Bypass VMware 8.1.0 one-time setup administrator privelages.

I would normally run a snapshot in Composer to find out what files / folders are being modified / added.

Once you have that information you can decide how best to proceed.

Before doing that it would be worth checking out the VMWare KB article about fusion deployment:

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2058680

Sorry, I'm not actually very adept at any of this "stuff". If someone could offer a tutorial that's easy to follow it would be greatly appreciated. Although I'm having doubts about the plausibility of this in the first place...

@Alpal I understand certain things come easier to some than others. But that link literally has ALL the steps you need to take to create a deployable VMware Fusion package.

Once you have that package ready then you can deploy it via Casper. Upload it via Casper Admin and then make a policy that installs that package.

This method won't prompt admin password then?

Correct.

Here's something I wrote a while back. It pulls a licence from an EA in the JSS and registers VMWare with it. Has worked very well for me and maybe could be modified for your use?

VMWare Serialiser

How would I make use of this code. Also, as the full dmg including the virtual machine was emailed to me by a teacher at my school, I'm not actually sure if I have a license key (which is necessary in the vmware selfservice method.

@franton Is that a method that executes vmware fusion a different way?

Thanks

I'm not on 8.1 yet (still 8.0), but I run this after install (with Casper, as root) and users are not prompted for administrative privileges:

#!/bin/bash

/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/Initialize VMware Fusion.tool set

I'm having this same issue with Catalina 10.15.7; I tried @bvrooman 's suggestion but my users are still experiencing the issue.

#!/bin/bash

/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library/Initialize VMware Fusion.tool set

Just wanted to say THANK YOU. I know this thread is like 6 years old, but i have been struggling with patching Fusion and getting around the admin prompt on first launch as all of our users do not have admin rights. This worked perfect with Fusion 12.2.3.

Tested with VMware Fusion 13 and confirmed this works still. Thank you all!

Hi Guys

I also tested the solution from bvrooman. But I am not able to run the script with this command. The command/script is not really running. Testing it locally terminal stays in a loop.

Testing it via command or script via jamf pro i receive an error:

Tested also the guide from VMWare/Broadcom for mass deployment but also not luck from my side

Creating a VMware Fusion mass deployment package (broadcom.com) Anyone an idea?

Hey guys sorry I'm a bit late the chase but I tried @davidacland's article, and this was all I got: 

The requested URL /selfservice/microsites/search.do was not found on this server.

I've tried a vpn, different network, even wayback machine but nobody recorded the website, can somebody please help and send me the instructions that were in the article?