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Cannot create MacOS Big Sur guest on iMac 2020 MacOS Big Sur host

For a month after Big Sur is released, I cannot create any MacOS Big Sur guest on iMac 2020 MacOS Big Sur (11.1) host. When selecting macOS recovery partition on the machine, it keeps "Preparing" as shown on screenshot.

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Hi, have anyone report this issue with VMware yet?

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wila
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Hi,

As you would expect, it has come up on this forum before, yes.

See this thread and its suggested workarounds:
https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Fusion-Discussions/Can-t-boot-into-recovery-partition-on-ma...

Alternatively you can download the full installer from apple and use that.

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