• This guide is for creating a bootable virtual disk installer for macOS Monterey that can be used to install macOS on VMware workstation.
• The same steps should also work for macOS Ventura.
• The installer is the full macOS installation image, not the smaller recovery image.
• Download links to the VDMK files on Google Drive are also listed below if you just want to get the disk image files.
• This guide was created using a macOS Catalina virtual machine.

Table of Contents

1 Create a new virtual hard disk

Attach a new 14GB virtual hard disk to your macOS virtual machine. The new VMDK will be used to create a bootable Monterey installer.

2 Erase the disk using Disk Utility

Open Disk Utility
Show all devices

Select the 14GB virtual disk – Erase

Name: macos
Format: mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Scheme: GUID Partition Map

Click Erase

3 Download macOS installer using the softwareupdate command

softwareupdate command options

macOS version numbers

4 Create a bootable disk using the createinstallmedia command

Now we have downloaded the macOS installer.app, we can use the createinstallmedia command to make the “macos” virtual disk into a bootable Monterey installer

You can now remove the 14GB macos virtual disk from the VM (rename it to macos-monterey.vmdk) and use it for installing Monterey.

5 Download macOS VMware VMDK disk images from Google Drive

Download macOS 12 Monterey VMDK (13GB)
VMware Workstation 17
macos-monterey.vmdk

Download macOS 12 Monterey VMDK (13GB)
VMware Workstation 15
macos-monterey-vmws15.vmdk

Download macOS 13 Ventura VMDK (13GB)
VMware Workstation 17
macos-ventura.vmdk

Download macOS 13 Ventura VMDK (13GB)
VMware Workstation 15
macos-ventura-vmws15.vmdk

SOURCE: https://techlabs.blog/categories/how-to-guides/install-macos-on-windows-in-vmware-workstation-using-a-virtual-disk-image