You can install Mac OS X, OS X, or macOS in a virtual machine. Fusion creates the virtual machine, opens the operating system installation assistant, and installs VMware Tools. VMware Tools loads the drivers required to optimize a virtual machine's performance.

Mac OS X, OS X, or macOS virtual machines that you create in Fusion can run on any Apple-branded hardware that uses Intel processors. The Apple licensing agreement defines the situations when it is permissible to virtualize Mac OS X, OS X, or macOS. Fusion does not change these terms or enable macOS on non-Apple hardware. You cannot use a Mac OS X, OS X, or macOS virtual machine in another VMware product, such as Workstation Pro.

Fusion supports the following Mac server and client versions for the guest operating system:
  • Mac OS X Server 10.5, 10.6
  • Mac OS X 10.7
  • OS X 10.8, 10.9, 10.10, 10.11
  • macOS 10.12, 10.13, 10.14, 10.15
  • macOS 11.x
  • macOS 12.x
  • macOS 13.0

Fusion does not support the following features for Mac virtual machines:

  • Multiple displays
  • 3D Accelerated graphics
  • Unity view

To install the operating system, use the procedure for creating a virtual machine for any supported operating system. See Create a Virtual Machine for Any Supported Operating System.