El Capitan as Guest

[dldave]

Running Fusion 10.1.6 under El Capitan. Created a VM of El Capitan from a Recovery Drive. How do I make the El Capitan VM able to see my Time Machine drive which is external to host, so I can restore from it?

[Technogeezer · Accepted solution]

If that doesn't work, try obtaining a copy of the macOS El Capitan installer from Apple via this link

That will give you a .dmg file. Open the InstallMacOSX.dmg file and run the installer found in it. The "Install OS X El Capitan" application will be placed in your /Applications folder.If asked to execute the application after it installs, don't do it. 

Then use that to install your El Capitan VM in a new VM by dragging the application onto the "Create a new virtual machine" dialog. 

[dldave]

Downloading the installer worked. Thanks to all for sticking with me through this.