No Recovery Partitions Found - VMWare Fusion Could Not Find Any Recovery Partitions on this MAC

[acecorp2004]

Running into a strange situation where someone is trying to create a new OS X 10.11 Virtual Machine using VMWare Fusion and is choosing the "Install OS X From the Recovery Partition" option. However, a message comes back saying "No Recovery Partitions Found" as

shown in the image below.

Whats interesting is that there IS a recovery partition named Apple_Boot Recovery HD and its present when running the "diskutil list" command as shown below. Anyone see this before? Is there a problem with this particular MAC or is the user missing some prerequisite action that must be performed prior to creating their Virtual Machine?

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk0

   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1

   2:          Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD            999.7 GB   disk0s2

   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3

/dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           +999.3 GB   disk1

[dariusd]

Which model of Mac is this?  Anything unusual about the way it was set up or the way OS X  was installed?

To gather a bit more information, please run the following command at the shell prompt and paste its output (if any) back into a reply in this thread...

   /Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmware-rawdiskCreator hasRecovery /dev/disk0 /dev/stdout

Cheers,

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Darius

[acecorp2004]

Not that I know of. The user purchased the mac directly from apple. It's a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) Processor Intel Core i7, Memory 16 GB 160 DDR3, Graphics Intel Iris Pro 1536 running OS X El Capitan 10.11.4 but apparently this issue existed out of the box even before upgrading to El Capitan

The result of the command you asked about is as follows.

/Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmware-rawdiskCreator hasRecovery /dev/disk0 /dev/stdout

Failed to create DADisk

No recovery partition found.

[acecorp2004]

Also on these new mac's the recovery partition is hidden by default and is only accessible when you boot up by hitting the CMD+R shortcut but the user doesn't want to boot to the recovery partition so once he boots to it, he has to restart so he can get into the mac's normal partition to use the mac.

[dariusd]

Ah, are you running Fusion 7, by any chance?  Fusion 8 introduces compatibility with the new physical disk format (4 kByte sectors) used by the Early 2015 and newer MacBook Pro systems.

Cheers,

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Darius

[acecorp2004]

Ahh that makes sense. I will recommend that they upgrade to that version. They may already even have the license as part of their normal maintenance/upgrade with VMWare. They may have just not rolled it out yet.

Thanks!