Back in business: Catalina VMs with AutoDMG and vfuse

Hoo boy, what a week. After just a few days with a GM, Apple decided to release macOS Catalina into the wild on Monday. Hopefully y'all were ready!

I'm so happy to be back working with production releases of macOS and building VMs with non-beta OS versions. Feels so good.

So, what do you need to streamline your VM building for macOS Catalina?

• The pre-release version of AutoDMG with 10.15 support
• The latest version of vfuse
• VMware Fusion 11.5 (free upgrade for folks already using VMware Fusion 11)
• A downloaded macOS Catalina installer on a mountable disk (check out installinstallmacos.py or its sister app with a GUI in pre-beta [alpha?])

If you need a refresher on how all of these things work together to build you beautiful VMs for testing purposes please see my previous posts on the topic:

• Fall, spring, and testing VMs
• Lazy VM building hacks with AutoDMG and KextPolicy

Additional assistance can be found in the Macadmins Slack team in either #virtualization, #vfuse, or #vmware.

Good luck, have fun.