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For Hyper-V Enabled Hosts:

CPU Requirements:

  • Intel Sandy Bridge or a newer CPU
  • AMD Bulldozer or a newer CPU
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Host Operating Systems:

  • Windows 10 2004

Minimum Requirements to Run Container Runtime on workstation Windows Host Operating Systems:

Download and install macOS Unlocker for VMware Latest Version Download and install macOS Unlocker & Install on VMware WorkstationIn this short article, I will demonstrate how to download macOS. VMware Fusion Player – Personal Use License. Fusion Player offers a Personal Use License, available for free with a valid MyVMware account. Home users, Open Source contributors, students, and anyone else can use Fusion Player Free for Non-Commercial activity.

  • Windows 10 1809 or higher

Minimum Requirements to Dark Theme support on Workstation Windows Host Operating Systems:

  • Windows 10 1809 or higher

For 3D Hardware Accelerated Graphics Support:

Hardware Requirements:

  • For Windows hosts, a GPU that supports DirectX 11 is required.
  • For Linux hosts, the latest NVIDIA proprietary drivers are required.
  • For Linux hosts, AMD devices are not supported

Software Requirements:

64-bit Host Operating System:

  • Windows 8 or higher
  • GNU/Linux with NVIDIA drivers that support OpenGL 4.5 and above

Guest Operating System

  • Windows 7 or higher
  • GNU/Linux with vmwgfx

*With exception, the following CPUs are not supported:

  • Intel Atom processors based on the 2011 “Bonnell” micro-architecture (e.g. Atom Z670/Z650; Atom N570)
  • Systems using Intel Atom processors based on the 2012 “Saltwell” micro-architecture (e.g. Atom S1200, Atom D2700/D2500, Atom N2800/N2600.
  • Systems using AMD processors based on the “Llano” and “Bobcat” micro-architectures (e.g. code-named “Hondo”, “Ontario”, “Zacate”, “Llano”)

In addition, the following CPUs are supported:

  • Intel processors based on the 2010 “Westmere” micro-architecture (e.g. Xeon 5600, Xeon 3600, Core i7-970, Core i7-980, Core i7-990)

For a complete list of supported host and guest the operating systems visit the VMware Compatibility Guide.

VMware Fusion Player 12 is now free for personal use on the Mac!

Last month VMware announced VMware Fusion 12. The new version includes macOS Big Sur support for host and guest. VMware also announced that the Mac version is now FREE ($149 Normal Price) for personal use! Previously the Free VMware player was only available on Windows. You can use it to test macOS, Windows 10, or Linux. If you’ve always wanted to set up a macOS VM, now is the time. It’s never been easier to build a test VM, so let’s get started!

Create a New VMware Account.

VMware notes that the free version is available for the following situations.

Fusion Player offers a Personal Use License, available for free with a valid MyVMware account. Home users, Open Source contributors, students, and anyone else can use Fusion Player Free for Non-Commercial activity.

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If you are one of those, head over to the registration site.

Once registered you will see your license key, be sure to document this somewhere as you will need it when you install VMware Fusion Player.

If you didn’t and need to find your license key later, use this link.

This link also has a download area to get the the 600MB .dmg installer.

Install VMware Fusion Player 12

Open the .dmg and install Fusion Player 12. NOTE: VMware Fusion 12 requires macOS Catalina or newer. Once complete, open the application and you will be prompted to enter in the license key.

When you first start VMWare Fusion you will get a Select Install Method Screen. In the past you needed to run through a bunch of steps to create a macOS Install .ISO file. Not anymore, you can just drag and drop the full Install macOS Install.app (or Windows iso or Linux .iso) over to this window to begin!

The next screen will let you select macOS installer.app file. You will normally only see the one that you just dragged over. In my case, I have already installed 10.14, 10.15 and 11.0. Click Continue.

You will now see a final finish screen, before you start to configure the VM.

The next screen will tell you that VMware Fusion Player is creating installation media.

You will get a warning about running this VM machine with side channel mitigations enable. It says that side channel mitigations provide enhanced security but lower performance. You can change the settings when the VM is not running in the Advanced panel of the VM.

The new macOS VM is booting to the installer! Once booted, it will be just like you booted into the recovery partition. All you need to do is select Install macOS to begin.

30 Minutes or so later you will be at the Setup Assistant Screen.

Congratulations! You’ve just built your first macOS virtual Machine!

Snapshots

One of the best features about having a macOS virtual machine is snapshots. You can build out a fresh OS and then take a snapshot before you make any changes to the system. Did the test not work? No big deal! Instead of reinstalling the OS to test again, just revert back to a previous snapshot! It’s literally that simple. You can access snapshots from the Virtual Machine menu bar item.

Boot your macOS VM to Recovery Mode

Quick Way – sudo nvram 'recovery-boot-mode=unused' && sudo reboot

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To get back to macOS out just reboot!

Thanks for the tip Mike! More info here – https://mrmacintosh.com/boot-to-internet-recovery-recovery-partition-or-diagnostics-from-macos/

2. Long Way.

If you need to boot the VM to macOS Recovery mode, all you need to do is edit the .vmx file located in /Users/youruserfolder/Virtual Machines/vmnamehere

Right on the file and then select “Show Package Contents”. Inside will be your vmnamehere.vmx file. Right click on that file and edit it with your favorite text editor. Add this line at the very end of the file and click save.

macosguest.forceRecoveryModeInstall = 'TRUE'

Start up the VM an you will now be in recovey mode.

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To boot back to macOS, open that same file and delete the line that you just added above and click save.

The final step is to delete the .nvram file in that same directory.

NOTE: 10/07/20

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I am having trouble booting to recovery with Big Sur Beta, I’m going to run a few more tests. This works fine on 10.14 and 10.15.

If you have any questions, leave a comment below!

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