Mac OS install on AMD Ryzen/INTEL (VMWare) Opencore - Improved Performance - Works with Sequoia / Sonoma / etc

Help please
I'm stuck on installation
I select "Install Mac OS Sonoma" and the process hangs at this point

Which vmware disk image file are you using? What number of cpu cores have you configured? Could you post the vmx file of your virtual machine?
 
Great guide and better than anything else I found online. I have two questions. 1. Do we need to keep the Opencore as the first HD or can I delete it? 2. If I update VMware workstation in the future which will eventually happens, do I need to unlock it again for this to continue working?

Thanks
 
I have a Catalina ISO, and a PC with AMD Ryzen 5 8600G with Radeon 760M igpu. With this VMWare - Opencore method, will I be able to open Apple Maps?
 
Great guide and better than anything else I found online. I have two questions. 1. Do we need to keep the Opencore as the first HD or can I delete it? 2. If I update VMware workstation in the future which will eventually happens, do I need to unlock it again for this to continue working?

Thanks
yes, you need to keep opencore as the first drive or if you have the appropriate knowledge then create an EFI partition on the other drive and copy the files from the opencore EFI partition to this new partition. That way the hard drive containing opencore will no longer be needed. There are advantages and disadvantages to doing this.

You can try upgrading macOS to a new version but ideally if you have space on your host hard drive then you can make a copy of the .vmdk file which is the hard drive containing macOS in case the upgrade fails.

Currently the newest versions of the opencore vmdk files I posted support even macOS Sequoia.

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I have a Catalina ISO, and a PC with AMD Ryzen 5 8600G with Radeon 760M igpu. With this VMWare - Opencore method, will I be able to open Apple Maps?
I believe so, considering that if you try Sequoia use the new vmdk that contains opencore 1.04 updated with vmhide.kext that allows you to use Apple Login Services.
 
Strange, my Sequoia 15.4 beta won't auto-upgrade to 15.5 (doesn't show it as an available upgrade). I'll download the ISO - the hackintosh-images URL doesn't work right now though, so I'll have to try my luck with Mega.
From there, I can mount the ISO and do an in-place upgrade from within the VM?
 
yes, you need to keep opencore as the first drive or if you have the appropriate knowledge then create an EFI partition on the other drive and copy the files from the opencore EFI partition to this new partition. That way the hard drive containing opencore will no longer be needed. There are advantages and disadvantages to doing this.

You can try upgrading macOS to a new version but ideally if you have space on your host hard drive then you can make a copy of the .vmdk file which is the hard drive containing macOS in case the upgrade fails.

Currently the newest versions of the opencore vmdk files I posted support even macOS Sequoia.

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Thanks. My upgrade question was for Wmare workstation and whether that will break the unlock and prevent me from using the MacOS VM. I presume at some we all have to upgrade the workstation version.
 
Thanks. My upgrade question was for Wmare workstation and whether that will break the unlock and prevent me from using the MacOS VM. I presume at some we all have to upgrade the workstation version.
No problems with upgrading vmware.
 
I have a Catalina ISO, and a PC with AMD Ryzen 5 8600G with Radeon 760M igpu. With this VMWare - Opencore method, will I be able to open Apple Maps?
I don't believe so, my understanding is Maps uses a proprietary Apple chip for rendering. I've built several virtual Macs, both on VMware and VirtualBox, including Catalina and Sequoia, and Maps has never worked. It loads, but does not render. Google maps works fine, so I never considered it much of a loss.
 
Nice Guide. I Had Mainly Two Issues, First, During the Installation, After the first reboot, the vm shuts down the virtual cpu. i modified the .vmx file with the contents below:
monitor_control.restrict_backdoor = "true"
monitor_control.enable_fullcpuid = "true"
virtualHW.version = "14"
smc.version = "0"
cpuid.0.eax = "0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:1011"
cpuid.0.ebx = "0111:0101:0110:1110:0110:0101:0100:0111"
cpuid.0.ecx = "0110:1100:0110:0101:0111:0100:0110:1110"
cpuid.0.edx = "0100:1001:0110:0101:0110:1110:0110:1001"
cpuid.1.eax = "0000:0000:0000:0001:0000:0110:0111:0001"
cpuid.1.ebx = "0000:0010:0000:0001:0000:1000:0000:0000"
cpuid.1.ecx = "1000:0010:1001:1000:0010:0010:0000:0011"
cpuid.1.edx = "0000:0111:1000:1011:1111:1011:1111:1111"
cpuid.ss = "1"
cpuid.ds = "1"
featureCompat.enable = "TRUE"
board-id = "Mac-AF89B6D9451A490B"
hw.model.reflectHost = "FALSE"
hw.model = "iMac20,2"
serialNumber.reflectHost = "FALSE"
serialNumber = "C01234567890"

tools.syncTime = "FALSE"
time.synchronize.continue = "FALSE"
time.synchronize.restore = "FALSE"
time.synchronize.resume.disk = "FALSE"
time.synchronize.shrink = "FALSE"
time.synchronize.tools.startup = "FALSE"

After that the Setup Continued, And then There was an error ending with In Memory Panic Stackshot Succeeded. I would Give you the OpenCore logs upon request. which has set me back from continuing with the setup as its an infinite bootloop here unfortunately. And to Mention:

1. Yes, I have Disabled Windows Hypervisor Platform, Both Via The Control Panel, And The Mentioned Method In The Post.
2. Memory Integrity Is On Currently.
3. I Have Enabled AMD-V in BIOS.
4. My Current CPU is An AMD Ryzen 7840HS along with 8 cores, which in the VM, 8 Cores are selected, And the 8 Cores OpenCore VMDK is also Applied.
5. I Have 16 Gigabytes of Current Usable Memory out of which 8 Gigabytes has been allocated to this VM.
6. Using VMWare 17.6.3 With The Unlocker.
7. Installed Ventura 13.0.1
 
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