Unlocker 4 is designed for VMware Workstation and Player and has been tested against:
Workstation Pro 16/17 on Windows and Linux
Workstation Player 16/17 on Windows and Linux
The Unlocker enables certain flags and data tables that are required to see the macOS type when setting the guest OS type, and modify the implmentation of the virtual SMC controller device. These capabiltiites are normally exposed in Fusion and ESXi when running on Apple hardware.
The patch code carries out the following modifications dependent on the product being patched:
Patch vmware-vmx and derivatives to allow macOS to boot
Patch vmwarebase.dll or libvmwarebase.so to allow Apple guests to be selected during VM creation
Provide a copy of the macOS VMware Tools for the guest
It is important to understand that the Unlocker cannot add any new capabilities to VMware Workstation and Player but enables support for macOS that is disabled in the VMware products that do not run on Apple hardware.
The Unlocker cannot:
add support for new versions of macOS
add paravirtualized Apple GPU support
add older (non-Ryzen) AMD CPU support
or any other features that are not already in the VMware compiled code.
