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e3b0c442
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Fusion 11.5 networking completely broken

I just upgraded to Fusion 11.5 this morning, and found that networking seems to be completely and irreversably broken.

All of the network settings in Preferences are grayed out.

None of the VMs can see their network devices, and all network settings in the machine settings are grayed out. I tried a previous poster's method of removing and re-adding the interface with no luck. The same occurs when creating a new VM.

I'm running the latest Mojave on a 2018 15" MacBook Pro.

Trying to figure out how I can downgrade back to 11.1, this is really disappointing.

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ColoradoMarmot
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Maybe it's reverted to standard instead of pro? If you re-enter your registration information and reboot the machine, does that fix it?

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dempson
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This might be similar to the problem I observed (I'm running on macOS 10.14.6 Mojave, in case it matters).

Have you restarted the host since installing Fusion 11.5?

After installing Fusion 11.5 I had a problem with USB devices being unavailable in my VMs: VMware Fusion said there were no USB devices connected, USB storage devices mounted on the Mac without Fusion asking me whether to attach them to the active VM or host. I didn't check whether networking was OK at that point.

I had already gone to System Preferences > Security & Privacy > General and approved the VMware Fusion kernel extensions, but behaviour suggested they weren't working.

I don't recall if I tried quitting and relaunching VMware Fusion first, but a restart of my Mac got USB support working again for VMware Fusion.

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revsven
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This happens to me on the non Pro version with existing and New vm's. None of the settings can be changed during creation or while the vm is off. HOWEVER, once I start the VM everything becomes available and does change by selection correctly. Is this the case for you? In my other post, I did have to remove the NIC and add a new one and this behavior persisted with being unable to change settings until the machine is started.

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rome2807
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I had the same problem as described in the orginal post. Like you you said, a reboot of the Mac resolved the issue. There me be lesser remediating options but it did the trick.

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YaoTR
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Has this issue been addressed I have run into this and have tried everything from doing a clean install to adding additional network adapters, disconnecting and reconnecting the adapter does not work neither does a full restart. All of my existing VM's and new VM's have this issue. It would appear I can make some slight changes to the networking from within the dropdown menu(See below 2nd photo) but I am unable to make any changes in the full menu (See below 1st photo)

I am running MacOS Catalina Version 10.15.3 (19D76)

VMware Fusion : Professional Version 11.5.1 (15018442)

Screen Shot 2020-02-04 at 11.11.47 AM.pngScreen Shot 2020-02-04 at 11.13.36 AM.png

vllona
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Today I activated my Windows 10 Pro installed with Boot Camp and there was an update from VMware Fusion to Versión 11.5.3 (15870345)

Entering Windows with no problem but there was an update from Windows and after restart the network disappeared. No network device detected.

I uninstalled the update but everything was the same.

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DevMoney
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I woke up this morning to get some work done, but let the 11.5.3 update install. My networking is now completely tanked as well. This has been an issue for 6 months, VMWare, why hasn't this been fixed?

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mintnj
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Same here updated to 11.5.3 and my windows 10 vm ethernet 0 is showing as not connected. Fix is to change to bridged mode and connect. But I rather have NAT.

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thesyntax
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On MacOS Catalina 10.15.2:

I couldn't get any network (bridged or NAT) to work in a win7 x64 host. Tried Fusion 11.1, 11.5.1, and 11.5.3 (latest as of this writing).

What worked: Completely uninstalling fusion 11.5 following VMware's instructions to manually uninstall fusion, then restarting the host computer, then installing VMware Fusion Professional 8.5.3, restarting host computer again (might not be needed), allowing screen recording, and setting networking to NAT worked. I think bridged networking also worked, but the webpage may have been cached. Switching from bridged back to NAT on windows 7 initially stopped working, but started working again after I ran windows network diagnostics inside the VM which reset the network adapter. Sad that this functionality appears to be broken on a much newer version of VMware, but at least the older version still works on Catalina.

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