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albatros99
Enthusiast
Enthusiast
‎06-30-2020 12:09 PM

Vmware Fusion 11.5.5 on OSX 10.16

Yesterday i have installed on a test machine osx 10.16 developer version

The installation was without a problem and the first optical look was very good and fine.

But all my virtual machines want to start with the newest vmware fusion version.

Has any person experience with them or a solution?

i know that is one of the first developer version and there are many bugs and many people must test there applications on the new osx.

But no tests, no success...

Claude Greiner

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Mikero
Community Manager
Community Manager
‎06-30-2020 01:24 PM

Fusion is not currently supported on 11.0 hosts.

Stay tuned for a new tech preview in the next few weeks.

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Michael Roy - Product Marketing Engineer: VCF
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Leica
Enthusiast
Enthusiast
‎07-01-2020 05:18 PM

Next few weeks?

I thought it was going to be this month :smileycry: "early July" Smiley Sad

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Mikero
Community Manager
Community Manager
‎07-02-2020 12:15 PM

I'm hedging. We're aiming to ship next week, but there's some big blocker bugs that we probably want to address.  Plus the July 4th holiday is upon us.

We only got 'release' bits when everyone else did, and Big Sur is VERY VERY different under the hood.

We want to release a tech preview that meets a certain quality threshold rather than getting something out there that isn't useful to test (i.e. crashy, big things not working)... so it's always tough when it comes to deciding what bugs to fix and when to ship.

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Michael Roy - Product Marketing Engineer: VCF
miwagner1
Contributor
Contributor
‎07-03-2020 08:29 AM

I hope you add support for the Apple hypervisor framework as an option. I’m a little concerned with Apple using parallels desktop in their keynote. 

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Leica
Enthusiast
Enthusiast
‎07-03-2020 11:42 AM

Does the Apple Hypervisor support nesting? I tried parallels and if you choose Apple Hypervisor then you have no option to choose nesting.

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miwagner1
Contributor
Contributor
‎07-03-2020 07:23 PM

Sadly no, but it is the least likely to break on major OS updates and most likely to keep working when Apple ends  kernel extensions

haralds
Enthusiast
Enthusiast
‎07-13-2020 12:57 PM

Note that the Tech Preview deprecates older CPUs that actually still run Big Sur, even if not supported by Apple.

My Mac Pro 5,1 runs Big Sur just fine after the disk has been installed on another system. But the Tech Preview does not support the older Xeons (Westmere-EP.)

Specifically the Tech Preview complains about Intel EPT hardware assisted MMU virtualization and lack of XSAVE support,

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