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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.

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.

  1. Copy macOS dmg file to dmg2img folder.
  2. Open command prompt and typedmg2img macOSfilename.dmg desiredISOname.iso

That’s it 🙂

VMware Workstation Unlocker fixes/improves few of missing features in VMware Workstation on Windows:

  • 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.

  1. Download VMware Workstation Unlocker from GitHub https://github.com/DrDonk/unlocker.
  2. Once downloaded extract it.
  3. Run command prompt with administrative privileges.
  4. Run win-install.bat script.
  5. After few seconds VMware Workstation will be patched.
  6. When you will create new virtual machine macOS will be available.
  7. We must edit virtual machine configuration file vmx and add following entry smc.version = '0'.
  8. Once added we can run macOS in VMware Workstation in Windows.

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.

This simple guide is for those who want to try out Apple’s Macintosh OS X on VMware Workstation in Windows platform. The basic requirements are:
  1. A PC running Windows x86 or x64
  2. VMware Workstation 8
  3. Download the following files:
    1. Mac OS X Lion VMware Files.exe (Size: 2.42MB)
    2. Mac OS X Lion Retail Bootable .vmdk (For VMware) (A bit torrent of size 4.12GB)
Mac Os X Unlocker For Vmware WorkstationBefore running Mac OS X on VMware workstation, a patch should apply to some binary files of VMware workstation.
For illustration purpose, the following example will attempt to patch VMware Workstation 8 binary files:
  1. First, extract the download file Mac OS X Lion VMware files.exe.using any file archive utility like 7-Zip or double click the .exe to extract the files.
  2. Open command prompt (cmd) in Administrator Account.
  3. Navigate to extracted folder “VMware Workstation Unlocker - Windows' and run install.cmd:
The VMware workstation 8 is now patched. You may continue the next step to configure and run Mac OS X Lion on VMware workstation 8.

Prepare a Mac OS X machine

Extract pre-configure Mac OS X Lion VMware workstation files from Mac OS X Lion VMware Files.exe in a new folder:
Mac os x unlocker for vmware workstation softwareStart the virtual machine Mac OS X Lion.vmx. A dialog prompt for the virtual machine instance state:
Press “I copied it” button to state the virtual machine is a cloned instance.

Prepare Mac OS X Installation

The machine setting may change to suit the environment. e.g.: Memory size.
Next, add Mac OS X Lion Installer disk (Mac OS X Lion Installer.vmdk) by creating a new VMware hard disk.

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Start Mac OS X Machine

Power on the virtual machine. A Mac OS X installation screen should appear as follow:

Prepare a disk for Mac OS X installation

Next, start Disk Utility to prepare a disk for Mac OS X installation:
Create a new Mac OS X partition by using the Erase option. A label for the new disk may specify in the option:
Confirm the Erase operation:

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Start Mac OS X Installation

Vmware unlocker for workstation 12Follow the screen instruction to continue Mac OS X installation:
Confirm the installation on the new disk created:
TheMac Os X Unlocker For Vmware Workstation installation may take a while to finish:

Finish Mac OS X Installation

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Finally, the Mac OS X installed and the first screen appear as follow:
VMware tools provide few GUI enhancement experience for Mac OS X guest. Download VMware tools ISO for OS X here. Follow the following steps to install VMware tools in OS X:

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  1. Extract a ISO file (darwin.iso) from the zip archive file
  2. Mount the ISO file to Mac OS X Guest operating system
  3. Start Mac OS X guest system.
  4. Open Finder from OS X desktop and select CD/DVD ROM device.
  5. Double click Install VMware Tools icon to start VMware tools installation
  6. Follow the screen instruction to complete installation.

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