VMware Fusion 12.1 is now shipping in MacOS 11 Big Sur. VMware says that on the public release of macOS Big Sur, They have shipped an update to Fusion which addresses some compatibility issues, brings performance improvements, and even introduces some new features.
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Hi everybody,
I have a problem with VMware Fusion 12 and macOS Big Sur Beta 10 (I’m not sure, if it occurred on earlier Betas or macOS Catalina, but I can tell that Fusion 11.5 and Catalina worked well with the same setup).
The problem is, when I choose “Autodetect” or “Wi-Fi” as Network setting in vm preferences, I can’t do various internet-base operations anymore in the vms. For example, I cannot install snap packages or I cannot pull docker images. I tested on various Linux distribution guests like Ubuntu, Fedora or CentOS. I always get the error “tls: bad record MAC”, depending on the tested tool the error message is a little bit difference but comes to the same.
Searching for this error message in the web told me that this issue only occurs when the Network is screwed up, it’s not fixable from Linux itself. It actually only occurs with VMware VMs, I don’t have those problems with “real” computers…
Vmware Fusion 11 Big Sur
Could you please have a look at this?
- No version earlier than 12 works on Big Sur. Apple depreciated the API's that Fusion used, and it now leverages the built-in hypervisor framework.
- VMware says that Fusion 12 will continue to run with kernel extensions on macOS Catalina, but will also support macOS Big Sur by using Apple's APIs to run its virtual machines and containers.
- VMWare on Thursday announced Fusion 12, the next major update to its virtualization software with support for macOS Big Sur and a host of other changes.
- For now, installing Big Sur under a virtual machine (VM) might be the safer way to go until the software hardens up. In this post, I'll go over the steps and issues I encountered with installing the first beta version of macOS Big Sur under VMWare Fusion 11.5.5. Download macOS Big Sur. The first step is to get a copy of the software.
It’s also possible, Apple screwed something up there in the latest beta, like I said, I don’t know exactly when it occurred for the first time. At the moment macOS is still at beta phase but Apple will release it soon and then we should have a working VMware.
Vmware Fusion 11 On Big Sur
Does anybody have the same problem or some advises how I can solve this?
Thanks.