I also purchased version 10 upgrade like you, but of course that did not solve this problem. Following the suggestion by other forum members, I opened the ticket with VMware. But the only thi...
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I also purchased version 10 upgrade like you, but of course that did not solve this problem. Following the suggestion by other forum members, I opened the ticket with VMware. But the only thing I was offered was a work-around solution using SAMBA, which I cannot be bothered at the moment. Fortunately, I had 3 days old VM backup in tar.gz previous to this ill-fated 1709 update. I went back to the older 1703 VM and locked down the version using the group pliciy editor, changed the upgrade channel to CB to CBB, and finally set a time to delay upgrade to the mamimum 365 days. There are 2 major alternative softwares to Fusin. If you run your VMs in Mac only, you can use Parallels - a commertial software more or less the same price as Fusion. If you need crosss-platform VMs, then Virtualbox is the only solution as far as I know. Virtualbox is an open source free software. But you have to be prepared to accept lesser level of user experience in Virtualbox. At least, that was my impression when I tried it about a year ago.