

When the Select installation method window appears, click Create a custom virtual machine then click Continue. To get around this, you can create a bootable macOS ISO and install the operating system on the virtual machine manually using the steps in this tutorial.įollow the steps in How to Create a Bootable macOS Big Sur ISO to create an ISO named macos-big-sur.iso on your Desktop. After the files got copied, the virtual machine became stuck in a reboot loop. However, when I tried it with the professional version (12.1.2), it didn’t work. VMware Fusion has an option to create a macOS virtual machine from the recovery partition.

Before we beginīefore we can create the virtual machine you will need to download VMware Fusion and install it on your Mac. This tutorial will show you how to create a macOS Big Sur virtual machine on your Mac with VMware Fusion so you can test software on a clean installation of without needing extra hardware. This page contains links to products that may earn us a small commission at no extra cost to you, should you click on them and make a purchase.
