The name of this disk partition is disk_d. In my case, I have a separate disk partition to store installation files and virtual machines on Mac. You can download the installation ISO image of Windows 10 from the Microsoft website. You can download the VMware Fusion 12 installer from the official VMware website. I’m using VMware Fusion 12.1.0 as a VMware hypervisor to run a Windows 10 VM on macOS. What is a guest operating system? The difference between host and guest operating systems is that a host OS is installed on the hardware, and a guest OS is running on a virtual machine that uses virtualized hardware. I’m using macOS 10.15 Catalina as the host operating system and Windows 10 20H2 Professional 圆4 as the guest operating system in the tutorial. The ISO installation image of Windows 10.VMware Fusion 12 can be installed on macOS 10.15 Catalina and macOS 11.0 Big Sur.
#VMWARE FUSION MAC DUAL MONITOR INSTALL#
If your macOS version is older than 10.5 Catalina, install an older VMware Fusion version supported by your macOS. In this section, I list the requirements for VMware Fusion 12, the latest version at the time of writing this blog post.
Requirementsīefore proceeding with installing VMware Fusion, check system requirements.
#VMWARE FUSION MAC DUAL MONITOR HOW TO#
This blog post explains how to install Windows 10 as a guest OS on a macOS virtual machine using VMware Fusion and combine the advantages of both Windows and macOS operating systems. There are three common methods to run Windows on a Mac computer: use Parallels Desktop, install Windows on the Boot Camp partition, or install Windows on a VirtualBox VM or VMware Fusion VM. However, it is possible to do so if Windows is installed on the Mac computer. Mac owners often need to run their favorite Windows applications that are not supported on macOS. By Michael Bose Installing Windows 10 as a Guest Operating System in VMware Fusion