Here’s how to download it and rename it at the same timeĬurl -fail -location -continue-at -output '$HOME/Downloads/InstallElCapitan.dmg' \ Likewise the DMGs aren’t named usefully when you mount them either, so make sure you name the DMGs well when you download them to avoid confusion. Download the DMGĪpple has created three DMGs for Yosemite, El Capitan, and Sierra, but couldn’t be bothered to give them useful names, so Yosemite and El Capitan are called ‘InstallMacOSX.dmg’ and Sierra is ‘InstallOS.dmg’. I will explain what I did, and where I got stuck, in the hopes that someone else might figure out what I did wrong and point me in the right direction. Today I tried (and failed) to create a new Virtual Machine in either Parallels or VMware Fusion using one of these DMGs, specifically, the El Capitan one. The other three are URLs to download DMGs: Three of the six are links to the Mac App Store: If an installer says it can’t be verified or was signed with a certificate that has expired – Apple Support Scroll down to “Update and Solution” to see how to get this to work.Īpple recently released new installers for Mac OS X/OS X/mac OS to deal with expired certificates: