This script takes a never-booted DMG and converts it to a VMware Fusion VM.
Application cleaner for mac. The germ of this idea came about, as all good ideas, and germs, do: while drinking beer. Specifically, I was tossing back drinks and tossing around ideas with Gilbert Wilson, and he mentioned that he uses the VMware CLI tools to convert DMGs to VMDKs based on a blog post he'd read. Intrigued, I asked Gil to email me the specifics. After seeing how potentially cool this was, I wrapped it up in this here terribly illegible, queasingly unpythonic script.
Requirements
- VMware Fusion 11.x Professional or above
- OS X 10.14+
- A never-booted image created with AutoDMG.
- (optional) Packer 1.1.1 (or above) for building a vagrant box.
- (optional) qemu-img
Dmg file is the disc image file which is widely used by Mac systems. Most of Mac operating systems and applications are distributed in dmg files. On Windows PC, it is very convenient to manipulate dmg files with PowerISO. You can open dmg file, convert it to iso file, or burn it to a CD / DVD disc. A VMDK file is a virtual hard disk file created with virtual machine software from VMware, Inc. A virtual machine is a computer emulation on which you can install an operating system separate from your computer. Convert.ISO to.VMDK Cd/Dvd Disc Image (.ISO) Files with an.ISO extension are images of a CD/DVD ROM, and are considered to be the standard file format for disc images across all platforms. Due to the format's popularity, ISO files can be both read and created by most CD/DVD burning applications. Mac cleaner software reviews.
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Usage
Creating a VM
Running
vfuse
does not necessarily require sudo rights, but if you don't want to be prompted in the GUI for an admin password, run it with sudo
. (Escalated privileges is required to run the vmware-vdiskmanager
binary, which vfuse
uses.)The only required argument is
-i
aka --input
. Run thusly, it will create a vm called macos-vm.vmwarevm
in the current working directory:See the wiki for more on how to use
vfuse
.Vmware Fusion Convert Dmg To Vmdk
Caveats
vfuse
is meant to be used with never-booted disk images created with AutoDMG. Using vfuse
with a dmg created with Disk Utility is not something that has been tested, so you're on your own there. Likely, it's even more of a longshot with APFS.