I just upgraded VMware Fusion to 12.1.2. Now my Catalina VM is in an infinite restart loop (see attached screenshot). This did not happen before the upgrade.
Fusion is running on a Mac Pro (late 2013) with 8 cores and 16 GB memory. The VM is allocated 4 cores and 4 GB memory.
Note that Catalina does this on the Mac Pro itself, whenever it is put into power sleep (which I have since disabled). But it only needs a single restart, not an infinite loop.
How can I fix this?
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I attempted to upgrade a copy of my High Sierra VM to Catalina. The upgrade has hung for over 2 hours and I'm killing it.
Hi,
@tjrob wrote:
I just upgraded VMware Fusion to 12.1.2.
Upgraded from what? Fusion 12.1.1 ?
Don't make us having to guess please.
re. the restart loop. That's a full on crash.
Normally you see those when there's a hardware issue.
As you say "this didn't happen before"... have you tried rolling back?
Sometimes an upgrade is just exposing a problem underneath. If the crash goes away after downgrading to whatever VMware Fusion version you were running earlier then at least you are ruling out that it isn't a hardware error that happens to coincide with an upgrade (it happens, regularly even)
Once you have ruled that out, then try to see what happens if you go from 4 cores vCPU's to 2 cores vCPU.
Does it still crash?
Did your VM perhaps get a macOS update recently?
Lot's of questions when reading your post...
Also, the screenshot helps, but it is probably better to attach a vmware.log file from the problem VM.
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Wil
I had this happen on two of my physical machines after the Catalina upgrade. On one, booting into safe mode fixed it. On the other, I had to make a USB installer and reinstall catalina over the existing install.