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VMware Fusion on an old MacBook 7.1 2010 with OCLP Sequoia 15.5 (Intel chip)

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Which version should work on this machine? I've tried 10.1.3 and 13.5.2 and both refuse to work. There is a prompt saying I have an unsupported CPU on both versions. On 13.5.2 when I try starting up the VM it just says "failed to power on virtual machine" and so on, without any logs anywhere. On 10.1.3 it says "Unable to retrieve kernel symbols. Failed to initialise monitor device." I ran first help on my tom and there were no mistakes. What should I do? I need to run Windows XP on this machine by any means, I have another thread in which I describe my issues with Virtualbox which was working fine (6.1 version) on this very machine with Sonoma installed. Now that I've upgraded to Sequoia I can't seem to make any VM to work for me. Although, I haven't tried VMware Fusion on the Sonoma because I thought it's tied to Metal rendering only (which it isn't) The chip belongs to the Penryn family as far as I understand, doesn't it mean that 10.x versions should work on it?
Asked by scissors scissors (1 rep)
Jun 28, 2025, 04:13 PM
Last activity: Jun 28, 2025, 04:34 PM