Fusion10.1.1 on maxOS Sierra 10.12.6 gives "Cannot find a valid peer process to connect to"

[netnutmike]

Hi everyone,

  As the subject suggests, I cannot start any VM on my Mac.  It was working just fine and then all of a sudden this started happening.  Here is what I have tried already:

• Rebooting the Mac
• Manually uninstalling VMWare Fusion (included the preference files and other files in /Library and ~/Library) and re-installed
• Deleted the suggested files in the vmimage that I think are memory, etc. of one of the VM's with no change.

If you look at the vmfile (folder) of a VM you are trying to start, the only file that is touched is the lock file, there is nothing touched in log.  So it is crashing before anything logs.

I could not find a log for the VMware Fusion master process.

Any suggestions of things to try to fix this?

[parmarr]

Hello,

Please see the below discussions, they seem to have the same issue and resolved by doing a simple change in security settings:

https://communities.vmware.com/thread/573411

https://communities.vmware.com/thread/576896

[riques]

I have tried all available suggestions (running MacOS Mojave 10.14.5) and none have worked. I need Fusion for my job. Fusion had been working fine, it is acting as if the update to 10.14.5 is what broke it. I also just updated Fusion to 10.1.6, so perhaps that "upgrade" is what broke it. Bear in mind, I had been running 10.14.4 - Fusion has worked all along with Mojave, there have been no signs of incompatibility.

I've enabled all security settings, I've re-installed, I'm at my wit's end. Sadly, I will need to move to Parallels, not at all what I wanted to do but I cannot work without access to a Windows 10 system.

This is a terrible user experience.

-- Rique