Hey, wondering if anyone knows if there is a way to get VMWare 10 to work on a Mac Pro 3,1 running High Sierra. Seems it doesn't support Legacy CPUs.
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Is there a way to get VMWare 10 to work on Legacy CPU (MP 3,1) running High Sierra?
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There may be. Go to Virtual Machine > Settings > Compatibility and downgrade your compatibility and see if that helps.
Change the Hardware Compatibility of a Virtual Machine
The latest virtual machine hardware version available yields the best performance and most reliable behavior from the applications running in your virtual machine.
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That's a separate issue altogether. The actual Fusion application has specific CPU requirements that the 2008 Mac Pro doesn't have.
I am running Fusion 11.5.1 on High Sierra on a MacBook Air mid 2011. The machine was created on another machine compatible with Catalina. I had to force OpenGL with the following VMX lines:
mks.enableMTLRenderer = "0"
mks.enableGLRenderer = "1"
Fusion 11 forces Metal, which breaks some acceleration on the older GPU in this machine and caused weird memory errors.
I did a Google search on this and found this site: https://macops.ca/using-vmware-fusion-10-on-old-mac-pro-intel-cpus/
I haven't tried it so I can't say if it actually works or not.
I haven't tried it so I can't say if it actually works or not.