Upgrade from windows 7 to Windows 10 on Fusion 11.5.1

[BobVM240]

HI

MS doesn't update Windows 7 anymore.

I therefore need to update to Window 10.

Can anyone confirm if Fusion11.5.1 will work  after upgrading to Window 10 and if it will allow access without repaying  the fusion a fee?

[Alex_Romeo]

Hi,

it's compatible

• VMware Compatibility Guide - Guest/Host Search

• Windows on Mac – Buy Fusion | VMware

ARomeo

[scott28tt]

Using the tool in the reply above, Windows 10 has been supported since Fusion 8 - so as long as you're on Fusion 8 or later you just need to update Windows in your VM.

If you only have an older version of Fusion, you would need to buy a new version of Fusion (upgrades to Fusion 11.5 are only available for Fusion 8 or Fusion 10 customers)

[gteague]

vmware fusion v11.5, mac os v10.15.2, windows 7 pro 64-bit vm.

microsoft media creator installer script fails because of the LSI (storage/scsi) device or driver. any attempts to uninstall this device/driver fail because evidently vmware respawns it. i finally got the win10 installer script to proceed by deleting 4 LSI driver files in /windows/system32/drivers, but at the first script reboot windows failed dead cold  miserably and couldn't be revived.

i put in a support ticket and have gotten several responses, but none of them helpful as they all claim i can simply hit the /confirm/ button when the updater complains, but that is just an endless loop. i've also tried uninstalling the vmware tools and changing the wrapper to windows 10, but that didn't seem to matter, evidently the LSI is the problem and i think that got set when i created the wrapper for the vm many years ago. so far i can't find a way to change this in the fusion settings and i suspect that vmware would lost connection to the drive if this were changed.

any suggestions very welcome. tks, /guy

[hatchmo]

I have exactly the same problem.

Following an upgrade to Fusion 11.5.1, we are upgrading Windows 7 to Windows 10.

However, Windows 10 Setup is stuck in an endless loop. It keeps complaining:

"This device isn’t compatible in Windows 10. Contact the manufacturer for more info.

LSI Adapter, Ultra320 SCSI 2000 series, w/1020/1030"

and refuses to proceed. The alert gives no clue about how to fix the problem.

This is on a Mac Mini 2018 running macOS 10.14.6.

Any idea how to work around this? Thanks.

--Richard Hart <hatch@waywewill.com>

[ColoradoMarmot]

Did you upgrade the virtual hardware and vmware tools before upgrading windows?

You could try to upgrade the 'machine type' to windows 10 (from windows 7) before doing the upgrade.

Last resort would be to remove vmware tools completely, then upgrade, then reinsinstall.

Strongly suggest a backup before poking too much.

[DaveLoverink]

I have the exact same problem with Fusion 11.5.1.  I'm not running any SCSI devices, but there doesn't appear to be any way to update or remove the LSI SCSI driver.

Uninstalling VMWare Tools has no effect.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Dave

[wila]

Hi,

The problem is that Windows 10 has no inbox driver for the LSI parallel interface.

To make matters worse.. there simply is no Windows 10 compatible driver.

IIRC it was a matter of switching to the LSI SAS interface.

Eg. basically the steps would be to edit the .vmx and change the virtual disk to the following line:

scsi0.virtualDev = "lsisas1068"

It _is_ certainly possible to upgrade, as I did that a couple of years ago.

But I have to run through the steps myself again to make sure I hand out the correct steps.

If you do try the above beware to take a backup first!

This is on my list to test for an answer here, sorry that I not answered earlier as I have not had the time for that so far.

Hopefully tomorrow.

--

Wil

[wila]

OK, here you go.

I ended up writing a blog post about it as that gave me more ways of adding the extra tips/hints.

The steps in there should helping getting you all past the parallel LSI adapter issues when trying to upgrade to Windows 10.

See here: https://www.vimalin.com/blog/windows-7-to-windows-10-upgrade/

If you have questions, then please post them here.

--

Wil

[DaveLoverink]

Thank you Wil.  I will give your instructions a try and report back here.

- Dave

[DaveLoverink]

Wil,

After editing the config file as described in your blog post, I received the attached error when starting the VM.  Assuming the error message is accurate, is there a way to temporarily free up a PCIe slot for the LSI Logic SAS scsi driver?

Thanks,

Dave

[wila]

Hi,

I think that if you remove the sound card for now that you will have enough free PCI slots. Do this from within Fusion, not by manually editing the vmx file.

If that doesn't help then please attach the .vmx file to a reply (use the attach button/link at the bottom right of the reply window)

--

Wil

[DaveLoverink]

Wil,

Removing the Sound Card from within Fusion didn't have any effect on the PCIe slot error.  I've attached a copy of the config file as requested.

Thanks for your assistance,

Dave

[wila]

Hi Dave,

Curious enough your VM has a scsi adapter, but there's no disk attached to that adapter.

Your Windows 7 is booting of an IDE disk, so in that case you can just remove all the lines that reference scsi.

Which is exactly what I did for you.

Try the attached instead of the .vmx you had (I had to guess the correct name, adjust it if it isn't the same, close VMware Fusion before replacing the vmx file and keep a copy of the old one)

--

Wil

[DaveLoverink]

Wil,

Hmmm, it's been a long time since we actually had a SCSI device connected to the VM, so no loss.

I can confirm that your version of the config file solved the problem and allows the Win 10 Pro installer to proceed past all the pre-install checks.

I can't do the full update today, but I'll report back here if there are any issues.

Thank you again for all your help,

- Dave

[hatchmo]

Thanks for this. It worked for me, and the LSI Adapter problem has been solved.

However, now during installation, Windows 10 displays this alert and halts the installation:

VMware SVGA 3D is not compatible with Windows 10.

Oh, well. I'll keep slogging away at this.

[DaveLoverink]

In my case, I encountered the same SVGA 3D warning, but there was a button next to it that I could click to tell the installer to disregard it and continue.

After the Win 10 upgrade completed, I changed the OS Type in Fusion to Windows 10, then uninstalled VMware Tools in Win 10 and Reinstalled them.  This process caused a Win 10-compatible video driver to be installed and everything was normal from there.

[h__sqd]

Dave,

I downloaded 11.5.1 and then without updating tools, went straight to the Win 10 link to do an upgrade from within Win 7.  It went along to the point you mentioned the SVGA 3D complaint which I also clicked the button to disregard.  Everything proceeded as expected and eventually went screen black.  After about an hour or so, I heard a chime implying something rebooted.  Unfortunately, while the process consumed between 100 and 200 pct of processor for about another day and a half, nothing changed, except an indication that file access slowly ready about 80GB as seen in the activity monitor.  (My Fusion bubble has about 100GB reserved, of which about 70 is used.  All the recent time is black screen, but working hard enough to keep the fans running on my 2018 MBP running 10.14.6.

Based on the comments here, I expect I will start over with the externally downloaded Win 10 and reload by Win 7 backup, while following the suggestions posted here.

[h__sqd]

Well, that was interesting.  I finally quit Fusion and let it shut down the black screen high activity stalled session.

Without doing any other prep, I just relaunched Fusion and low and behold it brought up a fully running Win 10!

I then followed the guide to shut W10 back down to reassign Fusion to run W10 x64.  Everything came up again, but I can't get Fusion to respond to the top of screen drop down panel to deal with the Tools stuff.  Minor details.

If I find any significant issues, I post again.