vm-config

vm-config is a command line to show or change some VMware Fusion virtual machine configurations.

Build

• Build on macOS only (Xcode 14 minimum)

  • Open vm-config.xcodeproj in Xcode and simply build vm-config target.
  • Execute xcodebuild archive -project 'vm-config.xcodeproj' -scheme 'vm-config' -configuration 'Release' -archivePath 'vm-config.xcarchive'

• Build on macOS or Linux

  $ cd vm-config
  $ mkdir build
  $ cd build
  $ cmake ../
  $ make
  

  On Linux, you may need to install libbsd and libuuid before. For example:

  sudo apt install libbsd-dev
  sudo apt install uuid-dev
  

Usage

Change virtual machine configuration

• Enable SIP, like csrutil enable

  vm-config change my_vm.vmwarevm --csr-enable
  

• Disable SIP, like csrutil disable

  vm-config change my_vm.vmwarevm --csr-disable
  

• Disable SIP, like csrutil disable, but with a specific macOS version flavor

  vm-config change my_vm.vmwarevm --csr-disable-version 11.0.0
  

• Change the UUID of the machine

  vm-config change my_vm.vmwarevm --machine-uuid 6E1881A7-41BF-4363-9419-6F0340DD6AE2
  vm-config change my_vm.vmwarevm --machine-uuid `uuidgen`
  

• Change the boot-args of the machine

  vm-config change my_vm.vmwarevm --boot-args 'debug=0x144'
  

• Change the screen resolution of the machine

  vm-config change my_vm.vmwarevm --screen-resolution 1024x768
  

• Change multiple configurations at the same time

  vm-config change my_vm.vmwarevm --csr-disable --boot-args 'amfi_get_out_of_my_way=0x1'
  

Show virtual machine configuration

• Show all (vmx content and nvram content)

  vm-config show my_vm.vmwarevm --all
  

• Show only vmx content

  vm-config show my_vm.vmwarevm --vmx
  

• Show only nvram content

  vm-config show my_vm.vmwarevm --nvram
  

• Show only nvram EFI variable entries

  vm-config show my_vm.vmwarevm --nvram-efi-variables
  

• Show only a specific nvram EFI variable entry

  vm-config show my_vm.vmwarevm --nvram-efi-variable csr-active-config