Step 2 Choose which system display language you will use the macOS operating system with and continue. Step 1 After running the macOS virtual computer, wait for the system to boot when you see the Apple logo. Am I just out of luck for VMware tools unless I am running a MAC as my Host OS with VMware Fusion BTW, Thank you for these instructions, they are the only ones on the web I could find that worked. Tip: As a Parallels customer, you qualify for a discount if you decide to go with Fusion. After creating a new virtual machine for macOS with VMware up to this stage, you can now start the system setup. I run a lot of windows and Linux (mainly CentOS for work) VM’s and this is the first Mac VM. These virtualizers never run perfectly smoothly, it seems, there are always problems and limitations. On the downside, I have not yet been able to resize the virtual display in Fusion despite installing VMware Tools utility within the guest OS the screen is stuck at 1024 x 768 resolution within the macOS guest OS. On the upside, I have not seen the disappearing mouse pointer as was seen in Parallels as linked in the Question.
I dragged that into the Fusion "new" VM dialog box, and it worked to install macOS in the new VM. (I doubt that, as Parallels did successfully make a macOS VM from my Recovery volume.) Anyways, I had Install macOS Mojave.app downloaded in my Applications folder. Unfortunately, when I chose that option it then reported an error saying I have no Recovery volume. I currently run Mojave as a guest OS in VMware Fusion version 11.1 on a Mac mini (2018) with 32 gigs of RAM running macOS Mojave 10.14.5 as the host OS.įusion offered to create a guest OS using the Recovery volume of the host Mojave.
According to this product brochure page comparing the Fusion and Fusion Pro feature sets, there is an item listed that is checked for both editions: