We need to choose installation method.

Unlock the settings and grant VMware Fusion required accessibility rights.Ĭreating Virtual Machine in VMware Fusion is very simple process.

Click Open System Preferences to adjust them.

We are being prompted about Accessibility settings.

If you wish you can enable control of system events and control of Accessibility settings of macOS.

If not you can always enter it later and continue with Trial version.

If you have VMware Fusion license key enter it here.

Once the VMware Fusion installer has been downloaded simply run it by double clicking on it.

Source: VMware Fusion Installation Requirements VMware Fusion installation

MacBook Pro 15-inch 2015 with dual graphics and later.

See Apple’s documentation regarding Metal supported Macs: Requirements to support DirectX 11 3D Acceleration in a virtual machine: Hardware The Metal rendering engine requires an Apple Mac computer which supports Metal. Fusion 12 does not function on macOS 10.14 and earlier.

2012 Mac Pro “Quad Core” using the Intel Xeon W3565 Processorįusion 12 supports Macs with macOS 11.0 Big Sur and macOS 10.15 Catalina.

With exception, the following Macs are not supported:

2010 Mac Pro “Six Core,” “Eight Core” and “Twelve Core.”.

General Requirements HardwareĪll Intel-based Macs launched in 2012* or later are supported, as well as: PrerequisitesĪs any software VMware Fusion has as well some requirements. We will run as well our first virtual machine. In Today post I will guide you through VMware Fusion installation on macOS operating system. Every release of the products brought nice enhancements and features which makes life easier with virtualizing on local PC’s.

VMware Workstation and later on VMware Fusion (once I moved to macOS from Windows) were one of the first VMware products I used in my virtualization journey.

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