeyo]

This will be an Internet based install. Also as debug you will need to select the drive to boot during the installer reboots. This isn't the case for the release OC version it should auto select the correct boot drive. I'll send that over once this proves to be working.

Works, nice work! Please send over the release oc that you have.

[DrDonk]

Attached is zip with release OC for AMD. Before you use it would you be so kind as to send me the vmware.log and serial.log files from your successful installation, please? They could be very useful for me, as about to do some testing with another AMD user on Workstation.

To move from debug to release I would do the following:

1. Copy new opencore files to VM folder
2. Edit settings and disable the serial port

3. Add these 2 lines to VMX which should hopefully fix the blank screen boots:

   bios.bootOrder = "HDD"
   bios.hddOrder = "sata0:2"

(this assumes you haven't moved the opencore.vmdk from sata0:2. but if you have modify it to the virtual sata port diplayed in settings)

release_amd.zip

[mikeyo]

Sure. I assume nothing sensitive in the logs?

[DrDonk]

Nothing unless you've named a folder after your name or user name. In which case just redact it.

[DrDonk]

AH just check machine names and IP addresses as well. You can email me if prefer.

[mikeyo]

serial.log vmware.log

No problem, here you go.