I have bought a new laptop to replace the old one – Sony VAIO E VPCEG23 11 years old, It’s ASUS Zenbook UM425IA from newegg.com, but wait, the AMD laptop. Yeah, it’s AMD Ryzen 7 4700U with Radeon Graphics Vega 7.
This is my new laptop specìication:

• ASUS Zenbook UM425IA-NH74
• AMD Ryzen 7 4700U Processor (8M Cache, up to 4.1 GHz)
• 1 TB PCIe NVMe Intel SSD
• 16 GB LPDDR4X RAM Dual chanel
• Windows 10 Professional included
• HDMI, USB Type C, Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax), Bluetooth 5.0
• USB 3.2 Type A, USB 3.2 Type C and Micro SD card reader
• USB-A to RJ45 ethernet adapter and USB-C to Audio Jack dongle

1. Configure the VMWare. Install the VMWare as your way, either Player or Workstation will be fine. Run the Unlocker by running the win-install.cmd with Administrator right. Open VMWare, create a new VM, Select Apple Mac OS X under Guest operating system and choose 'macOS 10.15' under Version. Leave all the option to the default.
2. With the virtual machine configured, you’re ready to install macOS Catalina entirely on your computer, so let’s get started. From the VMware, select the Catalina and click Power on the virtual machine. Power on This Virtual Machine. Wait a few moments since this is the first time virtual machine booting.

Apple has released the first major update to the sixteenth. MacOS 10.5 Catalina is available as an entirely free-of-charge download for all have provided on Download Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9 ISO and DMG Image. Delete catalina download, “When you upgrade your Mac to macOS Catalina, all your files and data are carefully. There’s an enormous difference. The difference is the macOS Catalina from App Store, especially for installing macOS Catalina on Mac, the Macintosh version. Rather, we supply macOS Catalina ISO for VMware and macOS Catalina to get VirtualBox. MacOS Catalina 10.15 VMware Image (One Full – 7 of 7) — The macOS Catalina VMware image is available in two different sizes. To explain, the first one is the single file where macOS Catalina VMware and VirtualBox image are integrated. While the second one available in several parts which can be downloaded in disintegrated parts.

And this guide is a Personal experiment about how to setup the Fresh MacOS on the Laptop AMD with Windows 10 host.

VMware’s graphics acceleration not being compatible with macOS, you will not have any graphics acceleration in your virtual machine.

Prerequisites

• CPU also needs to support the SSE4.1 and AMD-V
• VMware Player /Workstation Pro 15 or higher
• VMware Unlocker: https://github.com/DrDonk/unlocker

Configure the VMWare

Mac Os X Catalina Vmware Fusion

• Install the VMWare as your way, either Player or Workstation will be fine.
• Run the Unlocker by running the win-install.cmd with Administrator right.
• Open VMWare, create a new VM, Select Apple Mac OS X under Guest operating system and choose 'macOS 10.15' under Version. Leave all the option to the default. We will update the Hard Disk later.
• Click on Finish once finished.
• Update the Hard Disk by Click on Edit virtual machine settings.

• Add a new Hard Disk by click on Add.. -> Hard Disk

• Select SATA -> Use an existing virtual disk

• Click on Ok when Finished.

Installation MacOS

Start the virtual machine.

The language prompt will come up. Select your language and continue.

Select 'Disk Utility' and press 'Continue'.

Select 'VMware Virtual SATA Hard Drive Media' under 'Internal' hard drive.

Select 'Erase' in Disk Utility. Name the drive 'Catalina'. Change 'Format' to APFS and press 'Erase'. Press 'Done' and close Disk Utility.

Select 'Reinstall macOS' and press 'Continue'.

When the installer opens, press 'Continue'.

Agree to the terms and conditions. Select the hard drive that we erased earlier with Disk Utility and press 'Install'. Sit back and let it install.

The CPU has been disabled by the guest operating system. Power off or reset the virtual machine.

How To Install Macos Catalina On Vmware

Edit the vmx file by adding the following line to the bottom of the vmx file:

Back to the BIOS, Select 'EFI VMware Virtual SATA Hard Drive (2.0)' and press enter. This is our Catalina installer that we are booting.

Once the installer has booted, click on 'Utilities' in the Finder bar and select 'Terminal'.

Type this command in Terminal (replacing 'Catalina' with whatever you named your hard drive earlier):

With that command, we coppy all the prelinkedkenel under the installation source CatalinaAMD
/Volumes/CatalinaAMD/System/Library/PrelinkedKernels/prelinkedkernel to the Hark Disk Catalina /Volumes/Catalina/macOS Install Data/Locked Files/Boot Files/

After execute the command, restart the VM again. The Catalina installation process will be continued:

If the VM restarts and you get a ‘CPU is disabled’ error, close the error window, attempt to close the VM window, select ‘Power Off’ and reopen VMware.

Reboot the VM back into the BIOS, select the installer and open Terminal once again. Time to do the post-install commands. (replacing 'Catalina' with whatever you named your hard drive earlier):

You may get errors, Ignore those errors, the prelinkedkernel should still rebuild just fine.

Close Terminal and reboot into your hard drive. The VM should boot into the setup now. Go through the setup process but DO NOT SIGN IN WITH YOUR APPLE ID, choose 'Set Up Later'.

The setup almost be done. Do your best 😀

=> Upgrade to the Big Sur

Nam Le,
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Last modified on August 6th, 2021 at 3:37 pm

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Setting up Mac OS on a vm running on Windows is something I have done several times for one reason or the other, but mainly because I miss using the OS. I have always loved the Apple Mac OS, ever since I first used System 7 (Mac OS 7) back in the early 1990’s.

My main computer was a MacBook for a little over 7 years, but unfortunately these days have passed and my existing MacBook is resting comfortably in a corner on my desk, sadly collecting dust.

Every now and then I decide to run another VM with the latest OS, maybe bring back to life my old photo library and devonthink notes. Then I find just about enough spare time to start playing with that again. This time it is the latest available version OS X 10.15 – Catalina.

After having done this almost half a dozen times before, I will usually find an old vm lying around on a spare disk which I can bring up and download the latest Mac OS from the Apple Store. I don’t like using vm images or ISO downloaded from the internet in fear that they may have been compromised, so I like working with the original installers that I have downloaded from the App Store directly.

The VM I had was running OS X 10.13 – High Sierra. Downloading the OS from the App Store yielded only the small sized installer, so I decided to perform an install from that onto a new virtual disk.

The download and install took around 3 hours with my very fast internet (not), and the vm rebooted to the apple logo, and then nothing… It was stuck there. I was using vmware workstation 14 at this point and thought it would be a good idea to upgrade it to the latest version. Then of course use unlocker to enable booing Mac OS. Started up the VM and boom, the progress bar and then the setup screen. Yaaaaay.

Now with the Mac OS freshly installed and running, the next step is to get to see things on the screen, I needed to set the resolution to the max my monitor will support, so, 1920 x 1080. So install VMware Tools, that should be easy, menu -> vm -> Install VMware Tools… Nope, not working, unlocker failed to download the VMware Tools package for some reason. Finding it online was a bit difficult, but using the trusty google search, nothing is impossible. unzip, mount, install, reboot, and bam… the resolution is set, and then it jumps back to a high DPI lower resolution, which was something I never heard of before having not used any Retina display Macs before. With some luck and a lot of searching, I found a way to disable the hDPI mode and finally I have the OS running at a resolution where I can actually see things.

Next step, download a full original copy of the OS, no wait, write about it in my dead WordPress page, and hopefully follow this post up with multiple small posts explaining how I did all the above in details, with snapshots, versions of software used, download locations, and command lines. So, first post done, hopefully more to come.