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just looking for someone who maybe came across similar issue(s). My 2019 MBP had a h/w issue, and had its mainboard changed (thus ssd inclusive). I was using the last 12.x Fusion Pro, with macOS Monterey 12.6.1. The repaired Mac came back with Ventura installed. After restoring the latest Time Machine backup, I had many compatibility issues reported by macOS, and I decided to upgrade to Fusion 13, something I'd have done soon anyway. Then, when I booted my Windows (10, 7, XP) VM's, it just asked whether they were copied or moved, and whether or not to upgrade these. They all started flawlessly. My Ubuntu 16.04 instead didn't boot, booting only showed the Grub menu, but no disk. I Looked in the logs but found nothing to chew, then I started the VM from CD (Ubuntu 22.04), and mounted the disk (/dev/sda1). I reported quite a bunch of errors, so I ran fsck, but afterwards many files (in particular, those I really needed...) contained just garbage... The very strange thing, is that I know I've used that VM successfully many, many times in the last past months, and now, regardless what backup I take from Time Machine (got about 10 months of history), 1) it doesn't boot, and 2) if I start from a live Ubuntu, the same files are always corrupted... Something looks basically wrong here (why the heck can't I start any of the previous versions of that VM), but I really can't figure out what... any idea/suggestion welcome.

  unable to have JMicron SATA bridges (IcyBox & similar) connected to a Windows 7 VMs under Mac OS Big Sur & Fusion Pro 12.1. Trick with the usb.generic line in the VMX helped solving the issue with Fusion 11.5, but since 12, it's no longer working. Without the line neither... The device shows as a USB Mass Storage Device in the device manager, but after a while, it fails, with status "This device cannot start. (Code 10)" Problem is identical with x32 and x64 versions of W7. Yes, latest Intel USB 3.0 drivers installed. Tried more or less everything suggested here in the forum for similar problems, without luck so far.

Hello, just re-ran the W7 perf index in a VM that was copied from a 4.5 years old MBP 15" to the latest MBP 15" (3.1Ghz, Radeon 560 4GB), and guess what....  ZERO (positive) changes !!!!!! Graphics index dropped from 6.5 to 6.0... While I'm still pretty happy with the old MBP, it seems almost unbelievable that the perf hasn't improved a bit (or worse, that it declined...), especially at the graphics level... I did setup the Mac to use ONLY the discrete graphics card. Latest VMWare tools installed, of course... Any ideas/hints ???