I'm running fusion 7.1 under Yosemite. I'm working through the OS X support essentials book in preparation for taking the Apple Certified support professional certification exam. I thought it would be good to run a separate instance of Yosemite under fusion so that I would not be changing anything on my primary system while working through the exercises in the text.
after completing an exercise which instructed me to sign in to iCloud, I began to receive my iMessages and FaceTime calls inside the guest, but no longer on the host. I can no longer send messages or start calls from the host either, and handoff no longer seems to work. I figured that the server may have been confused by both the guest and host being on the same IP, so I promptly signed back out of all iCloud services in the guest.
However, I still cannot use these services anymore, even when the guest is shut down completely. I have completely signed out of all services and then logged back in, but that does not fix the problem either. AppleCare will not help me, since I am running the public beta of 10.10.2. They claim that it must be a problem with the beta, and I should report it with Feedback Assistant. I know this cannot be right. I've been using this beta for weeks, with no problems whatsoever until this thing came up with my VM. Does anyone have any other ideas how I could get this mess straightened out?
Hi,
Welcome at the VMware communities forum.
Well it might be a problem with the beta.
Have you already tried to reboot OS X? (not suspend, but actually shut down and reboot)
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Wil
I recall that messages has some known issues in OSX guests, but can't pull it out of my memories.
Maybe this helps your memory?
Unable to activate iMessage in Mavericks VM
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Wil
That's outdated information, no longer applies. iMessage activation changed after Fusion 7 was released, and Messages is able to log in but it won't send/receive messages, and won't be able to detect iMessage activated phone numbers or emails outside of one's own account set in "start conversations as".
See This
Ugggghhhh... Read the "11th Jan 2015" update at http://www.tonymacx86.com/general-help/110471-how-fix-imessage.html for more information on this problem and a possible solution. Super annoying... We added passthrough of the host's identifiers specifically to allow iMessage to work inside a VM, and it looks like that's no longer going to be an option.
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Darius
Had this issue also when installed 10.10.3 beta in a VM, killed imessage/facetime from my main machine.. ended up having to reinstall main OS to get everything back and functional.
Any chance of a fix coming in a newer build to stop this and allow correction functionality?