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.
Unlocker is a small handy software, which designed on CMD command prompt that allows you to install the Mac operating system. Such as macOS Mojave, macOS Sierra, macOS High Sierra, macOS X, macOS X El Capitan. Therefore, this small software and light software is needed for VMware Workstation in Windows. Unlocker is a very small and handy software, which has designed on CMD that allows you to install the Mac operating system such as, macOS Mojave, macOS Sierra, macOS High Sierra, macOS X, macOS X El Capitan. Therefore, this small software and light software is needed for VMware Workstation in Windows, then you can easily install it on VMware Workstation. How to fix VMware on Windows to show Apple Mac OS X when creating a VM Make sure to have WMware Workstation Player or Pro installed Link to download the late. VMware Fusion: Powerfully Simple Virtual Machines for Mac. VMware Fusion Pro and VMware Fusion Player Desktop Hypervisors give Mac users the power to run Windows on Mac along with hundreds of other operating systems, containers or Kubernetes clusters, side by side with Mac applications, without rebooting. Fusion products are simple enough for home users.
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.
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 type
dmg2img macOSfilename.dmg desiredISOname.iso
That’s it ?
VMware Workstation Unlocker fixes/improves few of missing features in VMware Workstation on Windows:
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- 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.
Vmware Workstation Apple Mac Os
- 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.
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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.