![]() is the /dev/disk2 that we saw earlier, yours may be different if you have other disks mounted.create is the vmware-rawdiskCreator function that will create a new “raw” disk.vmware-rawdiskCreator is located within the Fusion app bundle itself, so we’ll point to that. ![]() So a few things about that so we understand what’s happening: vmdk based on the sparse image we created. Now we use VMware’s ‘vmware-rawdiskCreator’ tool to create a. We need this device id because this is the prepared installation media that we’ll be installing from in the blank virtual machine we created earlier, and the disk number may change depending on what you have mounted on your system. We can see that I have the ‘Install 10.12 Developer Preview’ mounted as / dev/disk2s2. It outputs something like the image below: (for clarity, $ is the prompt at the terminal, you do not need to type it) Now, let’s make sure the host Mac’s disk layout is okay with “ diskutil list“: I named the thing I created with Disk Utility ‘ macOS-10.12_DP’ as you can see in the ‘Name’ field in the image above.Įasy peasy… contents copied, new installation media is created with the sparse image we just created, filled with the contents of the installer. Sudo /Applications/Install\ 10.12\ Developer\ Preview.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia -volume /Volumes/macOS-10.12_DP -applicationpath /Applications/Install\ 10.12\ Developer\ Preview.app Once it’s mounted we can copy the contents of our installation app into the new sparse image.įor this, we jump down to the command line and run some commands. It should ‘mount’ the new image we just created, but if it’s not there you can mount it with Disk Utility or from the command line. This creates the blank slate that we will then copy the contents of the “Install 10.12 Developer Preview.app” into using ‘createinstallimage’ utility.
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