@ColoradoMarmot wrote:
once apple stops providing os updates for it (best guess is ~5 years), if you need to do Intel based support, buying a windows machine and running workstation will be your only option. They’ve now confirmed that they only provide security updates for the current and immediately previous versions, so you’ll have about a years notice when Intel is end of life.
Unless something has changed since earlier this month, Apple provides security updates for the current major macOS version and the two preceding major versions, as has been the pattern since they settled into a roughly annual release cycle. Most recently, on 2022-12-13 they released a feature and security update for macOS Ventura (13.1), plus security updates for macOS Monterey (12.6.2) and macOS Big Sur (11.7.2).
There is the issue that they only provide full security updates for the current version - older versions get a subset of security updates which are able to be ported back without major work.
as for the copy paste, one option (highly recommended) is to get on a supported version of fusion. You can buy a 13 license and support can downgrade the key for fusion 10.
That wasn't an option I knew about - the licence manager only offers downgrading by one version for new licences, so I assumed it wasn't possible to get a new licence for anything older than version 12 now that version 13 has been released. (I haven't experimented with downgrading my in-use licence keys as I don't want to risk breaking them, and VMware documentation I've found doesn't clearly explain what happens after you downgrade.)
