Install OS X El Capitan app and Mac or Hack to prepare installation iso <- Now, no longer necessary to have previous access to a Mac or Hack by building the Installer.app from scratch - see post#41ġ6GB or larger exFAT formatted USB stick to transfer El Capitan iso from Mac/Hack to Host PC

Hard Disk with at least 40GB free for Virtual Machine Intel PC with four or more CPU cores running Windows 7 X64 or later OS (2 or more cores needed for OS X)ĤGB or more RAM (2GB or more will be needed for OS X)

Workstation 11/12, Player 7/12, Fusion 7/8 and ESXi 6 Mac OS X Unlocker 2 by How to Install OS X 10.x from Snow Leopard to El Capitan in VMware Workstation 10/12, Player 6/8 or ESXi 5/6 by HOW TO: Create a bootable El Capitan ISO for VMwareĬredit and thanks to Nietsnie and for all their hard work in creating and testing the VMware Unlocker program.

I’ve gathered info for this guide from various threads in the Multibooting and Virtualisation section of this forum eg There are many guides and videos on the net about running OS X on Windows machines using pre-made VMWare disk images but you can never guarantee what else is in there….

The virtual machine should be useful for testing El Capitan and also for creating installers for use on a real machine/hackintosh.

I wanted to make a simple guide on how to create a vanilla OS X El Capitan virtual machine running on a Windows host. Run Vanilla OS X El Capitan, Sierra, High Sierra or Mojave in VMware Workstation on a Windows Host

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