iMac Nightmare!

[IslandMan54]

Greetings,

About a month ago now, I updated my 2017 iMac from MacOS Catalina Version 10.15.6 to OS Ventura, as Apple kept pestering me to upload it what a mistake. I had "professional" help years ago setting this all up and thought I was ok.
After the update I was able to access the Windows 10 Partition in my VMware, briefly. I started to get all kinds of errors
The VMware just crashes when I attempt to open it now. I'd like to be able to get a backup of the VMware files on the disk so I can move them to another computer or get them working on this one.

Needless to say, the VMware is locked up now and I'm at a loss what to do. It's my business PC and I mostly used it with the VMware.
I can't even get the VMware to open anymore. I would like to know how to make a backup of the VMware as it's got all my corporate files as well as programs and drawings for clients. Can I do this with Vimalin software?

Thanks,
Dave

[wila]

Hi Dave,

Vimalin requires a version of VMware Fusion that works as it depends on VMware Fusion for a variety of its functionality.

Sounds to me that your version of VMware Fusion just doesn't support macOS Ventura.
As you might (or might not) know VMware Fusion is now free for both personal and business use and the way to resolve your problem is to upgrade to the latest version.

I just checked the Installation Requirements of VMware Fusion 13 and it includes macOS Ventura in the list.
So my recommendation would be to get a free license from VMware and upgrade to the latest and greatest version of VMware Fusion.

Hope this helps,
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Wil

[IslandMan54]

Hi Dave,

Vimalin requires a version of VMware Fusion that works as it depends on VMware Fusion for a variety of its functionality.

Sounds to me that your version of VMware Fusion just doesn't support macOS Ventura.
As you might (or might not) know VMware Fusion is now free for both personal and business use and the way to resolve your problem is to upgrade to the latest version.

I just checked the Installation Requirements of VMware Fusion 13 and it includes macOS Ventura in the list.
So my recommendation would be to get a free license from VMware and upgrade to the latest and greatest version of VMware Fusion.

Hope this helps,
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Wil

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Hi willa,

Thanks for the response. I am running iMac OS Catalina 10.15.6 not Ventura. As I cannot get VMware to run on the iMac at the moment I can't tell what version of Fusion I am running to use windows.
My worry is losing all my client documents installing a newer version of VMware.

Thanks,
Dave

[wila]

My worry is losing all my client documents installing a newer version of VMware.

Thanks,
Dave

Hi,

In this case you can compare VMware Fusion to Microsoft Word and your Virtual Machine to MS Office documents.
Upgrading Microsoft Word does not delete your existing Office documents.
Similarly updating VMware Fusion does not delete existing Virtual Machines.
So your VM's should not be in danger by upgrading to a newer version of VMware Fusion.

If you want to make a backup of your virtual machine then locate the virtual machine and copy it to an external disk in its entirety. This assumes that you're technical enough to do so.

You can also try doing this with Vimalin, but it might complain depending on how broken your existing VMware Fusion install is.
If it works, then Vimalin will report that the backup is OK, Vimalin will certainly complain if it could not make the backup.
Also if Vimalin doesn't work, then please use the "Create support bundle" option in the Help menu and attach that bundle to a reply here so I can give you more specific details on making the backup manually.

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Wil