In OS X, this is located under the Disk Utility. VMware Fusion will create a dummy Virtual Machine for you to save.ĥ) Once created, you should see your VM’s window, select the configuration options (the wrench icon on the far left)Ħ) Select “Add Device” and then “New Hard Drive”ħ) Configure your new hard drive disk image and confirm that its in your device list under the “Removable Devices” on your settings panel.ĩ) You’ll need need to partition your virtual machine’s space from the installer. Once you have a copy to work from, launch VMware Fusion and select create new virtual machine.ġ) Select More Options from the lower right hand corner.ģ) Select the version of the OS you are installing, (I’m using OS X 10.7) and create the image.Ĥ) Select “Use an existing virtual disk” and click “chose Virtual disk…” to locate your disk image. These steps can be mimicked using other operating systems, in fact only step 9 differs when using Ubuntu or Windows.įirst MAKE A COPY OF YOUR VMDK as VMware Fusion can break your install disk image. These instructions should be OS agnostic and the process hasn’t changed in VMware Fusion 8 to my knowledge. In this example, I have a OS X 10.7 Lion Installer Disk.

You can mount vmdk preinstalled images in VMware but you can also install from vmdk images. VMware Fusion plays nicely with the Virtual Machine Disk format (.vmdk) seeing as its a spin off of its enterprise VMware software like VMware Workstation.

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