Some people have reported that a stub installer is only downloaded although this has not happened to me.

On Vmware Workstation 12 Player Mac OS X As The

Select Apple Mac OS X as the Guest OS and macOS 10.12 as the version.

Select the default for all other options (although I prefer to have the virtual disk as one single file).

Use Disk Utility to format the new virtual disk as a Mac OS Extended (Journaled) DO NOT SELECT APFS as your volume type.

Now change the virtualSSD value to a 1: sata0:0.virtualSSD 1.

But forcing macOS to think it is an HD disk and not SSD allows a proper install.

Then changing it back allows macOS to see its virtual drive as an SSD and will not attempt to reformat it to APFS.

If the virtual disk does not show up, exit Disk Utility and then restart it.

I dont know why, but I have seen this where it doesnt seem to detect the drives upon initial load.

The sample I showed above is the default where the VMware virtual disk is a SATA drive and mounted as the first drive.

Therefore the line below properly disables the virtual SSD emulation in the virtual machine.

Setting sata0:0.virtualSSD 0 before updating solved the problem.

Plus the fact that by default, Disk Utility shows only Volumes by default.

When High Sierra installs, if it sees an SSD, it will default to converting the disk to APFS which is not supported on Workstation 12.

How can I enable track-pad multi finger scroll up and down gestures.

I just used it with the latest High Sierra build and VMware Workstation 14.1 without a problem.

How To Install Mac Os X On Vmware Workstation 12 Player