Run the Apple install - takes about 15-25 minutes depending on your hardware.Īt initial setup: Select ' Disk Utility' first to select and erase the VMWare disk - mine was the first one listed under ' Internal', called ' VMware Virtual SATA Hard Drive Media'. Untested, but it seem that you will need to apply a patch to the VMX file as well, telling it that you're running on a Mac.ĥ. I usually customize the setting for my VM's, and in this case:ĪMD CPU's are NOT supported by macOS, and during initial boot you'll get a message The CPU has been disabled by the guest operating system.

Open VMWare Workstation Player, and create a new virtual machine - you can select macOS now, and select the macOS ISO file.Ī few things you should pay attention to:

Download and run Auto-Unlocker which add “macOS” as an option when creating a new Virtual machines.Ĥ. I used the method described here - since downloading ISO files from others can be questionable.ģ. Install VMWare WorkStation Player (I used v17) - it's free for non-commercial use.Ģ. This worked for me, even with an AMD CPU:ġ. Since I have a nice gaming laptop at my disposal (Asus ROG G713, AMD 6900HZ CPU and Nvidia 3080 GPU), I just wanted to give it a try to install a macOS VM on my Windows computer. However when needing a virtual machine to test an older macOS, I find a macOS Virtual Machine to run really slow on a Mac. I occasionally need to test a few things for macOS, for which I usually use one of my Mac's.

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