Mac users worldwide rejoiced as Apple released the public general availability of OS X 10.11 El Capitan today. As with all major OS updates, often the question isn’t simply “Should I upgrade?”, but rather “Should I upgrade right now or wait until the first point release?”. The community has had the time to dig into El Capitan with great reviews from,,, and others.

The reviewers are generally saying the same thing: Upgrade today, it’s worth it. This decision is of course going to be different for every user depending on their needs.

Folks with mission critical applications that they depend on tend to be more hesitant when risking the stability of their systems. Other folks however can tolerate the occasional bug. When we released VMware Fusion 8 and Fusion 8 Pro, we announced that we would fully support El Capitan, and we’re making good on that promise. Recently we were somewhat surprised by a late change to El Capitan that was preventing the installation of El Capitan in a virtual machine, which I wrote about on my personal blog. We had a fix, but it wasn’t an ideal situation and I personally am not a fan of telling users to replace components within the Fusion application package itself.

El Capitan now available and fully supported! Games like ragnarok online for mac. In El Capitan, the thunderbolt adapter is set to “OFF” so that the macbook does not try to get an ip address or participate in the business LAN. The VM bridges on that adapter and DOES get an IP address working normally. VMWare Fusion 4.1.4 is unsupported after my upgrade to Mac OS X 10.

So, we felt this was kind of a big deal, and we released a fix yesterday by way of Fusion 8.0.1 to make sure that users who want to test the latest and greatest in a virtual machine were going to have the experience they expect: It just works. Users who have 8.0 installed should be getting a push notification about the available update, and we’ll be making updates to our web downloads shortly. VMware Fusion 8 continues to make it easy to run the latest operating systems, and with 8.0.1 you can rest assured that not only does it run great on El Capitan, but that El Capitan also runs great as a virtual machine in VMware Fusion. Congratulations to Apple on this fantastic release! Rich Billig I upgraded to El Capitan (OS X 10.11) on a late-model MacBook Pro Retina, yesterday, and have generally been very pleased with El Capitan. However, I am having a problem with a Windows 8.1 (x64) virtual machine running under VMware Fusion 7.1.2, in particular with USB drivers. I have several development tools that I must run in the Win 8.1 environment, and they were operating just fine prior to the switchover to El Capitan.

One of these USB devices is a licensing dongle for the development tool in question, but the problem is not restricted to that USB device. I confirm that the USB devices are attached to the VM, before starting that tool under Win 8.1, but it then complains that the USB dongle is not found. If I go up to the VMware bar, and remove the USB devices from the VM by clicking on their icons, and they appear to remove, but clicking on them a second time to reconnect gives the message ‘”Rainbow USB Superpro” is already connected to another virtual machine’. Is this something that would be corrected by Fusion 8? Any wisdom on this point would be appreciated. I can report the same problem as Rich has identified. Upgraded from Yosemite to El Captain and the USB drive that is set up for automatic attachment on boot up of a Windows 10 virtual machine does not work.