Yosemite and Fusion 5.0.5

[GAUG3]

I'm running iMac 27" mid 2011 Maverick 10.9.5 with Fusion 5.0.5. Anybody upgraded to Yosemite without upgrading Fusion to 7? Hoping I don't have to upgrade Fusion and still have working VMs.

 

[dusk007]

My Fusion 6 won't start anymore. Annoying. I don't know if there is a workaround or not. It seems purposefully disabled so you buy the upgrade. There should be a switch somewhere to change that.
Just needed an update. The newest works (of the 6) apperantly.

 

[GAUG3]

Crap. I should have known. These companies all sleep together anyways.

 

[NoBoMac]

Well, it caught me as well.

However, Fusion 5's last supported OS was the initial Mountain Lion release. Mavericks was Fusion 6 only (sure, 5 worked, but). So, basically, been a dead product for two years now.

/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/VMware OVF Tool/ovftool

will export your virtual machines in a format that VirtualBox can use. And VirtualBox is free. Might be suitable stop-gap until one decides whether or not to re-up with VMware, or maybe Parallels, or keep using VirtualBox.

 

[NoBoMac]

It seems purposefully disabled so you buy the upgrade. There should be a switch somewhere to change that.

Don't think anything purposeful (other than not doing updates on older product). Yosemite has new app signing requirements, so not in vendor's interest to update old software to the new signing system, along with general "porting" old software to the new environment is not going to make them money, but cost them.

 

[Zerozal]

I'm running Fusion 6.0.5 on Yosemite and it works fine. I'm not surprised that Fusion 5 doesn't work, but if you can upgrade to 6 you should be OK.

 

[GAUG3]

I'm running Fusion 6.0.5 on Yosemite and it works fine. I'm not surprised that Fusion 5 doesn't work, but if you can upgrade to 6 you should be OK.

Thank you. Good to know 6.0.5 works. I might as well update to 7.