Just went through the forced upgrade to Fusion 12 after upgrading to Big Sur. Now my Linux Mint 19.2 guest OS won't boot. I've tried both hardware version 16 and the upgraded 18. I can ctrl+alt+f1 to get to a functional terminal screen, and /var/log/Xorg.0.log shows a crash right after initializing the VMWARE_CTRL extension:
(II) vmware(0): Initialized VMWARE_CTRL extension version 0.2
(EE)
(EE) Backtrace:
(EE) 0: /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg (xorg_backtrace+0.4d) [0x5651c5dacabd]
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See screenshot for remainder of backtrace. I uninstalled VMWare guest extensions via the command line and rebooted, but to no avail. It's very frustrating to have a forced paid upgrade break a system like this. Any ideas how to work around this bug?
