This is the step by step guide, the fastest and easiest way install and run latest MacOS Sequoia 15.0.1 in VMware Workstation Pro on Windows 11.
Due to MacOS Sequoia has added detection whether OS is running in Virtual Machine, so it’s better install MacOS Sonoma at first, then upgrade to latest version MacOS Sequoia.
M. Change Max-OS Version (Currently 12) C. Change Catalog (Currently publicrelease) I. Only Print URLs (Currently Off) S. Set Current Catalog to SoftwareUpdate Catalog L. Clear SoftwareUpdate Catalog R. Toggle Recovery-Only (Currently Off) U. Show Catalog URL Q. Quit
Please select an option: 3
Downloading InstallAssistant.pkg for 062-78824 - 14.7 macOS Sonoma (23H124)...
DON’T enable Location Service during the installation! Otherwise, you can’t setup Time Zone, Date Time based on your area. You can login with your Apple ID during the installation.
Install VMware Tools
After MacOS installed and VM restarted, mount darwin.iso and install VMware Tools. Then Display Memory in MacOS becomes 128 MB, and support the Full Screen mode.
Upgrade MacOS
After MacOS Sonoma installed, make sure everything is OK, then copy the whole MacOS Sonoma directory to a new directory MacOS Sequoia (Upgraded). Open the new directory in VMware, and select I copied it, then you can upgrade MacOS to latest verion in System Settings -> Software Update.
By default, Ollama is only accessible from localhost. CORS error and HTTP 403 returned if try to invoke from other hosts.
To enable Ollama can be visited from hosts on intranet, run:
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$ launchctl setenv OLLAMA_HOST "0.0.0.0"
in MacOS. Then restart Ollama. Then invoke it from hosts on intranet.
To enable Ollama can be visited from internet, with the help from ngrok, run:
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$ ngrok http 11434
ngrok (Ctrl+C to quit)
Session Status online Account Terrence Miao (Plan: Free) Version 3.17.0 Region Australia (au) Web Interface http://127.0.0.1:4040 Forwarding https://294b-2403-5802-1c44-0-341c-aae8-a501-8b73.ngrok-free.app -> http://localhost:11434
$ curl --location 'https://294b-2403-5802-1c44-0-341c-aae8-a501-8b73.ngrok-free.app/v1/chat/completions' \ --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \ --data '{ "model": "deepseek-coder-v2", "messages": [ { "role": "system", "content": "You are a helpful assistant." }, { "role": "user", "content": "Write a function that outputs the fibonacci sequence in TypeScript." } ] }'
{ "id": "chatcmpl-174", "object": "chat.completion", "created": 1728738926, "model": "deepseek-coder-v2", "system_fingerprint": "fp_ollama", "choices": [ { "index": 0, "message": { "role": "assistant", "content": " Certainly! Below is a TypeScript function that outputs the Fibonacci sequence up to a specified number of terms:
This function starts with the initial terms of the Fibonacci sequence `[0, 1]` and then iteratively calculates each subsequent term by summing the two preceding terms. The function returns an array containing the first `n` terms of the Fibonacci sequence. " }, "finish_reason": "stop" } ], "usage": { "prompt_tokens": 29, "completion_tokens": 243, "total_tokens": 272 } }
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function fibonacciSequence(n: number): number[] { if (n <= 0) return []; if (n === 1) return [0];
const result: number[] = [0, 1];
for (let i = 2; i < n; i++) { result.push(result[i - 1] + result[i - 2]); }
Latest MacOS Sequoia has made another security enforcement. To open and run a Mac application, e.g. VLC nightly build at https://nightlies.videolan.org/, Unidentified Developer , the following steps can take.
Enable “Allow Applications from Anywhere”
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base ~ sudo spctl --master-disable Password: Globally disabling the assessment system needs to be confirmed in System Settings.
Go to System Settings -> Privacy & Security, select “Allow Applications from Anywhere”:
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base ~ sudo spctl --master-enable Password: This operation is no longer supported. Please see the man page for more information.
Disable MacOS Quarantine on the application
In this case application VLC:
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base ~ xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/VLC.app
A Mellanox ConnectX-4 MCX455A-ECAT PCIe x16 3.0 100GBe VPI EDR IB network adapter. Enable VT-d(Intel Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O), SR-IOV (Single Root IO Virtualization), and the number of Virtual Functions in Chipset and Network in BIOS.
The following steps are made in a Proxmox Virtual Environment (PVE).
root@pve:~# ip link show ... 4: enp1s0np0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq master vmbr2 state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 link/ether ec:0d:9a:76:eb:2a brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff ...
Write to the sysfs file the number of Virtual Functions:
In Windows 11 Pro Station, a Mellanox ConnectX-4 MCX455A-ECAT PCIe x16 3.0 100GBe VPI EDR IB network adatper, goes to support SMB Direct, client and server side SMB Multichannel and RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access):
PS C:\> Set-SmbClientConfiguration -EnableMultiChannel $true Confirm Are you sure you want to perform this action? Performing operation 'Modify' on Target 'SMB Client Configuration'. [Y] Yes [A] Yes to All [N] No [L] No to All [S] Suspend [?] Help (default is "Y"):
PS C:\> Set-SmbServerConfiguration -EnableMultiChannel $true Confirm Are you sure you want to perform this action? Performing operation 'Modify' on Target 'SMB Server Configuration'. [Y] Yes [A] Yes to All [N] No [L] No to All [S] Suspend [?] Help (default is "Y"):
Have a look TrueNAS disk speed benchmark, over a 100Gbps ethernet network, from Windows 11 Pro for Workstations with SMB Direct, client/server SMB Multichannel and RDMA enabled:
In Windows Server 2022, with SMB shared folder in Storage Spaces:
Run Windows Powershell as Administrator user , which RDMA Capable are all True for both SMB client/server:
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Have a look Windows Server 2022 disk speed benchmark, over a 100Gbps ethernet network, from Windows 11 Pro for Workstations with SMB Direct, client/server SMB Multichannel and RDMA enabled:
