
If you have a Late 2009 or 2010 Mac model then your Mac can run up to High Sierra but cannot run Fusion 10 or 11. You didn't mention which Mac model you have, but you should carefully check the system requirements, since they changed between Fusion 8.5 and 10.įusion 10 or 11 requires a 2011 or later Mac model, with special rules for the Mac Pro (must be a 2010/2012 Mac Pro with a 6-core or 8-core processor, not 4-core). Version 11.5 runs on macOS 10.13 High Sierra (later minor updates added support for 10.14 Mojave and limited support for Catalina). A Fusion 11 Professional licence would let you run Fusion 11.0.x or 11.5.x on a single computer. If you buy VMware Fusion 12 Professional (not Player), it includes the right to downgrade the licence to Fusion 11 Professional.

Fusion 12 requires macOS 10.15 Catalina or later. VMware only sells the current version of Fusion, which at present is Fusion 12 (Player or Professional). I decided to go for the 30-day trial to see if everything would work and installed the latest VMware Fusion 8.5.

Unfortunately my 6.x license could not be used for 8.5.

That explicitly states that Sierra is supported. As far as I'm aware, there is no longer any way to get a new or upgrade licence for Fusion 10 - that version was discontinued several years ago. So, I thought Id go and check the compatibility matrix for the 8.5 version of Fusion.
