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How to run VMware Fusion in Catalinia on unsupported hardware (e.g. MacPro 3.1) v2

Feb 23rd, 2022
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  1. How to run VMware Fusion Version 8 in Catalinia on unsupported hardware (e.g. MacPro 3.1)
  2. ** V2 - Updated 23 Feb 2022 **
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  4. Due to security restrictions in Catalina VM's show a black screen when running.
  5. Fusion needs "Screen Recording" permission in Catalina
  6. There is no manual way (ie: + sign) to add Fusion
  7. This script will add Fusion to "Screen Recording".
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  9. 1) Check that SIP is disabled - "csrutil status".
  10. If enabled, disable it (https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=mac+os+disable+sip&ia=web)
  11. 2) Check that GateKeeper is disabled - "spctl --status"
  12. If enabled, disable it - "sudo spctl --master-disable"
  13. 3) Download vm-fix.sh from here - https://pastebin.com/d5d6hFsB
  14. 4) Make vm-fix.sh executable - chmod 755 vm-fix.sh
  15. 5) Run vm-fix.sh - sudo ./vm-fix.sh
  16. 6) Test Fusion
  17. 7) enable GateKeeper (OPTIONAL) - "sudo spctl --master-enable"
  18.  
  19. Enjoy Fusion
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