Installing Monterrey to test, VMWare or what?

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Created Nov ’23

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I have an M3 MacBook Pro, running macOS Sonoma 14.1.1. A tester of our app is running Monterrey, and is experiencing something we can't reproduce, so I need to set up a Monterrey environment.

I searched for information here about VMs, and found an article about using VM Frameworks and Xcode, but I am not a programmer in any way.

I used to use VMware years ago to host Windows and Linux machines on my Mac, but Google searching leads me to a 2 year old post about Parallels https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/tuxfzq/how_can_i_run_macos_monterrey_in_a_virtual/

Can I get a suggestion for how to create and use VMs on Apple Silicon to test older OSs?

Thank you.

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Answer 1

wesplate OP

Nov ’23

Someone on Mastadon pointed me to this helpful page https://eclecticlight.co/virtualisation-on-apple-silicon/

and I successfully got a VM running!

However I can't sign in to the App Store. No matter what I try it tells me in red "The action could not be completed."

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Answer 2

DTS Engineer OP

Apple

Nov ’23

However I can't sign in to the App Store.

That is a known limitation. See this thread.

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Answer 3

wesplate OP

Nov ’23

I learned about the limitation elsewhere. What a shame, but it makes sense that Apple would not want to encourage anyone to test or support older Operating Systems.

Thanks for taking the time to reply!

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Answer 4

JWWalker OP

Nov ’23

This limitation is also documented at the Eclectic Light web site, see the Networking section of this page: <https://eclecticlight.co/2023/09/14/current-limitations-on-macos-virtual-machines-running-on-apple-silicon-macs/>

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