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Thanks for your reply.  Indeed, the version that I was running was 22068932. That was the July 2023 release.   HOWEVER, the version that I downloaded and the one which I am reporting about can be f... See more...
Thanks for your reply.  Indeed, the version that I was running was 22068932. That was the July 2023 release.   HOWEVER, the version that I downloaded and the one which I am reporting about can be found here. The currently posted VMware Fusion Technology Preview II 22H2 has two noticeable differences to the eye: 1. Once installed has a new logo 2. It won't allow the opening of a Windows 11 ARM VM created by the "older" player version of 22068932 by way of me entering the MacOS Keychain password, which would suggest a separation of versioning stored in the Keychain -- just my logic. 
As far as I can tell, there is no "September 2023" release of the Tech Preview. The last 2023 TP release was in July 2023 and was build e.x,p 22068932. Could you open "About VMware Fusion" and check ... See more...
As far as I can tell, there is no "September 2023" release of the Tech Preview. The last 2023 TP release was in July 2023 and was build e.x,p 22068932. Could you open "About VMware Fusion" and check the build? Also, in order to support a TPM device for Windows 11 ARM (which is a Windows 11 requirement)  the VM must be encrypted. All versions of Fusion since the 22H2 Tech preview released last year create a VM for Windows 11 ARM by default with the TPM device installed and the VM encrypted. Fusion will offer to store the VM's password in the login Keychain of the user that created the VM. If you open the macOS Keychain Access app, you may be able to find the password there.    
I just did an upgrade of Fusion for Mac Tech Preview to the September/2023 release.  After upgrading, it asks me for the password in order to open Windows 11 Arm.  I don't remember that I had to take... See more...
I just did an upgrade of Fusion for Mac Tech Preview to the September/2023 release.  After upgrading, it asks me for the password in order to open Windows 11 Arm.  I don't remember that I had to take note of a password in order to access an encryption.  Is there a way to recover this? 
So as an experiment, I uninstalled my copy of the 2023 TP, removed the licensing file, and reinstalled the TP. The license key file was re-initialized. When starting a VM under the TP, it displayed... See more...
So as an experiment, I uninstalled my copy of the 2023 TP, removed the licensing file, and reinstalled the TP. The license key file was re-initialized. When starting a VM under the TP, it displayed the notification that the license will expire in 5 days. And if I go the the menu bar and click VMware Fusion -> Buy now or enter license..., I get the following: So I entered my Fusion 13 Pro license and restarted Fusion. The TP no longer displays the license expiration warning when I start a VM. And the menu bar has changed to VMware Fusion -> License... - and the dialog now displays my license instead of a nag to enter a new license or purchase another one. Looks like the workaround of using a Fusion 13 license key will keep the lights on until either VMware re-spins the TP with a new key, or they release the real product. I would put my money on the former - but I hope I'm wrong and they release the new Fusion right after Apple releases Sonoma tomorrow 09-26.      
ok.. well this is a clean install of TP,, not an upgrade of public VMWare fusion 13, because I clean installed of Mac partition, so i gathered rather than installing Fusion 13, which i'll never use n... See more...
ok.. well this is a clean install of TP,, not an upgrade of public VMWare fusion 13, because I clean installed of Mac partition, so i gathered rather than installing Fusion 13, which i'll never use now, i'll just install TP and be ok with that.. Using Fusion 13 key seems ok now..
VMware has in the past put embedded license keys in the Tech Preview that expire.  It would not surprise me if they did the same for this one. I believe the thought is that "well we'll put a temp ke... See more...
VMware has in the past put embedded license keys in the Tech Preview that expire.  It would not surprise me if they did the same for this one. I believe the thought is that "well we'll put a temp key for just long enough to cover the time we want to run the public beta, which should be about the time we release the real software". They don't want public beta use to go on forever. VMware has also in the past not released the real software by the time the public beta key expires. They've had to re-spin the public beta with a new key that extends the beta period. That might be the case here. I'm not seeing this message, but in full disclosure, I installed the Tech Preview over the top of my existing Fusion 13 Pro installation. I believe that my existing Fusion 13 Pro license key is being used instead of the one bundled with the TP installer. If that's so, that's probably a workaround - install a Fusion 13 key and it'll keep working - but.... if you install a Fusion 13 Player key, (even the personal use key) that may restrict the functionality you'll get in the TP to Fusion Player and not Pro. @Mikero (Fusion product manager) are we in danger of everyone's 2023 Tech Preview suddenly turning into a pumpkin in about 5 days' time?  
From what I see out of the log you posted, the VM is requesting a hard reset of the CPU - probably coinciding with the messages about not being able to repair. The best approach I can think of right... See more...
From what I see out of the log you posted, the VM is requesting a hard reset of the CPU - probably coinciding with the messages about not being able to repair. The best approach I can think of right off the top of my head is treat this like this happened on a physical system since it doesn't seem that Fusion isn't showing any errors that would immediately point a finger in its general direction. What build of Windows 11 ARM are you using? Have you tried booting from a Windows installation ISO and attempting repair from there?
Will the Tech Preview 2023 expire ?   I left supplied key and its valid.. and confirmed it exist in correct path /Library/Preferences/VMWare, as showed, but i got message today it will expire in "5... See more...
Will the Tech Preview 2023 expire ?   I left supplied key and its valid.. and confirmed it exist in correct path /Library/Preferences/VMWare, as showed, but i got message today it will expire in "5 days"   Can this be ignored??  
Can anyone check this log ? I am running VMWare Fusion Tech Preview 2023 on Macbook AIr (M1),  and the only software i have installed ion OpenVPN 2.59. (due to issues with latest versions)   All w... See more...
Can anyone check this log ? I am running VMWare Fusion Tech Preview 2023 on Macbook AIr (M1),  and the only software i have installed ion OpenVPN 2.59. (due to issues with latest versions)   All was fine, till few moments ago i booted up with a boot loop.. (Attempting to repair), and then "Couldn't repair"   I shut down perfectly fine last night, and the only thing i did was attempt to start VM this morning. and then this.
Hello all.  Using Mac Pro M1 14,  win 11 pro release 22621 fully patched, latest vmware 2023 tech preview (e x p).     Audio has considerable stutter/lag/popping.  This is noticeable even when play... See more...
Hello all.  Using Mac Pro M1 14,  win 11 pro release 22621 fully patched, latest vmware 2023 tech preview (e x p).     Audio has considerable stutter/lag/popping.  This is noticeable even when playing the test sounds in the windows control panel.  Choosing higher bit depths/sampling rates makes it worse, but even present with the lowest 16k/44kHz.  Very noticeable for example with 3dmark fire strike demo (which otherwise works well!). I've searched the forums and don't see any recent fixes.  A parallels demo install has no similar issues.   Any thoughts? Thanks, LT
Which instructions?  The unofficial guide has the best ones.
Hi, by "see" I meant to have my Synology nas directly under "network" in explorer like Syno-NAS-XYZ. Pictures attached ! @wila  SMB settings in the second picture .. min SMB is 2 I configured the ... See more...
Hi, by "see" I meant to have my Synology nas directly under "network" in explorer like Syno-NAS-XYZ. Pictures attached ! @wila  SMB settings in the second picture .. min SMB is 2 I configured the network as bridged and I now have just made an Network link to my shared drive on my nas. Thats o.k. for me .. Thank you very much 
When running the installer I'm getting stuck on the "Initializing VMware Fusion..." part. When looking at the log file I see some warning messages with the last one being "2023-09-21T19:55:27.207Z Wa... See more...
When running the installer I'm getting stuck on the "Initializing VMware Fusion..." part. When looking at the log file I see some warning messages with the last one being "2023-09-21T19:55:27.207Z Wa(03) host-618964 Failed to communicated with install helper." I had last years technical preview installed and working as well. Now install of the technical preview and regular fusion player will get stuck in the install process. I tried deleting all vmware/fusion files I could find on the Mac, but no help so far.   Here the full log output: 2023-09-21T19:55:22.713Z In(05) VMware Fusion Log for VMware Fusion pid=8920 version=e.x.p build=build-22068932 option=Release 2023-09-21T19:55:22.713Z In(05) VMware Fusion The host is 64-bit Arm. 2023-09-21T19:55:22.713Z In(05) VMware Fusion Host codepage=UTF-8 encoding=UTF-8 2023-09-21T19:55:22.713Z In(05) VMware Fusion Host is macOS 13.5.2 (22G91) Darwin 22.6.0 2023-09-21T19:55:22.713Z In(05) VMware Fusion Host offset from UTC is +02:00. 2023-09-21T19:55:22.703Z In(05) VMware Fusion VTHREAD 8054677632 "VMware Fusion" tid 618887 2023-09-21T19:55:22.703Z In(05) VMware Fusion UTIL: Change file descriptor limit from soft 256,hard 4294967295 to soft 8192,hard 4294967295. 2023-09-21T19:55:22.704Z In(05) VMware Fusion DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/config": No such file or directory. 2023-09-21T19:55:22.704Z In(05) VMware Fusion [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/config": No such file or directory. 2023-09-21T19:55:22.704Z In(05) VMware Fusion PREF Optional preferences file not found at /Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/config. Using default values. 2023-09-21T19:55:22.704Z In(05) VMware Fusion DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/private/var/folders/y8/nkpx3dhn2zl1sq8hwjnk94t00000gn/T/AppTranslocation/0CAAD0F9-9884-4FF2-A628-7B11F5C94CD1/d/VMware Fusion Tech Preview.app/Contents/Library/settings": No such file or directory. 2023-09-21T19:55:22.704Z In(05) VMware Fusion [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "/private/var/folders/y8/nkpx3dhn2zl1sq8hwjnk94t00000gn/T/AppTranslocation/0CAAD0F9-9884-4FF2-A628-7B11F5C94CD1/d/VMware Fusion Tech Preview.app/Contents/Library/settings": No such file or directory. 2023-09-21T19:55:22.704Z In(05) VMware Fusion PREF Optional preferences file not found at /private/var/folders/y8/nkpx3dhn2zl1sq8hwjnk94t00000gn/T/AppTranslocation/0CAAD0F9-9884-4FF2-A628-7B11F5C94CD1/d/VMware Fusion Tech Preview.app/Contents/Library/settings. Using default values. 2023-09-21T19:55:22.704Z In(05) VMware Fusion DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/private/var/folders/y8/nkpx3dhn2zl1sq8hwjnk94t00000gn/T/AppTranslocation/0CAAD0F9-9884-4FF2-A628-7B11F5C94CD1/d/VMware Fusion Tech Preview.app/Contents/Library/config": No such file or directory. 2023-09-21T19:55:22.704Z In(05) VMware Fusion [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "/private/var/folders/y8/nkpx3dhn2zl1sq8hwjnk94t00000gn/T/AppTranslocation/0CAAD0F9-9884-4FF2-A628-7B11F5C94CD1/d/VMware Fusion Tech Preview.app/Contents/Library/config": No such file or directory. 2023-09-21T19:55:22.704Z In(05) VMware Fusion PREF Optional preferences file not found at /private/var/folders/y8/nkpx3dhn2zl1sq8hwjnk94t00000gn/T/AppTranslocation/0CAAD0F9-9884-4FF2-A628-7B11F5C94CD1/d/VMware Fusion Tech Preview.app/Contents/Library/config. Using default values. 2023-09-21T19:55:22.704Z In(05) VMware Fusion DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/Users/martin/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/config": No such file or directory. 2023-09-21T19:55:22.704Z In(05) VMware Fusion [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "/Users/martin/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/config": No such file or directory. 2023-09-21T19:55:22.704Z In(05) VMware Fusion PREF Optional preferences file not found at /Users/martin/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/config. Using default values. 2023-09-21T19:55:22.704Z In(05) VMware Fusion DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/Users/martin/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/preferences": No such file or directory. 2023-09-21T19:55:22.704Z In(05) VMware Fusion [msg.dictionary.load.openFailed] Cannot open file "/Users/martin/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/preferences": No such file or directory. 2023-09-21T19:55:22.704Z In(05) VMware Fusion PREF Optional preferences file not found at /Users/martin/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/preferences. Using default values. 2023-09-21T19:55:22.706Z In(05) VMware Fusion lib/ssl: OpenSSL using RAND_OpenSSL for RAND 2023-09-21T19:55:22.706Z In(05) VMware Fusion lib/ssl: Client usage 2023-09-21T19:55:22.706Z In(05) VMware Fusion lib/ssl: protocol list tls1.2 2023-09-21T19:55:22.706Z In(05) VMware Fusion lib/ssl: protocol min 0x303 max 0x303 2023-09-21T19:55:22.706Z In(05) VMware Fusion lib/ssl: protocol list tls1.2 (openssl flags 0x36000000) 2023-09-21T19:55:22.706Z In(05) VMware Fusion lib/ssl: cipher list ECDHE+AESGCM:RSA+AESGCM:ECDHE+AES:RSA+AES 2023-09-21T19:55:22.706Z In(05) VMware Fusion lib/ssl: curves list prime256v1:secp384r1:secp521r1 2023-09-21T19:55:22.706Z In(05) VMware Fusion lib/ssl: Server usage 2023-09-21T19:55:22.706Z In(05) VMware Fusion lib/ssl: protocol list tls1.2 2023-09-21T19:55:22.706Z In(05) VMware Fusion lib/ssl: protocol min 0x303 max 0x303 2023-09-21T19:55:22.706Z In(05) VMware Fusion lib/ssl: protocol list tls1.2 (openssl flags 0x36000000) 2023-09-21T19:55:22.706Z In(05) VMware Fusion lib/ssl: cipher list ECDHE+AESGCM:RSA+AESGCM:ECDHE+AES:RSA+AES 2023-09-21T19:55:22.706Z In(05) VMware Fusion lib/ssl: curves list prime256v1:secp384r1:secp521r1 2023-09-21T19:55:22.706Z No(04) VMware Fusion gVmomi: gvmomi_init: success. 2023-09-21T19:55:22.713Z In(05) VMware Fusion LogRotation: Rotating to a new log file (keepOld 3) took 0.000297 seconds. 2023-09-21T19:55:22.714Z Wa(03) VMware Fusion Log Facility output is directed to file: /Users/martin/Library/Logs/VMware Fusion/vmware-vmfusion.log 2023-09-21T19:55:22.714Z In(05) VMware Fusion Found Preference Settings: 2023-09-21T19:55:22.714Z In(05) VMware Fusion DICT --- GLOBAL SETTINGS /private/var/folders/y8/nkpx3dhn2zl1sq8hwjnk94t00000gn/T/AppTranslocation/0CAAD0F9-9884-4FF2-A628-7B11F5C94CD1/d/VMware Fusion Tech Preview.app/Contents/Library/settings 2023-09-21T19:55:22.714Z In(05) VMware Fusion DICT --- NON PERSISTENT (null) 2023-09-21T19:55:22.714Z In(05) VMware Fusion DICT --- USER PREFERENCES /Users/martin/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/preferences 2023-09-21T19:55:22.714Z In(05) VMware Fusion DICT --- USER DEFAULTS /Users/martin/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/config 2023-09-21T19:55:22.714Z In(05) VMware Fusion DICT --- HOST DEFAULTS /Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/config 2023-09-21T19:55:22.714Z In(05) VMware Fusion DICT --- SITE DEFAULTS /private/var/folders/y8/nkpx3dhn2zl1sq8hwjnk94t00000gn/T/AppTranslocation/0CAAD0F9-9884-4FF2-A628-7B11F5C94CD1/d/VMware Fusion Tech Preview.app/Contents/Library/config 2023-09-21T19:55:22.714Z In(05) VMware Fusion OBJLIB-LIB: Objlib initialized. 2023-09-21T19:55:22.714Z In(05) VMware Fusion Msg_SetLocaleEx: HostLocale=UTF-8 UserLocale=en 2023-09-21T19:55:22.714Z In(05) VMware Fusion DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/private/var/folders/y8/nkpx3dhn2zl1sq8hwjnk94t00000gn/T/AppTranslocation/0CAAD0F9-9884-4FF2-A628-7B11F5C94CD1/d/VMware Fusion Tech Preview.app/Contents/Library/messages/en/vmware.vmsg": No such file or directory. 2023-09-21T19:55:22.715Z In(05) VMware Fusion WQPoolAllocPoll : pollIx = 1, signalHandle = 12 2023-09-21T19:55:22.729Z In(05) VMware Fusion vmxFilePath="/private/var/folders/y8/nkpx3dhn2zl1sq8hwjnk94t00000gn/T/AppTranslocation/0CAAD0F9-9884-4FF2-A628-7B11F5C94CD1/d/VMware Fusion Tech Preview.app/Contents/Library/vmware-vmx" 2023-09-21T19:55:22.729Z In(05) VMware Fusion vmxFilePathDebug="/private/var/folders/y8/nkpx3dhn2zl1sq8hwjnk94t00000gn/T/AppTranslocation/0CAAD0F9-9884-4FF2-A628-7B11F5C94CD1/d/VMware Fusion Tech Preview.app/Contents/Library/vmware-vmx-debug" 2023-09-21T19:55:22.729Z In(05) VMware Fusion vmxFilePathStats="/private/var/folders/y8/nkpx3dhn2zl1sq8hwjnk94t00000gn/T/AppTranslocation/0CAAD0F9-9884-4FF2-A628-7B11F5C94CD1/d/VMware Fusion Tech Preview.app/Contents/Library/vmware-vmx-stats" 2023-09-21T19:55:23.205Z In(05) VMware Fusion HOSTDEV-MAC: HostDeviceInfo_FindHostSoundDevices: Found default sound devices [BuiltInSpeakerDevice|BuiltInMicrophoneDevice]. 2023-09-21T19:55:23.206Z In(05) VMware Fusion Warning: SGHostEnumerate not yet implemented 2023-09-21T19:55:23.206Z In(05) VMware Fusion SMBIOS: can't open /dev/mem: Could not find the file 2023-09-21T19:55:23.206Z In(05) VMware Fusion VmhsHostInfoPopulateSystem: Could not get information from smbios to populate VMDB. 2023-09-21T19:55:23.206Z Wa(03) VMware Fusion Failed to get information about CPUs. 2023-09-21T19:55:23.288Z In(05) VMware Fusion DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/config": No such file or directory. 2023-09-21T19:55:23.298Z In(05) VMware Fusion Foundry Init: setting up global state (1 poll threads, 0 worker threads). 2023-09-21T19:55:23.298Z In(05) VMware Fusion Vix_InitializeGlobalState: vixLogLevel = 0 2023-09-21T19:55:23.298Z In(05) VMware Fusion Vix_InitializeGlobalState: vixApiTraceLevel = 0 2023-09-21T19:55:23.298Z In(05) VMware Fusion Vix_InitializeGlobalState: vixDebugPanicOnVixAssert = 0 2023-09-21T19:55:23.298Z In(05) VMware Fusion Vix_InitializeGlobalState: vixLogRefcountOnFinalRelease = 0 2023-09-21T19:55:23.298Z In(05) VMware Fusion Vix_InitializeGlobalState: asyncOpWarningThreshold = 1000000 2023-09-21T19:55:23.298Z In(05) VMware Fusion Vix_InitializeGlobalState: enableSyncOpSelection = FALSE 2023-09-21T19:55:23.298Z In(05) VMware Fusion Vix_InitializeGlobalState: enableExternalThreadInterface = TRUE 2023-09-21T19:55:23.298Z In(05) VMware Fusion Vix_InitializeGlobalState: enableVigor = FALSE 2023-09-21T19:55:23.298Z In(05) VMware Fusion Msg_SetLocaleEx: HostLocale=UTF-8 UserLocale=en 2023-09-21T19:55:23.298Z In(05) VMware Fusion DictionaryLoad: Cannot open file "/private/var/folders/y8/nkpx3dhn2zl1sq8hwjnk94t00000gn/T/AppTranslocation/0CAAD0F9-9884-4FF2-A628-7B11F5C94CD1/d/VMware Fusion Tech Preview.app/Contents/Library/messages/en/vmware.vmsg": No such file or directory. 2023-09-21T19:55:23.298Z In(05) VMware Fusion VixHost_ConnectEx: version -1, hostType 3, hostName (null), hostPort 0, options 8707 2023-09-21T19:55:23.298Z In(05) VMware Fusion MainWithAutoreleasePool: Rosetta translated: 0 2023-09-21T19:55:23.495Z In(05) VMware Fusion InstallDirIsValid: Read only. 2023-09-21T19:55:27.189Z In(05) VMware Fusion MainWithAutoreleasePool: Install Helper registered successfully. 2023-09-21T19:55:27.203Z In(05) VMware Fusion AppleXPC: Connecting to privileged service com.vmware.fusion.InstallHelper... 2023-09-21T19:55:27.207Z In(05) host-618964 AppleXPC: Connection lost to service com.vmware.fusion.InstallHelper. 2023-09-21T19:55:27.207Z In(05) host-618964 AppleXPC: Connection lost to service com.vmware.fusion.InstallHelper. 2023-09-21T19:55:27.207Z Wa(03) host-618964 Failed to communicated with install helper.
@Fischli66 wrote: Hi, does anybody knows why I can´t see my synology server ? VMFusion Player / Windows 11 best regards  Fisch Hi, In your Synology server, make sure that you are not lim... See more...
@Fischli66 wrote: Hi, does anybody knows why I can´t see my synology server ? VMFusion Player / Windows 11 best regards  Fisch Hi, In your Synology server, make sure that you are not limiting the SMB protocol to SMB1 max as Windows 11 won't see the share. -- Wil
Installed the tech preview last week per the instructions, everything went as expected. Then today I can't connect the win 11 vm to the network, Well it works it in Host-Only mode, but that isn't rea... See more...
Installed the tech preview last week per the instructions, everything went as expected. Then today I can't connect the win 11 vm to the network, Well it works it in Host-Only mode, but that isn't really going to cut it.  I've deleted the network adapter, ensured the vm knows the OS is Win 11, re-added the network adapter, reinstalled the vmware tools, checked the network device looks correct under device manager.... Any other suggestions?      
By “see” what do you mean?  If you have your VM configured for “Share with my Mac” (NAT) networking you won’t be able to see it in Windows Explorer by name. You may be able to connect to it if you u... See more...
By “see” what do you mean?  If you have your VM configured for “Share with my Mac” (NAT) networking you won’t be able to see it in Windows Explorer by name. You may be able to connect to it if you use its IP address (\\xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) instead of its name.  That’s because the network protocols used for name discovery don’t traverse the NAT firewall boundary. The device should be able to be seen by name if you configure the VM for bridged networking. 
Hi, does anybody knows why I can´t see my synology server ? VMFusion Player / Windows 11 best regards  Fisch
Ooooooooooo.....nice!
We'll see what happens as we move forward with DX12