Save the VM file in a convenient location. In the Finish window, select Customize Settings if desired.Ĩ. In this example, I’m setting it as follows:ħ. In the Choose Operating System window, set OS as appropriate then click the Continue button. Verify that the disk image file you want is selected, then click the Continue button.Ħ. You’ll be taken back to the Create a New Virtual Machine window. Select your macOS installer disk image file and click on the Open button.Ħ. In the Create a New Virtual Machine window, click on Use another disc or disc image…ĥ.

In the Select the Installation method window, select Install from disc or image.Ĥ. In VMWare Fusion, select New… under the File menu to set up a new VMģ. iso disk image, you should have two files inside the chosen directory: macOS_10143_installer.dmg and macOS_10143_installer.isoĬreating a VM with the OS installer disk image using VMware Fusion 11.xĢ. If you chose the option to create the additional. This disk image will install a stock factory install of macOS 10.14.3. dmg file inside the specified output directory named macOS_10143_installer.dmg. path/to/create_macos_vm_install_dmg.sh '/Applications/Install macOS Mojave.app' /path/to/output_directory If you have a macOS Mojave 10.14.3 installer application available in your Mac’s /Applications directory, run this command:

A directory to store the completed disk image in.

Once you have the script downloaded, run the create_macos_vm_install_dmg script with two arguments:

The create_macos_vm_install_dmg script is available from the following location: For more details, please see below the jump. Instead, it will be necessary to follow the prompts to select the language and drive to install the OS onto. One change from the previous version of the create_macos_vm_install_dmg script is that the resulting installer no longer runs an automated installation.

After a substantial re-write, create_macos_vm_install_dmg is able to create bootable disk images for virtual machines running macOS Sierra, High Sierra and Mojave. Recently though, I figured out that I could use Apple’s createinstallmedia tool to help me with building installers for Mac virtual machines again. However, Apple made some changes to the macOS installer starting in macOS Sierra 10.12.4 which broke the method I was using to build the installers. A while back, I wrote a couple of scripts which built installers for Mac virtual machines:

Create mac disk image