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You can then do the normal macOS installer stuff to get Monterey installed.Īnd, at the end, if it all worked out, you should be at Setup Assistant, and able to start customizing and using macOS Monterey. It should then boot into the macOS installer. Side note: I don’t know why macOS (or VMware Fusion?) won’t allow you to take a screenshot of this menu being open, so that’s why this “screenshot” looks so awful-it’s really a photo of the screen.

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Then click Connect Install macOS Monterey. Click the option at the top to select a USB drive to connect. Once your setup of the custom virtual machine is done, go ahead and click the play button to start up your virtual machine. Then go ahead and create a new virtual disk. Then, instead of dragging the installer to Install from disc or image, select Create a custom virtual machine.Īt the moment, you can’t select macOS 12, so just select macOS 11 as a placeholder. Then leave that USB drive connected to the Mac you’re trying to create the Monterey VM in.

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You’ll see that VMware Fusion is “able to create the installation medium.”Ĭreate a bootable USB of the Monterey installer by following the instructions in How to create a bootable installer for macOS. …except for the fact you can’t select macOS 12 as an option. You’ll try to drag the installer to the Install from disc or image part of the window.Įverything will look as if it’s proceeding as normal… If you try to install Monterey using the traditional method, this is what happens: I would recommend using proper support channels (like the aforementioned VMware Fusion communities online forums) to get actual support if you run into any issues.Īs of the writing of this blog post (22 November, 2021), VMware Fusion doesn’t officially support macOS 12 (Monterey) for VM guests. If it doesn’t work for you, I probably don’t know any better than you do why that’s the case. I’m sharing only a more detailed step-by-step guide of a summary I read, and this is only what worked for me.

Hopefully, these instructions will be obsolete soon in a future update of VMware Fusion (where you can just select macOS 12, drag the installer to the install wizard, and have VMware Fusion do everything for you).

These are just more fleshed out steps from a brief overview in the VMware Fusion communities online forums.

In addition, the latest release includes a number of resolved issues, which can be viewed here.

A 12-month subscription to McAfee VirusScan Plus 2009.

Performance improvements in the area of folder browsing in Windows virtual machines.

Support for mounting image files in the.

It also now allows Windows virtual machines to be imported from Parallels Desktop 4.0 and Parallels Server for Mac.

VMware also announced that the Mac version is now FREE (149 Normal Price) for.

The new version includes macOS Big Sur support for host and guest.

#VMWARE FUSION 12 REVIEW FOR MAC OS X#

VMware Fusion 2.0.2, released Wednesday, adds support for Mac OS X 10.5.6 as a host operating system and Ubuntu 8.10 as a guest operating system, as well as experimental support for Mac OS X Server 10.5.6 as a guest operating system. Last month VMware announced VMware Fusion 12. The latest release, version 2.0.2, includes a range of enhancements, from updated host and guest operating system support to new security features to new virtual machine importing capabilities. VMware has released an update to Fusion, the company's desktop virtualization solution for Mac OS X. News VMware Fusion Expands Mac OS X Support, Adds Virus Security