Catalina on 2013 iMac

[Nighthawk4]

Next problem: when I bought an upgrade from VMWare Fusion 8 to version 11 yesterday, nobody mentioned that it doesn’t work in Catalina.

I installed it last night on Mojave and it worked.

This morning I upgraded to Catalina and now it will not start any VM.

An error about not finding/dev/vmmon.

I tried a range of things advised online but it still gives the same error.

Luckily I did take a backup of Mojave, but it would be nice just once to defeat Apple’s mess and get it to work.

Any thoughts please? I did all the System Prefs permissions but still nothing.


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[MacInWin]

How about uninstalling it and then reinstalling it on Catalina from scratch? I don't run VMWare, but is version 11 fully compatible with Catalina? Catalina only runs 64 bit software, so it could be that VMWare version 11 is still 32 bit.

 

[Nighthawk4]

How is the unwanted TV attached to the MBA? Are the two TVs connected by anything? Do you have an Apple TV that is maybe involved?

The correct TV was connected via the mini display port to HDMI. The other TV was connected to an Apple TV box at the time.

I wonder if that is relevant? Is there any was to identify the two TVs or the Apple TV box to distinguish them?


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[MacInWin]

The Apple TV may be receiving the signal via Airplay, then showing on the unwanted TV. Turn off Airplay and it should stop.

 

[IWT]

Next problem: when I bought an upgrade from VMWare Fusion 8 to version 11 yesterday, nobody mentioned that it doesn’t work in Catalina.

I installed it last night on Mojave and it worked.

This morning I upgraded to Catalina and now it will not start any VM.

An error about not finding/dev/vmmon.

I tried a range of things advised online but it still gives the same error.

Luckily I did take a backup of Mojave, but it would be nice just once to defeat Apple’s mess and get it to work.

Any thoughts please? I did all the System Prefs permissions but still nothing.


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It looks like you need the free update to Version 11.5 - VMware Fusion 11.5 Available Now! - VMware Fusion Blog - VMware Blogs

Ian

 

[Nighthawk4]

It is already 11.5.1 which I bought yesterday.

How do I uninstall it on a Mac please?


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[Nighthawk4]

OK, so I uninstalled and reinstalled Fusion 11.5.1 - no luck.
So I uninstalled 11.5.1 and installed 8.5 which I had before I upgraded yesterday.
That worked but only on a new VM.

I installed 11.5.1 over the top and apart from a minor error about network cards it worked.

Verified it connects to the network and rebooted it. No errors.

I have been using Apple products for long enough that I remember when they were expensive but they “just worked”. Nowadays, without a lot of fuss, they “just don’t “.

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[Nighthawk4]

The Apple TV may be receiving the signal via Airplay, then showing on the unwanted TV. Turn off Airplay and it should stop.

Yes, it was using Airplay. I will try again without selecting that. Shame that Airplay seems to imply connect to all known devices. Strange.

Thanks anyway


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[MacInWin]

OK, so I uninstalled and reinstalled Fusion 11.5.1 - no luck.
So I uninstalled 11.5.1 and installed 8.5 which I had before I upgraded yesterday.
That worked but only on a new VM.

I installed 11.5.1 over the top and apart from a minor error about network cards it worked.

Verified it connects to the network and rebooted it. No errors.

I have been using Apple products for long enough that I remember when they were expensive but they “just worked”. Nowadays, without a lot of fuss, they “just don’t “.

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Not an Apple problem, so it is a bit unfair to blame the problem on Apple. Have you checked with VMWare about why their product that is supposed to work on Catalina is failing? The Apple part works, but VMWare obviously has a problem.

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Yes, it was using Airplay. I will try again without selecting that. Shame that Airplay seems to imply connect to all known devices. Strange.

Thanks anyway


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Airplay only connects to ONE location at a time. What I think is happening is that the unwanted TV is seeing the screen through Airplay, but you are directly connected to the wanted TV by HDMI. So either disconnect Airplay or the HDMI cable and leave the other in place.

 

[Lifeisabeach]

OK, so I uninstalled and reinstalled Fusion 11.5.1 - no luck.
So I uninstalled 11.5.1 and installed 8.5 which I had before I upgraded yesterday.
That worked but only on a new VM.

I installed 11.5.1 over the top and apart from a minor error about network cards it worked.

Verified it connects to the network and rebooted it. No errors.

I have been using Apple products for long enough that I remember when they were expensive but they “just worked”. Nowadays, without a lot of fuss, they “just don’t “.

This absolutely isn't an Apple issue, or even a VMware issue. Since you did a clean install of Catalina and then migrated your apps and data over, there are bound to be a handful of hiccups. Most apps migrate fine and run with no extra help, but others dig deeper into macOS when installed and can't simply be migrated back over. VMware Fusion is certainly one of those and reinstalling from scratch is the only recourse.

FWIW, I use VMware Fusion on Catalina also and it's great, no issues here at all.

EDIT: actually that is strange that your first reinstall of Fusion 11.5 didn't work. That's on VMware.