All you need to do is select Install macOS to begin. The new macOS VM is booting to the installer! Once booted, it will be just like you booted into the recovery partition. VMware Fusion Player 12 – You are running this virtual machine with side channel mitigations enabled. You can change the settings when the VM is not running in the Advanced panel of the VM. It says that side channel mitigations provide enhanced security but lower performance. You will get a warning about running this VM machine with side channel mitigations enable. VMware Fusion Player 12 – Creating Installation Media The next screen will tell you that VMware Fusion Player is creating installation media. You will now see a final finish screen, before you start to configure the VM. VMware Fusion Player 12 – Select Install image In my case, I have already installed 10.14, 10.15 and 11.0. You will normally only see the one that you just dragged over. The next screen will let you select macOS installer.app file. iso) over to this window to begin! VMware Fusion Player 12 – Select Install Method Not anymore, you can just drag and drop the full Install macOS Install.app (or Windows iso or Linux. In the past you needed to run through a bunch of steps to create a macOS Install. When you first start VMWare Fusion you will get a Select Install Method Screen. Once complete, open the application and you will be prompted to enter in the license key. NOTE: VMware Fusion 12 requires macOS Catalina or newer. This link also has a download area to get the the 600MB. My./group/vmware/evalcenter?p=fusion-player-personal&cmp=EMC-FusionPlayerEvalActivation&li=license If you didn’t and need to find your license key later, use this link.

Once registered you will see your license key, be sure to document this somewhere as you will need it when you install VMware Fusion Player. My./web/vmware/evalcenter?p=fusion-player-personal VMware registration page If you are one of those, head over to the registration site. Home users, Open Source contributors, students, and anyone else can use Fusion Player Free for Non-Commercial activity.

VMware notes that the free version is available for the following situations.įusion Player offers a Personal Use License, available for free with a valid MyVMware account.

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