VMware Fusion 10

[HenryAZ]

I just upgraded to 10 and I'm getting this error whenever I start any VM? I tried uninstall/reinstall 10.1 same issue
Thanks

You might try the solution offered by a VMWare tech for this same problem with 8.5.x. First of all, uninstall Fusion and all of its components.

Then, after downloading the installer again, if you need to (substituting your path and 10.x version number in this Terminal command)

xattr -l ~/Downloads/VMware-Fusion-8.5.8-5824040.dmg

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine ~/Downloads/VMware-Fusion-8.5.8-5824040.dmg

It worked for me.

 

[ISKOTB]

no, I had to trust the app under security & privacy
Thanks

 

[Tech198]

did not even know there was fusion 9... ouch.

Perhaps hey pulled a page from Microsot with number-jumping

 

[radus]

A question to the owners of vmware 10.
Taking a look at ActivityMonitor.app / Art -- could you tell if the vmware 10 client extensions are 64bit or 32bit using the cmv-compiler ?

 

[Infrared]

I'm quite pleased with this so far. I've had Windows 10, XP and Ubuntu VMs running successfully.

 

[user1234]

A question to the owners of vmware 10.
Taking a look at ActivityMonitor.app / Art -- could you tell if the vmware 10 client extensions are 64bit or 32bit using the cmv-compiler ?

It's a bit unclear to me what you want to know, but everything running on the host is 64 bit, but vmware-tools-daemon on a High Sierra guest is running in 32 bit.

 

[radus]

It's a bit unclear to me what you want to know, but everything running on the host is 64 bit, but vmware-tools-daemon on a High Sierra guest is running in 32 bit.

Thank you thats what I wanted to know there is no difference to the High-Sierre-Parrallels guest :
prldragdrop 32 bit
dynres 32 bit
copypaste 32 bit

 

[user1234]

Thank you thats what I wanted to know there is no difference to the High-Sierre-Parrallels guest :
prldragdrop 32 bit
dynres 32 bit
copypaste 32 bit

Those three processes are not running on the guest, only vmware-tools-daemon

 

[radus]

Those three processes are not running on the guest, only vmware-tools-daemon

I know - these are the equivalent processes running on a parallels guest. But both VMWare 10 and Parallels 13 are rather 32bit then 64bit processes on the guest.
Both are slowing down the guest by requiring the CMVCompiler.

 

[user1234]

I know - these are the equivalent processes running on a parallels guest. But both VMWare 10 and Parallels 13 are rather 32bit then 64bit processes on the guest.
Both are slowing down the guest by requiring the CMVCompiler.

Ah, got it. Should have read more carefully.

 

[Rocketman83]

Any chance of a workaround for getting VMWare Fusion 10 to run on an unsupported machine, specifically a Mac Pro 2,1?

 

[chrfr]

Any chance of a workaround for getting VMWare Fusion 10 to run on an unsupported machine, specifically a Mac Pro 2,1?

You'll need to stay with Fusion 8.x.

 

[Rocketman83]

You'll need to stay with Fusion 8.x.

I'm using Fusion Pro 8.5.9 right now, with El Capitan as the host OS. All works well, but I was hoping someone might eventually figure out a hack to get version 10 to run on an older, unsupported Mac.

 

[chrfr]

I'm using Fusion Pro 8.5.9 right now, with El Capitan as the host OS. All works well, but I was hoping someone might eventually figure out a hack to get version 10 to run on an older, unsupported Mac.

There won't be a hack. Fusion 10 depends on hardware features that aren't in the CPUs in the early Mac Pros.

 

[Rocketman83]

There won't be a hack. Fusion 10 depends on hardware features that aren't in the CPUs in the early Mac Pros.

Not the news I wanted to hear, but thanks anyway for the technical information.

 

[Rocketman83]

Is there any workaround to getting VMWare Fusion 10 to run on an unsupported Mac, specifically a 2007 Mac Pro modified (via Pike's bootloader) to run El Capitan?

 

[chrfr]

Is there any workaround to getting VMWare Fusion 10 to run on an unsupported Mac, specifically a 2007 Mac Pro modified (via Pike's bootloader) to run El Capitan?

No, it depends on CPU features that don't exist. You can still run Fusion 8.5 without a problem. (which is the same answer I gave two posts above yours.)

 

[Rocketman83]

No, it depends on CPU features that don't exist. You can still run Fusion 8.5 without a problem. (which is the same answer I gave two posts above yours.)

I thought a workaround might have been found since I first asked the question here. It appears I'm stuck then at version 8.5, which at least does work well.

 

[meady100]

How so?

I'm still a Parallels user (currently at V13 and working perfectly with Windows 10) after long years and having tried Fusion out in the past have exactly the opposite opinion.

I agree. I use both Parallels and Fusion to run 3DSmax, and while the experience in either is very similar, Parallels seems to have better/faster custom graphics drivers.