Fusion with MacOS accessibility features

[Cory Samaha]

Hi All,

Late last year I posted in the VMWare communities, that Windows 11 VM wouldn't boot under MacOS Sonoma. Turns out the problem was because I had accessibility features enabled (VoiceOver) - thanks to @technogeezer for the help on that. I'm having trouble finding that thread now because of the Broadcom migration. Anyway, I was wondering if this is still a problem with Sonoma and more importantly, how the overall support is for running Fusion with Sequoia as the host OS? I realize Fusion 13.6 was just released with Sequoia support. Does anyone know if the accessibility issues with running Fusion under MacOS 14 or higher with accessibility features has improved? I have since reverted back to Ventura because of this problem, but with a new MacOS release around the corner, I think it's time to revisit / upgrade if possible. Thank you all so much!

Kind Regards

[Julia Klaus]

Ho Cory, 

Let me help you to find those threads, 

Do you happen to have a link or topic title? 

Thanks, 

[Julia Klaus]

I'm sorry, Cory,

I didn't remove your thread; after I had answered you, I went back to check
and didn't find your message anymore. Perhaps the moderation and GTO
flagged something and removed it.

I see it here in my email history:

"Hi All,

Late last year I posted in the VMWare communities, that Windows 11 VM
wouldn't boot under MacOS Sonoma. Turns out the problem was because I had
accessibility features enabled (VoiceOver) - thanks to @technogeezer for
the help on that. I'm having trouble finding that thread now because of the
Broadcom migration. Anyway, I was wondering if this is still a problem with
Sonoma and more importantly, how the overall support is for running Fusion
with Sequoia as the host OS? I realize Fusion 13.6 was just released with
Sequoia support. Does anyone know if the accessibility issues with running
Fusion under MacOS 14 or higher with accessibility features has improved? I
have since reverted back to Ventura because of this problem, but with a new
MacOS release around the corner, I think it's time to revisit / upgrade if
possible. Thank you all so much!

Kind Regards"

Is it your message? Feel free to resubmit and let me know; I will gladly
approve it,

Thanks,

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> Original Message:
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> From: Cory Samaha
> Subject: Fusion with MacOS accessibility features
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> Hi All,
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> Late last year I posted in the VMWare communities, that Windows 11 VM
> wouldn't boot under MacOS Sonoma. Turns out the problem was because I had
> accessibility features enabled (VoiceOver) - thanks to @technogeezer for
> the help on that. I'm having trouble finding that thread now because of the
> Broadcom migration. Anyway, I was wondering if this is still a problem with
> Sonoma and more importantly, how the overall support is for running Fusion
> with Sequoia as the host OS? I realize Fusion 13.6 was just released with
> Sequoia support. Does anyone know if the accessibility issues with running
> Fusion under MacOS 14 or higher with accessibility features has improved? I
> have since reverted back to Ventura because of this problem, but with a new
> MacOS release around the corner, I think it's time to revisit / upgrade if
> possible. Thank you all so much!
>
> Kind Regards
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[Cory Samaha]

Hi @Julia Klaus

Yes, that was my original message. It does seem to be showing up on the Fusion forum now, for me at least. I'm not sure if I'm the only one who can see it or if it is visible to everyone, though. I believe Jason said he restored it to the community last night though and it appears that it is in fact restored. If I do need to repost the original however, please just let me know. I did not mean to double post, so if that was the reason for its removal, my apologies. Thank you so much for following up and your assistance!

Kind Regards,

Cory

[Technogeezer]

@Cory Samaha I'll save you some time trying to look up that old thread.  

The issues with VMs failing to boot when macOS accessibility features (VoiceOver, etc.) are enabled was fixed in Sonoma 14.4. It was an Apple problem (no Fusion updates were needed to fix the issue).

I just re-verified that VMs could boot with VoiceOver enabled on Fusion 13.6 running under Sonoma 14.6.1 -- no problems. 

I didn't run the Sequoia betas, but I'm intending to upgrade when Sequoia gets released next week. Unless Apple broke or changed something again, I don't anticipate a problem. But I'll let you know what I find.

Just note that 13.6 is the first Fusion release that will officially support Sequoia. 

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- Paul (technogeezer)
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[Cory Samaha]

Hi @Technogeezer

Thank you so much, this is super helpful! I will try Sequoia next week but I'm glad to hear this was fixed already. It's hard to find info about Apple bugs like this, so your knowledge on Fusion and MacOS is invaluable as always.

Best Regards,

Cory

[Technogeezer]

It looks like Fusion 13.6 works under Sequoia when VoiceOver is enabled. No VM crash on power-on.

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