IOS – Cannot pair the iPhone with Xcode

iosmacosvmwarexcode

I am running Xcode 10.3 and I have an iPhone 6s running iOS 12.4. I am unable to connect it to Xcode, which is running atop macOS Mojave running on a VMWare virtual machine.

I got "trust this device" in windows and i can see my device in iTunes in windows. But still cant see it in macos iTunes. Everything has latest versions and my firewall in macos mojave is not on.

Best Answer

In VMware you have to connect the iPhone as a USB device to the guest virtual machine.

This is usually done from the VMware menu item VM => Removable Devices, where you can select your iPhone. The actual naming of the menu depends on which version of VMware you're using (i.e. VMware Workstation on Windows, VMware Fusion on macOS, or whatever).

Related Solutions

MacOS – VMware Fusion 6: cannot start Windows 2000 VM that worked in VMware Fusion 4

Open the virtual machine's configuration file .vmx using a text editor.

Remove the lines which starts with policy.vm.*:

policy.vm.mvmtid = "52 d6 6f f9 f3 36 0f 9f-31 da 9f f5 90 7b ce 76"
policy.vm.managedVMTemplate = "TRUE"
policy.vm.managedVM = "FALSE"

Save the file and close the text editor.
Restart the VM.

If you still encounter the error…

Rename/delete the file with the extension .vmpl
Restart the VM.

For further reading, check out this thread: VM's policies are too old to be run by this version

IOS – Xcode 7 performance issues

I can't comment but I am running into the same issue with xcode and have a direction for you to try. Create a new profile on your mac and run xcode from there and check the memory usage for xcode, that should hopefully be down around normal levels. What that means i'm not sure yet, but it could help.

Update:

My problem was caused by too many provisioning profiles, this wasn't an issue I can recall from pre Xcode7, but maybe someone else can enlighten me. Any time any project was opened something happened that cause my xcode usage to spike up to 5.2GB uncompressed, but deleting about 1.5GB of provisioning profiles brought that usage back down to normal levels as described in this thread.

To find the files to delete go to:

${Your_Username}/Library/MobileDevice/Provisioning\ Profiles

Best Answer

Related Solutions

MacOS – VMware Fusion 6: cannot start Windows 2000 VM that worked in VMware Fusion 4

IOS – Xcode 7 performance issues

Related Question