hollistonma's Posts

@continuum,, Thx for the quick replies!  Glad to know that the VM is good.  Have already run chkdsk and didn't find any errors.  Glad to rule out Fusion or Windows 10 causing the Qiuicken "error accessing disk" issue. Looks like it may be a Quicken issue.  I've sent logs and sanitized file to them and will wait to hear back. Appreciate your help as well as that of @Technogeezer .  

@continuum,, Sorry about that...you were pretty clear! Here are the entries I found when I searched for "vmdk":   2022-06-18T11:46:09.073Z In(05) vmx DICT scsi0:0.fileName = "Virtual Disk-000001.vmdk" 2022-06-18T11:46:09.718Z In(05) vmx DISK: OPEN scsi0:0 '/Users/Owner/Documents/Virtual Machines.localized/Windows 10 x64.vmwarevm/Virtual Disk-000001.vmdk' persistent R[] 2022-06-18T11:46:09.739Z In(05) vmx DISK: Disk '/Users/Owner/Documents/Virtual Machines.localized/Windows 10 x64.vmwarevm/Virtual Disk-000001.vmdk' has UUID '60 00 c2 94 34 9c 52 3b-db 76 e3 8c 7e 53 34 9d' 2022-06-18T11:46:09.739Z In(05) vmx DISK: OPEN '/Users/Owner/Documents/Virtual Machines.localized/Windows 10 x64.vmwarevm/Virtual Disk-000001.vmdk' Geo (16317/255/63) BIOS Geo (16317/255/63)   Don't know how to interpret these entries so your assistance would be appreciated.    I did find a number other entries at the beginning of the log file that indicated certain config files were not found or did not load.  For example:   2022-06-18T11:46:07.067Z In(05) vmx DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/messages/en/vmware.vmsg": No such file or directory. 2022-06-18T11:46:07.069Z In(05) vmx DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/config": No such file or directory. 2022-06-18T11:46:07.069Z In(05) vmx Msg_Reset: 2022-06-18T11:46:07.069Z In(05) vmx [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/config": No such file or directory. 2022-06-18T11:46:07.069Z In(05) vmx ---------------------------------------- 2022-06-18T11:46:07.069Z In(05) vmx ConfigDB: Failed to load /Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/config These are just a  few examples.  Should I be worried about these entries?    

@continuum, Thank you for the suggestion.  I'm not an IT expert so please bear with me.  Which log file(s) should I check and what should I be looking for?  i found the following log files in the Windows package: mksSandbox-0.log mksSandbox-1.log mksSandbox-2.log mksSandbox.log vmware-0.log vmware-1.log vmware-2.log vmware.log Thx in advance for your assistance.  

@hagganhave you tried the "Shared with My Mac" option?  I had the same issue as you did with the bridged options. As for VMware Tools, they were working for me.  Because I thought a new install might fix the internet issues, I uninstalled them in Windows using Windows Settings.  I then reinstalled them using the Install VMware Tools option.  (That didn't address the internet issues by the way.) I agree that this is crazy.  Fortunately for me I'm running the unpaid version of Fusion 12 because I use it for my personal computer.  Until I tried the "Shared with my Mac" option and it worked I was ready to pay for Parallels. Do you know any downside to using the "Shared with My Mac" approach?

Same issues and same attempts at a solution.  The only thing that worked for me was to use "Shared with Mac".  See the saga here:  https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Fusion-Discussions/macOS-Big-Sur-Fusion-12-NAT-no-internet-connection/m-p/2842916/highlight/false#M173757  

I'm glad I found this thread.  I've been using Fusion since 4.x... to run Windows on MacBook Pros.  My requirements for Windows are fairly simple...need to access the Internet for Quicken and 3 other Windows programs. Last year I upgraded Fusion from 11 to 12 when I upgraded to Big Sur which was running on my Late 2013 MBP.  At that time I had no issues with internet access...even on Big Sur 11.2.3.  Network adapter was set to be bridged.  And the Fusion device had its own IP address assigned by me through our router.  (All of our devices on our home network have IP addresses assigned through the router.) Last week, the 2013 MBP started shutting down randomly and would only work when connected via HDMI to another monitor.  As a result, I bought a new 16" MBP running Big Sur 11.2.3 and used Migration Assistant to move my files, etc. from the 2013 MBP to the new one.  Successfully did so with no errors. That's when I discovered this issue on the new MBP (which is assigned it's own IP address).  Quicken would only download some account information some of the time.  Thinking the issue was with Quicken I tried to reset online services for the accounts in question however that didn't work. After some searching I found this thread and tried to manually set DNS addresses on Windows 10...which didn't work.  Also tried reinstalling the network adapter and VMware Tools and am now stumped.  (By the way, the old MBP's Windows 10 running under Fusion 12.1.1 still can access the internet with no problems.) Now to my question:  the only way I've been able to access the internet on the 16" MBP is to set the network adapter to "Share with Mac".  What is the disadvantage of doing so compared to the "Bridged Autodetect" setting?  Are there any advantages compared to Bridged Network?  If VMWare ever fixes this issue, should I go back to Bridged Networking for my use case? Thanks in advance for your assistance.

RickShu​, I too have this problem and will try the solution tonight.  Before doing so, however, I have a couple of questions:  will I have to remember to "undo" this edit with the next update to Fusion?  And how will I know if the next update(s) fixes this issue?  Thx.

finaluser​:   I understand that MBP runs Intel processors, however how will loading the Intel drivers help with VMWare running Windows 10?  Sorry if the question is naive.  I'm afraid to load the drivers and mess up my MBP.

I like(d) Fusion when I first started using it about 10 years ago on my MBP to run Windows.  I never liked how it (didn't) handled USB devices.  I have tried to use several different USB portable drives in a Windows 10 VM under Fusion 11.5.3 but Windows will either not recognize the drive or if it does, it doesn't show up in File Explorer.  An older Canon scanner connected vis USB works just fine. I have checked and unchecked VMWare permissions in the MBP's System Preferences, removed/reinstalled the USB driver using VMWare Tool multiple times. The best I've been able to do is to avoid the "The device "device name" was unable to connect to its ideal host controller" message. Any help on getting the drive (which shows up in the Devices and Printer: with the following information: would be appreciated.  The USB drive is a Seagate drive formatted as MS-DOS? FAT by MBP.  (I've also tried exFAT formatting but that didn't help either.) Thank you in advance for any assistance.

Will, I ran into the same black screen as others.  After much trial and error using the preview screen in Fusion, I was able to shut down the Windows guest.  Rather than continue trying to run 8.5.10 I opted to pay the upgrade price of $50 + tax and downloaded 11.5 to avoid future issues. I appreciate knowing the root cause so thank you.