8.1.1 hosed my install

[chebyrashka]

Has anyone else experience since upgrading to 8.1.1 that the VM is unusable? I'm running Windows 10 in the VM and it will run fine for awhile but when I click into it, it will freeze up and be unusable. Nothing else has changed on my system other than this 'upgrade'

[wila]

Hi,

You're the first person I see that complains about this.

In your case I would simply go back to version 8.1.0

• download 8.1.0

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Wil

[Mikero]

When upgrading, do make sure that you've also updated Tools.

If you choose to downgrade and the issue goes away, I'd very much like to know so we can investigate.

[chebyrashka]

Thanks, I had a call from support and they tried some things. Initially the problem went away but then returned. I ended up going back to 8.1 for now and it seems to be running fine again but skeptical. Going to monitor the next day or two to see if I can see if it could be something other than 8.1.1 but the only change I had made when upgrading was upgrading to that version, everything else on my system stayed the same and the VM as well.

[Mikero]

What kind of Mac to do you have, btw?

SSD or 'spinning' hard disk?

[chebyrashka]

It's a MacBook Pro, SSD drive.

It was working fine with 8.1 and has been working fine after reverting. I can try upgrading again on the weekend and see if the problem persists.

[bachseans]

I had a different issue when upgrading to 8.1.1

After the upgrade, Unity view was perpetually greyed out, despite restarting my Windows 10 guest OS and my Mac, on which Fusion runs.

I tried to reinstall VMWare Tools, but that fails as it makes a system error noise and freezes on "Installing Thin Print Drivers".  After 8+ hours of waiting on that, I had to force quit and restart the system.  I have tried multiple times to reinstall VMWare Tools with no success as it ALWAYS freezes on the Thin Print drivers.

I then tried to install without Thin Print drivers by deselecting "Virtual Print" during the Tools installation and the installation completes BUT now I can't print anything from my Windows 10 programs.  They all give an error indicating I have no printers installed, even though I do actually have printers installed.

Additionally, there is no possible way to uninstall VMWare Tools while running Windows 10 64-bit and Fusion 8.1.1 or 8.1.0

• VMWare tools does not appear in the list of programs under the Add/Remove Programs menu in Control Panel
• The cmd method of supposedly uninstalling Tools fails to actually uninstall Tools
• Deleting the Tools folder in Program Files fails as one particular file is always in use, even in Safe Mode and cannot be deleted
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I then tried to downgrade to 8.1.0.  This failed to fix the issue outright as I still cannot print from within the virtual machine.

I then tried to reinstall VMware Tools within 8.1.0.  This, once again makes a system error noise and hangs in perpetuity at "Installing Thin Print Drivers"  See the following screenshot.

Selecting "Cancel" fails to actually cancel the installation and I am forced to end the task through Task Manager.  Despite this, if I want to try again, I cannot as the system still thinks that the previous installation is running.

Also, my Mac is running OS X 10.11.4 and is an iMac with a Fusion Drive (which is a combined SSD and standard hard drive)

[Luciusp]

Same thing happened to me.  I am using MAC OS Version 10.11.4 El Capitan on a MacBook Pro with * GB memory.  The windows version is Windows 7. 

I was asked when starting up VM Fusion if I wanted to upgrade, I said yes and downloaded the files.  Then the install quit and now I have a Icon in my applications folder labeled VM Fusion but when I click on it, a message appears that VM Fusion is damaged or incomplete.  Do I start over?

[arang]

Lucius, your issue sounds like a different one. None of the preferences or VMs are in the application folder, so I’d just delete VMware Fusion and either restore from backup or download a fresh copy & install that, and you should be fine.

[augustjohnson]

Yes, I upgraded to 8.1.1 and experienced a similar issue.  I'm running Win 7 in the VM on my Macbook Pro (El Capitan 10.11.4).  8.1.1 was only change, have had it for about 7 days and my VM has starting locking up and eventually crashing several times a day.  Initiation for the freeze ups is somewhat random but typically on a click for some action inside the VM.  I just downgraded back to 8.1.0 in hopes that I can get back to a usable tool again.....