#VMWARE FUSION 8 MAC INSTALL#

We currently need to uncheck this box to boot successfully Isn’t that the question? Unfortunately Fusion’s current lack of support makes the decision for us. Rest assured we are very excited about and interested in leveraging the new capabilities found in Apple’s new File System, but for now it will give you an OS that you can not boot in a Virtual Machine.Īs such, during the installation, be sure to NOT check the ‘Use APFS’ checkbox, otherwise you will render the VM unbootable. The process is the same as I outlined before, just replace the. Upgrades are done in the guest just like they are on a physical machine, so Apple’s instructions apply and can be found right here.įor installing fresh, we had a fix for this last year which the community has updated with a new fix! (oh how I love our users!) Without the patch, this is what happens Always make sure to have a snapshot or a clone of your VM so you have a known good roll-back point if things go awry. What we’ve seen is that upgrading existing macOS VM’s is the easiest path to go.

No APFS driver in UEFI renders the Guest OS unbootable when the Guest boot volume is using APFS.

#VMWARE FUSION 8 MAC INSTALL#

Fail to install macOS 10.13 guest, got error “Unable to create the installation medium”.Here are the two main issues you can currently expect with macOS 10.13 High Sierra as a VM: By and large the OS runs as a VM, but at this time things aren’t working exactly as we’d like.

Naturally we were inclined to check things out in VMware Fusion, and we were met with some mixed results. This year, moving from Sierra to High Sierra, we see a number of great reasons to upgrade when it’s released in the fall:įull release notes can be found over at the release notes page, as well as links to download and the installation guide. Last week’s WWDC marked another annual iteration of our favourite operating system, macOS.

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