Fusion 22H2 Tech Preview Discussions topics

VMWare Fusion update problem.

LVGandhi — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 00:03:59 GMT

I got message update is available. I started downloading. It failed after downloading 500 mb saying connection to server is last. Again when I started it showed update is valuable.. started downloading. It failed after downloading 670 mb saying connection to server is last. What to do?

Error installing VMware tool

Elwood85 — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 20:39:42 GMT

Hi,

I am trying to install VMware Tools as windows 11 doesn't connect to the internet as it doesn't have any NIC..

I have a MacBook Pro m1pro.. I can run windows 11 then I m going on the Virtual machine>VMware Tools installation and it mount the CD rom in d:/.

but when I try to run the tools I have this error attached..

I tried to run>d:/setup.ps1 but no luck... also can't open neither the README files..

Any suggestion?

Fusion 22H2 Tech Preview "Internal Error" after upgrading to new encryption scheme

brainworker — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 15:42:54 GMT

Hi,

I just tried to update my existing Windows 11 arm VM to the new encryption scheme, but after it's done an "Internal Error" occurs. The message is something like "the machine got encrypted successfully, but after that an internal error occured". After that it's impossible to start up the machine, even after restarting Fusion or the host machine (M1 Pro MacBook Pro). Keeping the old encryption scheme works fine with all new feature like hardware acceleration and vmware-tools.

Best,
Brian

VMware Fusion Public Tech Preview 22H2 Embedded license expired on installation

tipa1488ameriko — Tue, 16 May 2023 11:28:55 GMT

Just registered for a public preview and downloaded it, but the license is expired already during installation.
Getting a free license key requires company information and a phone, which I don't have, as an individual.

What should I do?

Can Atlas OS be installed on VMware Fusion

Beeppoop — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 10:21:27 GMT

I'm having troubles installing Atlas OS on my VMware fusion i keep getting this error while on the startup bios "start pxe over ipv4"

So is it even possible to install the atlas os on it ?

Note - This forum no longer applies - Fusion 13 has been released

ColoradoMarmot — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 18:53:13 GMT

This forum was for a tech preview that's now closed.

Fusion is the production forum.

Kali on VMware Fusion - unable to increase disk size

al_gara — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 05:04:55 GMT

Hi all,

After I noticed that I ran out of disk space on kali machine I went ahead and increased it from 20Gb to 40Gb. However, the change didn't take effect whatsoever - df still shows that disk is 20Gb, whereas it is set to 40Gb in VM settings.

What am I missing here?

Thanks!

Start PXE over iPv4, iPv6 on MacBook Air M2

guyrou — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 21:25:23 GMT

I've created VM with Windows ARM (converted VHDX to VMDK file), choosing all the options described in page 22 and obtained message error «Start PXE over iPv4, etc» (ses attached picture file).

no such option in the parameters menu...

CD/DVD (SATA): Configure the virtual CD/DVD device to use the OpenSUSE Leap installation ISO.

Unable to complete the process.... suggestions?

Thanks!

can't get Windows programs to search my Music folder

Woodyanna — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 22:41:44 GMT

I'm trying to use the Windows software StationPlaylist Studio to broadcast from my Mac from windows 11 using VMware Fusion 13. I added the folder where Apple Music saves my content as a Sharepoint, granted everyone read and write access, open it in file Explorer in Windows, and mapped it to a drive letter. I can open files from that folder manually in StationPlaylist, and they play fine, but when I designate the drive as the folder StationPlaylist should build a search database from, it skips the folder completely. There's no error message; it just won't search the folder. It will search a different folder that I'm sharing, but it's a folder I created rather than one created by Apple Music. I have another Windows search program called Search everything that also skips this folder. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Fusion 22H2 lacking font crispness

mortenjensen01 — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 02:59:34 GMT

Hi all,

I have just moved on to a m1 Mac and is trying to get my windows programs to work in 22H2. What I lack the most is the old crispness of the fonts and so on. My (old) windows programs look very blurry. I have tried the following:

.- adjusting the resolution in windows from regular HD to full Retina HD. No luck.

- turning on and of "Use full resolution for Retina"

What am I missing there? Could not find any discussion of this issue so think that I must have overlooked something.

Thansk

Morten

Finally VMware Fusion 13 is HERE!!!

VirtualMac2009 — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 14:13:34 GMT

Finally!

VMware Fusion 13 is HERE!!!

https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Fusion-Discussions/VMware-Fusion-13-is-HERE/td-p/2938449

Windows 10 Pro on MacBook M2

alex143 — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 01:22:40 GMT

Does VMware Fusion support Windows 10 Pro on MacBook with an M2 processor?

22H2 Tech Preview 20486664 - getGuestIPAddress failure

sbailliez — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 00:56:22 GMT

Running on M1 Pro under macOS 12.6.1. Been trying to upgrade my 22H1 and ubuntu 20.04-4 vm from February 2022 (running with vagrant) and was trying to use 22H2 with latest ubuntu 20.04.5 to create a new box.

I have been trying out ubuntu-arm64-20.04.4 and ubuntu-arm64-20.04.5 with 22H2 (20486664) and I'm not able to get the guest ip address working. It works with no issues on 22H1 (19431034)

vmrun getGuestIPAddress [vmx-file] fails with a "Error: Unable to get the IP address" on 22H2 and pretty unclear what to look for and where

Tried to get some clues by logging into the vm and enabling log in /etc/vmware-tools/tools.conf with log=true and vmsvc.level = debug but might need some clues as to where to troubleshoot in an efficient way.

Version e.x.p (20486664) on 2018 i7 Mac mini, Check for Update, returns; Product not found message

BillPa — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 20:13:25 GMT

Does the update process for the experimental 22H2 version bypass the Check for Update in the menu?

I would expect to see it returning no update available, but didn't expect Product Not Found.

M2 Nested virtualization on MacOS Ventura

Clemond — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 23:22:12 GMT

Since both products were there for a while, could anyone share some info on this topic?

I did some Google search. Most of the discussions happened before Ventura was released and majority of them are just guessing. Since this feature requires support from both CPU and OS

The only useful info are in a twitter thread (which I am no longer able to find) where a VMWare person mentioned in M2 apple enabled access to some CPU register so could be possible. But no details are given.

VMware Tools failure in Snow Leopard Server guest

kfurino — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 00:02:18 GMT

It is not possible to install or remove VMware Tools in a Snow Leopard Server guest in the Tech Preview. In a newly installed Snow Leopard Server VM, the VMware Tools installer does nothing when I double click its icon, nor does anything show as "running" in the guest's Activity Monitor. If I attempt to run the installer from the Terminal, I receive the error message "Illegal instruction."

Running the uninstaller throws the following exception:

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0xfffffffffffffff8
Crashed Thread: Unknown

Fresh Windows 11 ARM VM on M2 Mac, Computer Management not opening due to administrator blocking?

hsingh0531 — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 17:31:20 GMT

I tried opening Computer Management to install drivers for Apple Mobile Device USB Driver in order to connect my iPhone XR to 3UTools but I haven't been able to get past this error.

Surprised and Please Windows 11 22H2

tallLeRoy — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 15:08:50 GMT

I was surprised and pleased when my VM with Windows 11 21H2 prompted me in Windows Update to upgrade to 22H2. The update went smoothly and I am now using a Windows 11 22H2 VM.

Although the VM does not meet the minimum requirements for joining the Windows Insider program, it does qualify for version updates through the normal Windows Update mechanisms.

LeRoy

Trouble with GDB debug stub and arm64 Linux guest

rgov — Sat, 05 Nov 2022 17:50:37 GMT

I'm going to give the "collecting support information" window until the end of writing this post to complete, but I can't tell if it's actually doing anything.

I have an Ubuntu 20.04 arm64 guest and I'm trying to debug the Linux kernel.

With debugStub.hideBreakpoints = "TRUE", when I set a breakpoint on a `ret` instruction I'm interested in, and continue, the kernel seems to enter a loop and the `ret` instruction breakpoint just gets hit again and again rather than control flow continuing forward.

If I set `debugStub.hideBreakpoints = "FALSE"`, upon connecting the debugger and continuing execution, the VM process seems to crash, and I need to restart VMware Fusion to boot the VM up again.

This is with Fusion Tech Preview 22H2.

Aside: I'm not sure if debugStub.listen.guest64.remote is supposed to work or not; I can't connect to the debug stub from another machine without using SSH port forwarding.

VMware Fusion无法启动

vchjk5345 — Sat, 05 Nov 2022 10:53:45 GMT

在macOS 13系统上无法启动VMware Fusion最新版