Mac Os X Iso For Vmware Workstation

Posted on 23-04-2021 by admin

macOS is a quite popular operating system. I never had an opportunity to work with it prior joining to VMware. From my point of view, Apple makes brilliant hardware and software (with one exception of Finder in macOS). At the moment I am running Windows 10 as a Bootcamp and I am quite happy how it performs. However, there are situations when one would like to evaluate the different operating system. Let it be any Linux flavor or an even exotic system like BSD you can all run them in VMware Workstation. What about the Apple macOS? Unfortunately in VMware Workstation running on Windows by default you can’t run Apple macOS.

Today I will show you how to install Apple macOS in VMware Workstation on Windows.

Before doing any changes please make a backup and remember that changes done aren’t supported by VMware.

Apr 02, 2018 Select I will install the operating system later. Select Apple Mac OS X in the Guest operating system section and select macOS 10.14 in the Version section. In the Name the Virtual Machine window, name the virtual machine and virtual machine directory. I personally would put it on a different drive than the system drive. Download and install VMWare Workstation. But to do that, you need to disable Hyper-V first. Download VMWare unlocker and run windows/install.cmd script. It allows to choose Mac OS X system during VM creation later on. Convert Mac OS X image (Mountain Lion in my case) from.dmg to.iso. Here are the official darwin.iso (9MB) and darwin.iso.sig files from VMware Fusion 6.0.4 for Mac. Put it into vmware/isoimages/ folder next to other ISO files. Unfortunately, VM Install VMware Tools menu entry still won't work, so attach the ISO manually and install the package. Last week I published a video on how to create a bootable ISO file that contained macOS Catalina 10.15 so you can boot into VMWare Workstation 15.5. During the video there were many terminal commands. I promised that I will post up all the commands as a cheat sheet, so you can copy and paste into the terminal to make life easy. Here is the code used during the video below: btnhd#: hdiutil. Download VMware Workstation Pro 15.5.x or VMware Player 15.5.x. VMware Workstation 15 Pro; VMware Player 15; Download the macOS Unlocker V3 for VMware. Download – GitHub (latest Version) Direct Download – MediaFire (3.0.3) Create or Download macOS Big Sur Beta ISO macOS Big Sur Beta 11.0 (20A4299v) Dev Beta 1; macOS Big Sur Beta 11.0.

In order to run macOS in VMware Workstation on Windows, we will need two things: macOS iso and VMware Workstation Unlocker.

To convert macOS dmg file under Windows we will need a tool dmg2img.

Copy macOS dmg file to dmg2img folder.
Open command prompt and typedmg2img macOSfilename.dmg desiredISOname.iso

That’s it 🙂

VMware Workstation Unlocker fixes/improves few of missing features in VMware Workstation on Windows:

Fix vmware-vmx and derivatives to allow Mac OS X to bootFix vmwarebase .dll or .so to allow Apple to be selected during VM creation
Fix vmwarebase .dll or .so to allow Apple to be selected during VM creation
Fix libvmkctl.so on ESXi 6 to allow use with vCenter
Download a copy of the latest VMware Tools for OS

Probably there are some reasons whyVMware decided to remove macOS compatibility in Windows VMware Workstation. Anyway, let’s enhance our VMware Workstation with new capabilities.

Download VMware Workstation Unlocker from GitHub https://github.com/DrDonk/unlocker.
Once downloaded extract it.
Run command prompt with administrative privileges.
Run win-install.bat script.
After few seconds VMware Workstation will be patched.
When you will create new virtual machine macOS will be available.
We must edit virtual machine configuration file vmx and add following entry smc.version = '0'.
Once added we can run macOS in VMware Workstation in Windows.

In Today post I showed you how to install Apple macOS in VMware Workstation on Windows. The process isn’t that complicated and certainly will help some people out there who might want to try out Apple macOS.

Last week I published a video on how to create a bootable ISO file that contained macOS Catalina 10.15 so you can boot into VMWare Workstation 15.5. During the video there were many terminal commands. I promised that I will post up all the commands as a cheat sheet, so you can copy and paste into the terminal to make life easy. Here is the code used during the video below:

btnhd#:> hdiutil attach /Applications/Install macOS Catalina.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg -noverify -mountpoint /Volumes/Catalina

btnhd#:> hdiutil create -o /tmp/CatalinaBase.cdr -size 9000m -layout SPUD -fs HFS+J

btnhd#:> hdiutil attach /tmp/CatalinaBase.cdr.dmg -noverify -mountpoint /Volumes/install_build

btnhd#:> asr restore -source /Applications/Install macOS Catalina.app/Contents/SharedSupport/BaseSystem.dmg -target /Volumes/install_build -noprompt -noverify -erase

btnhd#:> rm /Volumes/OS X Base System/System/Installation/Packages

btnhd#:> cp -R /Volumes/Catalina/Packages /Volumes/OS X Base System/System/Installation

btnhd#:> hdiutil detach /Volumes/OS X Base System/

btnhd#:> hdiutil detach /Volumes/Catalina/

btnhd#:> mv /tmp/CatalinaBase.cdr.dmg /tmp/BaseSystem.dmg

#Restore the 10.15 Installer’s BaseSystem.dmg into file system and place custom BaseSystem.dmg into the root

btnhd#:> hdiutil create -o /tmp/Catalina.cdr -size 9000m -layout SPUD -fs HFS+J