
This issue, along with a very basic and reproducible test case have been documented (by someone else) on Stack Overflow.ĭariusd has previously been of great assistance in these areas, so I thought it only right to start a new discussion thread for the issue, as there doesn't seem to be one with any kind of detail yet. There appears to be only line of error text output when this issue occurs: This is presumably the difference between the GPU (es2) used on a physical Mac, and the software renderer (sw) is used on VMware virtual machines. A drop-down menu should be open in the screenshot below, but isn't even rendered: It seems that you can get around this issue by specifying prism.order=es2,sw but this then results in a problem where the contents of menus is not displayed in VMs (the menu contents appear fine on a physical mac). If you start a JavaFX 8 application with prism.order=j2d then it seems that the fonts are rendered completely screwy (as in, entirely the wrong characters) are displayed.

It seems that Oracle's update to JavaFX 8 (part of Java have broken something to do with rendering on Apple OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) and 10.10 (Yosemite). Legal disclaimer: Make sure to perform the following steps on a regularly purchased Apple computer, running a genuine OS X (host) operating. It's based on this pastebin which I found via Google, adjusted to work with Yosemite.
#OS X VMWARE IMAGE 10.10 HOW TO#
The issue is also reproducible on VMware Fusion 8 running on an Apple Mac Book Pro 15". The guide below tries to explains how to easily install Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10 in a virtual machine using VirtualBox. Firstly, let me state that this is not a thread about running Apple's OS X on non-Apple hardware - I have a genuine Apple Mac Mini running ESXi 6.0 (Build 3073146).
