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I had previously had trouble dragging and dropping to and from the virtual machine but your note to install VMware Tools on the VM was a necessary step I was missing. I'll just add that the installer did mention the certificate being expired but I was able to click a button to continue anyway, without needing to change the system clock or anything like that. Wow, thank you for the detailed how-to! This worked perfectly. I created my Lion and Mountain Lion VMs so long ago that VMware Fusion may have required creating a bootable installer first, and there was a different process for that with Lion and Mountain Lion. I don't know offhand whether VMware Fusion uses that utility, or whether it just needs the disk images inside the application. The reason I say might is that Lion and Mountain Lion predate the introduction of the createinstallmedia utility which was buried inside the installer application starting around 10.9 Mavericks. You now have an install application which might be directly usable by VMware Fusion to create a Lion or Mountain Lion VM. Drag that application back to the host.ĩ. Once the installer completes, you will have an "Install OS X Lion.app" (or Mountain Lion) in the VM's Application folder. I haven't got far enough yet to see whether you need to do any tricks like setting the clock back several years to allow installation to proceed.)Ĩ.
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(It will probably complain about an expired certificate. Drag the Lion or Mountain Lion "Install OS X.dmg" file from the host into the VM.ħ.
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Once the installation is complete, go through initial setup.Ħ. Once the VM is created, proceed with installation of the recent macOS into the VM.Ĥ.
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When setting up the VM, note that you will require at least 10 GB of free space inside the VM, in addition to whatever it normally needs.ģ. Create a new macOS VM in VMware Fusion, for the version you've just downloaded.
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via App Store or one of Apple's support pages for downloading recent macOS versions (which does the download via System Preferences for macOS 10.13 High Sierra and later). This places an "Install macOS. Download the installer for the same version of macOS you are running, e.g. That means you can use the following process on a newer Mac with VMware Fusion:ġ. There is a workaround: the model check is bypassed if the installer package is used inside a VM. (The lower bound varies: between Late 2006 and Early 2009 depending on the OS X version and model family.) For recent Macs, the upper bound is the usual problem.įor Lion, you can only use the installer package on Mid 2012 or older Mac.įor Mountain Lion, you can only use the installer package on a Mid 2013 or older Mac. The catch: you cannot do that unless your Mac is supported by that operating system. It contains a single installer package, which needs to be run through Apple's Installer application to create the "Install OS X. You cannot use the "InstallOSX.dmg" file directly to create a VM. I've explained the issue before, but haven't tried repeating the process yet with the recently available Lion and Mountain Lion installers.įrom a brief check of the the "InstallOSX.dmg" files they are same structure as the previously available installers for macOS 10.10 Yosemite through macOS 10.12 Sierra, and most of the same rules apply. I also came across this post which seems relevant, but my Mac is too new to run that older OS, so the InstallMacOSX.pkg contained within the disk image won't run (what it normally does is install and installer in the Applications folder, then you can open that and the computer restarts and begins the installation process).Īny tips to create a new virtual machine get a fresh installation up of the old operating system would be great. I came across this help article but it reference Boot Camp and I am not using Windows in this case.
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VMware then opens a window saying "No operating system was found." I get the same error when trying Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, and I haven't yet tried other OS versions. I go to File -> New, click "Install from disc or image," select the corresponding InstallMacOSX.dmg disk image file, selecting the specific OS version (I tried selecting the 32-bit and 64-bit versions in separate attempts since I'm not sure which the linked installer is) and both times when the instance reboots, it says it couldn't find a hard drive or CD-ROM drive ("No compatible bootloader found" for each one). I tried installing Mac OS X 10.7 Lion downloaded from Apple's website here (I own the original DVD as well, but don't have an optical drive), yet I can't seem to install it.
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I'm using the free VMware Fusion Player license (application version 12.1.2 running on a 2020 Intel Mac running macOS 10.15.7).
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I hope I'm posting in the right sub-forum.