2022 Is it still possible to update VMWare Fusion 6.0.6 to Run on MacOS High Sierra?

[lukasecho]

I have an old version of VMWare Fusion 6.0.6 running on an old Mac, that I almost never use. Since updating MacOS to HighSierra 10.13.x I have not been able to run VMWare or Windows.

Is there anyway to get this working again?

Is there anyway to avoid buying a new version?

(I only use VMWare to run an old Windows App that for various reasons, these days I almost never need to use. But something has come up and I might have to get it going again in a few weeks to do one little thing.)

Is it presently (Jan 2022) possible to upgrade 6.0.6 to a version compatible with MacOS High Sierra?

[scott28tt]

You need a version between 10.0 and 11.5 for High Sierra: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2088571

[wila]

Hi,

Apart from the official answer from Scott.. here's the unofficial one.

Lowest version of VMware Fusion that you can get to work on High Sierra and have it be a little bit reliable (eg. not crashing) is VMware Fusion 8.
In order to get that to work.. you actually had to upgrade to HS with Fusion 8 already installed on Sierra. Installing directly on HS is a lot harder.

Fusion 6 on High Sierra?

Not going to work.
I highly recommend you to not waste any time on that.

What you can do is buy VMware Fusion 12 (free license won't work) and use the built in downgrade capability of the license to run VMware Fusion 11.5.

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Wil

[lukasecho]

So I would need to by VMware Fusion 12 Player ? at 150€

or VMware Fusion 12 Pro at 190€

then work out how to downgrade it to 11.5,  and then I presume I would have to reinstall windows and get everything working again as I want it on the new VMMachine?

Or on that last point, is the old VMW Fusion 6.0.6 Windows image going to load/run on the 11.5 app?

Perhaps I should just buy a cheap Mini PC with Windows installed instead, and use that. The performance will probably be similar.

[wila]

Hi,

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@lukasecho wrote:

Or on that last point, is the old VMW Fusion 6.0.6 Windows image going to load/run on the 11.5 app?

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Your old Windows image will run on 11.5

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Wil

[lukasecho]

Is there a demo / trial version that I could use to convert the existing Windows Images to that OVP format so that I could run them in VirtualBox perhaps?

https://www.howtogeek.com/125640/how-to-convert-virtual-machines-between-virtualbox-and-vmware/#:~:t....

[wila]

Hi Lukasecho,

No need to first export to OVF, virtualbox can read your vmdk file directly.
see for steps for example here: https://websiteforstudents.com/import-vmware-workstation-guest-machines-virtualbox/

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Wil

[lukasecho]

So in the end, at some time int he past I had half installed VMware 10.1... but it had the seurity conflicts I gues,. so I assumed it didn't work. But now I did get it working. And managed to export the Machines to OVA and OVP formats

And then did get them to load in Virtualbox, but I am having trouble making Virtualbox fullscreen properly on a 2560x1440 monitor.

So it is kind of working.