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- #VMWARE FUSION 8 SIERRA UPDATE#
- #VMWARE FUSION 8 SIERRA UPGRADE#
- #VMWARE FUSION 8 SIERRA WINDOWS 10#
- #VMWARE FUSION 8 SIERRA SOFTWARE#
- #VMWARE FUSION 8 SIERRA PLUS#
#VMWARE FUSION 8 SIERRA WINDOWS 10#
I re-started my Mac, checked all affected disks with DiskWarrior, started up Fusion 8.5 and my 2 Windows 10 VM's, logged into those VM's and ran Windows checkdisk - no Windows-reported errors. I then force quit VMware Fusion 8.5 and found that all other MacOS applications still functioned. When I did so, nothing changed on VMware Fusion 8.5 GUI screens that I still had open on my Mac. I was able to access the Windows 10 guest VM's via Microsoft RDP from a separate workstation, where I was then able to properly shut them down. Historically, these 2 Windows 10 guest VM's ran just fine under VMware Fusion on prior MacOS releases - including VMware Fusion 8.5, to which I'd upgraded prior to upgrading MacOS to Sierra.Ģ Windows 10 guest VM's that I'd left running could not be accessed via VMware Fusion 8.5 GUI. Prior to discovering this, I'd been away from my Mac for over 24 hours. I arrived here via Google search as VMware Fusion 8.5 running on MacOS Sierra 10.12 froze and no longer responded to any GUI interactions. I have even rebuilt clean on Sierra with nothing else but Fusion installed and if fusion it NOT running active VM's this is not a problem and the capture logs show it is directly a Sleep/Fusion issue on sierra. The only way to release the mac is to hard boot which has also resulted in some data loss doing it 4-5 times a day. I can supply the Apple case number that has been escalated to apple engineering, but this is a huge problem. That seems to work, so I can tell you without a doubt this is a Fusion with running VM's and Sierra Sleep problem. The ONLY fix I have found is to COMPLETELY disable sleep on the mac effectively keeping it running 24x7 or suspend and close VMware Fusion every day. We thought it was the Disk sleep option so we disabled that to prevent the disk from trying to sleep It also appears to happen with non SSD based mac's more than SSD basedĪfter some idle time and mac sleep system is completely frozenĪpple confirmed in the "Capture Data" tool there is a sleep issue being affected by Fusion The issue is simple with Fusion 8 and sierra (was not an issue with El Capitain). I have an open case with apple and I internally filed a bug. Quit Fusion.ħ) Edit Boot Camp.vmdk file and change "RDONLY 6 FLAT" to "RW 6 ZERO"ħa) Navigate to location ~/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/Virtual Machinesħb) Right Click on Boot Camp VM > select Show Package Contentsħc) Open BootCamp.This is also the same for me. To Enable and Disable SIP, please refer VMware KB article : Ģ) Delete the Boot Camp VM from Virtual Machine Libraryģ) Delete the Boot Camp Folder at ~/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/Virtual MachinesĤ) Eject the Boot Camp partition which is mounted on Mac Finder.ĥ) Restart VMware Fusion and create the Boot Camp VM.Ħ) Power on Boot Camp VM and Powered off the VM. Restart your Mac and boot to MacOS High Sierra In terminal window, run the below command and press Enter. Reboot your Mac machine into Recovery Mode by restarting the computer and holding down Command + R You could try the steps listed in the below sequence:ġ) Disable SIP (System Integrity Protection) When I did attempt to start, it attempted to start up from EFI VMware Virtual IDE Hard Drive, SATA CDROM and Network then dropped out to the blue screen of the Boot Manager.Īt least now I once again have VMware Tech Support to fall back on. You may not be able to boot your Boot Camp volume as a virtual machine." On the downside, it errored out with the message "Boot Camp volume preprocessing failed.
#VMWARE FUSION 8 SIERRA PLUS#
On the plus side, Fusion 10 did recognize my Boot Camp partition and tried to create a VM from it. I'm officially looking for an alternative virtualization platform at this point after 16 years of VMware.Īfter numerous attempts, the VMware store finally allowed me to upgrade.
#VMWARE FUSION 8 SIERRA UPGRADE#
* Fusion 10 is now available in the VMware store, but three attempts to upgrade my current 8.5 license have failed
#VMWARE FUSION 8 SIERRA SOFTWARE#
It's not as if I was looking for out of date software support. * Fusion 8.5 is unsupported, so even if my support period hadn't ended, I guess I'd be out of luck, even though at launch I had all of the current versions of Win10, OS X and Fusion installed. * Fusion 8.5 allegedly works with OS X 10.13, but the incompatability issue with Windows 10 Boot Camp makes this a moot point.
#VMWARE FUSION 8 SIERRA UPDATE#
* Fusion 8.5 isn't playing nicely with Windows 10 Boot Camp since the 1703 Windows update * My support period has ended for Fusion 8.5 This is turning into one of the worst upgrade experiences I've had in many years.