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I have installed Mac OS X 10.12 in VMware Player. The installation was in an SSD, but in the settings it shows only options to add Hard Disk (SATA).

Also Mac sees this as an HDD.

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If the guest Mac is utilizing the SSD or it just performing as if it in a normal SATA HDD? If so is there any way to let mac utilize the SSD in VMware?

VMware Workstation 12 Player 12.5.2

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  • I'm pretty sure VirtualBox has a setting to expose a virtual disk as a SSD. VMWare might very well (and probably does) have something similar.
    – user
    Mar 29, 2017 at 14:12
  • Within the configuration file. It should be as simple as using, scsiX:Y.virtualSSD = 1, and then your virtual HDD will be a virtual SSD. You didn't provide which version of VMWare Player your using. So you will have to verify yourself if your version supports this configuration option. I can confirm OS X supports SSD reporting for SATA devices.
    – Ramhound
    Mar 29, 2017 at 14:37
  • @Ramhound i am using vmware 12.5.2. So if this going to perform well if i install mac (vmdk) on a ssd or its same as installing mac (vmdk) on a hdd? Thanks
    – rakibtg
    Mar 29, 2017 at 15:21
  • VMware is the company name. You’re most likely using VMware Fusion.
    – Daniel B
    Mar 29, 2017 at 15:28
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    @rakibtg - At the end of the day the physical device is a SSD. You will have to perform benchmarks to determine if it will perform "well" or not.
    – Ramhound
    Mar 29, 2017 at 20:01

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