15-09-2021

Install Macos Catalina In Vmware

I have bought a new laptop to replace the old one – Sony VAIO E VPCEG23 11 years old, It’s ASUS Zenbook UM425IA from newegg.com, but wait, the AMD laptop. Yeah, it’s AMD Ryzen 7 4700U with Radeon Graphics Vega 7.
This is my new laptop specìication:

Install Macos Catalina In Vmware Download
Install Macos Catalina Vmware Amd

At last, click Finish.; Phase 2. Unlock VMware to Install macOS Catalina on Windows. VMware Unlocker for macOS is a useful tool that replaces a few files, like VMware-vmx, vmwarebase.dll, and vmwarebase. MacOS 10.15.3 Catalina Final ISO (7 — Google Drive) — While Download Macos Catalina Iso for VMware & VirtualBox is a substantial file, we have split it into several pieces. This is nevertheless compacted, compacted, and encrypted, completely secure, safe, and even simple to strategy. Launch the VMware virtual machine, select macOS Catalina VM and click on Power on this virtual machine. Now, click on the Install macOS Catalina on the top right-hand corner and select Eject “Install macOS Catalina. ” If you don’t see Install macOS Catalina then skip to the third step. Step 8: Start macOS Catalina Virtual Machine. Open VMware and on the macOS Catalina VM window Click Power on this Virtual Machine. Power on the macOS Catalina VM. Now, wait for macOS Catalina to boot up and complete the installation itself without you touching anything.

ASUS Zenbook UM425IA-NH74
AMD Ryzen 7 4700U Processor (8M Cache, up to 4.1 GHz)
1 TB PCIe NVMe Intel SSD
16 GB LPDDR4X RAM Dual chanel
Windows 10 Professional included
HDMI, USB Type C, Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax), Bluetooth 5.0
USB 3.2 Type A, USB 3.2 Type C and Micro SD card reader
USB-A to RJ45 ethernet adapter and USB-C to Audio Jack dongle

And this guide is a Personal experiment about how to setup the Fresh MacOS on the Laptop AMD with Windows 10 host.

VMware’s graphics acceleration not being compatible with macOS, you will not have any graphics acceleration in your virtual machine.

Prerequisites

CPU also needs to support the SSE4.1 and AMD-V
VMware Player /Workstation Pro 15 or higher
VMware Unlocker: https://github.com/DrDonk/unlocker

Install macos catalina on vmware esxi 6.5

Configure the VMWare

Install the VMWare as your way, either Player or Workstation will be fine.
Run the Unlocker by running the win-install.cmd with Administrator right.
Open VMWare, create a new VM, Select Apple Mac OS X under Guest operating system and choose 'macOS 10.15' under Version. Leave all the option to the default. We will update the Hard Disk later.
Click on Finish once finished.
Update the Hard Disk by Click on Edit virtual machine settings.

Add a new Hard Disk by click on Add.. -> Hard Disk

Select SATA -> Use an existing virtual disk

Click on Ok when Finished.

Installation MacOS

Start the virtual machine.

The language prompt will come up. Select your language and continue.

Select 'Disk Utility' and press 'Continue'.

Select 'VMware Virtual SATA Hard Drive Media' under 'Internal' hard drive.

Select 'Erase' in Disk Utility. Name the drive 'Catalina'. Change 'Format' to APFS and press 'Erase'. Press 'Done' and close Disk Utility.

Select 'Reinstall macOS' and press 'Continue'.

When the installer opens, press 'Continue'.

Agree to the terms and conditions. Select the hard drive that we erased earlier with Disk Utility and press 'Install'. Sit back and let it install.

The CPU has been disabled by the guest operating system. Power off or reset the virtual machine.

Edit the vmx file by adding the following line to the bottom of the vmx file:

Back to the BIOS, Select 'EFI VMware Virtual SATA Hard Drive (2.0)' and press enter. This is our Catalina installer that we are booting.

Once the installer has booted, click on 'Utilities' in the Finder bar and select 'Terminal'.

Type this command in Terminal (replacing 'Catalina' with whatever you named your hard drive earlier):

With that command, we coppy all the prelinkedkenel under the installation source CatalinaAMD
/Volumes/CatalinaAMD/System/Library/PrelinkedKernels/prelinkedkernel to the Hark Disk Catalina /Volumes/Catalina/macOS Install Data/Locked Files/Boot Files/

After execute the command, restart the VM again. The Catalina installation process will be continued:

If the VM restarts and you get a ‘CPU is disabled’ error, close the error window, attempt to close the VM window, select ‘Power Off’ and reopen VMware.

Reboot the VM back into the BIOS, select the installer and open Terminal once again. Time to do the post-install commands. (replacing 'Catalina' with whatever you named your hard drive earlier):

You may get errors, Ignore those errors, the prelinkedkernel should still rebuild just fine.

Close Terminal and reboot into your hard drive. The VM should boot into the setup now. Go through the setup process but DO NOT SIGN IN WITH YOUR APPLE ID, choose 'Set Up Later'.