The VM should boot from the macOS VM’s Recovery HD partition automatically, and will continue to boot to Recovery until the setting is removed from the VM’s. Add the following line to the end of the. To add the macosguest.forceRecoveryModeInstall setting to a macOS VM:ģ. vmx configuration file, the VM will automatically boot to Recovery HD the next time it is started.
On this page, select I will install the operating system later and click Next. (You may need to restart, turn off/turn on again). In any case, you need to add a sound device and install VMWare tools correctly.
#TRY MAC OS ON VMWARE FOR MAC OS X#
For Mac OS X 10.5, 10.6, be default, VMWare doesnt support sound. The only way around thatin theorywould be to use ESXI or KVM alongside GPU passthrough. For Mac OS X 10.7, 10.8, sound should be working well. and VMWare) dont support graphics acceleration for Mac OS guests. Try to find a retail tiger disc which runs on intel hardware. Many of these older Macs will feel very fast and can run the latest OS. If you really like it, buy a decked out M1 with confidence later. I would perhaps get a powerful used Intel Mac (nothing older than a 2012 MacBook Pro with an SSD) and install a Windows VM and Linux as needed. When opened, let it by default and click Next. Unless you can find the retail disc of Tiger which ran on intel Macs, it won’t work. Otherwise seems like too much work and mucks up the host OS. Macosguest.forceRecoveryModeInstall = "TRUE" Open VMware Workstation and click on Create a New Virtual Machine or simply press Ctrl + N to open New Virtual Machine Wizard.
My colleague mosen discovered that you could add the following setting to a macOS VM’s. For more details, please see below the jump. This can result in having to try several or more times before you can successfully boot the VM to Recovery HD.įortunately, VMware has a setting that enables a forced boot to Recovery HD. However, it can be challenging to select the VM and hold down Command+R in time to boot to the Recovery environment. When testing various security functions, like System Integrity Protection or High Sierra’s new kernel extension functionality, it’s often useful to be able to boot a macOS virtual machine (VM) into the Recovery environment.