My home lab vSAN ESA on unsupported hardware had some issue impacting vCenter/VCSA virtual machine. The easiest way was to install new VCSA which was always easy process.
But today I had an weird issue with VMware VCSA installation via UI on MacOS. I did it several times in the past and I have never had a problem, but today I saw the following error when I mount VCSA ISO and run UI Installer from mounted ISO.
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| Issue with mounted VCSA ISO on MacOS 11.7.10 (Big Sur) |
I tried to upload the downloaded ISO to Linux and had a similar problem. See screenshot below.
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| Issue with mounted VCSA ISO on Linux Mint 22.1 (xia) |
I continued the troubleshooting/ChatGPT-ing of this issue on MacOS. The final solution on MacOS was to remove the quarantine flag from the ISO file by following command.
sudo xattr -d com.apple.quarantine VMware-VCSA-all-8.0.3-24022515.iso
The command sudo xattr -d com.apple.quarantine VMware-VCSA-all-8.0.3-24022515.iso
successfully removed the quarantine flag from the ISO file, allowing
you to bypass the security restriction macOS places on downloaded files.
Just to summarize the process:
- xattr is used to manipulate extended attributes on files, and the com.apple.quarantine attribute is the one that marks files as potentially harmful.
- By removing this attribute, you allowed macOS to recognize the ISO as safe, enabling you to run the installer.
After removing the quarantine flag from the ISO file and mount the ISO again, I was able to run VCSA UI Installer.
Interesting, right? It seems this is something new in the latest MacOS system and probably even in Linux Mint 22.1 (Xia) where I have seen similar problem but have not found the solution yet.
Hope this helps some other folks in VMware community and maybe someone else will share his experience with this kind of problems.
UPDATE: I found William Lam's blog post about this or similar issue.
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