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I've formatted a spare partition, installed Monterey 12.5 with the "Install macOS Monterey" installer, created a new account and VMWare successfully installed. Then I used Migration Assistant to transfer the account from the previous partition. Fusion seems to be working, but I don't have a VM to test the USB sharing.  Monterey 15.5.1 installed, used SuperDuper to copy the System to the original partition, everything is fine. Now I will to do the same with the original MacPro, but it has about 1TB of user data and apps. 

MacPro them the top of the thread had its HD fully formatted, no data retained from the previous user. In this case I have a couple of partitions which I can format and install fresh Monterey. Will do it tomorrow.

I've just got another MacPro 2019, enabled SIP, cleared NVRAM, reinstalled Monterey 12.5 from the recovery partition. Downloaded Fusion   12.2.4 installer from VMware.com, the installer hangs here: The bar keeps running, but nothing happens.

The answer to all question is YES.  I wiped out the hard drive and installed the OS from the USP stick which was made with "createinstallmedia" command, the Installer was downloaded on another Mac as normal OS upgrade. I didn't transfer any information from another Mac, but I logged in with my iCloud account. The whole idea was to do everything clean, without any third party software getting in the way.  Theoretically, I can get a spare USB3 SSD and repeat this procedure installing a fresh OS on it, it will take me a couple of hours, but will it be helpful? I'm willing to help if VMWare will be listening. First thing - they should improve error reporting, my Installer just hung without saying anything and I had to go through logs trying to figure out what was going on.  Then, after disabling SIP, installing Fusion and re-enabling SIP, my USB devices didn't show up, I've blamed the HW vendors for a couple of weeks, but it turns out it was SIP. I do driver development for one of the Apple vendors for many years, so I'm familiar with the kernel and OS.

Are you working VMWare? I will definitely find time to help to improve the product. We can start by figuring out why I cannot share my USB devices with guest OS unless I disable SIP for file system.  If I fully enable SIP, then the following window will be empty: I've started disabling SIP features one by one and found out the "csrutil enable --without fs" allows me to see those devices. What can be wrong? I suspect that "vmware-usbarbitrator" service is not running.  

The HD was fully formatted. It was clean Monterey 12.2 install and clean Fusion installation. No previous Fusion version on the machine. I reviewed the install log and figured out that Install Helper was supposed to be installed to write protected directory. Disabling SIP allowed it to be installed and launched. After that I've found that I cannot share USB devices unless I disable File protection "csrutil enable --without fs". If SIP is fully enabled, then no USB devices appear in USB & Bluetooth pane.  Unfortunately, I cannot try any other solution at the moment. I'm rebooting the machine only if it is absolutely necessary.

I agree, but I've spent many hours troubleshooting and it doesn't look like MacOS bug. Fusion tries to access restricted locations and USB sharing is not working unless I disable file protection. I've recently upgraded to Monterey 12.5, but it looks that the issue still there. Unfortunately, I cannot reboot in the next couple of days to try.