Failed to create a bootable disk image file for this version of macOS.

Hello all,

Any ideas on why I keep getting this message? I am running out of ideas and cannot get any answers from support.
I had to rebuilt my mac system from scratch and reinstalled + re-added the license. I am on macOS Monterey 12.01 and trying to create a new Big Sur instance on 11.6.1. The .app installer is sitting in /Applications and I've downloaded directly from Apple, so I can confirm that it is clean. Yet, I am still getting this error within the Installation Assistant right after I select the .app and click Continue.

Any ideas would be very helpful on how to resolve.

Thank you!

 

Stuck in same boat. Did you ever figure this out?

 

I had the same issue. In my case, the error occurred when trying to directly create a macOS VM whose OS version is not natively supported on my physical underlying Mac hardware. For example trying to directly create/install macOS Monterey on a Mac Pro 2010 produced this error.'

I figured out I could instead first (1) Create a macOS VM using the last version natively supported by the underlying hardware then (2) upgrade the OS within the VM thereafter. Using the same example, first created a macOS Mojave VM, then upgraded the OS within the VM to Monterey 12.3.1.

 

Additional note about this in-place OS upgrade process. From my experience, upgrading the VM from macOS Mojave to Monterey went fine, but at one point during the upgrade it displayed an icon of a circle with a slash going through it with a link about macOS startup. But after some time it rebooted and continued the upgrade process. My suspicion was that page was related to attempted firmware upgrades which weren't needed.

 

@DebasmitaM@Parallels - I am having the same issue of the error message "Failed to create bootable image file for this version of macOS" when I select the macOS Monterey 12.3 installer .app in the Applications folder, as downloaded directly from Apple's server. I also see the same error when I select the macOS 13 Ventura beta installer .app as well. Both of these installer apps are for the respective Intel version of macOS.

The host system is a 27" 2017 iMac with 4.2GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7, running macOS Monterey 12.4 as the host OS. I am 100% sure that the host Mac is able to natively install and run macOS Monterey 12.3, so the error message must be due to another reason.

Here are screenshots:

 

I'm using Parallels Desktop for Mac version 17.1.4.

 

Any updates on this? Other users (i.e. me) are having this issue as well, so please don't DM individuals or if you do, please update this thread as well.

 

I can confirm that I am having the same issue on the same exact hardware 27" 2017 iMac with 4.2GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7, running macOS Monterey 12.4 as the host OS and Parallels Desktop for Mac version 17.1.4.

 

Same problem for me trying to install a Mojave 10.14.6 VM

 

The same issue, anyone knows where to get an Image File for older versions? I am planning to upgrade a Big Sur VM to Monterey inside the VM but cant seem to find a working download link for Big Sur Image

 

I'm having the same issue. 2019 MBP on the latest v17 Parallels. I've gone so far as to completely remove all of the hidden components of parallels as well as redownload the latest Full installers for the OSes that I was having trouble with. I'm kind of glad I'm seeing this post because that means that my issues likely aren't my system, but have something to do with Parallels itself as this system is pretty OEM when it comes to software. I've even managed to use the Host OS to create installer IMG files using the terminal just fine (using the same installers parallels refuses to use).

 

Note: I can drag/drop these Same installers onto a cloned VM, install the OS, and then basically rename that to the new OS. So it's NOT the installers.

 

I keep older versions for personal use and that's Not the issue as they give the same result. I thought at first it had something to do with the 11.6.7 I had used to baseline the latest VMs I'd created (via internal upgrade), but nope.

 

Same issue here. Mac Pro 7.1 Intel with Monterey 12.4.

I make a video proof

 

Intel Xeon W 28 cores

 

They're clearly using Intel as they have incompatible VMs for M1 in their list.