Guest OS Install Guide

Category Archives: Mac OSX

macOS 10.13

Support for macOS Sierra (version 10.12) has been introduced for product:

ESXi 6.0, ESXi 6.0 Update 1, ESXi 6.0 Update 2 and ESXi 6.0 Update 3
ESXi 6.5 and ESXi 6.5 Update 1

For more information about software and hardware support, please check the VMware Compatibility Guide

macOS 10.12

Support for macOS Sierra (version 10.12) has been introduced for product:

ESXi 6.0, ESXi 6.0 Update 1 and ESXi 6.0 Update 2.

For more information about software and hardware support, please check the VMware Compatibility Guide

OS X 10.9.5 Mavericks

Support for OS X 10.9.5 Mavericks has been introduced for product:

ESXi 5.5 and ESXi 5.5 Update 1.

For more information about software and hardware support, please check the VMware Compatibility Guide

OS X 10.9.4 Mavericks

Support for OS X 10.9.4 Mavericks has been introduced for product:

ESXi 5.5 and ESXi 5.5 Update 1.

For more information about software and hardware support, please check the VMware Compatibility Guide

OS X 10.9.3 Mavericks

Support for OS X 10.9.3 Mavericks has been introduced for product:

ESXi 5.5 and ESXi 5.5 Update 1.

For more information about software and hardware support, please check the VMware Compatibility Guide

OS X 10.9.2 Mavericks

Support for OS X 10.9.2 Mavericks has been introduced for product:

ESXi 5.5

For more information about software and hardware support, please check the VMware Compatibility Guide

OS X 10.9.1 Mavericks

Support for OS X 10.9.1 Mavericks has been introduced for product:

ESXi 5.5

For more information about software and hardware support, please check the VMware Compatibility Guide

OS X 10.9 Mavericks

Support for OS X 10.9 Mavericks has been introduced for product:

ESXi 5.5

For more information about software and hardware support, please check the VMware Compatibility Guide

OS X 10.8.5

Support for OS X 10.8.5 has been introduced for products:

ESXi 5.1 , ESXi 5.1 Update 1 and ESXi 5.5

For more information about software and hardware support, please check the VMware Compatibility Guide

Deprecated OS Releases

The release of vSphere 5.5 announces the deprecation of the following guest operating system releases:

FreeBSD 7.x
Mac OS X 10.6.x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.9
SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP3
SUSE Linux Enterprise 9 SP4
Ubuntu 11.10, 11.04

Deprecated operating system releases are still supported by VMware, but will no longer be supported in future VMware releases. More information on support levels are available at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2015161

For more information about software support, please check the VMware Compatibility Guide