VMware Workstation Player for Mac is called VMware Fusion. The original VMware Workstation Player does not support Mac OS but VMware Inc. offers a virtual machine for Mac Users called VMware Fusion. VMware Fusion allows Mac users run Windows, Linux and other operating systems on their computers seamlessly without needing to reboot.
VMware Fusion is easy to use and is available for free trial for 30 days after which users have to pay to continue using the software.
VMware Unlocker for macOS or macOS Catalina Unlocker VMware 15 ( Unlocker for VMware ) is a handy tool that replaces a couple of files such as VMware-vmx, vmwarebase.dll, vmwarebase.so and patches macOS settings and installation features like options, booting and installation settings into VMware and even download a copy of the latest version. Overview of Mac Mojave in VM Workstation. Users can download any virtual machine in their system. They also can download as well as be able to install the Mac OS Mojave full-screen version on their PC. The minimum requirement of VRAM for this is 128 MB. Sometimes they faced some problems. This operating system is also able to fix the problems.
Individual users, IT professionals, developers and companies can use Fusion and Fusion Pro to run other operating systems smoothly on Macs.
Fusion is a very powerful tool which enables users choose from and run hundreds of the latest versions of operating systems such as Windows 10.
The software allows users connect securely to other VMware software such as vSphere, ESXi and Workstation in order to manage virtual machines as well as their physical hosts. Virtual machines can be transferred from vSphere to Mac to run in Fusion, Fusion also lets users run complete virtual cloud stacks on one Mac.
VMware Workstation Player for Mac – VMware Fusion allows developers easily develop and test apps for any operating system on their Mac. Developers can use sandboxes to create and test their apps with secure local source file and folder sharing. The Fusion Pro software easily integrates with top developer tools such as Ansible, Docker and more through its RESTful API.
VMware Workstation Player for Mac Features
The features of the VMware Player for Mac i.e. VMware Fusion are:
1. Compatible with macOS High Sierra
Install Mac Os On Vmware Workstation
The software is built to run seamlessly on macOS High Sierra and Touchbar.
2. High Definition Graphics
VMware Fusion has a hardware accelerated 3D graphics engine and supports Apple Metal Graphics technology.
3. vSphere Connected
Fusion Pro can connect to other VMware software and services to manage, configure and control virtual machines easily.
4. Unity View
This is a mode which hides Windows desktop and lets you run Windows apps like Mac apps.
5. Virtual Networking
VMware Fusion – VMware's Workstation for Mac lets you create IPv4 and IPv6 virtual networks and supports integration with other network design and simulation software for enhanced network design, testing and simulation.
6. Fusion REST API
This feature allows third party software integration seamlessly.
All Macs manufactured from 2011 are supported except the 2012 Mac Pro Quad Core using Intel Xeon W3565 processor.
You can download the software and find more information on the VMware Fusion official webpage.
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macOS is a quite popular operating system. I never had an opportunity to work with it prior joining to VMware. From my point of view, Apple makes brilliant hardware and software (with one exception of Finder in macOS). At the moment I am running Windows 10 as a Bootcamp and I am quite happy how it performs. However, there are situations when one would like to evaluate the different operating system. Let it be any Linux flavor or an even exotic system like BSD you can all run them in VMware Workstation. What about the Apple macOS? Unfortunately in VMware Workstation running on Windows by default you can't run Apple macOS.
This feature allows third party software integration seamlessly.
All Macs manufactured from 2011 are supported except the 2012 Mac Pro Quad Core using Intel Xeon W3565 processor.
You can download the software and find more information on the VMware Fusion official webpage.
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macOS is a quite popular operating system. I never had an opportunity to work with it prior joining to VMware. From my point of view, Apple makes brilliant hardware and software (with one exception of Finder in macOS). At the moment I am running Windows 10 as a Bootcamp and I am quite happy how it performs. However, there are situations when one would like to evaluate the different operating system. Let it be any Linux flavor or an even exotic system like BSD you can all run them in VMware Workstation. What about the Apple macOS? Unfortunately in VMware Workstation running on Windows by default you can't run Apple macOS.
Today I will show you how to install Apple macOS in VMware Workstation on Windows.
Vmware Workstation Pro Mac Os
Before doing any changes please make a backup and remember that changes done aren't supported by VMware.
In order to run macOS in VMware Workstation on Windows, we will need two things: macOS iso and VMware Workstation Unlocker.
To convert macOS dmg file under Windows we will need a tool dmg2img.
- Copy macOS dmg file to dmg2img folder.
- Open command prompt and type
dmg2img macOSfilename.dmg desiredISOname.iso
That's it 🙂
VMware Workstation Unlocker fixes/improves few of missing features in VMware Workstation on Windows:
- Fix vmware-vmx and derivatives to allow Mac OS X to bootFix vmwarebase .dll or .so to allow Apple to be selected during VM creation
- Fix vmwarebase .dll or .so to allow Apple to be selected during VM creation
- Fix libvmkctl.so on ESXi 6 to allow use with vCenter
- Download a copy of the latest VMware Tools for OS
Probably there are some reasons whyVMware decided to remove macOS compatibility in Windows VMware Workstation. Anyway, let's enhance our VMware Workstation with new capabilities.
- Download VMware Workstation Unlocker from GitHub https://github.com/DrDonk/unlocker.
- Once downloaded extract it.
- Run command prompt with administrative privileges.
- Run win-install.bat script.
- After few seconds VMware Workstation will be patched.
- When you will create new virtual machine macOS will be available.
- We must edit virtual machine configuration file vmx and add following entry
smc.version = '0'
. - Once added we can run macOS in VMware Workstation in Windows.
In Today post I showed you how to install Apple macOS in VMware Workstation on Windows. The process isn't that complicated and certainly will help some people out there who might want to try out Apple macOS.