downgrade vmware fusion 10.0.1 to fusion 8 or wait until vmware listen to its customers ?

[robbedoes]

Hi!

What do you all reckon ?

Situation is that I bought a vmware fusion 10 license, only to find out that xeon processors on a macpro dont have some EPT functionality, which is a 100% blocking issue, not just a performance hassle to run fusion.

Should I downgrade to vmware fusion 8, ask my money back, or would a newer fusion version lessen the burden of some EPT functionality missing ?

1 PO customer here....

[wila]

Hi Robbedoes,

Not VMware, but my recommendation is to get your money back.

There's several of us oldies here at the forum who have complained about the new CPU requirements and so far there is zero feedback from VMware that makes it look like that they will reconsider the new CPU requirements. There's a config setting that makes it run, but ... the VM is so slow it cannot be used (30 minutes to boot etc..).

Also read in another one of your posts that you are already on 10.13 and had a Fusion 8.x working OK on it.

Getting that back to work OK might turn out to be difficult as the new system extensions consent requirement is only relaxed on existing installs.

I'm not sure as I haven't tried installing Fusion 8 on 10.13, but you might have to turn off that new apple security feature in order to get it installed (should be OK to turn back on afterwards)

So yes if I was in your situation then I would also be very upset.

--

Wil

[robbedoes]

I'll just regularly vent my satisfaction in this forum.

STAY AWAY FROM VMWARE FUSION 10 UNTIL VMWARE DROPS THE EPT RESTRICTION, makes ept virtualization disable by selection possible.

Worse yet: I even disabled EPT on other servers since some time ago due to vmware security not being able to discern legit and illegit (virus/fraudulent soiftware) system calls using that mechanism to protect my host server enviroment.

STAY AWAY FROM VMWARE FUSION 10 UNTIL VMWARE DROPS THE EPT RESTRICTION.

STAY AWAY FROM VMWARE FUSION 10 UNTIL VMWARE DROPS THE EPT RESTRICTION.
STAY AWAY FROM VMWARE FUSION 10 UNTIL VMWARE DROPS THE EPT RESTRICTION.
STAY AWAY FROM VMWARE FUSION 10 UNTIL VMWARE DROPS THE EPT RESTRICTION.
STAY AWAY FROM VMWARE FUSION 10 UNTIL VMWARE DROPS THE EPT RESTRICTION.
STAY AWAY FROM VMWARE FUSION 10 UNTIL VMWARE DROPS THE EPT RESTRICTION.

STAY AWAY FROM VMWARE FUSION 10 UNTIL VMWARE DROPS THE EPT RESTRICTION.

STAY AWAY FROM VMWARE FUSION 10 UNTIL VMWARE DROPS THE EPT RESTRICTION.

[ColoradoMarmot]

Just how old are those CPUs? 

[Legend0]

I've had to switch to parallels to have an enjoyable experience on High Sierra because VMware took away key features like application menu and shortcut keys that broke my work flow. It was a pain to convert my VMs etc. but in the mean time it works nice till VMware fusion gets back on track... Give us feature parity with workstation and charge more.

[robbedoes]

> Just how old are those CPUs?

Newer than I am ? Probably newer than you too ? Unless you are an 8 year old ?

But seriously, ept should only be necessary when you want to provide this in the vm's you run. In fusion 8 the prerequisite wasnt there, if you selected the ept setting a warning was given that it wasn't supported and fusion ran just fine.

In 10 the selectable button is stil there, but heck, fusion doesn't want to run there. Xserves dont want to run vmware fusion.

Was it an idiotic programmer in India that thought enforning ept is a good idea, or a blue collar ?

BAD IDEA VMWARE, hordes of xserves wont run fusion anymore. Why ? For no technical reason at all.

Please, please change this asap !!!

[robbedoes]

I read here also a different feature vmware fusion 10 enforces:

New virtualization capability: "VMX Unrestricted mode support," which allows 16-bit guests to run (real mode and big real mode).

In fusion 8 a vm wanted to run, now in 10 this feature isnt present on a specific host, so up yours it says.

oopsie 2 ?