![]() ![]() The most notable of the engineering groups who need long-running Mac environments is our Mobile team, which needs them to compile our iOS apps. Also, as our entire office runs on Mac laptops we also need to have environments that can run for extended or indefinite time periods. New Relic’s Portland office is our Intergalactic Engineering HQ, and as such the engineers need to have a variety of different OS virtual machines. Who needs Mac VMs anyways? Or, why the heck did I do this? Turning current-gen Mac Minis into ESXI vSphere hosts isn’t the strangest thing you’re ever going to do, but be warned: the route I took does void the AppleCare warranty included with the computer. Since it’s a bit tricky, and the latest and most complete documentation I found was from 2012, I decided to document the process. When my users asked for new Mac OS VMs to test Xcode for teams, I jumped at the chance to build ESXI hosts. Being a lifelong Mac Geek I’ve spent a fair amount of time fiddling in the guts of Macs and doing all sorts of strange Mac Wizardry. As a Mac Sysadmin you learn early on that sometimes you have to do strange and terrible things to the machines you look after at the behest of your users.
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