When finish, restart the virtual machine. When finished, highlight the MyYosemite.dmg file, then select Images> Scan Image for Restore from the menu bar. Select New Image and enter the following in the popup window, then select the Save button. Open the Disk Utility application and highlight the MyYosemite volume. diskutil rename disk0s2 MyYosemiteĬlose all Finder application windows, quit all applications and restart the virtual machine. Open a Terminal application window and enter the command shown below. When finished, quit the Disk Utility application. The new partition should to be at least 8 GB in size. Once booted to Yosemite, open the Disk Utility application and create a second partition. Drag and drop the Install OS X Yosemite application from the Applications folder to the VMware Fusion application window shown below. Open the VMware Fusion application and create a new virtual machine. Open the InstallMacOSX.dmg file and install the Install OS X Yosemite application to the Applications folder.ĭownload VMware Fusion Player. The file InstallMacOSX.dmg should download your Downloads folder. See the Sharing pane of the System Preferences application.ĭownload Yosemite from the Apple website How to get old versions of macOS. Make sure File Sharing is enabled for Big Sur. Next, you will restore Yosemite to a new partition on your internal drive. Basically, you will be making a image of a Yosemite install in a virtual machine. There are different ways to accomplish this. One possible solution would be to reinstall Yosemite.

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