- While you want to install macOS Mojave, macOS High Sierra, or macOS X El Capitan as a guest operating system, on VMware workstation or player. Surely, you will be asked to select the operating system or the version of the operating system. Therefore, if you want to test or install macOS operating system on VMware workstation.
- In terms of macOS, whether macOS Catalina or Mojave, however, even it doesn’t support installing macOS on VMware, it still provides its super-useful VMware Tools. As great as VMware is, the VMware Tools takes the experience of an operating system on virtual machine to the next level.
- If you use VMware Fusion or ESXi on a computer with an Apple label, you can create Mac OS X Server (10.5 or later) virtual machines and install VMware Tools. Prerequisites Power on the virtual machine.
To install the Vmware tool, you have to run Mac OS Catalina virtual Machine, when you sign in to.
For macOS virtual machines you install or upgrade VMware Tools using an installer assistant.
If you use VMware Fusion or ESXi on a computer with an Apple label, you can create Mac OS X Server (10.5 or later) virtual machines and install VMware Tools.
- Power on the virtual machine.
- Verify that the guest operating system is running.
Procedure
- Select the menu command to mount and open the VMware Tools virtual disc on the guest operating system.
VMware Product
Menu Command vSphere Client Inventory > Virtual Machine > Guest > Install/Upgrade VMware Tools and select Interactive Tools Installation or Interactive Tools Upgrade vSphere Web Client Right-click the virtual machine in the vCenter inventory and select All vCenter Actions > Guest OS > Install/Upgrade VMware Tools Fusion Virtual Machine > Install (or Upgrade) VMware Tools - Open Install VMware Tools on the VMware Tools virtual disc, follow the prompts in the installer assistant, and click OK.
The virtual machine restarts to have VMware Tools take effect.
About This File
This is the current version of VMware Tools for OS X / macOS from the VMware CDS repository for Fusion 11.5.0
VMware are no longer including the ISO images as separate 'packages' in the CDS respository as of Fusion 11.5.0, instead the ISO images are included as part of the 'core' download which is 522 MB.
It is not possible to download the com.vmware.fusion.zip.tar due to upload limits.
However, I have extracted the darwin.iso and darwinPre15.iso from the 'core' and uploaded to this thread.
If you prefer to download the 'core' tar file and extract the ISO's they are located in the following directory in the tar file:
com.vmware.fusion.zip.tarcom.vmware.fusion.zippayloadVMware Fusion.appContentsLibraryisoimages
Please note: In the latest VMwareGfx.kext from Fusion 8.5.5 onwards VMware have discontinued the 2D-Acceleration code, and graphics performance is better now, thanks to Zenith432 for the update.
To check for the latest version visit http://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desktop/fusion/.
The various VMware Tools downloads are located under the packages folder for each version upto and including 11.1.0.
Instructions for extracting darwin.iso and darwinPre15.iso
Vmware Tools For Macos Catalina
- Download the files above
- Extract com.vmware.fusion.tools.darwin.zip.tar
- darwin.iso is located in the 'payload' folder
Vmware Tools For Mac Os Catalina
- Extract com.vmware.fusion.tools.darwinPre15.zip.tar
Vmware Tools For Macos Mojave
- darwinPre15.iso is located in the 'payload' folder