*** The Unofficial VMware Fusion Thread ***

Feek said:
Ahh yes. The annual Parallels tax. I’ve not looked but what percentage speed increase are they claiming this year? :cry:

I’m glad I’m out of that!
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Fair. No reason to pay for something you don't find useful.

I just downloaded the latest version of Fusion from the Broadcom website and seems that rather than fixing the Check for Updates menu item they just show an error with a link to a support document saying if you want to find out if there is an update you need to go to the Broadcom website in future.
 
Cromulent said:
I just downloaded the latest version of Fusion from the Broadcom website and seems that rather than fixing the Check for Updates menu item they just show an error with a link to a support document saying if you want to find out if there is an update you need to go to the Broadcom website in future.
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I hadn't even noticed that check for updates option until you mentioned it, no biggie just download the latest version from Broadcom if you want when released. The old version should keep working anyway.
 
Those who use Fusion, I would not upgrade to Tahoe just yet. There are community reports of issues:

Fusion 13.6.4 issues with macOS Tahoe | Fusion

Fusion seems to be impacted be a serious bug in relation to Tahoe and sleep. When my host MBP goes to sleep with Fusion running a Windows 11 ARM guest, on wakin
community.broadcom.com

If anyone here has M3 or M4 Pro/Max, or Studio with Tahoe macOS who already upgraded, if you can repro the issue please send me a DM. Thanks.

1. Power On VM (Windows and Linux) and keep them running.
2. From host Apple Menu-> Press Sleep and let host system go to sleep.
  • Give it a few seconds (10-15 seconds) to ensure the sleep has really taken effect and everything has shutdown.
3. Then move the mouse to wake up the host system, see if VMware Fusion UI is still running and VMs are fine.
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One issue I had with my VMware Fusion Windows 11 VM was when I wanted to increase the disk size from 64GB to 128GB, so I increased it in VMware settings. Then when I went into disk management in Windows 11 I was only able to partition the extra 64GB as another drive as I couldn't extend the main 64GB partition due to a recovery partition that was in the way.

I tried a couple of so called free partition managers but none of them worked and was resigned to leaving it that way with two 64GB partitions. Then I found this...

https://thedxt.ca/2023/06/moving-windows-recovery-partition-correctly/

Followed the instructions and now I have one 128GB partition in Windows 11.
 
ChrisD. said:
Fusion 25 released.
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Just installed it, one thing I've noticed is that I can now assign 5 CPU cores to the VM without it saying

"The virtual machine is configured to use too many of the processor cores available on your Mac. This may cause slow performance of your Mac and the virtual machine."

On the previous version I could only assign 4 cores without this message.
 
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