Anyone installed 10.15 beta in a VM?

Well.. https://passthroughpo.st/first-successful-catalina-hackintosh-install-was-in-qemu-kvm/

I actually got macOS 10.15 beta working in vmware fusion. Don't know if you fixed this at all or anything. I followed a tutorial that said to switch boot os to windows at the beginning then change it back to mac os 10.14.

I SOOOO wanted to click "This helped me" but in the end, NO DICE.

You're either on a different combination of HW + macOS + VMware, or you omitted some steps.

I followed the steps to the letter a few times, noting that on my end there are major departures in the actual behavior.

For example, at step 4, the default behavior is to boot from SCSI:0, which is the blank HDD, and really the startup device needs to be changed to SCSI:1, which is the temporary boot/install HDD, or possibly preferred, the VM needs to be rebooted to "firmware" and the second HDD needs to be chosen for booting purposes.

But anyway, I tried those added workarounds and I am still left with a white Apple logo on a black screen going NO WHERE, the same as my original attempt to upgrade Mojave in a VM using the beta PROFILE to get to Catalina. Same black screen with white Apple logo, going no where.

Still no joy. What am I missing, a la, what did you change along the way that is not noted in your steps?

This works on my environment.

I'm running my host Mac (macBook Pro 15-inch, 2018) with 10.14.5 (18F203).

In vmware Professional Version 11.1.0 (13668589)

I installed macOS 10.15 Beta (Build 19A471t) as described and it works. 🙂

I’ve been able to install it in Fusion, it works quite well for a first beta.

it’s been tough and it did require half day of trial and errors

Using VMWare Fusion 10, I was able to successfully create a new macOS 10.15 VM using the steps outlined in this blog article:

https://planetvm.net/blog/?p=64552

Additionally, I was eventually able to successfully upgrade an existing 10.14 VM to 10.15 using similar steps. However, I do admit that I had to attempt several times before I got the upgrade to work properly. I know I tried several different things, so I'm not sure which one was the "magic bullet", but I think it might have had to do with me uninstalling VMWare Tools from the VM before running the 10.15 installer.

Set the mouse (in Parallels configuration for the VM) to 'Optimize for games'. That will fix the problem with window resizing and dragging. Xcode 11 beta is unusable, however - it crashes on either creating a new project, or loading an Apple tutorial project. I'm hoping Apple fixes this, since use of Xcode was the whole reason for creating a Catalina VM in the first place.

I've been able to make network connection working changing the network card type in advanced configuration. The network card type that works for me is Realtek RTL8029AS.

Agree wiht all the above. I certainly hope someone (VMWare or Apple or both) fix this before this goes to production or my group will be running 10.14 for a long time. I"ve tried updating from Mojave, I've tried from a bootable USB drive, I've tried updating Mojave to the newest beta and then updating to Catalina. While it's reassurng to see that I am not the only person with this problem, it certainly is a bit disconcerting.

I'm running Catalina in a VirtualBox 6.0.8 VM on Mojave. I had been using Screen Sharing to connect to VM and it was fully functional, although no mouse available in the VM Window itself.

Thanks to hint I found in a VirtualBox user forum, I found that capturing a USB mouse in the VM restores full window resizing, dragging etc. It may be that a similar workaround is useful for Parallels and VMWare as well.

The mouse activity in the VM Window is no longer visible to the host OS so after some time passes your host may unexpectedly go to sleep.

I have Catalina running in Parallels 14 but have network problems as well. I have been able to get the network started by going into Parallels configuration and changing the Network settings and then going back to the VM. Much of the system is so slow as to be unusable. I have tried getting Xcode 11 beta to install and run, but abandoned that.

I have 8GB memory and 6 processors allocated to the VM. Still way slow.