I could kick myself. I tried to reinstall VMtools when I had the problem with the black screen. However I completely forgot about it when I had installed the AMD drivers. Of course VMware uses a virt...
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I could kick myself. I tried to reinstall VMtools when I had the problem with the black screen. However I completely forgot about it when I had installed the AMD drivers. Of course VMware uses a virtual adapter and requires the VMWare tools. As soon as the video driver was installed as part of the VMware Tools setup the toolbar returned and no more OpenGL errors. Many thanks to you and the other contributors for your advice. One final thing. As before when the virtual machine starts the window is a very long letterbox extending off the screen. I have to drag one side in to see the desktop. Once windows has properly booted and the video driver takes over it returns tro a normal aspect ratio. Is there anything I can do about this or just put up with this behaviour? Again many thanks
I wonder if anyone can give me some help and guidance on the following issues. I have been running my VMs using VMware Fusion 8.5 on a late 2015 27” iMac running Sierra. Fusion 8.5 was pre-install...
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I wonder if anyone can give me some help and guidance on the following issues. I have been running my VMs using VMware Fusion 8.5 on a late 2015 27” iMac running Sierra. Fusion 8.5 was pre-installed as was Windows 10 Bootcamp. Apart from a few issues with Windows 10 activation when switching between a Virtual Machine and booting directly into windows its been pretty stable. I have had to bit the bullet and upgrade to Catalina due to software issues such as Office 2016 for Mac going end of life, and I needed to install Office 365. I was aware that 8.5 was not compatible with Catalina so have installed Fusion Player 12.0. All of my VMs upgraded and worked fine in Fusion Player except Bootcamp. It could not find the .vmx! The VMware Knowledge base refers to the boot.ini file but I followed the advice on this forum and deleted and the recreated the Bootcamp VM.This worked but I then had a black screen with a cursor although I could see from disk activity they the VM was running. I therefore booted directly into Windows 10 and upgraded to November 21H2 build but noticed that it was running on Windows 10 default Video adapter driver! As I never installed Bootcamp I have never checked this before but although the right click context menu had AMD references, the driver itself was not installed. I therefore downloaded and installed the appropriate driver from the AMD website. On first boot the screen broke up into horizontal jagged lines forcing me to do a hard reboot. On reboot everything seems fine when running Windows 10 native. Now when I start boot camp as a VM in Fusion under MAC, I get video and the VM is again useable, however I have two issues:- The windows 10 taskbar is transparent i.e. you can just make out the icons but nothing more. I get an error message from Radeon Software. “Failed to create OpenGL Context ……….. Install a driver providing OpenGL 2.0 or higher”. The former might be as a result of the latter but I am stumped. Is this a limitation of the VMware tools or Bootcamp Drivers?
I have a strange issue with a Windows 8.1 client running on VMware Fusion 8.5. The OS boots ok and everything loads but as soon as I click a menu or do anything with a programme within the client OS ...
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I have a strange issue with a Windows 8.1 client running on VMware Fusion 8.5. The OS boots ok and everything loads but as soon as I click a menu or do anything with a programme within the client OS the screen goes black for a second before returning. I have VMware tools installed and have even reinstalled them. If relevant I am using screen scaling in order to be able to read the tiny font as a result of the 43-04 x 2382 resolution. The host is a late 2015 imac with 21.5 retina screen.
I am currently still stuck on OSX Sierra due to having Fusion Pro 8.5 installed. This came pre-installed as a package with my Mac along with Office 2016 for Mac and some other software. I really need...
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I am currently still stuck on OSX Sierra due to having Fusion Pro 8.5 installed. This came pre-installed as a package with my Mac along with Office 2016 for Mac and some other software. I really need to update to at least Catalina(which I think is the minimum for Fusion player 12.0) but am reluctant to as I will lose access to my virtual machines which I use for historic Adobe applications. I am finding it difficult to find a comparison between Fusion Pro 12 (probaby 16 now) and Fusion Player 12 which answers my questions. Please could someone advise the following:- 1) Can you still access Windows 10 Bootcamp as a virtual machine in the Personal edition of Fusion Player 12.0? 2) Will I still be able to open (Import?) existing virtual machines created in Fusion 8.5 Pro into Fusion Player 12.0? 3) Will I still be able to create new virtual machines in Fusion Player 12.0 4) Are there any other show stopping restrictions in Fusion Player 12.0 that I would notice leaving Pro? I am not a developer and just want to try out various software which may or may not run on Mac. Many thanks
Hi Wila, Thanks for the info. I guessed that was correct and the host OS would probably prevent it being overwritten but wanted to double check before i pressed Install.
Thanks for that. I will try High Sierra. In the meantime I appear to have found a copy of Mountain Lion that will install. However this sounds like a completely daft question but does Fusion a...
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Thanks for that. I will try High Sierra. In the meantime I appear to have found a copy of Mountain Lion that will install. However this sounds like a completely daft question but does Fusion automatically name the Virtual Hard drive "Macintosh HD" for OSX installations? I stopped installing when it showed the target disk as Macintosh HD which is the same name as my actual iMac boot drive. When I checked the properties of the Virtual Machine settings it does show Virtual Disk.vmdk as the SATA hard drive but just wanted to clarify before I ploughed ahead. With windows its obvious but when installing the same OS as the host machine its a bit unnerving the first time ha ha!! John
Thanks for the information Dempson, however it doesn't appear to be working for me. I am running Sierra on a late 2015 iMac which should be capable of booting Mavericks, Yosemite and High Sierra ...
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Thanks for the information Dempson, however it doesn't appear to be working for me. I am running Sierra on a late 2015 iMac which should be capable of booting Mavericks, Yosemite and High Sierra and possibly Mountain Lion. All of these (accept High Sierra which is an update) appear in my Purchased tab of the App Store here As you can see each has Download against the file but if I click on any of them I get the following message(s) I can perhaps understand Mountain Lion not being compatible but not Mavericks or Yosemite. I don't believe creating a VM of Sierra would make any difference although I am happy to try. I think this would have to be done from Time Machine backup? John
Thats a good idea. I'll try that. I think I have found out what the problem with my 2014 installer file is though. Its the Apple Worldwide Developer Relations Intermediate Certificate as explain...
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Thats a good idea. I'll try that. I think I have found out what the problem with my 2014 installer file is though. Its the Apple Worldwide Developer Relations Intermediate Certificate as explained here https://tidbits.com/2016/03/02/previously-downloaded-os-x-installers-no-longer-work/ Thanks again for your interest and help
Many thanks dlhotka, I;ve tried as you suggested but it still won't progress. Ive even tried moving the installer file into the applications folder where OSX might expect the file to be located....
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Many thanks dlhotka, I;ve tried as you suggested but it still won't progress. Ive even tried moving the installer file into the applications folder where OSX might expect the file to be located. I've also reset the time on the MAC to 2014 but still no joy. I've got to find a way of re-downloading the image from the app store, unless this is a restriction placed by Apple on downloads of older OS? John
I have Fusion 8.5.10 running on a late 2015 iMac with Sierra 10.12.6 installed. I am trying to install Mavericks as a new VM to run some older Mac software that wont run on Sierra. I am using an...
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I have Fusion 8.5.10 running on a late 2015 iMac with Sierra 10.12.6 installed. I am trying to install Mavericks as a new VM to run some older Mac software that wont run on Sierra. I am using an Install Mavericks OSX app dated 8th Feb 2014 as a source. This was originally downloaded legitimately from the App Store on a Mac running Snow Leopard several years ago as I cannot currently download Mavericks from the App Store on Sierra even though it shows up in my purchased items list as it complains it wont install on this version of Mac. I have tried installing using the wizard which creates a virtual machine of 40Gb using 2 cores and 8Gb ram. OSX then boots and I can select my language in the installer and then next which takes me to the install options. Restore from Time Machine Backup Install OSX Get Help Online Disk Utility I choose 2 Install a new copy of OSX but the installer does not proceed to next stage. If I select Disk Utilities this works as does Restore from Time Machine but don't want that option. Is this a Fusion issue or is Apple preventing people installing older versions of OSX. I read somewhere that you can install up to two additional copies of OSX on a MAC? Also I seem to remember on my Hackingtosh days that the time stamp of the installer image might be an issue? Has anyone experienced this issue and found a workaround? Many thanks
I have read similar posts regarding this issue but they were mainly on Windows 7 or XP machines and older browsers. I have installed Windows 10 64 Bit Pro as a Virtual Machine in VMware Fusion...
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I have read similar posts regarding this issue but they were mainly on Windows 7 or XP machines and older browsers. I have installed Windows 10 64 Bit Pro as a Virtual Machine in VMware Fusion 8.5 on a mid 2010 3.2Ghz i3 iMac with 8Gb ram running on Mac OSX Sierra. The VM has been configured with 4Gb ram and 1 core. VMware tools have been installed. The customer is complaining of painfully slow internet browsing both with Firefox and Edge in Windows 10 yet on the iMac in Safari its quick. He has a 15 mbps Broadband so I don't believe this is the problem. Can anyone recommend any settings or tweaks that may improve browsing speeds. From what I can ascertain its not just slow searches but result pages open very slowly too. Would assigning more cores to the VM improve things. I think most modern browsers are multithreaded but don't think either browser is optimised for multicore. Just plucking at straws could it be a network issue possibly slow DNS resolution??
