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toby
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8 years ago
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macOS 10.13 High Sierra + VMware Fusion 10 + Homestead/Vagrant

Hi!

I Just installed a fresh copy of High Sierra and I'm currently rebuilding my dev env. I also updated my VMware Fusion from 8 Pro to 10.

So I installed VMware Fusion 10, Vagrant 2.0.0, added the license for the vmware-vagrant plugin (bought back in 2015) added the Homestead box (laravel/homestead vmware_desktop, 3.1.0) and if I try to boot up homestead, I get the following error:

The file which defines networking interfaces for VMware Fusion
could not be found. Please verify Fusion is installed properly
and try again. If this problem persists, please contact
support.

Before updating my dev env, everything worked (but with macOS Sierra, VMware Fusion 8 Pro instead of 10 NON-Pro and with an older Vagrant version...)

Do you have any advise/tips?

Thanks in advance!!

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aspraveen's avatar

Hi,

I am also facing exactly same issue now with the same versions of OS, vagrant and Fusion.

Have you found any solution for it?

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toby
OP
8 years ago
Level 31

Hi!

I actually had a webex session with a very kind technical support person from VMWare.

The problem seems to be the Metal2 engine which caused the error. So, the *.vmx files needed to be updated and the “change graphics card” setting in macOS settings needed to be turned off.

I also DID NOT accept the security changes in the macOS settings, but you need to accept this!

After doing this, I was able to start a regular VM, but vagrant didn’t start because the Vagrant VMware Provider is not compatible with v10 :(

But there is an update for VMWare: 10.0.1 which addresses the graphics issue. I will post the email which I got for further information:

Hello Tobias,

We are glad to inform you that the Metal rendering issue with VMware Fusion 10.0 is resolved and the fix is included in the update VMware Fusion 10.0.1

We request you to download and install the update and revert the changes we made to work around the issue as per the instructions below:

  1. Download and install the Updates from Fusion Settings. Note: To select updates from Fusion, launch VMware Fusion and click on VMware Fusion on the top Menu Bar, in the drop down select Check for updates. https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Fusion/10.0/com.vmware.fusion.using.doc/GUID-3E708127-E0C2-446C-B808-943FD91E728D.html

  2. Locate the Virtual Machine's files. • For more information, see: Locating the virtual machine bundle in VMware Fusion (1007599)

  3. Open the virtual machine's configuration file (.vmx) using a text editor. • For more information, see: Editing the .vmx file for your VMware Fusion virtual machine (1014782)

  4. Find and remove the below line (No worries if this line is not included in the .vmx file and proceed with step 5)

     mks.enableMTLRenderer = "0"

  5. Save and Close the .vmx file.

  6. Launch Fusion and verify 3D Graphics Acceleration is enabled under Virtual Machines Settings -> Display

  7. Power on the Virtual Machine

Please feel free to reply to this email if you have any issues. We will be glad to assist you.

Thanks,

aspraveen's avatar

Thanks for your kind reply @toby I will try the fix. So ultimately were you able to run vagrant?

aspraveen's avatar

Every thing worked fine after Hashicorp launched the new VMware plugin two days ago.

But still on HighSierra you need to give permission to VMware Fusion under System Preferences -> Privacy & Security while launching the vagrant up first time.

ejdelmonico's avatar

Fusion 10 definitely has issues. I wasted a whole day getting Kali installed and working properly and gave up on Ubuntu 16.04. For some reason, the only drivers to install are the microphone and therefore no desktop. I recommend you try Bridged connection with homestead instead of host.

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