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Fix darwinPre15 url.
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paolo-projects authored Oct 7, 2019
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Expand Up @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ def main():
lastVersion = parser.HTMLDATA[-1]

urlpost15 = url + lastVersion + '/packages/com.vmware.fusion.tools.darwin.zip.tar'
urlpre15 = url + lastVersion + parser.HTMLDATA[-1] + '/packages/com.vmware.fusion.tools.darwinPre15.zip.tar'
urlpre15 = url + lastVersion + '/packages/com.vmware.fusion.tools.darwinPre15.zip.tar'
parser.clean()

# Download the darwin.iso tgz file
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Hey @paolo-projects Not sure how else to get in touch with you.
I was one of the people that worked on the effort to get things working with Catalina.
I ended up following the @BDisp fork instead of this one. He doesn't plan to maintain it. From what I have seen, the previous maintainer Dr. Donk is no longer active either.
Do you plan to try to have an updated version to work with Big Sur? It seems like some people are having some success, although these installation instructions are a little messy.
https://www.wikigain.com/install-macos-big-sur-on-vmware-windows-pc/
I maintain this site:
https://macosvmware.tech.blog/
which was created to support users of this medical software
https://loopkit.github.io/loopdocs/
that can't afford a Mac.
Thanks!

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Hi @mkitchingh, I plan on maintaining the C++ port (auto-unlocker), because that's the one I made and I know how to modify it.
The python repo is just a fork where I fixed the tools download, included a python bundle for windows and applied some patch code from other contributors.
I opened it to submit the pull request with the said fixes to the original repo, which in the meantime was disbanded (I guess?)...
The fact is that I merely translated the patch from DrDonk's repo in C++ to make it easier to execute out of the box (namely on windows).
I have very little if any knowledge about how the underlying patch process works, so I won't be able to do it by myself.
If you're experienced in it and you want to contribute there are a few ways you can do it:

  • you can submit pull requests to the python repo
  • you can maintain your own repo and eventually I'll be adding your modifications to the C++ tool
  • if you're experienced in c++ you can submit pull requests directly to the c++ repo

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I am not an expert on this code either. I just went through it, and I think it depends on what VMWare changes when they release their updates that allow Big Sur as a guest OS. We will have to wait and see. Just noticed there is a reference to me one of the commits 'unlocker.py Applied @mkitchin patch to unlocker.py and updated gettools.py to loo' mkitchin was actually taken on github, so I'm mkitchingh. mkitchin was my username in a forum where this was being discussed. It doesn't bother me, but the person who has that account may wonder why it is being attributed to him.

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Yeah you're right... I just mentioned him in the commit message because he was guy that other people where referencing to when discussing about the patched code. The commit message should have been fixed now

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