NI-VISA Configuration crashes on Mac OS

Updated Oct 22, 2021

Reported In

Driver

  • NI-VISA 21.0

Operating System

  • Mac OS X

Issue Details

After installing the NI-VISA 21.0 on Mac OS the driver wizard completes without error, but the NI-VISA Configuration quits unexpectedly on launching.

NI-VISA Configuration.app quit unexpectedly.

NI VISA configuration crash.PNG

Solution

In order to solver the issue, NI's Team ID needs to be added to the kext-consent list, to do this try the following steps:
  1. Boot to recovery mode by holding Command-R during boot
  2. Once in recovery mode, open the Terminal application
  3. Add consent for the NI team ID with the following comment:
    1. spctl kext-consent add SKTKK2QZ74

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