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How to Install macOS Mojave on VMware on Windows 10 – PC

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How to Install macOS Mojave on VMware on Windows 10 - PC

In this article, I’m going to show you how to install macOS Mojave on VMware on Windows 10 PC. Apple in WWDC 2018 announced its new operating system which is macOS Mojave 10.14. You can install macOS Mojave on virtualization software such as VMware and VirtualBox. It’s highly recommended to use VMware instead of VirtualBox because it works much better like smoother, quicker, and faster than Virtualbox. To Install macOS Mojave on VMware on Windows 10 using a pre-made ISO filled with only macOS Mojave setup then go through the step by step guide down below and do exactly as the guide is shown.

Newer versions of macOS are out, So check the guides below to install them:

Requirements:

  • Minimum 2 GB memory
  • Minimum 2 cores of processors
  • Hard disk free space 20 GB
  • Your system should support Intel or AMD VT (Virtualization Technology)
  • Intel/AMD VT (Virtualization Technology) Should be enabled from BIOS setup

Required: If you haven’t already then you should enable Virtualization Technology (aka Intel VT or AMD-V).

Steps to Install macOS Mojave on VMware on Windows 10

  1. Download the prerequisites
  2. Install the Prerequisites
  3. Unlock VMware to Install macOS Mojave on Windows
  4. Create a New Virtual Machine
  5. Edit macOS Mojave VMX File (Optional)
  6. Install macOS Mojave as VM on VMware
  7. Complete Basic macOS Account Settings
  8. Install VMware Tools (Optional)

Step 1: Download the Prerequisites

Before you begin, you should download some files, and you may also download & install the Virtualisation application, which is required later on in this guide. But if you have done any of the following already, then you may skip it. Here is the list:

Step 2: Install the Prerequisites

Now install the following application, and if you already have it by any chance then you’re welcome to Skip but make sure then it works properly and updated to the latest version.

  • Install VMware Workstation Pro 15.5.x or VMware Player 15.5.x

Run the VMware Workstation Pro/Player setup and follow the prompt leaving all the options as default.

Step 3: Unlock VMware to Install macOS Mojave on Windows

Firstly make sure VMware Workstation application is closed completely otherwise the VMware unlocker won’t work. You can do this by Clicking on File Tab > Exit.

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Exit VMware Workstation

You should have downloaded macOS Unlocker V3 for VMware GitHub or the direct link above. So now extract the macOS Unlocker V3.0 for VMware Workstation. Right-click on win-install.cmd and select Run as Administrator.

Note: You may always uninstall the previous version of the Unlocker before using a new release. Failure to do this could render VMware unusable. – David Parsons

How to Install macOS Catalina on VMware

Run win-install.cmd As Administrator

How to Install macOS Catalina on VMware

Unlocker 3.0.3 for VMware Workstation

Step 4: Create a New Virtual Machine

  1. Open VMware and click on Create a New Virtual Machine (Ctrl+N) then select Typical (Recommended) and click Next.
  2. Now select I will install the operating system later and click Next. Choose Apple Mac OS X from operating system list then select macOS 10.14 from version and click Next.
  3. Name the virtual machine as you prefer like macOS Mojave. Click Browse to choose a location to save virtual machine files and click Next, or you may let it as default (recommended).

    Name and Save macOS Mojave VM

    Name and Save macOS Mojave VM

  4. Specify the disk size of 120 GB or more than 50 GB. Then select Store virtual disk as a single file and click Next.

    How to Install macOS Big Sur on VMware on Windows - PC

    Specify Disk Capacity

  5. On Ready to Create Virtual Machine, Click Customize Hardware.

    Customize Mojave VM Hardware

    Customize Mojave VM Hardware

  6. Increase the Memory from 2 GB to 4 GB or higher for better performance.

    How to Install macOS Catalina on VMware

    Increase RAM

  7. Select Processor menu then increase the CPU processor core from 2 cores to 4 or Higher cores for better performance.
    • Note: If you don’t have enough resources then you may not increase the Memory and Processor since the minimum requirement is 2 GB Memory and 2 Cores of Processor.

      Increase Number of Processors Mojave

      Increase Number of Processors

  8. Select New CD/DVD (SATA) from the menu then click Use ISO image file: and click Browse.

    Browse Mojave ISO

    Click Browse

  9. Locate the macOS Mojave 10.14.6.iso file then click Open. If you don’t have this file then you should download this from Step 1: Download the Prerequisites section.

    Browse macOS Mojave ISO

    Browse macOS Mojave ISO

  10. Finally, click Close to save all the changes that you made to the virtual machine settings.

    Save Changes to macOS Mojave VM

    Save Changes to macOS Mojave VM

  11. On the New Virtual Machine Wizard Window, Click Finish.

    Ready to macOS Mojave VM

    Ready to macOS Mojave VM

Step 5: Edit macOS Mojave VMX File (Optional)

  1. Do these 2 steps only if you can’t boot into macOS or have other issues. Navigate to the virtual machine folder which you select in step #4.3 of this guide. If you didn’t specify a new location, then the default location is in Document > Virtual Machine. Right-click on macOS Mojave.vmx then open it via Notepad or any third-party text editor of your choice.
  2. Scroll down to the bottom of texts and add the following code; then click on File > Save. After that, you may close it as you don’t need it anymore.
smbios.reflectHost = "TRUE"
hw.model = "MacBookPro14,3"
board-id = "Mac-551B86E5744E2388"
smc.version = "0"

Step 6: Install macOS Mojave as VM on VMware

  1. Open VMware and on the macOS Mojave VM window Click Power on this Virtual Machine.

    Run macOS Mojave VM

    Power On macOS Mojave VM

  2. Wait for macOS to boot up.

    Booting macOS Mojave

    Booting macOS Mojave

  3. Select English on the language page then click Continue Arrow.

    Select Language and Click Continue Mojave

    Select Language

  4. Now, you’ll see macOS Utilities Window. From the list, select Disk Utility and click Continue.

    Go to Disk Utility Mojave

    Go to Disk Utility

  5. Select VMware Virtual SATA Hard Drive Media then click Erase. Choose the following options and again click Erase.
    • Name: macOS HD (You can type any name you want)
    • Format: APFS (If you get an error, select Mac OS X Extended Journaled)
    • Scheme: GUID Partition MAP

      Format the VMware Virtual SATA Hard Drive Media Mojave

      Format the VMware Virtual SATA Hard Drive Media

  6. From Disk Utility Tab, click Quit Disk Utility

    Quit Disk Utility Mojave

    Quit Disk Utility

  7. From macOS Utilities, select Install macOS and click Continue.

    Select Install macOS Mojave

    Select Install macOS Mojave

  8. Click Continue on Install macOS Mojave screen.

    Install macOS Mojave

    Install macOS Mojave

  9. Agree to the macOS Mojave License agreement.

    Agree to the macOS Mojave License agreement

    Agree to the macOS Mojave License agreement

  10. Select macOS HD and click Install.

    Install macOS Mojave On the VMDK

    Install macOS Mojave On the VMDK

  11. Wait for macOS Mojave will restart 2/3 times to complete the installation itself without you touching anything. It will take roughly 15-20 minutes depending on your system, be patient.

Step 7: Complete Basic macOS Account Settings

Once the installation part complete, the VM will reboot, and after the reboot, you should see macOS Mojave Welcome page.

macOS Mojave Welcome VMware

macOS Mojave Welcome VMware

  1. Choose your Country and click on Continue.
  2. Choose a Keyboard Layout and click Continue.
  3. On the Data & Privacy page, click Continue.
  4. Select Don’t transfer any information now and click Continue.
  5. On Sign in with your Apple ID page, click Set up Later and click on Skip.
  6. Agree to the Terms and Conditions.
  7. Fill out the Full name,  Account name, Password, Hint and click on Continue to create your user account for macOS Mojave 10.14.

    Create macOS Mojave User Account

    Create macOS Mojave User Account

  8. On the Expres Set Up page, you don’t want to do something just click Continue.
  9. Dark mode feature is added newly to macOS Mojave 10.14 so you can select Light or Dark mode then click Continue.

    Choose macOS Mojave Look

    Choose macOS Mojave Look

  10. Wait a little while to Setting Up Your Mac. Then you should end up in the desktop of macOS Mojave.

    How to Install macOS Mojave on VMware on Windows 10 - PC

    Successfully Installed macOS Mojave on VMware

Step 8: Install VMware Tools (Optional)

So now you should have noticed that the resolution of macOS Mojave can’t be changed and it’s not working as smoothly as you expected. To fix macOS Mojave Resolution on VMware or Make it more responsive, you need to install something called VMware Tools. It’s quite easy and straightforward to work with any system. So to do that we have created a comprehensive guide. Please click the link below and follow the guide Step by step.

See this guide: How to install VMware Tools on macOS.

Summary

Basically, in this article, I’ve shown you the step by step pictorial guide on how to install macOS Mojave on VMware on Windows 10. After reading and following this guide, you should have done the following:

  • Download the prerequisites
  • Install the Prerequisites
  • Unlock VMware to Install macOS Mojave on Windows
  • Create a New Virtual Machine
  • Edit macOS Mojave VMX File (Optional)
  • Install macOS Mojave as VM on VMware
  • Complete Basic macOS Account Settings
  • Install VMware Tools (Optional)

Related: How to Install macOS Mojave on VirtualBox on Windows.

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80 Comments

  1. blankdylan reynolds Reply

    Any fix for this error?
    “The operation on file “C:\Users\no\OneDrive\Documents\Virtual Machines\macOS Mojave\macOS Mojave.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.”

  3. blankBecker Cuellar Reply

    I had the mojave 10.14 beta on my startup, xcode complained I needed 10.14.4 I downloaded the version in the AppStore which was 10.14.6 and said the drive must be APFS, ,looking around there was a suggestion of creating a partition on AFPS and install on it, I did and it went thru. After it was done I have the 2 partitions but my original partition stayed as HF and the xcode still there works now. I see in the APFS partition it installed the basic OS stuff. Since it works probably I leave it as is… it is not broke then don’t fix it

  4. blankbios manufacturers Reply

    I really pleased to find this site on bing, just what I was
    looking for 😀 as well saved to my bookmarks.

  7. blankAlaa Muhammad Reply

    why when i get extract the compressed folders of the mac os mojave didn’t work out ad give me an error!!!!!

    please help me

  8. blankSam Reply

    I followed that sentence, but it doesn’t work with VMware Player 15, which is installed on Windows 8.1 and keeps booting continues to boot. What should I do?

  9. blankLarry Reply

    Hi – I installed Mojave successfully. Everything looks good, but Apple will not take my Apple password to connect me to my data on iCloud. I tried to authenticate several ways. I input my password (I know it is correct) but the window hangs.

    In another attempt to authenticate, Mojave asks me for my passwords on my iPhone and iPad, but even though they both have 6-digit passwords, Mojave is only giving me a field for 4 digits.

    1. blankOwen Reply

      Sorry, this was a year ago, but to help other people, you need to sign into iCloud during the setup if you want to use services like iMessages.

  10. blankrick Reply

    It runs sluggishly in VMware. Does that mean that mean I probably shouldn’t install the OS on my laptop? Is VMware an accurate way to see how it would run if I did so?

  11. blankMahdi Akbaryan Reply

    Hello there,
    Thanks for all your tutorials. I am intended to run macOS on windows just because of Xcode. I used your tutorial and installed High Sierra besides linked VM Tools on that tutorial. Everything worked well but when I tried to DL Xcode I noticed that it is possible for OS 13.x and earlier versions. So I decided to to install Mojave. A problem with Mojave’s tutorial is that there is no linked VM Tools specified to Mojave. I used the VM Tools linked for High Sierra but it did not work. Would you please help me with installing a proper VM tools for macOS mojave on VMW 14?
    Tanks a lot.

  12. blankJay Keyes Reply

    Great content and post.

    I managed to get my Mojave VM up and running on Win10 & Player 15, but the Photos application is not rendering many of the photos in my iCloud library and instead displaying solid black rectangles instead of the photos, both in thumbnails and then when I click on them to drill down into the photo. When I try to Edit the black rectangle/photo from within Photos, the Photos app dies with a core dump that references CUI render/draw calls as the culprit. This seems to impact only HEIC files taken in portrait orientation by my iPhone XS Max. Oddly enough, the same HEIC files render fine if taken in landscape orientation. When I pull any of the non-rendering files out of the Photos app, they render fine in “Preview.”

    On my physical Macs, these photos are fine, and they’re fine in iCloud.

    Any ideas?

  14. blankahmad Reply

    hello
    thank you for lesson and work 100% for me
    but i have a problem. i install app and copy files to my vmware mac
    but when delete and move to trash my copied files and uninstall installed apps, not free up space after empty trash and uninstall apps and the vmdk mac file size is constantly increasing
    please help me

  15. blankahmad Reply

    hello
    please add 10.14.1 version of mac, vmdk file
    i know update in mac with app store and update center but need 10.14.1 latest stabke version of mac vmdk file, thank you

  17. blankDylan57richem Reply

    Hi,
    I have an error when i launch macOS : “The CPU has been disabled by the guest operating system. Power off or reset the virtual machine.”
    I have Ryzen 7 1700X with SVM Mode enabled so normally virtualization work but with macOS 10.14 (and 10.12, i have tried) no. Maybe you have a fix for this ? :/

      1. blankZenTsang

        I also am having this issue with AMD Ryzen 3900X. You mention in the comment above to “use this link…” What link? Nothing is clickable and there is no URL listed.

  19. blankJohnny Reply

    Mouse Pointer Issues: I am somewhat of a noob with this. I have installed VMware Tools but the mouse is “misaligned.” It does not respond where the mouse pointer appears. How do I fix this?

  20. blankFarooq Reply

    All archives are corrupt or damaged. i downloaded the files 10 times but still show the same error.
    the irony is that i have a limited bandwidth connection and i have already used my bandwidth for whole month due to this download. i am so sad now !!!

  21. blankFarooq Reply

    Hi there the archives are not working they are all damaged. I downloaded the file 10 times but it shows damage error everytime and the irony is that i have limited bandwidth connection so due to this download i have already used my bandwidth for the whole month. i am very sad right now !

  23. blankmarco Reply

    hi. I need use a vmware version 12, but when I run the virtual Mojave it return this error : “The selected virtual disk is incompatible with this Workstation 12.x virtual machine. Adding this disk would make this virtual machine incompatible with older VMware products.”
    Can you help me ?

      1. blankbahaa ka

        i did it
        no chance until now
        but i really need a solution because i need to setup the virtual machine for ios development
        plz if you can lend a hand help me to solve this issue

  30. blankabdelhai Reply

    i install the Patch Tool for mojave 10.4
    the probleme in select a guest operating systeme apple mac os s x not show

  33. blankJan Herps Reply

    The same as Ben:
    1 – The resolution is stuck on HiDPI so I get 2x UI size. I try to switch to non HiDPI and it immediately reverts back without any input. I tried SwitchResX and it crashed trying with switch resolutions.

  36. blankSeehan Needa Reply

    Archive files are corrupt! Hours of downloading and in the end they cannot be opened at all. Both Mojave and Patch Tools

  38. blankheythem Reply

    I’ve a problem after I installed Vmware tools : I still can’t fix the display? or the shared folder?
    I did uninstall an install many times with no results

      1. blankheythem

        I tried that now but the same problem every time. doesn’t support display or shared folder!!!
        my virtual mac is 10.13 and I update before to 10.13.5 do you think if I update it to 10.13.6 could fix this issue or not?

      2. blankFaiz Orz

        No dear, i think it’s not because of the macOS version. Reinstall and make sure to install VMWare tools also and it might fix your issue.

  39. blankrealtebo Reply

    Is there a way to run it under Hyper-V? I cannot disable Docker to run it 🙂

    Anyway, great tutorial !

  41. blankBen Reply

    I’ve managed to install things but there are a couple goofy things:

    1 – The resolution is stuck on HiDPI so I get 2x UI size. I try to switch to non HiDPI and it immediately reverts back without any input. I tried SwitchResX and it crashed trying with switch resolutions.

    2 – Performance is sluggish, especially with the UI. I feel like it is having graphical troubles, is it because my NVidia 1060 is not supported?

    2. blankJhonsan Reply

      Hey Ben,
      It sucks, I’ve struggling it so far until I found it here how to fix things, check. You’ll thanks me later.

      https://www.geekrar.com/fix-macos-mojave-screen-resolutionhidpi-on-vmware/

  44. blankLee Reply

    Great tutorial! Thank you. Just need to find serial key for VMWare Workstation. Better to user VmWare Player instead.

  45. blankNaguah Reply

    @heythem
    You need to update VmWare to latest version and then run unlocker. This will give you 10.14 as an option.

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