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Well switching to bridge in my case breaks everything I need to talk to local servers running on my Mac (for compilers). Just removing printing capabilities is a non-sens. I reverted back to 13.n from 13.5 and will stick to this version. This is non-sense. Also Wifi from within the VM is not a solution, all Airprint or WiFi printers do not offer as many printing options as the native printer driver. It's a subset of the printer capabilities.

I followed recommendations and trashed all my RealTek RTL8153 and moved to a Ethernet port using RTL8156B and I don't have that problem anymore, including in VMware Fusion 12.x... But this is not a solution, it should be fixed once and for all by VMware. 

I'm a developer myself. VMware's model for now is not subscription based. All minor updates are free and Fusion never stops working after a determined time (as long as the OS is compatible of course). 100% of my customers told me they hate subscriptions. It's a matter of trust and subscriptions are seen as back stabbing. Developers are not cheap and need to be paid, of course. Major upgrades should be paid but not imposed.  I don't rent my software, I buy it. Like my coffee. That's why the current model for VMWare Fusion is good (in my opinion).  I loyally bought all versions from 5 to 12Pro and am ready to pay for 13 that works on Ventura. I'm not ready to start paying a monthly fee that hides behind the biased idea that "it guaranties a stream of revenues to insure development otherwise the product would die". Adobe (who started what I think is the big scam), Microsoft, etc.. made billions per year without subscriptions for decades. How come?

From what I found on the web, the problem is not VMWare or the OS. But it happens only with RealTeak RTL8153 ethernet boards that we find everywhere (because they're cheap). All the high power work is handed to the Mac CPU. It looks like the RTL 8156 works much better as it has an onboard CPU to handle all the Ethernet traffic instead of outsourcing it to the Mac. Then VM_nat is not a problem.

Same for me. Even worse as after a while I lose all my Ethernet connections on my Macbook pro (native, not into the VMs). The IP is still correct, but I have to switch to WiFi to be able to connect to the Internet. Killing the vmnet-natd process stops the CPU overload and the fan spinning like crazy, but doesn't reset Ethernet connections Usually, the only thing I can do is to actually reboot the Mac to be able to get back online. Very frustrating. VMFusion Pro 12.2.1 Steve

The trick is not show/hide toolbar. It's switching between full screen to single window and back to full screen The menu is View > Single Window then View > Full Screen Shortcut: ctrl-command-F (twice) Then it works.

I have a clean Big Sur install (not an upgrade) and no Accessibility set. It's not a beta version but 11.0.1 And Fusion still shows the problem. I have noticed that Microsoft Remote Desktop handles this correctly. Its own top menu bar is not overlapped by the macOS main menu bar. So it's possible to do this correctly.  

The only reason I upgraded to Fusion 8 was the supposedly Retina display for Windows machines. None of the resolutions or options bring Retina to Windows. I feel I have been ripped off to say the truth. I made a screenshot of their claim as to me, this is misleading advertisement.

Well, that did it. Even though my server on the Mac side was listing those addresses, I didn't actually see the point. The one I use now is 192.168.2.1 and it works whether I'm fully offline, over Wifi, over Ethernet. Way cool. You made my day! Thanks a lot Steve