No solution yet, apparently VMWare is aware, so I imagine we'll see a fix soon.
In the meantime I'm exploring this:
I was able to get one setup by creating an iso with the installer..run the following:
hdiutil create -o /tmp/BigSur -size 17000m -volname BigSur -layout SPUD -fs HFS+J
hdiutil attach /tmp/BigSur.dmg -noverify -mountpoint /Volumes/BigSur
sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Big\ Sur.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/BigSur --nointeraction
hdiutil detach /volumes/Install\ macOS\ Big\ Sur (this didn't work for me but was able to force eject with finder.)
hdiutil convert /tmp/BigSur.dmg -format UDTO -o ~/Desktop/BigSur.cdr
mv ~/Desktop/BigSur.cdr ~/Desktop/BigSur.iso
I had exactly the same problem. Do you have any update yet?
same issue
No solution yet, apparently VMWare is aware, so I imagine we'll see a fix soon.
In the meantime I'm exploring this:
Already tried. No luck. Please let me know how it goes.
I was able to get one setup by creating an iso with the installer..run the following:
hdiutil create -o /tmp/BigSur -size 17000m -volname BigSur -layout SPUD -fs HFS+J
hdiutil attach /tmp/BigSur.dmg -noverify -mountpoint /Volumes/BigSur
sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Big\ Sur.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/BigSur --nointeraction
hdiutil detach /volumes/Install\ macOS\ Big\ Sur (this didn't work for me but was able to force eject with finder.)
hdiutil convert /tmp/BigSur.dmg -format UDTO -o ~/Desktop/BigSur.cdr
mv ~/Desktop/BigSur.cdr ~/Desktop/BigSur.iso
I can create an iso file but it's not bootable. Is your iso file bootable?
Oh yeah, it worked. Thanks mate.
I have the same error.
You can follow instructions given by taylorcurtis805. Then create a custom vm and load the iso file via CD/DVD.
Same issue with VMWare Fusion 12 and macOS Big Sur 11.0.1
https://github.com/rtrouton/create_macos_vm_install_dmg - this works.
Thanks Karthik. That worked perfectly for me
create_macos_vm_install_dmg.sh (from https://github.com/rtrouton/create_macos_vm_install_dmg) created two files:
+ macOS_1101_installer.dmg
+ macOS_1101_installer.iso
I used macOS_1101_installer.dmg with VMWare Fusion 12 Pro and I'm able to install macOS Big Sur (11.0.1)
Thank you all for the contributions made here! Friendly tip - be sure to exclude the host system creating the installer from any Big Sur software restriction in your MDM.
The scripts posted above led to a "Kill 9" error - which was Jamf in our case killing the installer process during the createinstallmedia function.
@taylorcurtis805 I was able to fix the force eject with adding -force to that line:
hdiutil detach /volumes/Install\ macOS\ Big\ Sur -force