You must first manually create a Sierra machine (either real or virtual, then use that machine to run AutoDMG to build your Sierra image). You can’t use AutoDMG to build a macOS Sierra image from your machine running El Capitan. This makes testing newer releases of OS X more complicated.
If you also want to build a Mavericks disk image, now you must do it from a machine running Mavericks.
Mac os x el capitan on vmware install#
Apple’s installer can only install OS X when running under the same major version of OS X - so this means that in order to build a El Capitan disk image, you must do it on a machine running El Capitan. It uses Apple’s installer to install OS X and additional packages into a disk image. I use AutoDMG to build deployment disk images.ĪutoDMG is a great tool. This doesn’t require any networking changes and I can use this method when working from home.īoth methods described above make use of a disk image. I can take the same disk image that would have been restored by Imagr and convert it into a Fusion VM. (And then, probably more importantly, I need to remember to clean that up when I’m done using the VM for testing, or at least when I no longer need to NetBoot the VM.) Additionally, you need to be on a network that you can NetBoot from - it’s pretty hard to use this method when you are working remotely over VPN, for example.Īnother way to set up a VM so it is configured just like our real Ms is to use Joe Chilcote’s vfuse tool ( ) to convert a bootable disk image (like one built with Per Olofsson’s AutoDMG ( ) into a Fusion VM.
You can’t use the default networking configuration in the VM you have to configure the VM for “bridged” networking, and in my environment, I have also reserve an IP address on our DHCP server for the VM so it will get an address on our production network. Since we build our machines by booting into a NetBoot image and using Graham Gilbert’s excellent Imagr ( ) to restore an image, it’s great that we can also boot Fusion VMs from a NetBoot image.īut this approach has its drawbacks. It’s a great tool.įor some of the testing I do, it’s important to be able to quickly and easily build a VM that is configured just like the “real” machines I manage. Fusion enables me to test in various versions of OS X, and to easily make changes and revert to a prior state.
Like many people tasked with managing OS X/macOS machines, I use VMware Fusion to do a lot of testing.
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