Ensure that Connect is selected.Ĭheck to see that your summary looks correct, and then Finish.įinally, you will see your newly created VM listed under the Node on which it is running, like so:Ībove, we looked at the process of creating your first Mac VM running on VMware at MacStadium via the vCenter UI. Will probably use DarwinDumper to get a complete snapshot of all hardware information, and compare between the 2 platforms. So now need to take that VM to a Workstation machine and see if I can find what is different.
Select the default presented for Compatibility and then Next.įor Guest OS Family select Other and Guest OS Version Apple Mac OS X 12.15 (64-bit). Select the datastore for your VM’s files (generally you will only have one of these). Otherwise, VMware will select a host for you. If you don’t have DRS Mode enabled, you will be prompted to select a specific host to deploy your Mac VM to. In Select a compute resource, click Next. Then, select Create a new virtual machine and then select Next.Ĭhoose a name for the VM, for example, “macOS-10.15” and then select Next. Create a Single Mac VM in VMwareįirst, in the vCenter Navigator, right-click on the Cluster and select New Virtual Machine.
As you grow, you will be able to manage multiple networks or groups of hosts within this same interface. The MacStadium private cloud options you selected at signup will determine the number of physical hosts you see in your vSphere cluster. vCenter UIįirst, you’ll want to sign in to your vCenter instance hosted by MacStadium. The take away here is when moving to vSphere 5.5, whether a new install or an upgrade, watch your group memberships and avoid nesting. There I added full admin permissions for the Domain Admins group. Today, we’ll walk through the process of creating your first Mac VM running on VMware at MacStadium via the vCenter user interface. To do this I logged in as the local administrator, selected the vCenter server, then went to the Manage and Permissions tabs. We offer the latest stable version of the VMware ESXi hypervisor on dedicated hardware, so extending your on-premises VMware setup to the cloud is secure and won’t require you to remake the wheel in the process. MacStadium offers virtualization of macOS, Windows, and Linux on genuine Apple hardware by pairing it with VMware.