Download and Install VMware Fusion

Products

• VMware Desktop Hypervisor
• VMware Fusion

Issue/Introduction

When attempting to download and/or install VMware Fusion, the following symptoms appear:

• Unable to download VMware Fusion
• The download stops intermittently or does not complete
• Auto-update to the new version of Fusion fails
• The Fusion installer .dmg does not mount or install
• The serial number is not accepted and the following error appears:

  "Invalid Serial Number"

For more information on uninstalling Fusion, refer to How to uninstall VMware Fusion Manually.

For more information on upgrading Fusion, refer to How to Upgrade VMware Fusion.

Resolution

Before downloading and installing VMware Fusion

Make sure the system meets Fusion's System Requirements and that the Guest OS is supported. Refer to Supported Guest Operating Systems for more information.

Note: The download for VMware Fusion is common for both Standard and Professional versions. The license key differentiates the products.

Download VMware Fusion

The following table provides links to the download locations of VMware Fusion Pro and VMware Workstation Pro.  Please refer to the downloads labeled with "for Personal Use" at the end of the product name if a license does not exist.

 

Note: In order to access the following locations, either register or login with the appropriate Broadcom Support Portal accounts. For information on registering for a basic account, please refer to the following KB article: Register for an account on the Broadcom Support Portal and Communities

Product	Download Link
VMware Fusion Pro	Click Here
VMware Workstation Pro	Click Here

 

Licensing Information: No license key is required for Personal Use.  When installing either application, at the License Key section, select for Personal Use.  

Install VMware Fusion

Notes:

• Multiple versions of VMware Fusion can exist on one Mac, but they must be named differently. For example, Fusion 13 named 'VMware Fusion' and Fusion 12 named 'VMware Fusion 12' within the /Applications folder.
• Note that the same .DMG can be used to install Fusion on both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs. However, this universal DMG does not enable Apple Silicon Macs to run x86 operating systems or vice-versa.

After the download completes, open the folder where the file was downloaded. The default location is the Downloads folder for the user account on the Mac (Finder > Downloads). Double-click the downloaded file to start the installation.

Alert: Installing Fusion 13 automatically removes any older versions of Fusion and replaces them with the new version.

1. Double-click the VMware Fusion icon or drag it to the Applications folder. This removes any older version and installs the new version.
2. At the "application downloaded from the internet" warning, click Open.
3. If an older version of Fusion is running, a warning may appear to indicate this. Quit the older version of Fusion after shutting down all virtual machines.
4. At the next prompt, enter the Mac OS administrator password for a one-time setup.
5. After the initialization completes, at the license agreement view, click Agree to proceed.
6. Enter the Mac OS administrator password when prompted.

After Fusion Installation

VMware Fusion gets installed in the Applications folder and can be started from there.

After installing Fusion, create a virtual machine and install an operating system (such as Windows or Linux) inside that virtual machine. This installation must come from an ISO disk image (.iso).