I also like going to cmd center. If you have the four-finger gesture turned on, you can four-finger up on the touchpad, which will show you all the vmware windows, and allow you to pick. Kind of sweet.
In my VMware Fusion 6 installation, the vmnet-dhcpd daemon writes its leases to the files /var/db/vmware/vmnet-dhcpd-vmnetX.leases, where "X" is 1 and 8. Empirically :-) I established that it is vmnet8 that I should look for. Here is an excerpt from the lease file /var/db/vmware/vmnet-dhcpd-vmnet8.leases:
Ah, ok. Well that's good news then. I've been able to install older operating systems before as virtual machines.
If I'm not mistaken, when Ive had issues in the past using the installer from the App Store, Ive used the instructions in this blog article to create an ISO to use for installation: -big-sur-on-vmware-fusion-12/
I downloaded the latest trial version of VMware fusion and imported the virtual Vista machine. I started Vista and it needed a lot of new hardware drivers. Windows updates had to installed although this was not the case under parallels.After the updates I had a working system. Imported Ubuntu and this was working fine.
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