{"id":29472,"date":"2020-07-09T16:28:53","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T20:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=29472"},"modified":"2020-07-09T16:28:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T20:28:53","slug":"vmware-fusion-tech-preview-for-big-sur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/09\/vmware-fusion-tech-preview-for-big-sur\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware Fusion Tech Preview for Big Sur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.vmware.com\/teamfusion\/2020\/07\/fusion-big-sur-tech-preview.html\">Michael Roy<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VMwareFusion\/status\/1280902079792332800\">tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/blogs.vmware.com\/teamfusion\/2020\/07\/fusion-big-sur-tech-preview.html\"><p>Big Sur brings with it some really <em>big<\/em> visual changes, but also major changes under the hood. For instance, Apple has been progressively deprecating 3rd party Kernel Extensions or &ldquo;kexts&rdquo; which Fusion needs to run VMs and containers. In order to continue to operate in this model, we&rsquo;ve re-architected our hypervisor stack to leverage Apple&rsquo;s native hypervisor APIs, allowing us to run VMs <em>without any kernel extensions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On macOS Catalina systems, Fusion operates as it always has using kernel extensions to provide functionality. However on Big Sur systems, Fusion operates entirely without kexts.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>This Tech Preview supports macOS Big Sur 11.0 Beta 2 for both Host and Guest.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mikeroySoft\/status\/1280955831073140737\">Michael Roy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mikeroySoft\/status\/1280955831073140737\">\n<p>Mojave is explicitly not supported. The next major version of Fusion will deprecate Mojave hosts.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>See also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mrmacintosh.com\/how-to-install-macos-big-sur-beta-on-vmware-fusion-parallels-desktop\/\">How To Install macOS Big Sur Beta on VMware Fusion &amp; Parallels Desktop<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@twister.mr\/installing-macos-to-virtualbox-1fcc5cf22801\">Installing MacOS to VirtualBox<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/03\/vmware-fusion-10-on-macos-catalina\/\">VMware Fusion 10 on macOS Catalina<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Roy (tweet): Big Sur brings with it some really big visual changes, but also major changes under the hood. For instance, Apple has been progressively deprecating 3rd party Kernel Extensions or &ldquo;kexts&rdquo; which Fusion needs to run VMs and containers. In order to continue to operate in this model, we&rsquo;ve re-architected our hypervisor stack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-07-09T20:28:56Z","apple_news_api_id":"052052aa-8886-4bb0-9889-0330a6ff4f73","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-07-09T20:28:56Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ABSBSqoiGS7CYiQMwpv9Pcw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[828,30,1609,1666,1891,29],"class_list":["post-29472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-kernel-extensions","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-14","tag-macos-10-15","tag-macos-11-0","tag-vmware"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29473,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29472\/revisions\/29473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}