wila
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Thanks vmxvmr for your input on this, you raise a good point.

this needs internet --- is Not from recovery partition ... ????

Yes and no, your recovery partition does not contain all the installer files needed to install macOS itself.

Here's a part of the partition output from one of my machines:

$ diskutil list

/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            958.4 GB   disk0s2

   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3

As you can see the Apple Boot Recovery HD is just 650MB, a full download of macOS is a bit over 6GB, almost 10 times as big.

The recovery partition is just enough to either:

- restore from Time Machine backup

- run disk utility so that you can repair a broken install

- get help online

- start (re)install (which will then download the full installer)

However the actual download only starts AFTER you startup the install, not during the "create from recovery partition" process from VMware Fusion.

So when I run "install from recovery partition", it really just copies the 650MB from the host recovery partition to a local recovery partition on the virtual disk of the virtual machine.

If I understand your original question correctly that your issue is before you are running the install itself and in that case my suggestion to open a ticket with VMware still stands.

--

Wil

| Author of Vimalin. The virtual machine Backup app for VMware Fusion, VMware Workstation and Player |
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