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The Big Sur 11.0 is a significant jump from their name series. All of their earlier OS which started back in the year 2000 starts in 10.x series, with this release it is jumping to 11.x. You can find what is new in this version from the official site. Hopefully, the final version will be available for the public by the end of 2020. Till then, we have the chance to play around with the beta releases. As beta versions are not always stable to install on your physical Mac computer, it is always better to try a virtual machine.if(typeof ez_ad_units!='undefined')ez_ad_units.push([[580,400],'sysprobs_com-medrectangle-3','ezslot_4',105,'0','0']);__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-sysprobs_com-medrectangle-3-0');The user interface gone through massive changes and you will be impressed by the first look. Luckily with the working proper VMware tools, the graphics experience is pleasant inside the virtual machine in this image on the Windows computer.
Altogether, it is a lengthy procedure. More than the time-consuming job, it may be not possible for everyone if you do not have an Apple physical computer or an already working macOS virtual machine.To overcome these all issues, and save your time, you can simply use the pre-installed image to download, import to VMware Workstation or Player, and use it on your Windows computer.Steps to Download and Use macOS 11.0 Big Sur VMware Preinstalled VMware imageHere is the quick recap of the steps we will be doing to install macOS 11.0 Big Sur on Windows OS by pre-installed VMware VMDK file.
1) Download the pre-installed VMware image below. It is a torrent file, properly created by me. Please allow seeding for some time after downloading. It is around 17GB in 7z format.This file contains the Big Sur VMDK disk file and configuration file.Download VMware Image2) Extract the pre-installed image by using 7-Zip or Win RAR. The output will be will around 23GB. This VM is configured for 100GB disk space. So, make sure you have enough free space at the place where you are extracting.
Before delving into the "how-to," you need to download and install the essential tools. The tutorial details how to create macOS virtual machines using both Oracle VirtualBox Manager (VirtualBox) and VMware Workstation Player (VMware Player).
You need a copy of macOS, too. Monterey is the latest stable macOS version at the time of writing, although macOS Ventura is just around the corner, You can find the download links for macOS Monterey in the next section.
(UPDATED OCT 2022) How to install macOS (High Sierra 10.13, Mojave 10.14, Catalina 10.15, Big Sur 11) on Windows 10 in a VMware Workstation virtual machine including Google drive links to download the VMware VMDK virtual disk images.
This example is for installing High Sierra 10.13 on Windows 10 using VMware Workstation 15. This guide will also work for other versions of macOS e.g. Mojave 10.14, Catalina 10.15 or Big Sur 11. Google drive links to download the virtual disk images for these macOS versions are also included below.
1 Run VMWare macOS Unlocker2 Download macOS VMware VMDK disk image file from Google Drive3 Create macOS VMware Workstation Virtual Machine4 Edit the Virtual Machine settings5 Attach the recovery VMDK disk image6 Boot virtual machine from the recovery disk7 Run Disk utility to erase the OS disk8 Install macOS on the virtual machine9 Install VMware tools
The VMware VMDK images below are based on macOS recovery installation images, they are not the full macOS operating system installation image. The recovery installer will boot macOS and download the full operating system during setup.
We need to attach the macOS recovery disk image (that you downloaded in step 2) so we can boot the VM and run the macOS installer. The VM will have two hard disks attached - the recovery disk macOS-recovery.vmdk and another 100GB hard drive that we will install macOS onto
I agree about this being an excellent guide and I also had to manually download VMWare Tools in order to install them from within the macOS guest itself. I successfully installed Big Sur and the OS installation itself took about 70 minutes to get to the Welcome/Country selection page.
Ok, thats because the vmdk files in this guide use the recovery installer which will boot macOS and download the full operating system during setup. This could take some time depending on how fast your Internet is. If you have the MacOS .iso file you can try that instead. Hope that helps!
Once the downloading process has begun, you should be able to see the progress of the download in the Launchpad. Downloading the installation package of macOS Sierra may be a time-consuming process (the slow downloading of macOS Sierra is a common issue). Sometimes, temporary changing the DNS settings in your network configuration may help you to increase the download speed. Attempt using 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4, 4.2.2.2 or 4.2.2.3 DNS servers on your machine. If this method does not increase the download speed, left click the Downloading icon to pause your download. Then left click the icon once more to resume the download. After resuming the download of a file, the download speed increases for the appropriate period of time.
In this example, hdiutil is used to create the ISO image. Hdiutil is a built-in console utility that is available on macOS; it is used to work with disk images as data containers that emulate disks. The DiskImages framework is used by hdiutil to manipulate the disk images.
Now that your bootable ISO image with the macOS installer is ready, you should prepare your ESXi host for the installation of macOS as a guest OS on VMs. You need to enable SSH access, download the patch, copy the patch to the file system of the ESXi server, and patch the ESXi server.
The patch is free and can be downloaded from this page. MacOS Unlocker 2.0.8 is used in this example due to ESXi support. The newest version of macOS unlocker is version 3.0.2. Unlocker 2 supports both VMware ESXi and VMware Workstation, while Unlocker 3 only supports VMware Workstation (including the latest versions of VMware Workstation). Version 2.0.8 is the latest version of the patch with ESXi support.
After downloading the patch, copy the patch files to the datastore on ESXi. You can use WinSCP, which supports the transfer of files over SSH by using SFTP, SCP, WebDAV, or S3 protocols (in Linux you can use the equivalent software). WinSCP has a user-friendly graphical user interface (GUI), and consists of two main panels. Copy the unlocker files from your local directory to your datastore on the ESXi server. In this example the unlocker patch and the macOS Sierra installation ISO image (Sierra.iso) were created beforehand, and are placed in C:\Virtual\images_MacOS for convenience. The patch is copied to /vmfs/volumes/datastore1 on the ESXi server. Sierra.iso would be copied to the datastore40. Later, you can mount the ISO image from the datastore to the virtual DVD drive of the virtual machine.
Copy the ISO installation image of Mac OS X 10.12 Sierra to the datastore by using VMware Embedded Host Client, VMware vSphere Client or WinSCP if you have not yet copied the image. In VMware vSphere Client, click Storage, select your datastore, click Files, and then click Upload files. In VMware Host Client, click Storage, select your datastore, click the Datastore browser, click Upload and select the file to be uploaded. You can see the Sierra.iso file uploaded into the datastore on the screenshot below.
Once you have copied the image containing VMware Tools to the datastore, open the VM settings and edit CD/DVD drive settings. Select the darwin.iso file as CD/DVD media. In this example darwin.iso is copied to datastore40.
This section explains how to correctly create a macOS Mojave bootable ISO image. First, download the macOS Mojave installer from the App Store. In the current example, a machine running macOS Mojave is used for downloading the macOS Mojave installer to avoid using third party downloading tools. Open AppStore, find macOS Mojave, click View and then click Get to download the installer. Notice that you need a full installer whose size is about 6.03 GB. If after downloading the installer, installation starts automatically, cancel it. After successfully downloading you can see the Install macOS Mojave.app file in the Applications directory. Open Finder and click Applications in the left pane of the Finder window to check the installer file.
Use the set of commands explained below in order to create an installation ISO image for further installation of macOS Mojave on VMware ESXi or VMware Workstation. Make sure you have enough free space on your disk.
Now you have a bootable ISO installation disk image of Mac OS X 10.14 Mojave and you can install macOS Mojave on your VMware ESXi host. The rest of actions are similar to actions explained above for installing macOS Sierra on a VM of the VMware ESXi format but you should be aware of the following features:
MacOS can be installed on a VMware VM running on ESXi. This can be done after the preparation of a bootable installation image of the ISO format with hdiutil, applying a free patch on an ESXi server and configuring certain VM settings. It is not recommended to install the macOS unlocker patch on ESXi servers that are used in production environments, in order to minimize the probability of any possible issues or negative impacts on production VMs. In this blog post, we have covered the installation of macOS Sierra due to its high popularity among users; however, you can also use the explained logics for installing macOS High Sierra and macOS Mojave on VMware VMs running on ESXi. 2ff7e9595c
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