Apple released the new macOS 10.15 Catalina on 3rd June 2019 on the World Wide Developer Conference. That day Apple also announced WatchOS 6, TVOS, iPadOS, M. Once you allowed the VMware tools, restart the virtual machine. Again coming back to macOS Catalina check that the screen resolution size of 1920×1080 is working properly or not. If not then one more time you have to install the VMware tools.
This post is to share the information about how to manually download VMware tools ISO image for various Operating systems based on VMware vSphere versions including the latest version of vSphere such as vSphere 6.5 . VMware tools varies for each and every operating system. When we try to install or Upgrade VMware tools using vSphere client, It will automatically mount the associated VMware tools ISO into virtual CD ROM drive of your virtual machine based on the Guest Operating system of the virtual machine. If in case you face any problem with mounting VMware tools ISO image to the virtual machine using vSphere client, you can manually download VMware tools ISO image from the VMware website and install it manually on the respective guest operating system.
Manually Download VMware Tools ISO Image
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Setting up Mac OS on a vm running on Windows is something I have done several times for one reason or the other, but mainly because I miss using the OS. I have always loved the Apple Mac OS, ever since I first used System 7 (Mac OS 7) back in the early 1990’s.
My main computer was a MacBook for a little over 7 years, but unfortunately these days have passed and my existing MacBook is resting comfortably in a corner on my desk, sadly collecting dust.
Every now and then I decide to run another VM with the latest OS, maybe bring back to life my old photo library and devonthink notes. Then I find just about enough spare time to start playing with that again. This time it is the latest available version OS X 10.15 – Catalina.
After having done this almost half a dozen times before, I will usually find an old vm lying around on a spare disk which I can bring up and download the latest Mac OS from the Apple Store. I don’t like using vm images or ISO downloaded from the internet in fear that they may have been compromised, so I like working with the original installers that I have downloaded from the App Store directly.
The VM I had was running OS X 10.13 – High Sierra. Downloading the OS from the App Store yielded only the small sized installer, so I decided to perform an install from that onto a new virtual disk.
The download and install took around 3 hours with my very fast internet (not), and the vm rebooted to the apple logo, and then nothing… It was stuck there. I was using vmware workstation 14 at this point and thought it would be a good idea to upgrade it to the latest version. Then of course use unlocker to enable booing Mac OS. Started up the VM and boom, the progress bar and then the setup screen. Yaaaaay.
Download Vmware Tools Catalina Full
Now with the Mac OS freshly installed and running, the next step is to get to see things on the screen, I needed to set the resolution to the max my monitor will support, so, 1920 x 1080. So install VMware Tools, that should be easy, menu -> vm -> Install VMware Tools… Nope, not working, unlocker failed to download the VMware Tools package for some reason. Finding it online was a bit difficult, but using the trusty google search, nothing is impossible. unzip, mount, install, reboot, and bam… the resolution is set, and then it jumps back to a high DPI lower resolution, which was something I never heard of before having not used any Retina display Macs before. With some luck and a lot of searching, I found a way to disable the hDPI mode and finally I have the OS running at a resolution where I can actually see things.
Catalina Vmware Tools Download
Next step, download a full original copy of the OS, no wait, write about it in my dead WordPress page, and hopefully follow this post up with multiple small posts explaining how I did all the above in details, with snapshots, versions of software used, download locations, and command lines. So, first post done, hopefully more to come.