Troubles with VMware Fusion 11 on Mojave

[odinsride]

I'm curious if anyone else has experienced this. If I leave a running VM alone (unfocused) for some time, when I go back to it VMware is in a non-responsive state (with beachball). The weird thing is that if I force quit VMware, and reopen it, the VM is still running as if nothing happened and is responsive again. I am running macOS 10.14.4 and VMware Fusion 11.0.3. The current VM Guest exhibiting the behavior is running Arch Linux (5.0.10 kernel), but I have experienced the same issues with Debian, Ubuntu, and Windows guests as well so I don't think it's OS specific.

There is an existing thread on VMware forums about this issue but it has drifted away from the original issue quite a bit - https://communities.vmware.com/thread/598657

Someone recommended changing the drive that stores my VM to HFS+ (from APFS), and it seemed to have fixed the issue for a few days, but now I'm seeing the problem all over again.

I was wondering if anyone has experienced this behavior and if anyone knows how to resolve it?

Thanks!

 

[whoisyourdaddy]

I'm curious if anyone else has experienced this. If I leave a running VM alone (unfocused) for some time, when I go back to it VMware is in a non-responsive state (with beachball). The weird thing is that if I force quit VMware, and reopen it, the VM is still running as if nothing happened and is responsive again. I am running macOS 10.14.4 and VMware Fusion 11.0.3. The current VM Guest exhibiting the behavior is running Arch Linux (5.0.10 kernel), but I have experienced the same issues with Debian, Ubuntu, and Windows guests as well so I don't think it's OS specific.

There is an existing thread on VMware forums about this issue but it has drifted away from the original issue quite a bit - https://communities.vmware.com/thread/598657

Someone recommended changing the drive that stores my VM to HFS+ (from APFS), and it seemed to have fixed the issue for a few days, but now I'm seeing the problem all over again.

I was wondering if anyone has experienced this behavior and if anyone knows how to resolve it?

Thanks!

Using the same Fusion 11.0.3 version on a MBP with 10.14.4 and I don't have the problems you've stated with sleep or power savings. I've got two guests, Windows 10 & Ubuntu 19.04, which seem to resume normally after long periods of being idle. Most of the settings for Fusion are default, same on the host 10.14.4, and I've not configured the VM much differently than the default hardware profile. Just chiming in to let you know that I wouldn't believe it's incompatibility with the OS or guests. However, the problem you're having could be quite lengthy in terms of troubleshooting to resolve because it can be numerous issues that just isn't worth the back and forth in messages to remedy it. Most people end up, either a full reinstall of the host OS, guest OS, program, reinstall all three, or combinations of these to save time. Finding power management issues can be difficult.

 

[NoBoMac]

Wild guesses...

Re: force quit: probably only killed front end launcher, the real work is happening in background via other VMware processes/programs. Force quit should signal child processes to die as well, but if VMware is putting the VM in background, reason why still running. ps -ef | grep -i vmware to see what's really running for it.

Re: slow to wake, can see depending on vintage of Mac, HDD vs SSD, how much RAM/CPU assigned to VM. Let it sit "idle" and mess with other things, process is going to idle state and swapping out to disk if other processes need resources. Need to swap everything back in.