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My eldest son is attempting to upgrade Sequoia running on VMware on Windows 11.
There is no problem seeing snd running the upgrade to Tahoe. When the upgrade is done, it knows his name, but does not accept his password.
Any suggestions as to why this should happen? One was that he would have to turn FileVault off before upgrading, but when he checked, FileVault was already off so that was not the problem.
His technical competence far exceeds mine (before he retired he was Mr Fixit for supercomputers) but is limited to Windows, Linux, Android, Raspberry Pi ant the like. He is experimenting with MacOS because I, his brother snd his sister are all Mac users.
My eldest son is attempting to upgrade Sequoia running on VMware on Windows 11.
There is no problem seeing snd running the upgrade to Tahoe. When the upgrade is done, it knows his name, but does not accept his password.
Any suggestions as to why this should happen? One was that he would have to turn FileVault off before upgrading, but when he checked, FileVault was already off so that was not the problem.
His technical competence far exceeds mine (before he retired he was Mr Fixit for supercomputers) but is limited to Windows, Linux, Android, Raspberry Pi ant the like. He is experimenting with MacOS because I, his brother snd his sister are all Mac users.
On 2025-09-20, John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
My eldest son is attempting to upgrade Sequoia running on VMware on Windows >> 11.
There is no problem seeing snd running the upgrade to Tahoe. When the upgrade
is done, it knows his name, but does not accept his password.
Any suggestions as to why this should happen? One was that he would have to >> turn FileVault off before upgrading, but when he checked, FileVault was
already off so that was not the problem.
His technical competence far exceeds mine (before he retired he was Mr Fixit >> for supercomputers) but is limited to Windows, Linux, Android, Raspberry Pi >> ant the like. He is experimenting with MacOS because I, his brother snd his >> sister are all Mac users.
Please be aware that running macOS on anything other than Apple hardware breaks the SLA:
<https://www.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/macOSTahoe.pdf>
As discussed on the Support forums:
<https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250646417?sortBy=rank>
My eldest son is attempting to upgrade Sequoia running on VMware on Windows >11.
There is no problem seeing snd running the upgrade to Tahoe. When the upgrade >is done, it knows his name, but does not accept his password.
In article <10alms9$103jt$1@dont-email.me>,
John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
My eldest son is attempting to upgrade Sequoia running on VMware on Windows >> 11.
There is no problem seeing snd running the upgrade to Tahoe. When the upgrade
is done, it knows his name, but does not accept his password.
A remote chance, but is it certain that the keyboard is producing the
correct characters for his passsword? It's possible that a virtual
machine may not be implementing the modifier keys correctly.
In article <10alms9$103jt$1@dont-email.me>,
John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
My eldest son is attempting to upgrade Sequoia running on VMware on Windows >11.
There is no problem seeing snd running the upgrade to Tahoe. When the upgrade
is done, it knows his name, but does not accept his password.
A remote chance, but is it certain that the keyboard is producing the
correct characters for his passsword? It's possible that a virtual
machine may not be implementing the modifier keys correctly.
<div id="editor" contenteditable="false">Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
In article <10alms9$103jt$1@dont-email.me>,
John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
My eldest son is attempting to upgrade Sequoia running on VMware on Windows >>> 11.
There is no problem seeing snd running the upgrade to Tahoe. When the upgrade
is done, it knows his name, but does not accept his password.
A remote chance, but is it certain that the keyboard is producing the
correct characters for his passsword? It's possible that a virtual
machine may not be implementing the modifier keys correctly.
Common problems are mixing up characters that different between US and UK keyboards, ie ~#|\-4-u"@ etc.
Although if the keyboard has got itself into Japanese or Russian or
something then even letters can be problematic :)
A simple way to test your keyboard at login is to type into the 'username' field where you can see the characters, rather than the password field where you can't. I'm not sure what to do on a Mac that makes you select a user picture rather than type a username - is there a secret button somewhere you can use to let you enter a username, eg for network login?
Theo
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My eldest son is attempting to upgrade Sequoia running on VMware on Windows 11.
There is no problem seeing snd running the upgrade to Tahoe. When the upgrade is done, it knows his name, but does not accept his password.
Any suggestions as to why this should happen? One was that he would have to turn FileVault off before upgrading, but when he checked, FileVault was already off so that was not the problem.
His technical competence far exceeds mine (before he retired he was Mr Fixit for supercomputers) but is limited to Windows, Linux, Android, Raspberry Pi ant the like. He is experimenting with MacOS because I, his brother snd his sister are all Mac users.
Old John.
On 20/09/2025 12:10, Richard Tobin wrote:
In article <10alms9$103jt$1@dont-email.me>,
John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
My eldest son is attempting to upgrade Sequoia running on VMware on Windows >>> 11.
There is no problem seeing snd running the upgrade to Tahoe. When the upgrade
is done, it knows his name, but does not accept his password.
A remote chance, but is it certain that the keyboard is producing the
correct characters for his passsword? It's possible that a virtual
machine may not be implementing the modifier keys correctly.
When I upgraded my Mac mini it wouldn't recognise the magic keyboard
until I had plugged it into the computer. Similarly with the mouse
though the latter had partial recognition in that the cursor moved and
the occasional click was obeyed. Scrolling didn't work at all. Again,
pairing it with the computer reactivated it.
In article <10alms9$103jt$1@dont-email.me>,I've seen that with Virtualbox. Might be worth trying the password with
John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
My eldest son is attempting to upgrade Sequoia running on VMware on Windows >>11.
There is no problem seeing snd running the upgrade to Tahoe. When the upgrade >>is done, it knows his name, but does not accept his password.
A remote chance, but is it certain that the keyboard is producing the
correct characters for his passsword? It's possible that a virtual
machine may not be implementing the modifier keys correctly.
-- Richard
Am 20.09.2025 um 14:05 schrieb Graeme Wall:
On 20/09/2025 12:10, Richard Tobin wrote:
In article <10alms9$103jt$1@dont-email.me>,
John Hill-a <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
My eldest son is attempting to upgrade Sequoia running on VMware on
Windows
11.
There is no problem seeing snd running the upgrade to Tahoe. When
the upgrade
is done, it knows his name, but does not accept his password.
A remote chance, but is it certain that the keyboard is producing the
correct characters for his passsword?-a It's possible that a virtual
machine may not be implementing the modifier keys correctly.
When I upgraded my Mac mini it wouldn't recognise the magic keyboard
until I had plugged it into the computer. Similarly with the mouse
though the latter had partial recognition in that the cursor moved and
the occasional click was obeyed. Scrolling didn't work at all. Again,
pairing it with the computer reactivated it.
Absolutely no such issues with my mini M2pro updating to 26. Everything worked as intended and usual from the first second. Magic Keyboard as
well as the Magic Mouse.