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I also haven’t yet noticed any instability or performance regressions in running macOS VMs on this hardware using this VMX option. Of course, as enabling this monitor.allowLegac圜PU VMX option on Fusion 10 simply restores functionality on hardware that no longer meets the minimum system requirements, the usual caveats about unsupported software configurations apply. Here’s the output from my MacPro4,1 to confirm that this framework is not supported: $ sysctl kern.hv_support The hypervisor used to be available on GitHub, but it would seem now I can only find Google’s cache of it.Īs Apple documents, one way to check if your hardware supports Apple’s Hypervisor is to use sysctl and check for the value of kern.hv_support - if it is 1, your machine should support using the Hypervisor framework. Ready for Big Sur Fusion 12 Pro and Player support macOS 11 ‘Big Sur’ as well as macOS 10.15 ‘Catalina. Parallels Desktop Lite (available via the Mac App Store) - notably, the only free solution other than VirtualBox for running macOS guest VMs VMware Introduces Fusion Player, available with free licensing for Personal Use or paid licensing for Commercial use in alignment with VMware Workstation 16 Player.

#Vmware fusion 12 for mac free for mac#

Docker for Mac (using Docker’s HyperKit project, derived from xhyve, in turn derived from bhyve).

This unrestricted guest feature happens is also required for the use of applications leveraging Apple’s Hypervisor framework which was added in OS X 10.10. Today, this MacPro4,1 machine is worth a tiny fraction of my 2017 MacBook Pro 13" with Touch Bar, but it handles the workloads of VMs not only much better than the MacBook Pro, but it also boasts many more cores, ideal for running more in parallel. Once this is set, VMs seem to happily run on these older generations of CPUs. $ cat '/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/config' monitor.allowLegac圜PU = "true" This file can simply be edited to set this value to true. There is a VMX config parameter, monitor.allowLegac圜PU, which can be set either directly within the VM’s VMX file, or as a system-wide default in VMware’s config file at /Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/config.

Luckily, this has been discussed already on VMware Fusion forums and the solution was quick at hand. I learned only of the system’s incompatibility to show me the above notification after I was attempted to start an existing macOS VM from my VM library.

#Vmware fusion 12 for mac free upgrade#

Originally I discovered this issue the hard way when VMware Fusion 8.5 on my MacPro4,1 system (dual 6-core X5550 CPUs) advertised the 10.0 upgrade, and happily let me run the upgrade on this system without any mention of this CPU feature requirement.

Earlier versions had a more ambiguous dialog wording which didn’t explain the incompatible features, however it seems as though currently they seem to be providing more detailed info, mentioning the “unrestricted guest” capability.