VMware Desktop Hypervisors: VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion: Local Mac, Windows and Linux Virtualization Desktop Hypervisor products from VMware provide IT pros, developers and businesses alike with a powerful local virtualization sandbox to build, run or support apps of any kind. JackkTutorials shows you how to install Macintosh OS X on VMWare Workstation Quick Links - https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3861236/MLVMWAREiHack.
Last week I published a video on how to create a bootable ISO file that contained macOS Catalina 10.15 so you can boot into VMWare Workstation 15.5. During the video there were many terminal commands. I promised that I will post up all the commands as a cheat sheet, so you can copy and paste into the terminal to make life easy. Here is the code used during the video below:
btnhd#:> hdiutil attach /Applications/Install macOS Catalina.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg -noverify -mountpoint /Volumes/Catalina
btnhd#:> hdiutil create -o /tmp/CatalinaBase.cdr -size 9000m -layout SPUD -fs HFS+J
btnhd#:> hdiutil attach /tmp/CatalinaBase.cdr.dmg -noverify -mountpoint /Volumes/install_build
btnhd#:> asr restore -source /Applications/Install macOS Catalina.app/Contents/SharedSupport/BaseSystem.dmg -target /Volumes/install_build -noprompt -noverify -erase
btnhd#:> rm /Volumes/OS X Base System/System/Installation/Packages
btnhd#:> cp -R /Volumes/Catalina/Packages /Volumes/OS X Base System/System/Installation
btnhd#:> hdiutil detach /Volumes/OS X Base System/
btnhd#:> hdiutil detach /Volumes/Catalina/
btnhd#:> mv /tmp/CatalinaBase.cdr.dmg /tmp/BaseSystem.dmg
#Restore the 10.15 Installer’s BaseSystem.dmg into file system and place custom BaseSystem.dmg into the root
btnhd#:> hdiutil create -o /tmp/Catalina.cdr -size 9000m -layout SPUD -fs HFS+J
btnhd#:> hdiutil attach /tmp/Catalina.cdr.dmg -noverify -mountpoint /Volumes/install_build
btnhd#:> asr restore -source /Applications/Install macOS Catalina.app/Contents/SharedSupport/BaseSystem.dmg -target /Volumes/install_build -noprompt -noverify -erase
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btnhd#:> cp /tmp/BaseSystem.dmg /Volumes/OS X Base System
btnhd#:> hdiutil detach /Volumes/OS X Base System/
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btnhd#:> rm /tmp/BaseSystem.dmg
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btnhd#:> hdiutil convert /tmp/Catalina.cdr.dmg -format UDTO -o /tmp/Catalina.iso
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btnhd#:> mv /tmp/Catalina.iso.cdr ~/Desktop/Catalina.iso
btnhd#:>rm /tmp/Catalina.cdr.dmg
One more thing, you will need to get a copy on the unlocker-master files to enable VMware Workstation 15 to run macOS as a guest virtual machine. Go to github.com/btnhd to grab the script.