I'm running VMWare Fusion Professional Version 11.5.7 (17130923)
In the past day I created a new Windows Server 2012 vm with 1 CPU and 2048 RAM.
I successfully created the basic VM with all Microsoft updates, and then created a full clone.
On the new full clone, I started going through the process of installing IIS, MySQL, and PHP.
Part way through the first attempt my Mac locked up enough that it was painfully slow. Many of the Finder windows lost their location and jumped to root of the computer (Shift+Command+C on a Mac). My Google Chrome browser started acting up and my tab that had my gmail open went white.
I rebooted and the vm was hosed. I tried to start it and got an error, "Pipe connection has been broken".
I deleted the vm and created a new full clone to try again. I gave it 3 CPUs.
At some point it more or less happened again though the exact goofiness I saw on my Mac itself was a little different. This time though I took a couple snapshots part way through and was able to reboot and use the VM without having to start over yet again.
The really strange thing is that after rebooting and signing into my Mac again, the Dock reset and my hot corners were lost. I have no idea what other settings were lost but that's all I've noticed so far.
My Mac laptop (MacBook Pro 13-inch, 2018) is not even 2 years old and I'm running a licensed version of Fusion. I installed the latest Fusion update for this version yesterday before starting this. This didn't happen last year when I had a slightly older version of 11 running (don't remember the exact version).
I did have my work's vpn open and signed in though that shouldn't matter.
Has anyone seen this behavior? It's pretty useless to use this if it's going to not only crash with basic use but hose my host environment too.
