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Manny003
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Unable to load Ubunto 20.04

I just downloaded Ubunto 20.04 and tried to intstall it in VMware fusion. I get the message Could not open /dev/vmmon: Broken pipe. Please make sure that the kernel module `vmmon' is loaded

can anybody help

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scott28tt
VMware Employee
VMware Employee

You don’t mention the version of Fusion you are using or how you tried to do the installation.

So, start here - note only the latest 11.5.5 version supports 20.04 as a guest OS:

VMware Fusion 11.5.5 Release Notes

Creating a Linux Virtual Machine in Fusion

How To Install VMWare Fusion with Ubuntu on a Mac


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