Solaris & Illumos under Fusion both hang

[jailbird]

I have both a "real" Solaris 11.4 VM and an Illumos-based VM (Open Indiana) that were both working under Fusion 12.1.  Under 12.2, they both hang during boot.  Changing the Troubleshooting log to "Hang/Crash" didn't seem to help too much.  Switching the disks from NVMe to LSI SAS didn't help.  I don't see anything related in the Known Issues in the Release Notes.

Is anybody else seeing this?

[jailbird]

Okay, I found a partial workaround. Setting vCPUs to 1 seems to work, so it must be something that has changed in Fusion when SMP is used (APIC?).

[gwr755]

Yes, we've seen it too.  Any clues about what might have broken this?

[jailbird]

If you downgrade back to 12.1, it works. So it's definitely a regression in 12.2 that VMware doesn't seem to be in a hurry to correct :(.

[Technogeezer]

Solaris 11 x64 is not listed as a supported guest operating system for Fusion (any version), so maybe that’s why VMware hasnt fixed anything.