macOS 10.12 Sierra limited to 7MB of video ram. VMware Tools and Guest Additions have no effect.

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ussforbes
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macOS 10.12 Sierra limited to 7MB of video ram. VMware Tools and Guest Additions have no effect.

Post by ussforbes »

hello :)

i installed macOS10.12 Sierra in VirtualBox on windows 10 and everything works well. got it utilizing 16GB ram and i even command lined VirtualBox to set this VM to 256mb video ram.

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instructional videos all over the place show macOS seeing the full vram allotted after installing MVware as well as going seamless.

i have gone though the creation/destruction of about 20 VMs now and it is not seeing more than 7 MB.

im running a ryzen7 2700x
64gb ram
evga geforce gtx 1080ti.

more than enough hardware wise. others are successful with less apparently but they haven't responded yet so i figured this would be the spot to hit up.

any suggestions?
scottgus1
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Primary OS: MS Windows 10
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Re: macOS 10.12 Sierra limited to 7MB of video ram. VMware Tools and Guest Additions have no effect

Post by scottgus1 »

Windows host OS running a Mac guest is only allowed if the physical computer is real Mac hardware. And Macs don't rock Ryzens.
OSX guests on non-Apple hardware
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