more complicated than I thought, VMware Workstation patch and difficult to create ISO image.
1. macOS High Sierra 10.13 Beta 3
If you don’t have mac, you need to spend some time to find the source. check out https://betas.cmacapps.com/ to find a suitable one.
Unzip the dmg file by 7zip, InstallESD.img & BaseSystem.dmg located in “macOS High Sierra Beta\Install macOS High Sierra Beta.app\Contents\SharedSupport”
In PowerShell, compare their SHA-1 checksum to https://github.com/notpeter/apple-installer-checksums
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Get-FileHash -Algorithm SHA1 InstallESD.dmg Get-FileHash -Algorithm SHA1 BaseSystem.dmg |
2. convert DMG to ISO
unfortunately dmg2iso does not work, boot up failure. I only find people repack it on Mac OS. At the same time, I don’t like using third party vmdk image. So the work around is using 3rd party image to repack dmg to iso for vmware installation.
2.1 High Sierra vmdk image
follow the instructions and download vmdk from Google drive only. https://techsviewer.com/install-macos-high-sierra-vmware-windows/
next, download the tools to unlock vmware from https://github.com/DrDonk/unlocker. It provides python script to patch, yet unfortunately it does not work well in python3, after converted by 2to3.py, still have modules missing, print sytax and str on buffer API …etc
so just open command prompt with Admin right, then run win-install.cmd & win-update-tools.cmd , it will patch VMWare workstation for appleSMCTable about smc.version = 0 and smc.version = 1
After vmdk file downloaded, follow the installation instruction from the link above.
2.2 Bootable ISO image
After installation completed, upload InstallESD.img & BaseSystem.dmg to macOS vm. I had upload the whole SharedSupport folder.
Run the following script to create ISO file
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#!/bin/bash ## Create bootable ISO from HighSierra 10.13db3 (17A306f) # Generate a BaseSystem.dmg with High Sierra Beta Installer Packages hdiutil attach ~/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg -noverify -mountpoint /Volumes/highsierra hdiutil create -o /tmp/HighSierraBase.cdr -size 7316m -layout SPUD -fs HFS+J hdiutil attach /tmp/HighSierraBase.cdr.dmg -noverify -mountpoint /Volumes/install_build asr restore -source ~/SharedSupport/BaseSystem.dmg -target /Volumes/install_build -noprompt -noverify -erase cp -R /Volumes/highsierra/Packages /Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System/System/Installation hdiutil detach /Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System/ hdiutil detach /Volumes/highsierra/ mv /tmp/HighSierraBase.cdr.dmg /tmp/BaseSystem.dmg # Restore the High Sierra Beta Installer's BaseSystem.dmg into file system and place custom BaseSystem.dmg into the root hdiutil create -o /tmp/HighSierra.cdr -size 8965m -layout SPUD -fs HFS+J hdiutil attach /tmp/HighSierra.cdr.dmg -noverify -mountpoint /Volumes/install_build asr restore -source ~/SharedSupport/BaseSystem.dmg -target /Volumes/install_build -noprompt -noverify -erase cp /tmp/BaseSystem.dmg /Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System rm /tmp/BaseSystem.dmg hdiutil detach /Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System/ hdiutil convert /tmp/HighSierra.cdr.dmg -format UDTO -o /tmp/HighSierra.iso mv /tmp/HighSierra.iso.cdr ~/HighSierraPublicBeta3.iso rm /tmp/HighSierra.cdr.dmg |
3. Configure another new VM
Just ordinary VM creation. After finish config, don’t start vm yet. edit the vmx file,
add
smc.version = "0" to the file. Then now start the VM.
select the ISO file created in step 2.2 as CD/DVD in virtual machine setting.
Once boot up, open Disk Utility, Erase the hard disk, format as “Mac OS Extended (Journaled)“. Although High Sierra has new APFS, I am unsure how well it goes with vmware at this stage.
Finally, quit Disk Utility, and select “Reinstall macOS”, and follow the installation prompt.
After installation completed, dismount the CD-rom, and mount the darwin.iso which get from win-update-tools.cmd, to install VM-tools.
4. reference
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https://github.com/notpeter/apple-installer-checksums#mac-osx-installers-sha1-checksums https://github.com/DrDonk/unlocker https://techsviewer.com/install-macos-high-sierra-vmware-windows/ https://gist.github.com/agentsim/00cc38c693e7d0e1b36a2080870d955b http://www.wikigain.com/download-macos-high-sierra-free/ |
Thank you for this! Very helpful!
What do you mean dmg2iso doesn’t work? It works fine.
after the conversion, I can’t boot up by ISO.
I’m glad that dmg2iso work for you.
Here is download link for macOS High Sierra 10.13.1 ISO
https://goo.gl/DhsHTy