I'm a big fan of VMware Fusion, which lets you run any Intel-friendly operating system within its sandbox on your Macintosh system. From Windows XP to Linux and more, there are quite a few different systems you can run on your Apple hardware with VMware Fusion.
The problem? Sometimes these upgrades hiccup and things glitch.
The error you've seen is the same error I saw when I recently upgraded VMware Fusion, so I know what you're talking about, and know how to fix it too.
You were seeing this:
The solution? Believe it or not, you need to uninstall and reinstall VMware Fusion.
Start by clicking on the "uninstall" icon on the virtual drive:
It warns you about what you're about to do:
Notice that the virtual machines are untouched. That's good.
Continue and you'll be asked to enter your admin password:
Do that correctly and it'll start uninstalling:
Shortly thereafter (it really doesn't take long) you'll find that you've uninstalled VMware Fusion:
Now go back to the virtual disk and click on "Install" again. Agree to the license terms and default configuration and you'll be installing yet another version of VMware Fusion in no time:
Once it's installed, if you try starting up the virtual machine again you'll still see that warning about the virtual machine being out of date, but this time when you click past the window you'll see:
A few seconds later, voila! You're running your virtual machine, just as you desire.
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Mac OS X Help
(Article 8789,
Written by
Dave Taylor)
Tagged:
microsoft windows xp, parallels desktop, vmware fusion
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I appreciate your blog, and for this I'm buying you a cuppa. So far, I've just listened in the background, but I feel compelled to comment on this post. I'm surprised to read you are such a big fan of VMWare Fusion. I've been a software developer for many years, and I keep my husband's attorney practice running on a small network of Macs. A few pieces of software for attorneys run only on PCs. So, a year ago, I purchased a couple copies of VMWare Fusion. It caused us nothing but headaches. On one machine, the virtual machine repeatedly became corrupt. I can't tell you the number of times I reinstalled before I gave up. The clincher for us was that not all of the windows software we needed to run would run under Fusion. When I called for support from the software company they said, "You must be running under fusion, it offers us no end of headaches." After much frustration I switched to Parallels and we've never looked back. All the software I have ever tried runs, and we've never had a problem with corrupt virtual machines or problems with upgrades. Everything I read also indicates that the performance of Parallels is superior to Fusion. So I'm curious, what makes you a big Fusion fan. Am I missing something?