As common removal devices, USB, iPhone, iPad is usually taken to save and transfer frequently-used or temporary data or files between other devices. For example, while you need to transfer data between USB, iPhone, iPad and popular PC or Mac, you would have to connect them successfully. Otherwise, nothing will be done.

While you intend to set up macOS Mojave, macOS High Sierra, or macOS X El Capitan as a visitor operating system, on VMware workstation or player. Certainly, you will be asked to choose the os. In this post, we’ll install macOS Catalina on VMware on Windows PC. For this procedure, we’ll also need VMware Unlocker Patch Tool for macOS or macOS VMware Unlocker Patch Tool, so we’ve provided this and also installed it in this tutorial.In a significant event of Apple’s yearly developer conference which started yesterday, the keynote was chock-full of announcements, demos, and some. Before using VMware Unlocker, you can see whether Apple Mac OS X is available in the Select a.

Believe the easy connection between PC and USB or iPhone could not trouble you. So now let's just talk about how to connect removal USB, iPhone, iPad to Mac OS X, especially when you are running Mac OS X on VMware.

Preconditions:

1. Mac OS X runs successfully on VMware.
2. USB, iPhone or iPad, and cable are OK.

Step 1: Connect the USB, iPhone or iPad to the host.

Connect the USB, iPhone or iPad to the host, and check whether host could recognize them. If they are recognized successfully, it means the removal devices and cable are right. And the Apple mobile device USB driver has been installed on host.

Step 2: Power on Mac OS X on VMware.

Run VMware Workstation, click Mac OS X and power on this virtual machine. Then sign in Mac OS X with user and password.

Step 3: Disconnect USB, iPhone from host and connect it to Mac on Virtual Machine.

While Mac OS X is running successfully on VMware, click the VM on top menu and select Removable DevicesApple iPhoneConnect (Disconnect from Host) or Removable DevicesKingston Data Traveler 3.0Connect (Disconnect from Host).

If nothing is wrong, iTunes on Mac OS X will automatically open and check iPhone or iPad etc iOS devices. Or you can see USB disk on Mac desktop.

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However, if Mac OS X cannot recognize the iPhone, you would see nothing. At this time, please find solutions to fix the problem 'VMware Mac OS X doesn't recognize iOS device'.

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macOS is a quite popular operating system. I never had an opportunity to work with it prior joining to VMware. From my point of view, Apple makes brilliant hardware and software (with one exception of Finder in macOS). At the moment I am running Windows 10 as a Bootcamp and I am quite happy how it performs. However, there are situations when one would like to evaluate the different operating system. Let it be any Linux flavor or an even exotic system like BSD you can all run them in VMware Workstation. What about the Apple macOS? Unfortunately in VMware Workstation running on Windows by default you can’t run Apple macOS.

Today I will show you how to install Apple macOS in VMware Workstation on Windows.

Before doing any changes please make a backup and remember that changes done aren’t supported by VMware.

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In order to run macOS in VMware Workstation on Windows, we will need two things: macOS iso and VMware Workstation Unlocker.

To convert macOS dmg file under Windows we will need a tool dmg2img.

Copy macOS dmg file to dmg2img folder.
Open command prompt and typedmg2img macOSfilename.dmg desiredISOname.iso

That’s it 🙂

VMware Workstation Unlocker fixes/improves few of missing features in VMware Workstation on Windows:

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Fix vmware-vmx and derivatives to allow Mac OS X to bootFix vmwarebase .dll or .so to allow Apple to be selected during VM creation
Fix vmwarebase .dll or .so to allow Apple to be selected during VM creation
Fix libvmkctl.so on ESXi 6 to allow use with vCenter
Download a copy of the latest VMware Tools for OS

Probably there are some reasons whyVMware decided to remove macOS compatibility in Windows VMware Workstation. Anyway, let’s enhance our VMware Workstation with new capabilities.

Download VMware Workstation Unlocker from GitHub https://github.com/DrDonk/unlocker.
Once downloaded extract it.
Run command prompt with administrative privileges.
Run win-install.bat script.
After few seconds VMware Workstation will be patched.
When you will create new virtual machine macOS will be available.
We must edit virtual machine configuration file vmx and add following entry smc.version = '0'.
Once added we can run macOS in VMware Workstation in Windows.

In Today post I showed you how to install Apple macOS in VMware Workstation on Windows. The process isn’t that complicated and certainly will help some people out there who might want to try out Apple macOS.

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