- If you are on an earlier version of OS X, you can download and install El Capitan from directly the App Store. OS X El Capitan on Mac App Store. Alternatively, if you currently on a later version of macOS and want to downgrade to El Capitan for some reason, you can officially do so only if you have purchased it earlier.
- Just before you install the new Mac OS X El Capitan, you must perform few tasks to ensure that your Mac will be ready for the installation of the software: Check Your Mac - Check whether your Mac will be able to run the new OS X 10.11.
- Apple has announced new OS X 10.11 on WWDC last June naming it OS X El Capitan. This July, as Apple has announced before, OS X El Capitan Public Beta is ready to be downloaded and installed. Here is the list of Mac series which are able to be upgraded to OS X El Capitan.
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1- Requirements
In this document, I will guide you how to install Mac OS 10.11 on VMWare. First of all, you must ensure that your computer have been install VMWare. VMWare version 12 is highly recommend.
- TODO Link?
After months of testing and development, Apple is finally letting you download and install Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan for free from the Mac App Store. Apple initially introduced the world to OS X El Capitan during this year’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) back in June, as has become company tradition.
2- Download Mac OS X 10.11
Download Mac OS X 10.11 (Backup Link)
3- Mac OS X Unlocker for VMware
You need to unlock Mac OS for VMWare before creating a virtual operating system Mac OS on VMWare. To do this, you need a software. Download Unlocker 2.0.8 at:
Install Os X El Capitan 10.11 On Virtualbox On Windows Pc
Note: You need to register an account to download, register an account is free.
4- Install virtual operating system Mac OS
Open VMWare, and click 'Create a New Virtual Machine'.
Create an empty folder to create Mac OS virtual machine. For example, 'F:VMwareOS X 10.11'.
Visual Machine is created.
You need to configure the hardware.
If you want to install Mac OS to iOS programming, you need to have a space of 4GB RAM for virtual machine.
Remove the hard drive of virtual machine to create a new hard drive which points to Mac OS file that you have downloaded earlier.
Click to add a new hard drive.
Select the location of Mac OS 10.11 image file, that you have downloaded previously.
It is not necessary to expand the drive, with Mac OS, 40GB is enough to install iOS programming tools. Here I expand to 100GB.
Disconnect the CD whenever you power the virtual machine.
it is very important to configure virtual machine. Open file 'OS X 10.11.vmx':
Install Os X El Capitan 10.11.6.iso
Add:
OK now you can run virtual machine Mac OS:
5- Install VMWare Tools
VMWare Tool is a tool that allows you to manipulate between 2 Windows that you are running and Mac OS that you are running on VMWare, such as copy & paste the files, ...
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Point to the darwin.iso files in thetools of unlocker that you downloaded earlier.