Upgrade from vmware fusion 4 mac12/20/2023 I'm at the point I'm seriously thinking I should just downgrade my MacMini to Mojave. I thought VMWare would "just work," like it has with my other VMs in the past. (Not shoot-'em-ups, but games more like the newer redone Myst games.) I've tried a number of different things (like VirtualBox, as I mentioned, and UTM). The goal is to get a working Mojave system I can play some games in. It seems to me that #1 is my best choice if I can get by the infinite loop, but I'm open to other ideas. What do I lose by doing it? Are there issues with, say, file formatting and storage that would make that slower than a VM created directly in VMWare? While this might be doable, there are reasons I'd rather not do this, since I'd rather use a good source for the Mojave install file. But I have to get past that infinite loop it hits on restarting.Ģ) Is there a good source for a Mojave install file? Or some way to use the upgrade file?ģ) What about converting the VB VM to VMWare? I have seen there are web pages talking about doing that. I haven't done it, but I've read about it being done. I'm considering several possibilities, but need help for each one:ġ) If I can create a VM based on the restore partition of my current Mac Mini, then I can downgrade it from Big Sur to Mojave. (This is why I pointed out that VirtualBox could use that same media to create a VB VM - VB doesn't have an issue with the data on that ISO.) It takes a long time (I think over an hour) to prepare the install media, but it reports it as bad media. I found I had to mount the ISO as a drive, then drag the Mojave file and drop it on the window for creating a VM. I didn't expect more, since it's just an upgrade file.ģ) I used the Mojave install ISO I downloaded. I think the EFI messages are about booting from a disk, then from the network, but it's hard to tell.Ģ) I tried using my Mojave upgrade DMG from the App Store, but I can't get past the Restore utility. Then it goes back to the smaller black window and continually repeats. I get the Apple logo and progress bar and when it tries to reboot, I get a smaller black window that resizes to a larger black window, and then I get EFI info that flashes by too fast to read. I've used VMWare before, so I checked on the latest version and got VMWare Fusion Player 12.2.4 and installed that on the Mac Mini.įrom there, I've tried a few ways to create a Mojave VM:ġ) I tried creating a VM from the Restore Partition from my Mac Mini. The relevant point is that VirtualBox did find that install ISO okay. (I figure I'll keep the VM in a sandbox, so I can do that for at least a test setup.) The Mojave install ISO file worked in VirtualBox, but the VM is absurdly slow. One had directions to create one in VirtualBox, so I followed that and tried making a VM from the Mojave install image I got from there. (That's my guess.) Then I looked online and found a few articles about creating VMs in different software. I used the App store to get the Mojave upgrade DMG file and tried to create a new VM from that, but since it's only an upgrade file, it doesn't work. If you have a way to do that, a sure-fire way, feel free to bypass everything I've tried and tell me how to do it! My goal is to create a Mojave VM so I can play some 32 bit games that won't work from Catalina and up. I have a Mac Mini from late 2014 running Big Sur and VMWare Fusion Player 12.2.4.
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