
You can download the installation ISO image of Windows 10 from the Microsoft website. You can download the VMware Fusion 12 installer from the official VMware website. I’m using VMware Fusion 12.1.0 as a VMware hypervisor to run a Windows 10 VM on macOS.

What is a guest operating system? The difference between host and guest operating systems is that a host OS is installed on the hardware, and a guest OS is running on a virtual machine that uses virtualized hardware. I’m using macOS 10.15 Catalina as the host operating system and Windows 10 20H2 Professional 圆4 as the guest operating system in the tutorial.

A Mac computer manufactured in 2011 or later (except 2012 Mac Pro Quad Core with the Intel Xeon W3565 Processor) 2010 Mac Pro Six Core, Eight Core, and Twelve Core with a graphics card that supports Metal.If your macOS version is older than 10.5 Catalina, install an older VMware Fusion version supported by your macOS. In this section, I list the requirements for VMware Fusion 12, the latest version at the time of writing this blog post.

Before proceeding with installing VMware Fusion, check system requirements.
