Download VMware Fusion 12.2.0

VMware has released version 12.2 of Fusion. Fusion is to macOS what Workstation Pro and Workstation Player are to Windows and Linux. The program makes it possible to create virtual machines on an Intel processor equipped macOS machine. In this way it is possible, for example, to run Windows, Linux or Solaris alongside the existing operating system. New in version 12 is that the program can now be used for free in a private situation and we find support for macOS 11, containers, various new guest operating systems, DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.1, USB 3.1 and vSphere 7.0. This release contains several bug fixes and security improvements.

What’s New

This release contains security updates and bug fixes.

Product Support Notices

• Deprecation of Support for macOS 10.15 Catalina
  Support for macOS 10.15 Catalina is being deprecated. We recommend that you use a host macOS with version 11.0 or later.

Resolved Issues

• On Big Sur hosts, if a user configures NAT port forwarding in Fusion, the service running in the virtual machine is unavailable on the macOS host using localhost:exposedPort, hostIP:exposedPort, or 127.0.0.1:exposedPort; Port forwarding is also not accessible inside a NAT virtual machine using hostIP:exposedPort.
• MTU configuration option is not available in the Fusion UI on Big Sur hosts.
• If the Big Sur host is connected to VPN, then the VM cannot access the same network as that of the host.

Known Issues

• VM description shows an incorrect version for the guest macOS
  When you install VMware Tools with Big Sur as the guest OS, the version of the guest macOS in the VM description changes from 11.x to 10.16. Note that this is a user interface issue and does not impact the guest OS functionality.
• Cannot unmount Fusion DMG file mounted on the host macOS Big Sur 11.5 or later
  If you use macOS Big Sur 11.5 or later as the host, when you try to eject the mounted Fusion DMG file, it fails with an error. The error wrongly indicates that the Finder is still using the file.
  Workaround: To successfully unmount the disk, Use Force Quit to close the Finder and then use Force Eject to unmount the DMG file.
• The shared files and folders of the host are not visible on a macOS Big Sur guest VM
  If the “Enable Shared Folders” option has been properly enabled, the problem might be that the VMware kernel extensions have not been authorized to be loaded when the VM boots. Use the following command in a terminal window to check if the VMware kernel extensions are loaded: sudo kextstat –list-only | grep -i vmware

  VMware Tools for macOS contains two KEXT files:

  • com.vmware.kext.vmhgfs: For hgfs or shared folder support
  • com.vmware.kext.VMwareGfx​: For VMware video driver

  If the client kernel extensions are not running, the command output does not list the above files.

  Follow the steps in the workaround to address the issue.

  Workaround: Ensure that the Enable Shared Folders option is checked.

• On the host, from the VMware Fusion menu bar, select Virtual Machine > Reinstall VMware Tools.
• Click Install on the Connect VMware Tools installer CD pop-up.
• Click Install VMware Tools on the VMware Tools dialog box.
• On the Welcome to the VMware Tools Installer page, click Continue.
• Select the Standard Install on ‘Macintosh HD’ and then click Install.
• Perform the following steps when the Security & Privacy window appears:
• Unlock the Security & Privacy user interface.
• For the “System software from developer ‘VMware, Inc.’ was blocked from loading” option, click Allow.
• For the restart prompt, select Not now.
• Re-lock the Security & Privacy user interface.
• Close the Security & Privacy window.
  The VMware Tools installation completes successfully.
• Click Restart to reboot the system with the KEXT modules loaded.
• After you restart the system, log in, and then use the following command to verify that the VMware modules are loaded: sudo kextstat –list-only | grep -i vmware