Hi,
I am currently on Fusion 8.5.0 freshly downloaded from your website. I have a couple of VMs from before I upgraded my OS to 10.12. Now none of them will start/resume and all I get is the error in the title.
I upgraded to Fusion 8.5.0 before the OS update and it worked fine, so I guess something in the OS update broke it.
I have tried searching around in this forum and have tried the following to no avail:
In case it helps, I do have VirtualBox installed as well, and I need it just as much as I need Fusion.
I have the same problem here, except it only happens if I start VMWare after connecting to a SMB network share from finder go > connect to server.
If I start VMWare before connecting to the smb resource the VM starts fine, however I then cannot connect to SMB from finder at all and just get a generic couldn't connect to server.
This means it is now not possible for me to mount the vm Windows drive over the network from the host mac which is a big problem.
I also have VirtualBox installed but don't believe this is a problem. I also have MySQL installed which causes the mac to hang on shutdown but I don't believe this is related.
Hi,
more info on the subject and why you are bumping into the problem is here:
Re: Mavericks Fusion 6.0.2 /dev/vmmon not found, display cannot be initialized, internal error
Note that in some cases just restarting the host OS is sufficient, but if you are really running out of major device numbers then just a reboot might not be enough to fix it.
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Wil
After uninstalling VirtualBox, my VMs in Fusion seem to boot up fine.
What I don't understand is that both used to work prior to updating to macOS 10.12.
Same boat here. Both VMware and VirtualBox installed. Both worked fine before macOS Sierra. After updated to Sierra, I get the same error message trying to open a VMware VM. Uninstalling VirtualBox and re-installing VMware fixed the issue but ultimately I need VirtualBox as well for various things.
Edit: tried to re-install VirtualBox after I got everything working again with VMware 7.1.3, and it seems VirtualBox will not install in macOS Sierra. So maybe this is more related to VirtualBox than VMware(?):
Edit #2: after further experimentation it seems like VirtualBox does work fine on macOS Sierra, but requires fully uninstalling VMware Fusion in order to successfully install VirtualBox.
Same issue here - Fusion and VirtualBox seem to no longer co-exist since Sierra
I confirm uninstalling VirtualBox fixed the issue.
Don't know whats happening but since I payed for Vmware Fusion and not VirtualBox I expect better support here :smileygrin:
This is a weird one... In previous versions of OS X this was never an issue. We're investigating why this is happening with macOS, and we'll likely be working directly with Apple to produce a fix.
I confirm, uninstall Virtual Box solve the issue.
I found a script to uninstall easily it osx - Yosemite + Fusion 7.0.1 now gets "Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory." and w...
run the script above and remove virtual box, worked straight away for me, many thanks
Hi,
Has the resolution to this issue progressed any?
I'm using the same environment as original post and require both VMWare and Virtualbox machines (via Vagrant) for my development and support role.
Manually uninstalling these products each time I need to bring a VM up (vagrant up) is less than convenient.
Please any advice on having these products cohabit the same MacOS would be great.
Thanks in advance.
I'm NOT using VirtualBox. I'm running VMware Fusion 6.0.4 under Mac OS-X Sierra 10.12.3 and started seeing this /dev/vmmon error a couple of months ago. None of the suggested fixes I've seen so far seem appropriate. I'll need this fixed pretty soon as I have to analyze data for an experiment at J-PARC in Japan and another at TRIUMF in Vancouver, and my only (previously) working installation of the required software is on my Mac's VMware Ubuntu installation.
Any suggestions? HELP!
I believe Fusion 6 is too old to run on macOS Sierra. You can try Fusion 8.x for free for 30 days and see if that gets you going: http://www.vmware.com/go/try-fusion-en
Cheers,
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Darius
just to add, it seems fusion 6 supported up to maverick only
Supported host operating systems for VMware Fusion and VMware Fusion Pro (2088571) | VMware KB
so I installed fusion 8.5 and no problem with /dev/vmmon
Hi there,
Any news about this issue? im getting the same error on MacOS Sierra with VMware-Fusion and Virtualbox.
I do not have VirtualBox installed on my MacBook Pro, yet I am experiencing this issue. Sierra 10.12.4 and Fusion 8.5.6. Any ideas what might be the cause besides VirtualBox?
Hi there,
Ive already fixed the issue, i uninstalled some drivers and that fixed the problem, some info here:
Fusion 5 - Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory.
I too have suffered from this issue for over a year, I've tried every release of Fusion upto 8.5.8 and still the problem persisted.
Amongst the comments in this thread a reference to Fusion 5 - Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory. was made, this proved invaluable as it hinted at the possible issue,
"It seems that some driver on your system is triggering the problem by consuming all of the available "character device major numbers" (a small number used to identify a driver/device). I can't immediately identify the culprit driver, but the possibilities include:
"
Its reference to Viscosity VPN as possible factor made me consider the VPN tool of choice I have installed, namely SHIMO VPN. As a test in hope I removed this SHIMO VPN tool (a shame as I rely on it) and restarted OSX 10.12.6.
After the reboot I can successfully launch both VMWare Fusion 8.5.8 and VirtualBox 5.1.20 without issue, so my '/dev/vmmon' issue is solved, albeit at the expense of a great VPN tool, SHIMO.
Hope this helps.
Aside: I've contacted SHIMO with this info in the hope they can resolve the issue.
in my case, I solved it by remove tuntap(virtual network interface).
macOS Sierra 10.12.6
- VMware Fusion 8.5.8
- VirtualBox 5.1.28
- tuntap 20150118 <- uninstall you
How to uninstall tuntap
sudo rm -rf /Library/Extensions/tap.kext
sudo rm -rf /Library/Extensions/tun.kext
sudo rm -rf /Library/LaunchDaemons/net.sf.tuntaposx.tap.plist
sudo rm -rf /Library/LaunchDaemons/net.sf.tuntaposx.tun.plist
reboot your mac.
Now I can run VMware Fusion and VirtualBox together.