Hi all,
I recently downloaded VM Ware Fusion 13 player. I have been a long-time Parallels user, but I have been running into problems with my VMs on their latest product.
I have four sets of 16 airtags for tracking my company's equipment in transit.
In VMware, I start with OS X 15 (Big Sur). So I can get it running and set up and working. I then log into an apple ID, where I track my second set of AirTags. All of this goes great. Find Me will display the map for devices and people. In the items tab, the AirTag names show along the right side of the map display window, but the map area will not render.
Any Ideas on why this may be happening?
There is a current issue where AirPlay casting to another device doesn’t work when Fusion is active. I wonder if this is a symptom of the same issue, and if it points to some incompatibility between Fusion and Bonjour network service auto discovery.
Are you talking about rendering in a guest?
That's not unexpected - there's no 3d acceleration for MacOS guests, so behavior is unpredictable across a wide variety of apps.
Ignore my prior post I misunderstood the situation.
You may be encountering a macOS application that is using Metal’s 3D rendering capabilities. Apple did not provide a way to virtualize 3D acceleration in older macOS releases, resulting in the kind of rendering issues that you are seeing.
What OS are you running in the VM? There is no macOS 15 Big Sur, Big Sur os macOS 11, and Catalina is macOS 10.15
Whether you are running Catalina or Big Sur as the guest VM is important. If you are running Big Sur, you can with the Guest VM powered off edit the vmx file for the Guest VM and enable the experimental 3D by changing
svga.present="FALSE"
Then adding right beneath it
appleGPU0.present="TRUE"
Then see if your map works. VMware never took 3D for macOS to "production" so you would be relying on something that could quit working after an update with no support.
So that you know – the point is moot at this point. My company recently moved offices, and the server is offline. However, I will rebuild that server on VMware but will use more updated OS installs than I could with the original hardware.
If you see an update to this post, hopefully it will be good news.
