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Re: Monitor all network activity

palter — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 00:53:57 GMT

It works. I run Linux VMs configured with bridges (brctl) on their network interfaces. I then run emulators in those Linux VMs that generate network traffic with MAC and IP addresses different from their host Linux VMs.

I configure all my VMs to use VMware bridged networking.

Re: Monitor all network activity

palter — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 01:49:40 GMT

Yes, it requires a Professional license.

Re: Monitor all network activity

palter — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 00:23:56 GMT

In Fusion's settings, in Network, you can turn off "Require authentication to enter promiscuous mode".

Re: USB Joystick not recognised Fusion 13.5.0 Windows 11 x64 ARM guest

palter — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 17:38:08 GMT

@Geoffrey84 wrote:
In addition, shared folders are still not supported between my virtual machine and the macOS Sonoma host in Fusion 13.5.0. Am I missing something? Should I start again from scratch (the original Windows 11 ARM VM was created in the Tech Preview version). And DirectX 12 support? Wasn't that mentioned as a new feature in the release version made available today? I'm also still missing a few hardware entries under System Devices.

@Mikero said that VMware is working on DirectX 12 support. He did not say that it was coming in this release.

New VMware Fusion tonight!

palter — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 18:49:15 GMT

From @Mikero on Twitter ...

Tonight's the night... starting at 8:30pm PST, new @VMwareFusion and @vmw_workstation releases go live! Y'all like 3D graphics and free updates, right? Oh, and we still have "One More Thing..." that wasn't around in the Tech Preview

New VMware Fusion tonight!

palter — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 18:47:11 GMT

From @Mikero on Twitter ...

Re: After upgrading to 22H2 - Windows Encryption Unknown

palter — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 00:13:04 GMT

Version 22068932 is the current 2023 technology preview.

Fusion Technology Preview II 22H2 is last year's technology preview. You shouldn't use it.

Re: Is there going to be a VMware Fusion 14 for macOS 14 (Sonoma)?

palter — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 00:32:38 GMT

According to a tweet by @Mikero a few weeks ago, the next version of Fusion, which will support Sonoma, will be a free upgrade from Fusion 13. (I'm guessing it will be called Fusion 13.5.) It will be based on the Fusion 2023 Tech Preview.

Re: VMWare Fusion on M2 with ubuntu

palter — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 00:23:07 GMT

It's Box64.

Re: Tech Preview ...??

palter — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 00:23:59 GMT

This is a preview of the next version of VMware Fusion which will probably be version 13.5 based on @Mikero's statement that it will be a free upgrade from 13.0.x.

It runs just fine on Ventura but also supports Sonoma.

Re: VMWARE FUSION beta version support ARM based Linux 22.04.3 ISO

palter — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 20:24:39 GMT

There is an open source project called Box64 that provides similar functionality to Rosetta for a Linux VM.

Before I moved my Intel application to a Debian VM using Rosetta under UTM, I managed to get my application working under Box64 in a Fedora VM under Fusion. Performance was actually on par with the application under Rosetta and UTM.

But, getting Box64 setup wasn't easy and it was pretty fragile. (I.e., updating Fedora would tend to break Box64.)

Re: Copy & Paste between Fusion Pro 13 and _any_ linux on Mac M1 Host

palter — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 18:49:51 GMT

You said you installed open-vm-tools. Did you also install open-vm-tools-desktop? The latter provides copy/paste functionality.

Re: VMWARE FUSION beta version support ARM based Linux 22.04.3 ISO

palter — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 13:43:13 GMT

Fusion e.x.p (22068932) is the current Fusion beta. (VMware uses the term Technology Preview instead of Beta but they're the same thing.)

Rosetta in a Linux VM is supported using Apple's high-level Virtualization framework. Fusion uses Apple's low-level Hypervisor framework which, at this time, does not expose support for Rosetta in a Linux VM. Consequently, Fusion will not support this feature in the foreseeable future.

(I use Fusion for most of my VMs but I also use UTM for a Debian VM with Rosetta support for an Intel application which the author has no intention of porting to ARM.)

Re: Vmware fusion 13, Set Advanced Processor Options

palter — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 12:52:11 GMT

If you have an M1 class processor (M1, M1 Pro, M1 Max, M1 Ultra), nested virtualization will never work as the hardware doesn't support it.

M2 class processors do have hardware support for nested virtualization but Apple hasn't it exposed it through their Hypervisor framework. Until Apple does that, VMware won't be able to use it.

Re: Fusion 13 not compatible with MacOS

palter — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 13:03:14 GMT

@ihf wrote:
I downloaded Fusion 13 for Intel Macs to install on my MacBook Pro running Monterey. When I mount the .dmg< i am presented with 3 icons for "Install VMware Fusion", "Getting started", and "Uninstall VMware Fusion". All 3 have the line thru them indicating they are not compatible with the OS. If I double-click on the installer, I get the message saying that "Install VMware Fusion” needs to be updated. What is the problem?

Where did you get the DMG and what's its name?

The contents you describe above aren't what I find when I download the DMG from VMware. There's only the installer which is confusingly named just "VMware Fusion" with a label underneath which says "Double-Click to Installl VMware Fusion".

Re: i can't install ESXI on fusion 13 on macBook m1 pro

palter — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 13:54:54 GMT

Macs using the M1 family (M1, M1 Pro, M1 Max, M1 Ultra) lack hardware support for nested virtualization. They will never be able to run nested virtual machines.

The M2 family does have hardware support for nested virtualization but Apple has not exposed it in their Hypervisor and Virtualization frameworks. If they ever do add support, VMware could then update Fusion to take advantage of it.

Re: Does VMware 13 provide hooks for intel apps on Ventura ?

palter — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 18:55:25 GMT

@Technogeezer wrote:
That's good to know. @palter . I suspected that since UTM is using Apple's Virtualization Framework that the feature would be available there.
That's an interesting use case... running an emulator for the DEC Alpha RISC CPU in an Intel x64 application that's been translated by Rosetta 2 to run on an ARMv8 CPU.

It gets "better"...

I need to run the Alpha emulator in order to do maintenance of the Alpha version of the emulator for the Symbolics Ivory processor (Lisp Machine on a chip). The Ivory emulator also runs natively on Intel and ARM but was first developed for the Alpha back in the early 1990's.

Re: Does VMware 13 provide hooks for intel apps on Ventura ?

palter — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 17:17:06 GMT

UTM does support Rosetta in Linux VMs when you create your VM using Apple's virtualization framework (instead of QEMU). I am using that support to run a DEC Alpha emulator (a commercial Intel-only app) in a Linux VM with surprisingly good performance.

You can get UTM for free here. You can also buy it on the Mac App Store. (You'll get automatic updates and the proceeds fund future development.)

Re: How's your experience with the Tech Preview going?

palter — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 13:21:32 GMT

A quick note about Apple's Virtualization framework and macOS VMs on Apple silicon.

An Apple silicon macOS VM cannot login to any Apple services using your Apple ID. (You can login to Apple websites such as developer.apple.com, however.) Among other things, this means that you cannot register a macOS VM for the beta update channel. Instead, you have to either create a fresh VM for each new beta or use the hack someone discovered in the Apple Developer forums.

Re: VMware Fustion 13.0.2 cannot install MacOS Ventura (M1 processor)

palter — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 00:40:47 GMT

You don't. Fusion doesn't support virtualizing macOS on Apple silicon (M1 or M2).

Parallels only allows it by using Apple's high-level framework but numerous features are missing (snapshots, split disks, suspend/resume, copy/paste, etc.)

If you really need it, I'd suggest using one of the free alternatives -- UTM or Virtual Buddy -- which provide the same features as Parallels for virtualizing macOS. (In the case of UTM, you can also buy it from the Mac App Store here. Doing so will give you automatic updates as they're published and provides the developers support so they can keep working on it.)