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And here is the terminal build of the ISO with Monterey iMac:create_macos_vm_install_dmg username$ mkdir ../Monterey iMac:create_macos_vm_install_dmg username$ sudo ./create_macos_vm_install_dmg.sh "/Applications/Install macOS Monterey.app"/ ../Monterey/ Do you also want an .iso disk image? 1) Yes 2) No #? Yes #? 1 -- Additional disk image will be created in .iso format. Proceeding... -- macOS Installer application detected at the following path: /Applications/Install macOS Monterey.app -- Installer application for macOS 12.6.5 detected. Proceeding.... -- /Applications/Install macOS Monterey.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia tool detected. Proceeding.... -- Creating empty 15 GB disk image at the following location: /tmp/0F39495F-3E91-4177-994A-763412803397.cdr created: /tmp/0F39495F-3E91-4177-994A-763412803397.cdr.dmg -- Mounting disk image at /Volumes/0F39495F-3E91-4177-994A-763412803397 /dev/disk2 Apple_partition_scheme /dev/disk2s1 Apple_partition_map /dev/disk2s2 Apple_HFS /Volumes/0F39495F-3E91-4177-994A-763412803397 Erasing disk: 0%... 10%... 20%... 30%... 100% Making disk bootable... Copying to disk: 0%... 10%... 20%... 30%... 40%... 50%... 60%... 70%... 100% Install media now available at "/Volumes/Install macOS Monterey" -- Unmounting macOS installer disk image. -- Converting macOS installer disk image to .iso format. Reading Driver Descriptor Map (DDM : 0)… Reading Apple (Apple_partition_map : 1)… Reading (Apple_Free : 2)… Reading disk image (Apple_HFS : 3)… .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. Elapsed Time: 35.887s Speed: 428.0MB/s Savings: 0.0% created: /Users/username/Scripts/Monterey/macOS_1265_installer.iso.cdr -- Building process complete. -- Built .dmg disk image file is available at ../Monterey/macOS_1265_installer.dmg -- Built .iso disk image file is available at ../Monterey/macOS_1265_installer.iso iMac:create_macos_vm_install_dmg username$ ls -lsa ../Monterey/ total 62914560 0 drwxr-xr-x 4 username staff 128 May 5 15:21 . 0 drwxr-xr-x 4 username staff 128 May 5 15:18 .. 31457280 -rw-r--r--@ 1 root wheel 16106127360 May 5 15:21 macOS_1265_installer.dmg 31457280 -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 16106127360 May 5 15:21 macOS_1265_installer.iso iMac:create_macos_vm_install_dmg username$

softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer --full-installer-version 12.6.5 note: this command to find your possible version at this point --list-full-installers Also, note the double dash ( -- ) is not what a copy and paste of the above post gives.... softwareupdate —fetch-full-installer —full-installer-version 13.3 so... softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer--full-installer-version 13.3

Awesome work FooBarWidget.... Glad you are working this thru..... someones got to do it. While I'm not with VMWare, I think that a call to support line will probably get you pointed to an answer fair efficiently.... I'd give them a call personally  - 877 486 9273

Phillip Pem---- When you say in number 3 that the configuration is the "same" what do you mean by this? The VM resources are the same or that you have copied something internal to the guest so that internal the guest OS is configured the same..... There are more possible "with the same configuration" interpretations. I'm not sure which ones to think about so please send a bit more detail... Thanx

I believe you may have permission issues not directly related to whether Fusion 5 works with Mavericks. I have started a seperate thread that includes the answer to Fusion 5 on Mavericks. Let me know what you figure out. Permission Issue: Do you have a seperate partition or disk? If so make sure the User you are logged in with has full read/write permissions all the way down to the location of your VM guest files. Get Info ( COMMAND/APPLE I "eye") and check the ownership and permission.

Hi Woody and others, I thought I was seeing things that previous I thought were impossible ..... Using SpingRite on a Mac.....virtualized .... one user, rharder,  was of a similar mind and asked the question .... Earlier in this thread the question was asked if the dismounting of a disk from the host and having a guest OS ( i.e. SpinRite ) mount a "raw" full device actually allows the SpinRite OS to speak to the hardware disk so that SpinRite can work at that level. I didn't see an answer and had the same question myself. It was my conceptual understanding that VMWare Fusion is always operation at a virtual level not at the hardware level because it is not a baremetal hypervisor. I would love to know that I could have a virtualized OS fixing the low level state of a real harddisk as a "background process" by giving the background process ( i.e a Fusion VM guest ) exclusive access to the hardware device. Is VMWare Fusion really able to do this? And if so, I'd love to read more about this use of storage in particular. I'd love to dedicate a couple Mac Cores to a zfs storage system that I would run as attached storage on an overpowered MacPro that I never fully use, mostly idling along at 5-10%. If it is truly possible, I'd love to run SpinRite VM as a hard disk recovery and low level disk formatting "service" on my MacPro. If I get a "Yes" it is possible then I will ask a continuing flavor of this question of access raw devices: I have eSATA Adaptor cards, is it possible for Fusion to take over a full card and run the card and it's storage as a VM guest resource? I have heard rumors about these kinds of things being possible but need some pointers to examples or documentation or even riffs on conceptuallization of how to do these things on Mac hardware. Thanx for any comments Terry

Hey Woody, Is this issue only the Retina display MacBook Pro's or is this Mt.Lion in general ( IYHO ). I'm waiting for Fusion to be "stable" with Mt. Lion and need to know what the experts think! I see your name and think "What do the experts think?" Thanx for all the advise you offer on this forum ..... You should have your own forum Terry

I also must completely disagree with the poster .... IMHO - VMWare support is by far the best tech support team in the industry right now for consumer level products ( i.e. VMWare Fusion ) If the Guest OS is installing properly and attaching to virtual devices, etc. then I believe that VMWare Fusion has done it's job. Microsoft Office is clearly not an OS - it is clearly a Microsoft Product (application(s) ) intended to run in a working OS. Problems installing an app ( series of apps ) in an OS is very very likely a question for Microsoft..... unless you got a very unusual VM tech support agent they go overboard to help but clearly cannot take on the job of Microsoft tech support. I do not work for VMWare but my experience has very very positive. Only rarely have I had a complaint of any type with VMWare tech support. I suggest you consider what the cost to VMWare the company if they were to take on all tech support for all possible application that are installed in all possible versions of all possible operating systems...... I don't think you can even calculate a number for that kind of tech support - it doesn't exist in any company anywhere. There needs to be a limit and VMWare is pretty good at going the extra mile on doubtful cases. Thus, reconsider you've reasons for thinking you have been wronged somehow and perhaps, give the forum the question you may have. Perhaps a knowledgable person will help you with your issue.

Note: If you buy Mac OS X Server to do as you are doing - MAKE SURE - it is a "Retail Version" not a "Legal Version" only. The Retail Version is very important. One could end up with a Server Serial Number that will ONLY work on the type of mac hardware on which it was sold....i.e. a MacMini Server bundled with a Server OS License...... Second - Make sure the DVD is a "Retail Version" ..... I am not repeating myself..... Only a Retail Version - Boxed will work with 95% certainty..... there is still an uncertainty that is connected with the machine you are hosting on..... I believe all of this in caused by sillyness on Apple's part ( economic interests ) and have been tripped up at various times - and I am NOT talking about illegal licenses! VMWare tech support is very helpful IF you have a retail DVD and have problems...... now, with that said, if you have problems, tech support will likely believe or test you for the possibility that you have an illegal DVD or license.....though they won't specifically sayy so up front..... I'll been there and done that..... Good luck. Personnelly, I am looking for confirmation or not that Fusion 4.0.2 has clear away most Mac on Mac virtualization problems..... I currently run Mac OS X Server 10.6.8 as a VM of Fusion 3.1.3 hosted on Mac OS X Client 10.6.8 with great results...... Terry

Hi Mikero, Sorry for going "astray" on the thread.... Because we were doing a comparision with Parallels and because I am in my first couple days of VMware fusion and I know Parallels well..... in most ways I was just continuing the thread in my mind..... In particular since that only way I could install a Mac OS X Server on VMWare Fusion was with an import Parallels VM. Sorry if it feels I went astray though..... Terry

You are right, of course..... There a need to ESX "light" for those that don't have $50,000 for virtualization but are moving that way..... There is a vast gap between Parallels Desk/VMware FUsion and ESX..... at least that's what I think is the problem.... I'm willing to live in the gap if I can get reasonable tech support.... Terry

Try wiki vmware fusion for insight into release cycles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware_Fusion I went ahead and cross-graded with one year subscription and paid for one technical support phone call which was long and disappointing and did not result in a useful answer in the slightest. In the end, I had to give up on tech support and finally 36 hours after my first call I figured out how to install Mac OS X Server Snow Leopard and a Guest OS in VMware Fusion .... the solution is ironic and easy and it apparent to me to be the only way to do this is to start with a Parallels VM of Snow Leopard Server - Copy to the VMware environment ( A different machine than Parallels ). Then import the VM. It went thru seamlessly for me - very ironic in my opinion and VMware tech support couldn't give me any method even after an hour on my machine .... Parallel Snow LeopardServer VM to VMware Fusion Snow Leopard Server VM. I am now testing for stability and resource use. It is my opinion that both Parallels, Inc. and VMware, Inc. need to find a way to provide and sell "expert" level support for those like me who know what we are doing most of the time but get stuck with issues in real business situations that require solutions in a matter of a couple hours - not days or weeks. My reason for testing VMWare Fusion is not because I dislike Parallels Desktop 5 ..... I use it everyday 24/365 .... but because tech support on the Parallels side is useless at Tier 1 ( I am always teaching them ) and slow at Tier 2 ( Often many days to any useful information). And this is when I am paying for phone support. Now don't get me wrong, the phone support is actually priced cheap..... but it is also very slow at best 90% of the time for my issues. I don't mind paying for tech support but I cannot weather a day or week of uncertainty over what is often a bug in the virtualization framework....

Has anyone succeeded in installing Mac OS X Server Leopard or Snow Leopard and if so how specifically. My test setup is a MacMiniServer running Mac OS X Server - Snow Leopard. ( Host OS ) I want to import some Parallels VMs - Leopard Server, Snow Leopard Server AND I want to create some fresh templates of Leopard Server and Snow Leopard Server AND I would like to understand what kinds of images one can use with VMware Fusion to do above work AND Has anyone identified a good tech support contact at VMware for Mac OS X Server virtualization with Fusion? AND Does anyone have any suggestions on NONE Attached Storage - Netgear ReadyNAS? That's a start. I am stuck at a new install of VMware Fusion and nothing I know how to do is getting a VM Mac OS X Server up and running...