Running a MacOS 14 Sonoma VM in VMware
#MacOS #Sonoma #VMware Full steps can be found at https://i12bretro.github.io/tutorials... -------------------------------------------------------------------- Installing and Configuring VMware -------------------------------------------------------------------- 💡 NOTE: MacOS higher than version 12 requires a CPU with AVX2 instruction support 01. Download a MacOS Sonoma .iso https://archive.org/search.php?query=...[]=mediatype%3A%22software%22 OR create your own • Create Almost Any MacOS Installation Media... 02. Download VMware Workstation Player https://www.vmware.com/products/works... 03. Download MacOS Unlocker for VMware Workstation https://github.com/paolo-projects/aut... 04. Install VMware Workstation Player, accepting the defaults 05. Extract the downloaded MacOS Unlocker for VMware Workstation 06. Inside the extracted file, right click Unlocker.exe ≫ Run as administrator 07. Click the Patch button 08. Wait for patching to complete before continuing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Creating the Sonoma VM -------------------------------------------------------------------- 01. Launch VMware Workstation Player 02. Click Continue to use Workstation Player for free for non-commercial use 03. Click Finish 04. Click Create a New Virtual Machine on the right side of the application 05. Select Installer disc image file (iso) ≫ Browse to and select the downloaded MacOS Sonoma .iso ≫ Click Next 06. Select Apple Mac OS X and macOS 13 ≫ Click Next 07. Name the VM MacOS14 and set the path to store the VM files ≫ Click Next 08. Adjust the disk size if necessary ≫ Click Next 09. Click Finish 10. Open File Explorer and navigate to the VM files 11. Edit the .vmx file in a text editor 12. Search for board-id.reflectHost and set the value to "FALSE" board-id.reflectHost = "FALSE" 13. Search for ethernet0.virtualDev and set the value to "vmxnet3" ethernet0.virtualDev = "vmxnet3" 14. Then paste the following options at the bottom of the file board-id = "Mac-AA95B1DDAB278B95" hw.model.reflectHost = "FALSE" hw.model = "MacBookPro19,1" serialNumber.reflectHost = "FALSE" serialNumber = "C01234567890" 15. Right click on the MacOS14 VM ≫ Power On -------------------------------------------------------------------- Installing MacOS Sonoma -------------------------------------------------------------------- 01. After an initialization sequence the MAC OS Setup should start 02. Select a Language ≫ Click the next arrow 03. Select Disk Utility 04. Select the VMware Virtual SATA Hard Drive Media ≫ Click Erase 05. Name the drive MacOS ≫ Set the Format to APFS ≫ Click Erase 06. Click Done ≫ Close Disk Utility 07. Click Install macOS 08. Click Continue ≫ Click Agree ≫ Click Agree again 09. Select the MacOS disk ≫ Click Install 10. Wait while Mac OS installs files, the VM will reboot several times 11. Select your Country or Region ≫ Click Continue 12. Confirm your languages and keyboard layout ≫ Click Continue 13. Click Not Now on the Accessibility screen 14. Click Continue on the Data & Privacy screen 15. Select Not Now on the Migration Assistant screen 16. Select Set Up Later and then Skip on the Apple ID screen 17. Click Agree ≫ Agree again 18. Enter a name, user name, password ≫ Click Continue 19. Click Continue ≫ Select Use or Don't Use for Location Services 20. Pick a timezone ≫ Click Continue 21. Uncheck Share Mac Analytics with Apple ≫ Click Continue 22. Click Set Up Later on the Screen Time screen 23. Pick a theme ≫ Click Continue 24. Welcome to MacOS 14 Sonoma -------------------------------------------------------------------- Install VMware Tools (optional, but recommended) -------------------------------------------------------------------- 01. Right click the Install MacOS disc on the desktop ≫ Eject 02. On the VMware toolbar click Player ≫ Removable Devices ≫ CD/DVD ≫ Settings 03. Click Browse next to ISO Image File ≫ Browse to the extracted Unlocker files \tools ≫ Select darwin.iso 04. Click the Connected checkbox 05. Click OK 06. Inside the VM, double click the mounted VMware tools and run the installer 07. When prompted, go into the Security settings and scroll to the bottom ≫ Click Allow next to VMware ≫ Reboot 08. After rebooting double click the mounted VMware tools and run the installer again 09. After the install succeeds, reboot again Connect with me and others ### ★ Discord: / discord ★ Reddit: / i12bretro ★ Twitter: / i12bretro
