VMWare Fusion 13.5

[VMware Community Member]

Running Windows 10 on a 2017 iMac. When starting the following error message appears before the program then opens fully.

serial: Parameter "serial. fileType" has an invalid value

"thinprint"

Virtual device 'serial' will start disconnected.

Unable to process CD-ROM device 'cdromO': No such file or directory.

Virtual device 'sata0:1' will start disconnected.

Please advise what I might need to change to stop this message appearing.

[Nathan Savolskis]

Can you share what VMs you seem to have running or auto-starting in Fusion?

Also betting Technogeezer will weigh in, he's got deep experience with Fusion.

[VMware Community Member]

Hi,

I am including a screenshot of what appears when I open VMWare Fusion 13.5 on my iMac running g Mac OS Ventura 13.6.4.

I thought that it would be just a normal update from a previous version and not sure what needs to be done to stop this warning appearing each time.

Once opened, the program works well.

Regards,

ymugmike

[RDPetruska]

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 wrote:

Running Windows 10 on a 2017 iMac. When starting the following error message appears before the program then opens fully.

serial: Parameter "serial. fileType" has an invalid value

"thinprint"

Virtual device 'serial' will start disconnected.

Unable to process CD-ROM device 'cdromO': No such file or directory.

Virtual device 'sata0:1' will start disconnected.

Please advise what I might need to change to stop this message appearing.

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In the VM's settings, remove the 'virtual printer' device.  ThinPrint was removed in 13.5 and newer, per the release notes.

[Technogeezer]

See VMware KB article https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/95329 for instructions on how to remove this warning. You can't do it from the VM's Settings in Fusion 13.5 like you can for Workstation 17.5. 

[VMware Community Member]

Thank you for the link that will need some quality time to check through and sort out.

ymugmike