Preparing the Installation of macOS ISO Image
To start, you need the ISO image of the macOS installer. If you do not have the ISO image, you can create the installation ISO image manually after downloading the package from Apple’s official website. A machine with macOS is required for this process, as you will be redirected to the App Store to download the macOS installation image (browsers on Windows or Linux don’t recognize App Store links). Once the App Store window with the needed macOS version is open, you can read the operating system information and then download the image.
We will go over the installation on an ESXi VM of macOS Ventura 13.2, which is the latest version as of the time of writing. To download macOS Ventura 13.2, we use a machine with macOS Monterey 12, which is the previous version at the moment of writing. The name of our user is user1.
Download macOS Ventura 13.2
To download the macOS app, which we will then convert into an installation image:
Open AppStore on the existing macOS machine then type macOS Ventura in the search field. Locate the macOS Ventura item and click View.
