OTOH, VMWare Studio provides good windows support, and can be used to create windows VMs from scratch. I don’t think I would actually want to use VMWare Studio for building linux virtual machines the scripted approach of cobbler seems preferable. So if you have a VMware install somewhere else (I think even VMWare Player would work since it provides a vmrun command) you could avoid buying Fusion. I’ve also tried importing the OVF into VirtualBox which also works. Pick VMWare Workstation, and point it at /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion to use the vmrun in VMWare Fusion. The one gotcha is setting the build settings when defining VM profiles. I’ve built a few VMs and it all seems to work ok. Presumably they’re using the same CIM setup as, say, vSphere.
VMWare Studio looks like it consists of lighttpd serving up a GWT frontend that talks to a sfcb CIM backend, where CIM is a standard that’s part of the bigger Web-based Enterprise Management standard. Open the provided URL in your web browser.
#Install vmware fusion on mac os x sierra how to
There’s no instructions how to get it running on the mac, but it works just fine with VMWare Fusion: VMWare Studio is a free virtual appliance from VMware that allows you to “author, configure, deploy and customize virtual machines”.