You’ll see that VMware Fusion is “able to create the installation medium.”Ĭreate a bootable USB of the Monterey installer by following the instructions in How to create a bootable installer for macOS. …except for the fact you can’t select macOS 12 as an option. You’ll try to drag the installer to the Install from disc or image part of the window.Įverything will look as if it’s proceeding as normal…

If you try to install Monterey using the traditional method, this is what happens:

I would recommend using proper support channels (like the aforementioned VMware Fusion communities online forums) to get actual support if you run into any issues.Īs of the writing of this blog post (22 November, 2021), VMware Fusion doesn’t officially support macOS 12 (Monterey) for VM guests. If it doesn’t work for you, I probably don’t know any better than you do why that’s the case. I’m sharing only a more detailed step-by-step guide of a summary I read, and this is only what worked for me. Hopefully, these instructions will be obsolete soon in a future update of VMware Fusion (where you can just select macOS 12, drag the installer to the install wizard, and have VMware Fusion do everything for you).

These are just more fleshed out steps from a brief overview in the VMware Fusion communities online forums.

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