bighuskysf's Posts

Was very hopeful for the new 13 release and sadly, absolutely no change on my equipment. Very underwhelming release and yet a big paying one. Not upgrading at this point and exploring other alternatives now.

Good Luck. We've done that with every previous tech preview and other feedback ways. The result from VMware is always the same. Absolute silence, no replies and as we have now seen over the years, no changes/fixes. Very sad from such a company..

Sadly it seems pretty clear that Fusion has mostly become abandonware for VMware. No release last year and so far little to no indication if/when the next release will happen. The point releases have simply made performance worse and long running issues, especially for Linux VM's, such as broken audio/video/conferencing continue to be ignored (for these we had to switch to VirtualBox). After many years of supporting and purchasing the updates and lack of vision/communication we have to explore other solutions. Also, Broadcom purchase doesn't bode well for the future of this desktop product.

Sadly doesn't surpise me. facetime camera for me (and some others) has been unusable in Linux VM's for a long time under VMware Fusion. This has been reported multiple times with no progress (same goes for audio issues). Haven't tested it with a Monterey VM and will post once I try it. In the meanwhile the camera works fine in Linux VM's under VirtualBox. Again, haven't tried Montery VM.

Another year has passed and situation is completely unchanged, even with 12.1.0 on latest OS versions and latest hardware. Linux as guest is getting practically 0 support from VMware for Fusion (Unlike Windows or MacOS).

Just as an update, the situation is unchanged at the end of 2020 and all the way to fusion pro 12.1.0 (on latest Catalina and latest BigSur). There is a good indication that VMware doesn't seem to give any love/care to Linux hosts for a while now and the focus seems solely on Windows and MacOS guests. Some of this is emphasized that we are not getting any feedback on any forum posts/support requests regarding the bad audio and camera performances (aside of a comment a long time ago saying 'it's a known issue and being worked on').

Hi just to add to the original post and the following, mostly frustrating answers is, that this is not a problem with Ubuntu only. Most major Linux distributions are affected by this and cause the webcam to be unusable in all vmware versions since 11.0, all the way to the current tech preview. As you can see from other threads, such as Webcam performance inside VMasked by rakshak_r on October 14 2018 4:29 PMI am getting (approx)1 frame a sec on my webcam's video stream when I open it using an application inside my VM. It this expected behavior or is there something I can do to improve my framerate? D... this is a well known issue at VMware and so far they have shown zero interest in 'fixing' this issue, which affects quite a bit of users. Running containers natively, etc. are much more interesting features to work on for the engineers, than fixing long term existing and reporting issues. At this point your only options are to downgrading your Mac to at least Mojave and run 10.5 or move to any of the competing virtualization products. We certainly sadly have given up to use fusion for anything linux desktop related and moved to other products for those needs. It is also sad, that for a paid product that isn't very 'cheap', it is impossible to get any support from the company. Only option is this community forum, for which we also get practically no support from related company employees. Regards

We are now over a year later and the issue is still not addressed in latest 11.5.x release can we assume VMware has no interest in fixing it? fyi, no such issue with either parallels nor virtualbox. other posts have gone unanswered. An update would be very appreciated.