Comments on: How to Install macOS Catalina on VMware on Windows 10 – PC

By: Vladislav

Vladislav — Sat, 10 Dec 2022 16:08:26 +0000

If your mouse and keyboard are not working, you can change USB to USB 2.0 in VmWare VM Settings.

By: CF M

CF M — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 17:22:59 +0000

Just installed macOs 12 with macOS_Monterey_GEEKrar.iso on a Windows 11 with and intel i7-9750H CPU following this guide. Used vmware player 15, didn’t need the fix codes, used the tools to fix the resolution and everything worked as described. Tried using virtualbox before vmware, but virtualbox only allowed me to use 1 core.
Thanks for the guide.

By: Jack B

Jack B — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 15:13:20 +0000

Works very well. Thanks for the guide!

By: Ted Pham

Ted Pham — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 16:54:50 +0000

In reply to Charles Burns.

It worked for me before when I used a PC with an old Intel CPU but when I upgraded to a newer AMD CPU it did not work anymore, just keep stucking on Apple logo for ever.
But it stil woeks well for other OS like Windows or Linux.
Now I find out a lot of people with AMD CPU have same problem.

By: Mukhtar Jafari

Mukhtar Jafari — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 18:12:46 +0000

In reply to Charles Burns. Please Enable the virtualisation from your bios

By: Charles Burns

Charles Burns — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 23:29:02 +0000

I am running Win 10 Pro on a Ryzen Threadripper 1950x with 64gb ram. I ran through all of the steps and even did the “fix” code change but it still won’t boot. I get a message that says “The CPU has been disabled by the guest operating system. Power off or reset the virtual machine.” Any ideas on how to fix this?

By: Christopher Parker

Christopher Parker — Fri, 31 Dec 2021 15:25:43 +0000

Thanks. Everything worked great for me. For some reason I had to run the unlocker 2 or 3 times before it worked but after I got macOS to show up in VMWare everything went smoothly.
I also only added
hw.model = “Macmini7,1”
to the end of the .vmx file, this allows it to show as a Mac mini (2014), but it keeps the serial number instead of making it Bxxxxxxxxxxxxx.

Great Job! I really appreciate the tutorial.

By: James Gellan

James Gellan — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 03:31:29 +0000

Followed all the steps to the letter. None of the steps worked, when I start Mac OS to install Catalina, VMWARE gets stuck on Apple logo and does nothing else.

By: muzammal

muzammal — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 09:07:59 +0000

Hello i follow all your steps but after it copies files and restart it didnt boot . I dont know whats the problem is

By: Enno F

Enno F — Sun, 19 Sep 2021 13:17:34 +0000

In reply to Chi. That’s not true because I use V16.1.2 and I can’t do anything but to power down the virtual machine. I have a Ryzen 7 2700X and that doesn’t work.

By: Ingo

Ingo — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 10:03:34 +0000

All wasted time if running on Ryzen.

By: AS

AS — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 23:15:10 +0000

In reply to LastS0n0fKryptoN. I'm also getting stuck on the Apple Logo. Did you have to re-run the setup after installation Workstation PRO? Also does it not work on the Workstation Player?

By: Bub

Bub — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 19:58:52 +0000

I tried for WEEKS to do this using VirtualBox. I could never get a serial number fix, never had any sound, the mouse wheel was reversed and the response was terrible. I used Virtualbox because I had used it before for Linux and was familiar with it. What a mistake. One pass with VMware and my VM runs perfectly as expected. FORGET VIRTUAL BOX!!!

By: John Campbell

John Campbell — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 16:28:51 +0000

In reply to Mukhtar Jafari. This is NOT the issue. My virtualization is ON, as I'm able to run other OS'es on VMware. It's a OSX problem with the VM.