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Fusion 12 & Big Sur Beta 9 = Unable to create installation media

Is anyone else getting this ?

Thanks

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hey_tommy
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Yup, same thing here.

Worked fine with the Beta 6 full installer, but with the Beta 9 full installer, getting the dreaded "unable to create installation media" in Fusion 12 when trying to create a VM.

It's driving me nuts.

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Mikero
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We're seeing it too... no workaround just yet.

I'm also finding that when I upgrade a Beta 8 VM to Beta 9, when it's done it falls into a kernel panic loop.

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Michael Roy - Product Marketing Engineer: VCF
ClassicII
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Mikero


Thanks for the confirmation! Hopefully we can figure out what the issue is soon.

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wila
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Interesting, I had no problem with upgrading from beta8 to beta9 (otherwise I would not have been able to write that metal rendering blog post)

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scheblein
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Contributor

I literally was on the verge of deleting my b6 copy, then tried to install b9 in Fusion, got the error you have and then found this! I successfully extracted the b6 install from my trashcan! :smileygrin:

Mikero
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Following up a bit here, we do see that the disk layout has changed, so we'll need an update to accommodate it unless we can figure a workaround script or something.

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Michael Roy - Product Marketing Engineer: VCF
CaliDuck916
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I too am seeing this, bummer!
Screen Shot 2020-10-08 at 10.26.48 AM.png

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EMR
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I don't suppose my experience will be considered the perfect solution, but it might help someone. I was also faced with the impossibility of creating a new virtual machine using the Big Sur Beta 9 installer, so I simply enrolled a Mojave virtual machine in Apple's beta program and, from within Mojave, I upgraded to Big Sur Beta 9. The only issue is that you need plenty of available space on your virtual disk, or the process will fail. Other than that, Big Sur installed with no issues.

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jstaubr
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If you still struggle with this I got around it on 11.0.1 with this guide.

https://www.modtitan.com/2020/10/building-macos-big-sur-beta-vm-with.html

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