Verify if the “VMware Virtual SATA Hard Drive Media” exists In the “View” icon, enable “Show All Devices”.Start your High Sierra VM and wait for the setup page.Edit the vmx file and add this parameter at the end of the list:.Locate your mac OS x vmx file which is located in the VM folder

We need to edit the vmx file and add a parameter.Select “Use ISO image file:” and browse for the downloaded “macOS_High_Sierra_10_13_1_Official.iso” Enable “Virtualize Intel VT-x/EPT or AMD-V/RVI” and “Virtualize CPU performance counters”

Open VM settings and select “Processors”.

Once the VM is created we need to enable virtualization engine in the VM settings.

Wait for VMWare to create the virtual disk.

Check VM settings and then click Finish.

The default vmdk location is the VM folder location Select “Allocate all disk space now” and “Store virtual disk as a single file”

For disk capacity, set disk size to 40GB.

This option lets you connect to the network directly.

Select “Use bridged networking” as your network connection.

You can set the memory at least 2GB but if you encounter looping issues when starting the VM try to set it higher I set these before to 2 processors and 2 cores and I was getting loop issues when I ran the VM.

Set number of processors to 1 and number of cores per processor to 8.

It is optimal to use an SSD as your VM location for best performance The MacOS Unlocker patch enabled the Mac OS X support of VMWare Workstation.

Select “I will install the operating system later”.

Run VMWare Workstation and create a new virtual machine.

Remember to uninstall previous unlocker before installing a new version

Extract the unlocker-master.zip and run “win-install.cmd” as administrator.

Download MacOS Unlocker 3.0.3 by paolo-projects in github which is a patch to remove restrictions for Mac OS X VM creation.īy default VMWare doesn’t support Mac OS X VM but a patch created by DrDonk enables users to create a Mac OS VM in VMware Workstation, VMware Workstation Player and VMware Fusion or VMware ESXi/vSphere Hypervisor.

If your getting the message “This copy of the Install macOS High Sierra.app application is damaged…”, set your Mac date back to Dec 2018. To get started we need to download the High Sierra ISO. Click here for installing Big Sur in VMWare Workstation

Install macos on vmware workstation