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  • 1.  Where I can get official MacOS Ventura installer for Fusion?

    Posted Mar 30, 2023 01:00 PM

    hello, 

    I was trying to install macos using recovery volume (this option offered by fusion when create a new VM) 
    but this functionality simply doesn't work. It says "preparing" and stays like that forever. 

    So I wonder, is it possible to download MacOS Ventura somewhere officially?
    Not a patched version from a random GitHub. 

    I mean, if VMWare produced a product that able to run MacOS as VM. Then there should be a way, 
    where this MacOS officially can be taken. Where?

    I have tried to download installed using AppStore, but seems to be it is not what can be used with Fusion. 
    I have checked developer portal of Apple. No distribution of macOS there. 

    Thanks.



  • 2.  RE: Where I can get official MacOS Ventura installer for Fusion?
    Best Answer

    Posted Mar 30, 2023 01:53 PM

    Assuming you are on an Intel Mac, Fusion is broken for its documented mechanisms for installing macOS. Neither using the recovery partition or drag/drop the Install macOS Ventura.app file on the  Create a new virtual machine dialog work. Apple changed the layout of the files in both of these in Monterey and VMware hasn’t caught up to the changes. 

    An installable ISO file of macOS  can be created by:

    • Downloading the full installer (Install macOS Ventura.app) from the App Store using the info from https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211683, or use the command  
    • softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer --full-installer-version 13.3
    • Use the script from https://github.com/rtrouton/create_macos_vm_install_dmg to build an ISO from the Apple installer. (Choose the option that builds both a .dmg and .iso file)
    • build a custom macOS VM and point the virtual CD/CVD drive to use the your newly created ISO


  • 3.  RE: Where I can get official MacOS Ventura installer for Fusion?

    Posted Apr 26, 2023 08:48 PM

    I'd like to clarify that the process described above for creating a bootable ISO only works for Intel Macs. You will not be able to boot the macOS installation ISO on an M1/M2 Mac (at least not with the current version of VMWare Fusion Pro 13.0.2)



  • 4.  RE: Where I can get official MacOS Ventura installer for Fusion?

    Posted Apr 26, 2023 09:31 PM

    Yep - you can't virtualize MacOS on an M1 mac in the current release.



  • 5.  RE: Where I can get official MacOS Ventura installer for Fusion?

    Posted Jan 15, 2024 08:29 PM

    Thank you, I've been looking everywhere for confirmation for this.



  • 6.  RE: Where I can get official MacOS Ventura installer for Fusion?

    Posted May 05, 2023 06:16 PM

    softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer --full-installer-version 12.6.5

    note: this command to find your possible version at this point

    --list-full-installers

    Also, note the double dash ( -- ) is not what a copy and paste of the above post gives....

    softwareupdate —fetch-full-installer —full-installer-version 13.3

    so...

    softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer--full-installer-version 13.3



  • 7.  RE: Where I can get official MacOS Ventura installer for Fusion?

    Posted May 05, 2023 08:12 PM

    Good catch, cut/paste and autocorrect strikes again.

    I've fixed it in my prior post.



  • 8.  RE: Where I can get official MacOS Ventura installer for Fusion?

    Posted May 05, 2023 10:30 PM

    And here is the terminal build of the ISO with Monterey

    iMac:create_macos_vm_install_dmg username$ mkdir ../Monterey
    iMac:create_macos_vm_install_dmg username$ sudo ./create_macos_vm_install_dmg.sh "/Applications/Install macOS Monterey.app"/ ../Monterey/
    Do you also want an .iso disk image?
    1) Yes
    2) No
    #? Yes
    #? 1
    -- Additional disk image will be created in .iso format. Proceeding...
    -- macOS Installer application detected at the following path: /Applications/Install macOS Monterey.app
    -- Installer application for macOS 12.6.5 detected. Proceeding....
    -- /Applications/Install macOS Monterey.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia tool detected. Proceeding....
    -- Creating empty 15 GB disk image at the following location: /tmp/0F39495F-3E91-4177-994A-763412803397.cdr
    created: /tmp/0F39495F-3E91-4177-994A-763412803397.cdr.dmg
    -- Mounting disk image at /Volumes/0F39495F-3E91-4177-994A-763412803397
    /dev/disk2 Apple_partition_scheme
    /dev/disk2s1 Apple_partition_map
    /dev/disk2s2 Apple_HFS /Volumes/0F39495F-3E91-4177-994A-763412803397
    Erasing disk: 0%... 10%... 20%... 30%... 100%
    Making disk bootable...
    Copying to disk: 0%... 10%... 20%... 30%... 40%... 50%... 60%... 70%... 100%
    Install media now available at "/Volumes/Install macOS Monterey"
    -- Unmounting macOS installer disk image.
    -- Converting macOS installer disk image to .iso format.
    Reading Driver Descriptor Map (DDM : 0)…
    Reading Apple (Apple_partition_map : 1)…
    Reading (Apple_Free : 2)…
    Reading disk image (Apple_HFS : 3)…
    ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................
    Elapsed Time: 35.887s
    Speed: 428.0MB/s
    Savings: 0.0%
    created: /Users/username/Scripts/Monterey/macOS_1265_installer.iso.cdr
    -- Building process complete.
    -- Built .dmg disk image file is available at ../Monterey/macOS_1265_installer.dmg
    -- Built .iso disk image file is available at ../Monterey/macOS_1265_installer.iso
    iMac:create_macos_vm_install_dmg username$ ls -lsa ../Monterey/
    total 62914560
    0 drwxr-xr-x 4 username staff 128 May 5 15:21 .
    0 drwxr-xr-x 4 username staff 128 May 5 15:18 ..
    31457280 -rw-r--r--@ 1 root wheel 16106127360 May 5 15:21 macOS_1265_installer.dmg
    31457280 -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 16106127360 May 5 15:21 macOS_1265_installer.iso
    iMac:create_macos_vm_install_dmg username$