I tried reproducing this on my Mac mini 2020 (M1) with Fusion 13.5/Sonoma I've been unable to reproduce. I'm running a Debian 12 VM with GNOME, 4GB memory, 20GB virtual hard disk, NAT networking, 3D acceleration enabled.
Could you share details on what the host Mac configuration is, what the VM configuration, etc. Also could you post a copy of the .vmx file for your vm so I can compare it against mine to see if I can spot anything. With the VM powered off, you can find the .vmx file by locating the VM in the Finder, right clicking on it and selecting "Show Package Contents". A new Finder window will open showing the files that make up your VM. You'll find the .vmx file there (it has a file type of VMConfig in the "type" column.
Where do you have your VM located? Internal disk or external disk? HDD or SSD? APFS or HFS+ formatted?
Do you have any A/V installed on the Mac. If so, is it set to exclude virtual machines from scanning?
Do you have open-vm-tools and open-vm-tools-desktop packages installed in the VM?
Is the VM running with X11 or Wayland (is environment variable XDG_SESSION_TYPE set ti wayland)?
What is the virtual machine's networking type set to? Is it possible that you have a bottleneck with your network connectivity?
- Paul (Technogeezer)
Editor of the Unofficial Fusion Companion Guides
