Fusion 10.1.3 work on Mojave

[TECH198]

Can VMWare 10.1.3 work on Mojave host ? and also as Guest?

[MaciekP]

at least it works well on my MBP 15" 2017 and my IMAC 27 2015 with FUSION 10.1.3 with WIN 10 latest release and patches as end of SEPT 2017.

I didn't notice any problems yet, MOJAVE 10.14 Host.

[MaciekP]

correction. WIN 10 @ SEPT 2018:-)

[ColoradoMarmot]

It is not supported.  That means that it may or may not work.  Mojave guests will likely have issues.  I would recommend backing up your VM's often (not with time machine of course) if you don't upgrade and are on Mojave.  The big issue is that you may not get security patches if there's a new vulnerability found.

[TECH198]

Mainly just to test all my apps before i upgrade to Mojave on host...

The reason i'm wanting to do this i see flakey/ on no information on these compatible sites roaringapp.com..

so, it wouldn't take me long to install Mojave as Guest on Fusion just to test all my apps. and if they all work fine, upgrade to Mojave on host..

[MaciekP]

BTW, why not via Time Machine?

[ColoradoMarmot]

Two reasons:  Time machine backs up files regardless of their being in use, so if the virtual machine is running, you end up with the virtual disk in an inconsistent state.  Second, it purges individual files, so you can end up with parts of the disk that were backed up at different times.

last, time machine itself isn't completely reliable - it's notorious for silent corruption, though much better with more recent iterations - as long as you started a completely new backup history.

[wila]

Hi,

To add to what dlhotka says, see this item in the VMware Fusion help:

Using Time Machine When You Have Fusion on Your Mac

There's also a link to a VMware KB article at the article I point to in the signature of my forum posts.

Time Machine is great, but not a good fit for large binary files such as virtual machines.

If you want, you can use the free version of my product Vimalin to make (and restore) reliable backups of your VMs.

There's also a paid for variant of VImalin that offers a few more features.

Of course you can also just copy the VM at regular times manually, just make sure the VM is at least shutdown before you make a copy.

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Wil

[ColoradoMarmot]

And definitely recommend copying to a separate physical disk. APFS now does snapshotting for copies, and I'm not yet convinced that's totally reliable.

[wila]

Yep, a snapshot is great unless a bit has fallen over in the base disk on which the snapshot is based.

One of the reasons we have been saying many times here at the forum that a snapshot is not a backup.

A backup on the same physical hardware is no good if that disk dies anyways.

For the record, Vimalin forces you to use an external disk for your backup for these type of reasons.

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Wil