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A software system for running virtual machines (a hypervisor) used to run Windows or other operating systems on a Macintosh under OSX.

VMWare Fusion is a software system for hosting virtual machines on OS X. It is especially promoted on the vendor's web site as a way to run Windows on a Mac. It has also been used for running Linux. Wikipedia has a detailed discussion.

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VMware Fusion: Failed to power on VM (macOS Big Sur M1)

VMWare Fusion Professional Version 12.1.2 (17964953) on macOS Big Sur (M1 chip) fails to create a virtual machine. Tried with Debian 64bit and openSUSE 64bit/32bit. Error popup: Failed to power on '/Users/user/Virtual Machines.localized/Debian…
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Virtual machine test suite

I just got some VM software installed on my MacBook in order to have a test suite for cross-compatibility on websites etc. I need to be able to test for Internet Explorer 7 and 8. Am I right in assuming I should install both Windows XP (with IE7)…
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Access Postgres on Mac from Windows 10 on VMWare

I have postgres running on my Mac (OSX 10.13.1). Running Windows 10 in a virtual machine on VMWare Fusion (8.5.8). Requirement is to access a postgres database from an app running on the Windows VM, but I'm having trouble finding documentation and…
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VMWare Fusion: vmnet1 and vmnet8 not showing up after install Fusion 8.x or 10.x on Mac Sierra

After installing Fusion 8.x and 10.x, I cannot find the vmnet1 and vmnet8 at all. When I do sudo /Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmnet-cli -c This is what I got: Configuring Bridged network vmnet0 Configuring hostonly network…
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Docker for Mac and VMWare Fusion

So I have Docker for Mac installed and I would like to use VMWare Fusion rather than VirtualBox. Doing a search, I came across https://docs.docker.com/machine/drivers/vm-fusion/ using docker-machine. Not sure if that's what I'm looking for but when…
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TortoiseSVN - no overlay icons in a VM with Windows 10 on a shared Mac folder

I have a MacBook Pro with OS 10.11.5 and Vmware Fusion 8.1.1 is installed. In Fusion I have a Windows 10 (64 Bit, Ent.) running, where I have a (vmware) shared folder from the Mac OS. This shared folder contains a Subversion Repository which is on…
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Running XAMPP on Windows through VMWare Fusion on a MAC, how do I configure apache to use my shared folders (Z:) as the web root?

Environment: Main platform: MAC OSX 10.6 Secondary platform via VMWare Fusion: Windows 7 64-bit Background: I'm running MAMP Pro on the MAC side with a webroot at "/www". I need to test websites in IE thus requiring a Windows installation. I…
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Git Line Endings: Mac to Windows VM

I'm developing on a Mac for a website running locally on a Windows virtual machine (VMware Fusion). The files are in a shared directory, so both OS's are using the same files. When I edit files on Mac and run them in the Windows VM, I'm getting…
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Vagrant pre-provisioning before sharing folders

I have a need to setup a user in my Vagrantfile before actually creating the shares. I want to bring up the Vagrant instance, provision the users, then setup the sharing. After the sharing is setup, I want to run more provisioning. How do I…
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packer vmware-iso export to single file

I am using virtualbox-iso and vmware-iso builders. I am on Mac, so vmware-iso runs with vmware fusion. Virtualbox-iso out is a single .ova file. But the vmware-iso output is actually a bunch of files. Also could not figure out a way to import…
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WebSphere on VMWare Fusion

Any ideas where can I find a free (trial or for educational purposes) WebSphere Application Server image for use with VMWare Fusion? Thanks in advance.
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How can I deploy an ovf using vmrun?

Using VMware fusion I generally create new virtual machines using File->New->Import an existing virtual machine. I then select the ovf I have that I want to import from. I wanted to automate this process using vmrun and I was wondering how to…
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VMware Fusion and MacbookPro keyboard

I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate (retail) under VMware Fusion on a Macbook Pro. I've created a keyboard layout for the mac using Microsoft keyboard Layout Creator MSKLC. My problem is that when I type the quote or double quote character, nothing…
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PHP syntax error when files are added to VMware host from guest

In my setup source files are located on the host machine (Mac OSX) and shared to the guest (Ubuntu Server). When files are added to the host from the guest, syntax errors will occur on the last line of the file - even though no syntax errors are…
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Server Provisioning with Jenkins and Ubuntu 12.04 Server

I do have an Ubuntu Server 12.04 VM using VMWare Fusion that i would like to provision with a set of Jenkins Steps. So far i have the server VM with the following packages by default when installing the OS. default-java (This is the OpenJDK for…
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