topic Re: Fusion Not Responding after Big Sur Upgrade in VMware Fusion Discussions

Fusion Not Responding after Big Sur Upgrade

JJas007 — Sat, 24 Sep 2022 15:44:33 GMT

I am running VMware Fusion 12.2.4 on a Late 2013 MacBook Pro. I recently upgraded to Big Sur 11.7 and Fusion will not start. I get “Not Responding” in Activity Monitor and have to quit the application. Fusion ran fine previous to the upgrade. I do keep up to date with MAC OS and Fusion upgrades and apply them as they become available and I am notified.

It seems I had this problem in the past but cannot find the solution! I don’t remember the time nor the various versions.

Any suggestions or help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

John

Re: Fusion Not Responding after Big Sur Upgrade

stanna — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 19:30:44 GMT

I am having the same issue but my Fusion bundle is located on an external hard drive. All worked fine until Big Sur. Updated Fusion to v12 but still not working....

Re: Fusion Not Responding after Big Sur Upgrade

Technogeezer — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 20:20:06 GMT

Try a complete manual install of Fusion 12 per KB article https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1017838 This not only uninstalls the Fusion application but other support files outside of the application.

Then reinstall Fusion 12.

Re: Fusion Not Responding after Big Sur Upgrade

stanna — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 08:38:11 GMT

Thank you. Will try this...

Re: Fusion Not Responding after Big Sur Upgrade

stanna — Sat, 01 Oct 2022 17:20:48 GMT

Still no luck. Getting same error message....

Re: Fusion Not Responding after Big Sur Upgrade

JJas007 — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 20:52:26 GMT

My apologies for not replying sooner! I found, through much searching, that the issue eventually goes away if you just let Fusion sit there trying to restart a VM. My readings said it can take from several minutes to up to 6 hours. Mine eventually came back in about 3 hours. Has been working fine since.

Seems no one knows why this happens and a post from a VMware employee says they can't reproduce the problem to do any kind of investigation!

Thanks to all that read this thread and offered any kind of suggestion.

John