Jerry_G's Posts

Technogeezer, thanks for all your help. The newly revealed lack of multiple monitor support with Fusion is very disheartening and sad. I have to believe that a significant number of all computer users need or want to use more than one monitor. Isn't that why Macs and PCs support multiple monitors. Isn't the point of Fusion and Parallels to allow Mac users to have a PC on their Mac when they don't need a full fledged physical PC? I am a Mac user. Have been for many years. I need a PC for only one application. It's for my business. And it requires two monitors.  I think it was a huge mistake for VMWare to release Fusion 13 ARM without full tool support. No copy/paste with a Mac. No file sharing. Etc, etc. Fusion 13 isn't a release. It's still an incomplete beta.  Without Technogeezer's manual, I could never have gotten W11 for ARM installed to test and at least have internet connectivity. But with a proper release, I should have been able to install it without the need for a manual, as with previous versions of Fusion and with Parallels. Now, with the news that multiple monitor support is a thing of the past, Fusion becomes absolutely useless to me. I'm angry at myself for wasting so much time testing Fusion when Parallels functions perfectly, on both my Mac Studio M1 Ultra and my Intel iMac, and allows me to do my work. I'm quite happy to pay for my two subscriptions to Parallels because it works and it works very well. All traces of Fusion have been removed from both my computers. I will never again waste my time with VMware products. I hope VMWare comes to their senses some day and provides Mac users with the respect and support they deserve. Meanwhile I will continue to enjoy a completely functional and beautifully working Parallels.

"Yup I may have to try out Parallels as well then. I already paid for Fusion expecting an actual normal release so this is very disappointing."   Yup. I have completely uninstalled Fusion 13 and trashed the VM. I'm done. Shame on VMWare for this unacceptable situation. I don't have a single problem with Parallels running complex software with the 2 needed monitors.

"Check out the other thread with a comment from VMWare on it - they indicated support for multiple monitors was discontinued." Do you have a URL for that thread? Can't find it.  The only reason I run Windows is for one program that requires dual monitor support. If what you are saying is true, then I can stop spending time with Fusion. With the absence of full tool support, this should have been "release softare". It's just too crippled. I'm thankful that Parallels allows me to run my needed app on my Mac Studio silicon machine with dual monitor support, copy and paste, and all the tool's features that are missing from Fusion. Parallels deserves my loyalty, and after this news of discontinuation of dual monitor support by Fusion, I'll stay with Parallels. It may cost more, but IT WORKS.

Thanks.   Technogeezer suggested that and it works fine.  However, I need to use my two monitors in W11. I set Fusion to use all displays, but I can't get windows to detect my second monitor. Is this a Tools limitation?

Which version of Fusion, 8.5.5 or 8.5.6? I just tried Fusion 8.5.6 with macOS 10.12.4 and had no blank screen issue on my 2016 MacBook Pro with touch bar. If you tested with a version of Fusion prior to 8.5.6, can you try 8.5.6 and see if it resolves the problem? I'm hesitant to update my working partition to 10.12.4 until I'm sure Fusion works OK on my MacBook Pro 15 with touch bar. Perhaps a VMWare person can chime in here. Thanks

@I hope it fixes my pet bugs:  "Virtual Machine Library mini windows don't display current virtual machine screen". It will never happen. I spent hours on the phone with tech support after they ruined this feature in about version 8.0.2. They claimed they fixed it in the latest version, but the refresh still didn't work correctly. They destroyed a great feature, can't recognize what they did, and will likely never fix it. I may try Parallels to see if they have this feature.

Still no response from the tech support person I've been dealing with on this issue despite my repeated email to him. This issue is VMware Support Request 16912661103. Unless absolutely required, this company will NEVER, EVER see another penny from me. I just hate being dependent upon this company to do my job without having to purchase a PC. Shame on VMWare.

I sent in all the information they requested in order to fix this issue. But VMWare has now stopped communicating with me. The support from this company is the worst I have ever seen. This lack of refresh is a serious problem for me and the way I work. I now have to go through the trouble of reverting back to 8.0.1, removing the tools from my virtual machine, etc., as I have no idea if this company will take this issue seriously and fix it in the next decade. What a waste of my time!

The tech support person I have been talking to finally reproduced this bug. Now the question is when will it be fixed. I just have this feeling that after waiting months to get the bug acknowledged, we will be waiting months to see if fixed.

I just updated from 8.0.1 to 8.1 and have observed the same issue on two different computers. Tech support had me do a complete uninstall and then re install. Didn't fix the issue. Reverting back to 8.0.1 resolves the issue, but re-introduces some issues I had with 8.0.1 which is why I went to 8.1. This is absurd. VMWare introduced a bug that appears to affect many. But because they can't reproduce it, they don't want to fix it. Very bad customer support. This makes me want to try Parallels.

No responses yet. I'm surprised. I thought the VMWare folks followed these discussions. OK. So to fix this I guess I can install the earlier 8.0.1 over 8.1. But how do I bring by machine and it's tools to the earlier version? Can I uninstall the current tools and then let 8.0.1 reinstall the tools for that version? Thanks.