Comments on: How to Install macOS Big Sur on VMware on Windows – PC

By: JQ

JQ — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 01:43:03 +0000

Thanks for the guide, very well written

By: RICHARD KRAUSE PIRES DE CAMPOS

RICHARD KRAUSE PIRES DE CAMPOS — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 18:44:15 +0000

How i can use more than 128MB of NVRAM? I have 3050gtx and Ryzen 7 5800H Mobile…this should work better with this configuration…when i use it on window (1280×720) works fine, but when i use it on full screen lags a lot….

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 21:22:45 +0000

SOOO LAGY
or is that problem of my pc,.. idk

By: Daniel Filho

Daniel Filho — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 19:55:27 +0000

What’s ICLOUD_UNSUPPRTED_DEVICE?

By: koltaig

koltaig — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 02:13:38 +0000

on AMD Ryzen 7 5800X I have the same cpuid.ds / failed to start vm / cpu disabled issues

finaly needs to be change the cpuid.1.edx

from:
cpuid.1.edx = “0000:1111:1010:1011:1111:1011:1111:1111”
to:
cpuid.1.edx = “0000:0111:1000:1011:1111:1011:1111:1111”

Full vmx modification:
smc.version = “0”
cpuid.0.eax = “0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:1011”
cpuid.0.ebx = “0111:0101:0110:1110:0110:0101:0100:0111”
cpuid.0.ecx = “0110:1100:0110:0101:0111:0100:0110:1110”
cpuid.0.edx = “0100:1001:0110:0101:0110:1110:0110:1001”
cpuid.1.eax = “0000:0000:0000:0001:0000:0110:0111:0001”
cpuid.1.ebx = “0000:0010:0000:0001:0000:1000:0000:0000”
cpuid.1.ecx = “1000:0010:1001:1000:0010:0010:0000:0011”
cpuid.1.edx = “0000:0111:1000:1011:1111:1011:1111:1111”
smbios.reflectHost = “TRUE”
hw.model = “iMac19,1”
board-id = “Mac-AA95B1DDAB278B95”

VM hardware: 15.X

VM host sw config:
VMWARE Workstation PRO 16.2.1 and unlocker 3.0.2

hw.model = “MacBookAir6,2”
board-id = “Mac-7DF21CB3ED6977E5”

By: Narayan Gauda

Narayan Gauda — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 06:15:48 +0000

followed all the steps but it won’t move past the apple logo for the past 10 minutes. The loading screen is not coming. should I wait more

https://prnt.sc/23z5ktf

By: dylan reynolds

dylan reynolds — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 15:45:19 +0000

when i try to erase the hard disk it opens a dialog and says failed. any fix?

By: ZenTsang

ZenTsang — Sat, 20 Nov 2021 05:42:23 +0000

In reply to Martin. So I copy and pasted James Walker's AMD fix above. all of his quotes above slant to the right. However in the default VMX file, all the quotes and straight up and down. So do I change everything to the slanted version or change the newly copy and pasted section to straight up and down? I'm not really having any luck. I either get CPU disabled error or that missing AVX2 error.

By: Bas Prins

Bas Prins — Sat, 13 Nov 2021 15:18:04 +0000

Hi,

I’m not getting through this:

#6. For Name, type disk macOS Big Sur Beta then select APFS from Format drop-down list and click Erase.

I get this message and can’t get any further:

The operation on file “C:\Users\dippi\OneDrive\Documenten\Virtual Machines\macos\macos.vmdk” failed.

If the file resides on a remote file system, make sure that the network connection and the server where this disk resides are functioning properly. If the file resides on removable media, reattach the media.

Select Retry to attempt the operation again.

Select Cancel to power off the virtual machine.

Select Continue to forward the error to the guest operating system.

By: Bas Prins

Bas Prins — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 22:45:48 +0000

Hi,

#5. Select VMware Virtual SATA Hard Drive Media then click Erase.

Doesn’t work for me. I get:

The operation on file “C:\Users\dippi\OneDrive\Documenten\Virtual Machines\macos\macos.vmdk” failed.

Select Retry to attempt the operation again.

Select Cancel to power off the virtual machine.

Select Continue to forward the error to the guest operating system.

By: DeDeSoft

DeDeSoft — Sun, 19 Sep 2021 08:23:48 +0000

Dear all, i used this tutorial on my win11 (Build 22458) and Workstation 16.1.2 and… it works. The only problem with it is a slow graphics performance.

I have Ryzen 3700X and 64 GB RAM (DDR4 3200), ASUS 570X Motherboard and… enabled Hyper-V – yes – VMWare and Hyper-V working together!

By: Dance Musique

Dance Musique — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 11:02:53 +0000

Has anyone experienced system freeze (host and guest) after installing VMWare Tools?
Without installing the tools, everything works well, but the resolution is too small.

By: Terry Allen

Terry Allen — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 14:26:54 +0000

Excellent however plugging in a USB drive causes Big Sur to crash. Any ideas

By: iulian

iulian — Sun, 08 Aug 2021 12:33:06 +0000

I don’t understand a thing Why you’re not able to Create an image Tissot no ISO no vmdk it’s a difference You don’t see why menus have problems do as you do Windows create ISO we don’t want dk it was earlier but it’s not titled correctly how do the people from Linex Linex and that I do it for free and I do well I do not why I do not understand how you want people to trust TRU operating system that raises problems in the installation phase can not be trusted it’s like leads into the forest where they are only no longer asking Snake snakes only Scorpio and you do not know where they are everyone is complaining that he can not go through it because of this danger so are the files you make make a good and easy ISO installed just put it in the virtual machine to run the virtual machine and follow the installation steps that in the end the match is a linux platform the files the presentation mode is the same as in linux the same for what I install you need the password without password no you can in stala no file Obviously it’s the password that each user puts in when they install the operating system. there will be no more problems with everything that the virtual machine needs to read in order to install the system
I don’t know if you understand something that I used Google translation I only know Romanian If you had translators you tell me and then I write you in Romanian I put again make ISO image as they do from Linex and Windows you see well they are not installation problems with them