Hello, yesterday I updated to macOS Tahoe and everything is working fine except for VMware Fusion. I’m trying to run my virtual machine, but when I launch the app, the “Start” button appears, and after a few seconds of pressing this button, it changes to “Suspend,” but then it automatically switches back to “Start,” and my virtual machine does not power on. Do you have any solution? I have the most recent version of the app, which is 13.6.4. I tried ending the process from Activity Monitor, but the problem still remains. I hope someone can guide me and help me solve this issue. Thank you.
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Confirmed issue
Hi,
I can confirm the issue and there are currently no workarounds that I know, except switching to a different virtualization software.
Parallel Desktop is somewhat usable in combination with VOCR , and if you need to virtualize some Linux or MacOS VMs, maybe UTM would be a good choice.
Re, confirmed issue
There's a solution to make it work; disable voiceover, as that's what causes the machine to crash; can confirm because this last happened to me on macos sonoma. Of course, switching to another vertualisation software is a solution as well but, yeah the bug from sonoma is back again. Btw this is squarely on fusion to fix, not on apple, got told that when reporting the bug to them back in sonoma. But yeah alternative solution, set your virtual machine to start up automatically on start up, via vertual machine settings, general, launch fusion, and quickly turn off voiceover. You should be able to set up a activity or similar that turns off voiceover when fusion starts but not sure how to do that though.
Defenetly report it to vmware to hopefully get this patched.
shortcuts automation
Since Shortcuts now supports automations, make an automation that turns off VO when VMWare opens, and back on when it closes.
I've also noticed that if you turn on VO while the VM is running, the vm will almost instantaniously crash.
re shortcuts automation
Yeah that happened as well in macos sonoma. I've no idea exactly what's going on since the same thing doesn't happen in other vertualisation programs but yeah this bug drove 'me up the wall when it happened.
another workaround
if you don't think you canturn off VO fast enough or are unfamiliar with automation, just open VMWare fusion, make sure your cursor is on start, then turn off VO and press the left mouse button on your trackpad. Always works for me.
Starting a VM.
You can also press the spacebar. Make sure you're on start in VMWare, turn off VO, press space, wait. That's what I've been doing and it works.