updating VMWare fusion

By Tayo, 22 November, 2022

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SO, the latest version of Fusion Player is out. My question is, how do I update? The learn more button is the default, but going there takes me to the store page, and I don't see a way to update. How do I update? I have fusion 12, and when i try to download the latest version, 12 is what shows up.

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By Mlth on Tuesday, November 29, 2022 - 05:44

Hi
If it's for personal use, you can get a free license.
You can follow the prompt after having downloaded the fusion trial from the VMware site, although you can't do it from the update dialog or the store page.

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Malthe

By Tayo on Tuesday, November 29, 2022 - 05:44

when I click the manually download button, no popup appears. I get all the way to the application itself, where the same update dialogue appears.

By Mlth on Tuesday, November 29, 2022 - 05:44

That's strange.
What I did was download the DMG of the trial from VMware's site, then I removed fusion 12 and copied in fusion 13.
Then I followed the prompts in fusion 13 to get the free license for personal use.
Do make sure to have a backup though, in case you want to revert for some reason.
You need a my VMware account to get the license. For some reason it didn't want to update my profile from within the registration page, so I had to do that on the my VMware site, then try the registration again.
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Malthe

By Tayo on Tuesday, November 29, 2022 - 05:44

could you do a podcast or recording of the steps you went through to do this?

By Igna Triay on Tuesday, November 29, 2022 - 05:44

Here's the download link for vmware fusion 13,
https://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/fusion-evaluation.html
Once you've replaced it in your applications folder, open it, and when prompted for a license, press the, get a free license button, that'll take you to the web site where you have to register for the free personal license.'

By Tayo on Tuesday, November 29, 2022 - 05:44

thanks everyone for the help, What I ended up doing was downloading the trial, registering and then copying the licensese key into the trial version. Thanks again for all the help.