Hey guys welcome back this is Bernardo from the BTNHD and today is all about creating
a bootable macOS 10.15 for VMware Workstation 15.5, and let's get right into it.
Okay, so you want to take your Mac OS 10 point 15, and you want to create this virtual machine
within your VMware Workstation right.
So this is how you do it.
Before we start, these are the things that we need for this to work correctly one you
need a machine with Mac OS, right, a laptop or an iMac.
You need to have the install mac os 10
point 15 app,
you can actually go inside the App Store and download it locally to your machine.
Right.
Just make sure you don't upgrade your machine you could download
it,
but when it pops up to continue just close the app, you're going to be using terminal
command.
Once you complete the terminal command portion, you need to get into a PC, and within the
PC you need to have already installed a VMware Workstation 15 fully licensed, and just patience.
Okay, so now on your iMac or your MacBook Pro or whatever you're using, you're going
to open up your terminal within the terminal you're going to run the following HDI utility
and you're going to attach this particular dmg file.
Now again, you do need to have the installation file on this machine for this to work correctly,
then you're going to add the parameter of no verify with another parameter of Mount
point, and you're going to create a volume of Catalina.
Once you do that hit enter.
Now, the following command and we need to run a another HDI utility and we're going
to create a CDR file.
And we're going to give it a size of nine gigs, and with a file system of HFS plus J
and hit enter.
Now, don't freak out.
I will provide a nice little cheat sheet of all these commands and I'm going to post it
up at my GitHub,
and then place the link at the comments section.
Okay.
Now the next command that we need to run is another HDI utility
and we're going to attach that CDR
that we just created with a parameter of no verify with another parameter, a mount point
and then we're going to create another volume called install underscore build hit enter.
Now once you mount point that install underscore build we need to run the following command
of ASR which is Apple software recovery utility.
And we're going to run restore with the parameter of source, and it's going to point to the
base system dot dmg file, and it's going to target that install underscore build volume
that we created.
I'm going to run a parameter of no prompt and another parameter of erase.
Hit enter.
Once it's done.
This should pop up just close this window, and we need to run the following command of
RM which is remove, and we need to remove packages.
Hit enter.
We need to run another command of copy.
And it's basically copying everything within packages into the installation folder, and
we're going to hit enter there, and then we need to run another HDI utility command to
detach the volume, which is the base system.
And we're going to hit into there, and the next command we need to run is another HDI
utility command to detach the Catalina volume, then we need to move the cdr temp base file
into the base system dmg file, and then we hit into there, then we need to run another
HDR utility command to create a CDR file.
The size is going to be nine gigs, with the file system of HFS plus J hit enter there.
Once that's done, we need to run another HDI utility command to attach that new CDR file
that we created with a parameter of no verify with another parameter of Mount point, and
we're going to mount it to the install underscore build and hit enter.
Once that's done, we're going to run an ASR restore with the parameter of source and pointing
to
that base system dot dmg file,
and we're going to target our install underscore build volume with a parameter of no prompt
another parameter of no verify.
And last but not least another parameter of erase and hit Enter again is going to erase
everything and you're going to get this just close it.
And we need to run the following command, we're copying the base system dmg file to
our Mac OS base system volume, and we're going to hit into there, and then we're going to
run an HDI utility command to detach that volume Mac OS base system.
Once that's done, we need to remove the base system dot dmg file, and then we need to run
another HDI utility command to convert our Catalina CDR dmg file to format it into an
ISO right hit enter there, it's going to start formatting.
And then I'm going to move that ISO within the temp file to our desktop right with the
following command.
And then I'm going to hit enter.
From here I'm going to do a remove command to remove that CDR dmg file within our temp
folder.
And then we're done.
Holy moly, a lot of commands right again I'm going to distribute all these commands into
a cheat sheet, and I'm going to place it at my GitHub, and I'm going to place the link
at the bottom at the comment sections.
Okay, so all you got to do is just copy and paste and don't drive yourself crazy, as you
can see on the desktop I have the ISO that we created nine point 44 gigs pretty big right,
and then it is time to boot into the VMware Workstation 15 so it's pretty simple.
We need to download the unlock master VMware workstation 15 does not support the Mac OS
as of yet.
So this utility will actually kind of unlock the doors for us.
I will upload this in my GitHub so you guys can get a copy.
We need to locate the win install dot CMD file.
I'm going to right click on it, running as an administrator is going to do a thing.
And then when you go and saw your workstation 15.5, when you're creating a new virtual machine,
you're going to see the guest operating system has Apple Mac OS X, and when you hit the drop
down menu, you're going to see all the Mac OS versions, which is a good thing when you're
creating your virtual machine, make sure that you mount the ISO that you create it within
the Mac laptop in the Mac world, with all those crazy commands.
Right.
And you're going to boot.
Once you boot it up you'll get this.
Just hit the little arrow.
From here you need to pick disk utility, you're going to pick your virtual SATA, you're going
to click erase from here you are going to leave everything as the default, except just
change the name to whatever you want and then just click on erase.
Once it's done, click on done, you're going to quit the disk utility so I can take you
back here.
Click on reinstall the Mac OS click Continue.
Click Continue.
Agree, Agree again.
And then pick your hard drive.
Click on Install, it's going to start installing for you.
You know the timer is gonna go is gonna go down eventually it's gonna go down less which
is a good thing and it's going to reboot your machine.
Once it reboots your machine is going to take you here to finalize the setup, pick your
region Click on Continue.
configure this continue data and privacy continue for this right here I left it as don't transfer
any information now and I clicked on continue for sign in with your Apple ID I said, set
up later.
I said, skip, accept the terms and conditions.
Click Agree again, provide a full name, account name, password and a hint.
This is up to you.
Click Continue.
Again this is up to you, click Continue.
screentime if you want to set that up, go for it I clicked on setup later by default
Siri is enabled.
But this is up to you, click Continue.
Choose your look for your Mac environment and then once you pick your look.
Click on Continue.
And it's going to start setting up the Mac.
It brings you into your desktop.
If you go inside the apple System Preferences, you're
going to see that you are now running
version, 10 point 15.5.
Awesome.
Now the last thing that we need to do is mount the VMware Tools for this machine.
You're going to double click on Install VMware Tools follow the prompts.
And once you're done it's going to reboot the machine, and then your screen should automatically
resize itself and then you're good to go.
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