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While there may indeed be a lot of people from hobbyists to professionals using these hacks to get those Mac Pros working with later macOS releases, it does not change the fact that Apple will not support that old Mac Pro hardware with Catalina or Big Sur.
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Sounds to me like VMware is going full speed ahead on the new Apple hypervisor framework for Big Sur and getting ahead of Apple's announcement that eventually will removes kexts. Yes it's frustrating - especially since Parallels allows you to choose which hypervisor to choose. It looks to me like VMware has made a product direction decision to not put further engineering work into kexts for Big Sur. We all know that Apple changes things under the hood between macOS releases and It breaks stuff, and past versions of Fusion kexts have had to be updated as result of those changes.
I understand the ask - but without being both an Apple kernel engineer and a VMware hypervisor developer, I would not assume that the Catalina kexts will work on Big Sur. Reading through the tea leaves makes me pessimistic that VMware will change course on Big Sur. Witness the confusion on whether they support Fusion 12 with Big Sur on M1 Macs for example. Vmware's documentation has been somewhat less than accurate lately from my experience. But I look at Apple's documentation first on what hardware is supported by Catalina and Big Sur.
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There are 20.7K members of the Mac Pro Upgrade Group on Facebook, who are using these Mac Pros for everything from hobbyists to full blown video editors for their jobs. Updates are another story, but this is another example of planned obsolescence on Apple's part.
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The fact the kext code is in the shipping product is the kicker.īTW, Catalina and Big Sur will boot on a 2012 Mac Pro by simply editing the OS boot parameters to ignore compatibility check.
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I'm a software engineer of 30+ years and I know what it means to support multiple platforms, multiple architectures, and multiple OSs. It is a simple OS check and then activate the kext code that is already there for Catalina. That means the kext code is in the product.the same product that doesn't run on Big Sur, so don't give me that ship has sailed line. Look at my previous post that shows the screen shot documentation for Fusion 12 and that it is supporting 2012 Mac Pros with Catalina and Big Sur.Īlso, like I said, VMware 12 is running on the Mac Pro under Catalina. Unsupported configurations that "work" always come back to bite you in the behind regardless of which side of that fence you're on). (I'm not a VMware employee, but I've worked on both sides of the vendor/customer fence. Might work, might not, and good luck if you have issues. There's no indication though that they will officially support their software on hacked installs of macOS (or as I like to refer to them as "franken-Macs"). To be fair, the advantage that Parallels 16 seems to have over Fusion 12 is that it will run on older macOS versions that Apple says will support those pre-2013 Mac Pros. I don't believe VMware or Parallels to be any different in this respect. The assumption by almost all software vendors is that you are starting from a hardware/software configuration that's supportable by the manufacturer. It's unlikely that VMware will provide a "custom config switch" to go back to using kexts.Īlso your post begs the question - how are you running Catalina on pre-2013 Mac Pros? While using a hack to trick it into installing may make it work for you, there's a big difference between "it runs great" and "it can be supported". There's good, bad and ugly that goes along with that decision, but it's been made (and in retrospect was a necessary step as they move to Apple Silicon support).
VMware has made the architectural decision to remove kernel extensions from the product and use Apple's hypervisor framework in step with Apple's directions. > Apple VM API, just like it does on that ship has sailed. All we need is a custom config switch to instruct Fusion to not use the new BTW, Fusion 12 on Catalina with these Mac Pros runs great.
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