How to upgrade from VMWare Fusion PLAYER to PRO?

[Mais78]

Hi, I have Fusion Player on my Mac and I would like to upgrade to Pro now that it is free. I am reading inconsistent advice on how to upgrade. Some web articles simply say to delete the licence key et voila, some others suggest a more complex upgrade that involves uninstalling, delete manually a bunch of files and re-installing Pro.

Any advice from people that have successfully upgraded from Player?
Thanks

 

[chrfr]

Hi, I have Fusion Player on my Mac and I would like to upgrade to Pro now that it is free. I am reading inconsistent advice on how to upgrade. Some web articles simply say to delete the licence key et voila, some others suggest a more complex upgrade that involves uninstalling, delete manually a bunch of files and re-installing Pro.

Any advice from people that have successfully upgraded from Player?
Thanks

Do you have version 13.6.3? Broadcom provides this document on making the switch too: https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/367660/migrating-from-player-edition-to-pro-edi.html
Otherwise I'd start by removing the various files linked in the second document that Broadcom has about manually uninstalling Fusion and starting over.
Edit: according to the VMware Fusion product manager you should be able to make the change simply by deleting the file /Library/Preferences/VMware\ Fusion/license-fusion-13* Where the actual file name will have a longer name than that "license-fusion-13..." See here: https://www.mikeroysoft.com/post/convert-player-to-pro/

 

[Mais78]

Those are exactly the inconsistencies I found. The first link you provided is the "complicated and long" way. The second one is the easy peasy way. Did you (or anyone else) successufully try the latter?
Thanks

 

[chrfr]

Those are exactly the inconsistencies I found. The first link you provided is the "complicated and long" way. The second one is the easy peasy way. Did you (or anyone else) successufully try the latter?
Thanks

The second method is from the Fusion project manager. I’m sure he knows what he’s talking about.

 

[Mais78]

I would assume so, but then it is unclear why Broadcom itself is advising to use a way more convoluted method

 

[chrfr]

I would assume so, but then it is unclear why Broadcom itself is advising to use a way more convoluted method

You’re overthinking this. Just try deleting the one file and see what happens.

 

[mattspace]

I would assume so, but then it is unclear why Broadcom itself is advising to use a way more convoluted method

Because Broadcom are incompetent idiots whose stewardship of VMWare (especially their new forums for the product) is a disaster?

Always bet on stupid.