For a technical forum audience, I'd make it more concise and let the humor support the point rather than dominate it:
The purpose of this post is to check whether my understanding is correct, because the news I'm seeing seems almost too good to be true.
Is it now possible to run VMware Fusion on macOS Sequoia 15.6 (with assistance from OpenCore Legacy Patcher) on a Mac Pro 5,1?
My system:
My workaround has been macOS Sequoia with OpenCore Legacy Patcher and Parallels Desktop as the hypervisor. Parallels has performed extremely well, and I have no complaints about the product itself. However, the annual subscription cost is difficult to ignore, especially when virtualization is one of the primary reasons I keep this machine running.
Today I am seeing information that appears to indicate VMware Fusion is once again usable on Intel Mac Pros running modern versions of macOS.
If that is correct, it would be excellent news.
Am I understanding this correctly?
Can VMware Fusion now be installed and used successfully on a Mac Pro 5,1 running macOS Sequoia 15.6 via OpenCore Legacy Patcher, alongside or in place of Parallels Desktop?
If anyone is currently running this configuration, I would appreciate hearing about your experience.
The purpose of this post is to check whether my understanding is correct, because the news I'm seeing seems almost too good to be true.
Is it now possible to run VMware Fusion on macOS Sequoia 15.6 (with assistance from OpenCore Legacy Patcher) on a Mac Pro 5,1?
My system:
- Mac Pro 5,1 (2012)
- 2 TB NVMe SSD
- 2 × 16 TB HDD
- Dual 6-core 3.33 GHz Xeons
- AMD Radeon RX 580 8 GB
- 64 GB DDR3 RAM
- Fans that still turn on
- Original power supply that has not yet caught fire (knock on wood)
- Various mysterious internal components whose purpose may be known only to Apple
My workaround has been macOS Sequoia with OpenCore Legacy Patcher and Parallels Desktop as the hypervisor. Parallels has performed extremely well, and I have no complaints about the product itself. However, the annual subscription cost is difficult to ignore, especially when virtualization is one of the primary reasons I keep this machine running.
Today I am seeing information that appears to indicate VMware Fusion is once again usable on Intel Mac Pros running modern versions of macOS.
If that is correct, it would be excellent news.
Am I understanding this correctly?
Can VMware Fusion now be installed and used successfully on a Mac Pro 5,1 running macOS Sequoia 15.6 via OpenCore Legacy Patcher, alongside or in place of Parallels Desktop?
If anyone is currently running this configuration, I would appreciate hearing about your experience.
