#INSTALLING OLD MAC OS IN VM WARE HOW TO#

It is possible these same instructions will also work for VMWare Workstation on a Windows PC although I have not tested this.

This guide is for VMWare Fusion running on a Mac and I can confirm the steps below will work for installing macOS 10.15.6 Catalina and MacOS 11 (or is it 10.16?) Big Sur Beta 2. I am a VMWare Fusion user, so these are the instructions for VMWare.

I am not sure if you can then install the Beta software using this as a base install as I have not tried that yet. That said, the site is an excellent resource for this sort of material.Īdditionally, there are some easy to use scripts on this GitHub Repo (going by the name of ‘myspaghetti’) to install the latest version of MacOS on VirtualBox. However I found it a little hard to follow so I wanted to make sure I clearly defined all the steps I took here.

#INSTALLING OLD MAC OS IN VM WARE HOW TO#

That article goes through how to do some of what is written here and is an excellent reference. Macintosh on how to install MacOS Big Sur on VMWare Fusion and Parallels. I will try to keep this up to date so it is a decent reference for each OS version.īefore I get into my article, in my search I found this site: Mr. So rather than waste all that effort again I have turned it into this article as a record for me to remember how to do it without having to hunt around. None the less, I want to install it in a VM and that means taking to the web to find instructions because I keep forgetting. MacOS Big Sur is the latest and may be last version of MacOS that will run in VMWare as Apple move away from Intel based Macs and towards ARM.

It's WWDC time again and its time to check out the latest Beta and test things. Preparing the VM to Install a Beta Release.Installing a Release Version of MacOS on VMWare Fusion.

Installing old mac os in vm ware