How to get Catalina Beta 6 running on VMware Fusion 11.1.1
Method 1: Having an operational Catalina beta 5 (19A526h) or earlier vm already 1 - Obtain the full beta 6 installer wrapped in a disk image (installinstallmacos.py does this nicely) 2 - Have a working Catalina install on a vm, beta 5 (19A526h) or earlier 3 - Add an extra disk the working Catalina machine, format the disk as HFS (replace as appropriate but I assume disk1) sudo diskutil eraseDisk JHFS+ CatalinaBeta6 disk1 4 - Install Catalina beta 6 to the new disk sudo installer -pkg [path to]/Install macOS Catalina Beta.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallInfo.plist -target /Volumes/CatalinaBeta6 -verbose -dumplog 5 - put the prelinkedkernel aside sudo mv "/Volumes/CatalinaBeta6 1/System/Library/PrelinkedKernels/prelinkedkernel" "/Volumes/CatalinaBeta6 1/System/Library/PrelinkedKernels/prelinkedkernel_apple" 6 - put the AppleIntelMCEReporter.kext aside sudo mv "/Volumes/CatalinaBeta6 1/System/Library/Extensions/AppleIntelMCEReporter.kext...