This it what I got here! 3-4+ minutes of Guest OS totally frozen on my PC with weaker Core i5 CPU, maybe 7-10 secs of freeze on the laptop with faster Core i7 CPU. I can't think of anything that I have changed recently other than the VMware update and I am rolling back to 16.0 to see if that makes a difference, but I was wondering if anyone else has experienced something similar?Īre you getting heavy load of CPU when you try to minimize ANY window in the GUEST macOS VM? It's a full freeze (no response from keyboard/mouse, have to power off the system). Since upgrading to VMware 16.1.0 (and re-running the unlocker), I am experiencing the host freezing up from time to time. I leave my macOS VM running all of the time (basically using it mostly as a very heavy iMessage client).

Does anyone know anyone else active with this project, or someone that would like to become active? Without help, it will almost certainly quit working at some point.

Donk was a significant contributor, but I don't believe he is active anymore. Some others that have contributed are , , and myself ( ). We are lucky that it continues to work on Workstation 16, and first reports are it still works with Big Sur. We have been able to make minor fixes and tweaks. Unfortunately, we are short on people who are really up to speed on how the core of it works. Without giving too many details, it is to help people who can't afford a Mac but need macOS to use medical software that greatly improves their lives. I continue to support a community where Unlocker is very important. It has now been downloaded over 114,000 times. Everything is working for me with Workstation 16. I made it by pulling a broken version of Unlocker and putting a few fixes in. I can't believe how many people have downloaded MK-Unlocker. It seems nobody can help me here 'cause nobody's facing a similar issue. I also changed C-State from Auto to enabled and disabled HEIST. Disabling it didn't make a difference in this situation though. I did have Disable Execute Bit enabled though, which I think to remember causing me issues back when I still built hackintoshes. From Windows, to almost every Linux distro, to several BSDs.never had an issue. I occasionally run tons of different OSes in VMware.

The CPU doesn't support VT-d so no reason to go into the BIOS to deactivate it. I got pretty upset and had to bite the apple ending up with the locked H97 version. Sadly the board arrived malfunctioning and the reseller couldn't stock me another Z97 replacement. The CPU was a steal back then for the performance it could provide overclocked. Back in the day I had actually bought the MSI Z97i AC which would've allowed me to overclock the G3258 very impressively. My motherboard is a H97 socket with an unlocked (lol.) Haswell CPU.

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