Unable to Installing VMware Fusion Player 13 on MacBook 13 M2

This fixed it for me:

1) open terminal

2) sudo rm -rf "~/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion"

Might have been some other Fusion files in ~Library/Application Support/ that I also deleted, but the above was the one that finally got the installation to be able to complete.

I had this exact issue, turns out I had a couple of stray massive files and my storage was full. Took me 20 minutes to realize, but I deleted them and it's going through with initialization now.

akd_mac Said:

"Unable to Installing VMware Fusion Player 13 on MacBook 13 M2: I'm writing to report a problem I've encountered while attempting to install VMware Fusion Player 13 with a Personal Use License on my MacBook 13 M2.[...]"

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Installing VMWare Fusion on a Silicon Mac:

VMWare Fusion software is incompatible with Silicon chips. Parallels has found a workaround, but VMWare Fusion is still in the midst of fixing this (and it's been years). So, I am using my Intel-based MacBook Pro until this is fixed).

VMware Fusion Player 13 supposedly supports Apple Silicon – so it may be a Sonoma issue, rather than an Apple Silicon one, per se.

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2088571 suggests that you need Fusion 13.5 for Sonoma support.

https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2023/10/fusion-13-5-is-live.html suggests that Fusion 13.5 came out on the 19th of October, three days after the OP (who appears to have a M2 MacBook Air running Sonoma) said that the installation had failed.

Google search for "vmware fusion 13 sonoma" brings up several hits suggesting that early versions of Fusion 13 didn't work with Sonoma.

Conclusion: OP may want to download the latest version of VMware Fusion Player (which will be 13.5 or better) and see if it works better than the previous one did.