Hi all,

This is my first time posting in the VMware Communities but not my first time using Fusion - in fact I've been a loyal Fusion user for almost a decade and in that time have barely had any problems.

I was eager to upgrade to the latest tech preview on my 2021 Apple Silicon 16-inch M1 MacBook Pro running macOS Sonoma Beta so as to get support for copy and paste, among other VMware tools inside my Windows 11 ARM virtual machine.

I upgraded to the beta a few days ago and, despite getting the ""Unable to reencrypt the virtual machine: Disk problem" message discussed elsewhere, things have been fine after I decided to create a new virtual machine and restored from a Windows system image backup. Fine until last night, that is.

I tried to start up my virtual machine, and it powered on for about 5 seconds before immediately powering off again. Trying again yielded the same result. I changed some system settings, like amount of processors and memory given to the VM, removing USB devices, etc. but to no avail. Heck I even re-installed VMware Fusion 13 and tried to create a new virtual machine there, which worked fine, but when I powered it on so I could install Windows, the same issue happened again.

I've attached a support information bundle but wanted to highlight these lines from the ~/Library/Logs/VMware Fusion/vmware-vmfusion.log file which I feel are interesting. Note the support bundle is the smaller of the two options because the full bundle was over 400 MB in size and would exceed the attachment size limit, but I still have the archive if anyone wants to see it some other way.

2023-07-28T02:31:13.820Z In(05) VMware Fusion Initialized the OpenGL renderer.
2023-07-28T02:31:13.820Z In(05) VMware Fusion cui::MKSScreenView::SetRenderTarget: hostWindow and surfaceID are none. id: 0.
2023-07-28T02:31:13.820Z In(05) VMware Fusion cui::MKSScreenView::OnHostWindowChanged, id: 0, unsetting destination and setting is rendering to false
2023-07-28T02:31:13.820Z In(05) VMware Fusion -[UIDrawnMKSController initWithWindowId:view:portName:], starting UIDrawnMKS rendering
2023-07-28T02:31:13.821Z In(05) VMware Fusion UtilMacOS: Found graphics devices
2023-07-28T02:31:13.821Z In(05) VMware Fusion Initialized the OpenGL renderer.
2023-07-28T02:31:13.824Z In(05) VMware Fusion -[DUIVMActionController currentTogglePowerOnSuspendAction] VMCanNotSuspend UI power state 1
2023-07-28T02:31:13.824Z In(05)+ VMware Fusion .
2023-07-28T02:31:13.825Z In(05) VMware Fusion -[DUIVMActionController currentTogglePowerOnSuspendAction] VMCanNotSuspend UI power state 1
2023-07-28T02:31:13.825Z In(05)+ VMware Fusion .
2023-07-28T02:31:13.825Z In(05) VMware Fusion -[DUIVMActionController currentTogglePowerOnSuspendAction] VMCanNotSuspend UI power state 1
2023-07-28T02:31:13.825Z In(05)+ VMware Fusion .
2023-07-28T02:31:13.836Z In(05) VMware Fusion MKSControl: Connect
2023-07-28T02:31:13.849Z In(05) VMware Fusion CUIMKS: cui::MKS::OnSetAttachedCompleted (12A00B000)
2023-07-28T02:31:13.854Z In(05) VMware Fusion SOCKET 6 (40) AsyncTCPSocketSetOption: Option layer/level [6], option/name [1]: could not set OS option for TCP socket; error [102: Operation not supported on socket].
2023-07-28T02:31:13.855Z In(05) VMware Fusion -[DUIVMActionController currentTogglePowerOnSuspendAction] VMCanNotSuspend UI power state 1
2023-07-28T02:31:13.855Z In(05)+ VMware Fusion .
2023-07-28T02:31:13.856Z In(05) VMware Fusion -[DUIVMActionController currentTogglePowerOnSuspendAction] VMCanNotSuspend UI power state 1
2023-07-28T02:31:13.856Z In(05)+ VMware Fusion .
2023-07-28T02:31:13.856Z In(05) VMware Fusion -[DUIVMActionController currentTogglePowerOnSuspendAction] VMCanNotSuspend UI power state 1
2023-07-28T02:31:13.856Z In(05)+ VMware Fusion .
2023-07-28T02:31:13.874Z In(05) VMware Fusion OnGuestCanRunUnityChanged: The guest is a supported version of Windows, checking Tools status. Version status: 3, running status: 1
2023-07-28T02:31:13.874Z In(05) VMware Fusion OnGuestCanRunUnityChanged: Tools status is not INSTALLED
2023-07-28T02:31:13.912Z In(05) VMware Fusion DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/config": No such file or directory.
2023-07-28T02:31:13.989Z In(05) VMware Fusion DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/config": No such file or directory.
2023-07-28T02:31:14.003Z In(05) VMware Fusion DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/config": No such file or directory.
2023-07-28T02:31:14.311Z In(05) VMware Fusion DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/config": No such file or directory.
2023-07-28T02:31:17.508Z In(05) VMware Fusion SOCKET 5 (44) recv detected remote shutdown
2023-07-28T02:31:17.508Z Wa(03) VMware Fusion MKSControlClientBase: Remote Disconnect: socket closed: (4) Remote disconnected.
2023-07-28T02:31:17.508Z In(05) VMware Fusion MKSControl: CloseMKSControl
2023-07-28T02:31:17.508Z Wa(03) VMware Fusion MKSControlClientBase: MKSControlWriteCB returns because connection is invalid: mSocket = 138F52DF0, mConState = 0.
2023-07-28T02:31:17.508Z In(05) VMware Fusion SOCKET 6 (40) recv detected remote shutdown
2023-07-28T02:31:17.508Z In(05) VMware Fusion Detected automation socket close for VM (/Users/lmerrill/Virtual Machines.localized/Windows 11.vmwarevm/Windows 11.vmx)
2023-07-28T02:31:17.508Z In(05) VMware Fusion CUIMKS: On MKSControl connection broken (12A00B000)
2023-07-28T02:31:17.508Z In(05) VMware Fusion CUIMKS: cui::MKS::SetAttached (12A00B000): detach
2023-07-28T02:31:17.508Z In(05) VMware Fusion MKSControlClientBase: Disconnect is called (1299052F0) (current state 0).
2023-07-28T02:31:17.508Z In(05) VMware Fusion MKSControl: CloseMKSControl
2023-07-28T02:31:17.508Z Wa(03) VMware Fusion MKSControlClientBase: MKSControlWriteCB returns because connection is invalid: mSocket = 0, mConState = 0.
2023-07-28T02:31:17.508Z In(05) VMware Fusion MKSControlClientBase: Disconnect is done (1299052F0) (current state 0).
2023-07-28T02:31:17.508Z In(05) VMware Fusion VmdbPipeStreamsOvlError Couldn't read: OVL_STATUS_EOF (remote disconnect)
2023-07-28T02:31:17.508Z In(05) VMware Fusion Internal VMDB error: Pipe: Read failed (-32)
2023-07-28T02:31:17.509Z In(05) VMware Fusion CUIMKS: cui::MKS::OnSetAttachedCompleted (12A00B000)
2023-07-28T02:31:17.509Z In(05) VMware Fusion CUIMKS: On MKSControl connection broken done (12A00B000).
2023-07-28T02:31:17.509Z In(05) VMware Fusion VmdbCnxDisconnect: Disconnect: closed pipe for sub cnx '/db/connection/#9/' (-14)
2023-07-28T02:31:17.509Z In(05) VMware Fusion VigorOnlineCnxDemux: VmdbCnx failed: Lost a connection to the running VMX instance.
2023-07-28T02:31:17.509Z In(05)+ VMware Fusion Transport (VMDB) error -14: Pipe connection has been broken.
2023-07-28T02:31:17.509Z In(05)+ VMware Fusion
2023-07-28T02:31:17.509Z In(05) VMware Fusion VigorOnlineDisconnect: disconnect /vm/#a54346d4b5771e99/ via /db/connection/#9/
2023-07-28T02:31:17.509Z In(05) VMware Fusion /Users/lmerrill/Virtual Machines.localized/Windows 11.vmwarevm/Windows 11.vmx: Unmounting VM begun.
2023-07-28T02:31:17.509Z In(05) VMware Fusion VMDB unmount initiated for /vm/#a54346d4b5771e99/.
2023-07-28T02:31:17.516Z In(05) VMware Fusion VigorOnlineUnmountCb: Mount state values have changed for /vm/#a54346d4b5771e99/.
2023-07-28T02:31:17.516Z In(05) VMware Fusion VmdbDbRemoveCnx: Removing Cnx from Db for '/db/connection/#9/'
2023-07-28T02:31:17.516Z In(05) VMware Fusion VigorOnlineUnmountCb: Unmount complete for /vm/#a54346d4b5771e99/.
2023-07-28T02:31:17.516Z In(05) VMware Fusion VigorOnlineUnmountCb unset Vigor path on vm unmount.
2023-07-28T02:31:17.516Z In(05) VMware Fusion /Users/lmerrill/Virtual Machines.localized/Windows 11.vmwarevm/Windows 11.vmx: Unmounting VM complete.
2023-07-28T02:31:17.516Z In(05) VMware Fusion /Users/lmerrill/Virtual Machines.localized/Windows 11.vmwarevm/Windows 11.vmx: Reloading config state.
2023-07-28T02:31:17.525Z In(05) VMware Fusion VMHS: Transitioned vmx/execState/val to poweredOff

I haven't made any changes on my Mac that might coincide with this issue and don't know where the problem could lie. Any assistance or insight would be very helpful, especially as like I said even the stable VMware Fusion 13 exhibits the same exact issue so I know this isn't strictly related to the new tech preview (but is where I first encountered the problem).

Thanks in advance for any replies!