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VMware Fading Logo appearing after Startup

PlanetMasta — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:44:41 GMT

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VMware Workstation 6.5.3 build 185404, new version available?

rcardona2k — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:06:51 GMT

The status has cleared itself up. No newer versions available now.

vCenter on Linux dumping core every 2 days for an offline ESX 3.5u4 host?

rcardona2k — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:35:56 GMT

In looking for the vpxd logs for an unrelated post below, I noticed vpxd is core dumping every two days. The vpxd.log and core file are 39 MB compressed so I have put them here: http://senduit.com/8d4620 (valid for one week from date of this posting).

The only host that is registered to this vCenter is offline at the moment. This looks like vCenter is attempting to heartbeat that ESX 3.5u4 host that is offline, here's the stack trace:

~~2009-06-25 00:35:05.045 'App' 72334224 verbose~~ VpxdHeartbeat Queuing 10.5.12.5:1444 (host-8)
~~2009-06-25 00:35:05.046 'App' 69176208 verbose~~ HeartbeatHandler 501803e4-25e6-eb2c-fd24-caa5c419f488:1444 (host-8)
~~2009-06-25 00:35:05.046 'App' 69176208 verbose~~ VpxdHostHeartbeat Need inventory sync for: host-8
~~2009-06-25 00:35:05.046 'App' 69176208 verbose~~ VpxdInvtHost Queuing sync LRO for: /vpx/host/#8/
~~2009-06-25 00:35:05.047 'App' 104094608 info~~ VpxLRO -- BEGIN task-internal-7502 -- host-8 -- VpxdInvtHostSyncHostLRO.Synchronize
~~2009-06-25 00:35:05.049 'App' 73386896 error~~

Exception: ASSERT /build/mts/release/bora-135580/bora/lib/vmdb/vmdbDb.c:2410

~~2009-06-25 00:35:05.055 'App' 73386896 error~~ Backtrace:
00 eip 0x8824d2 Vmacore::System::BacktracePosix::BacktracePosix()
01 eip 0x70abd4 Vmacore::System::SystemFactoryImpl::CreateBacktrace(Vmacore::Ref<Vmacore::System::Backtrace>&)
02 eip 0x6addb5 Vmacore::Throwable::Throwable(std::string const&)
03 eip 0x6ae6cc Vmacore::PanicExit(std::string const&)
04 eip 0x39de86 signed char*
05 eip 0x838348 unsigned long volatile
06 eip 0x832caa /usr/lib/vmware-vpx/libvmacore.so.1.1 0x832caa
07 eip 0x830e17 /usr/lib/vmware-vpx/libvmacore.so.1.1 0x830e17
08 eip 0x82e31f unsigned long volatile
09 eip 0x867a71b /usr/lib/vmware-vpx/vpxd 0x867a71b
10 eip 0x867c1d8 /usr/lib/vmware-vpx/vpxd 0x867c1d8
11 eip 0x8e5187d /usr/lib/vmware-vpx/vpxd 0x8e5187d
12 eip 0x5a92db /lib/libpthread.so.0 0x5a92db
13 eip 0xce612e char

~~2009-06-25 00:35:05.057 'App' 104094608 error~~

Exception: ASSERT /build/mts/release/bora-135580/bora/lib/vmdb/vmdbDb.c:2446

~~2009-06-25 00:35:05.060 'App' 104094608 error~~ Backtrace:
00 eip 0x8824d2 Vmacore::System::BacktracePosix::BacktracePosix()
01 eip 0x70abd4 Vmacore::System::SystemFactoryImpl::CreateBacktrace(Vmacore::Ref<Vmacore::System::Backtrace>&)
02 eip 0x6addb5 Vmacore::Throwable::Throwable(std::string const&)
03 eip 0x6ae6cc Vmacore::PanicExit(std::string const&)
04 eip 0x39de86 signed char*
05 eip 0x8383ee unsigned long volatile
06 eip 0x832d1a /usr/lib/vmware-vpx/libvmacore.so.1.1 0x832d1a
07 eip 0x830efb /usr/lib/vmware-vpx/libvmacore.so.1.1 0x830efb
08 eip 0x82e31f unsigned long volatile
09 eip 0x8560cd7 /usr/lib/vmware-vpx/vpxd 0x8560cd7
10 eip 0x86b2e50 /usr/lib/vmware-vpx/vpxd 0x86b2e50
11 eip 0x86b8c93 /usr/lib/vmware-vpx/vpxd 0x86b8c93
12 eip 0x867c107 /usr/lib/vmware-vpx/vpxd 0x867c107
13 eip 0x8e5187d /usr/lib/vmware-vpx/vpxd 0x8e5187d
14 eip 0x5a92db /lib/libpthread.so.0 0x5a92db
15 eip 0xce612e char

Receive email notifications or RSS, both broken!

rcardona2k — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:24:54 GMT

The setting is sticking now but I'm waiting for my first new thread email

Thanks for getting this working.

Refresh of vCenter on Linux

rcardona2k — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:58:40 GMT

I just installed the 2/22 bits and it's 6/10. Is there a planned refresh in the works soon? What can VMware say about the vCenter 4 version? External references also welcome.

Thanks

Migrating Fusion VM to Boot Camp - partially there

icemanmelb — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:36:51 GMT

Thanks for the Info Rich,

You must be a rocket scientist as my simple brain can't / won't go to that level of technical difficulties. I intend to take the simple way out.

1. Install New Windows XP System on BootCamp

2. Use import Users & settings feature once i mount Fusion VM in boot camp to migrate all my settings.

3. Install the few programs that I have.

I'll let you guys know how i go. Might be easier... I hope

Ice

PPTP VPN not connecting through Fusion NAT

asatoran — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:57:25 GMT

blackpearl wrote:
How do you edit the nat.conf files in order to connect VPN through Fusion NAT

Use a text editor like TextEdit to open vmnet-nat.conf. Take a look at the sections incomingtcp and incomingudp. But if you're trying to port forward PPtP, dont bother. AFAIK, VMWare NAT does not pass the needed GRE protocol. So PPtP only works with bridged, not NAT.

Controlling logging and tracing of VDDK?

sudarsan — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:36:16 GMT

Can you tell me where you see this problem (i.e. which function returns you the eqvt. error code)?

VixDiskLib logging is thru the logging function you pass back.

ESX logs are available on host at /var/log/VMware/hostd.log.

-Sudarsan

Fusion 2.0rc1 caused USB BSOD in XP SP3 with no USB devices

rcardona2k — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:02:57 GMT

Thanks - I should have mentioned that i do not have USB device sharing enabled via the RDP client. This is the RDPv6 client.

Fusion 1.1.2: Lost menubar

stainedart — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:02:22 GMT

I have also lost the menus from my vmware. I find this very unfortunate and I am hoping that anyone of you could have found a work around to the problem.

Kindest Regards,

Stained

Thanks for Fusion 2.0 beta 2

HPReg — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 12:31:42 GMT

Thanks guys! When you cheer for the product, it really makes our day here.

I would like to thank you in return: we are only able to make improvements that matter to you because you provide us with amazing feedback in these forums in the first place.

New machine wizard 'Continue without disk' v. Continue?

etung — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:03:08 GMT

If you insert a CD, we try to automatically detect the OS (same if you continue without disk and select an iso). If we can recognize it, we can fill in defaults for the OS.

I think Continue was supposed to be disabled if there was no CD present, I'll check.

Edit: Yep, it is supposed to be disabled. Filed a bug, thanks for reporting!

Processors menu item?

rcardona2k — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:28:34 GMT

Thanks Eric!

Consistency check and repair for sparse virtual disks

rcardona2k — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:01:04 GMT

There's a new feature for Fusion users hidden in the command-line vmware-vdiskmanager tool: you can check the consistency and repair sparse virtual disks. This feature is matching the same option added in Workstation 6.5 beta 2.

Example:
$ vmware-vdiskmanager -R ~rcardona/Documents/Virtual\ Machines/WinXP.vmwarevm/WinXP.vmdk
No errors were found on the virtual disk, '/Users/rcardona/Documents/Virtual Machines/WinXP.vmwarevm/WinXP.vmdk'.

Feature request: Please add a button in the virtual disk settings to run a consistency check/repair on the virtual disk, similar to 'Disk Cleanup' for shrinking virtual disks.

VMware Fusion rcardona$ ./vmware-vdiskmanager
VMware Virtual Disk Manager - build 107508.
Usage: vmware-vdiskmanager OPTIONS <disk-name> | <mount-point>
Offline disk manipulation utility
Operations, only one may be specified at a time:
-c : create disk. Additional creation options must
be specified. Only local virtual disks can be
created.
-d : defragment the specified virtual disk. Only
local virtual disks may be defragmented.
-k : shrink the specified virtual disk. Only local
virtual disks may be shrunk.
-n <source-disk> : rename the specified virtual disk; need to
specify destination disk-name. Only local virtual
disks may be renamed.
-p : prepare the mounted virtual disk specified by
the drive-letter for shrinking.
-r <source-disk> : convert the specified disk; need to specify
destination disk-type. For local destination disks
the disk type must be specified.
-x <new-capacity> : expand the disk to the specified capacity. Only
local virtual disks may be expanded.
-R : check a sparse virtual disk for consistency and attempt
to repair any errors.

Other Options:
-q : do not log messages

Additional options for create and convert:
-a <adapter> : (for use with -c only) adapter type
(ide, buslogic or lsilogic)
-s <size> : capacity of the virtual disk
-t <disk-type> : disk type id

Options for remote disks:
-h <hostname> : hostname of remote server
-u <username> : username for remote server
-f <filename> : file containing password
-P <port> : optional TCP port number (default: 902)
-S : specifies that the source disk is remote, by default
the remote options are assumed to refer to the
destination.
Disk types:
0 : single growable virtual disk
1 : growable virtual disk split in 2GB files
2 : preallocated virtual disk
3 : preallocated virtual disk split in 2GB files
4 : preallocated ESX-type virtual disk
5 : compressed disk optimized for streaming

The capacity can be specified in sectors, KB, MB or GB.
The acceptable ranges:
ide adapter : http://1MB, 950.0GB
scsi adapter: http://1MB, 950.0GB
ex 1: vmware-vdiskmanager -c -s 850MB -a ide -t 0 myIdeDisk.vmdk
ex 2: vmware-vdiskmanager -d myDisk.vmdk
ex 3: vmware-vdiskmanager -r sourceDisk.vmdk -t 0 destinationDisk.vmdk
ex 4: vmware-vdiskmanager -x 36GB myDisk.vmdk
ex 5: vmware-vdiskmanager -n sourceName.vmdk destinationName.vmdk
ex 6: vmware-vdiskmanager -r sourceDisk.vmdk -t 4 -h esx-name.mycompany.com \
-u username -f passwordfile "storage1/path/to/targetDisk.vmdk"
ex 7: vmware-vdiskmanager -k myDisk.vmdk
ex 8: vmware-vdiskmanager -p <mount-point>
(A virtual disk first needs to be mounted at <mount-point>)

VDDK refresh? (New feature in VMware Fusion 2.0 beta 2)

rcardona2k — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:30:28 GMT

The version of vmware-vdiskmanager in VMware Fusion 2.0 beta 2 indicates there's a sparse virtual disk consistency checker and repair virtual disk functionality. Will this be available in a VDDK refresh before or after WS6.5/Fusion 2.0 ships? Reference option '-R' in the vmware-vdiskmanager below. Thanks!

VMware Fusion rcardona$ ./vmware-vdiskmanager
VMware Virtual Disk Manager - build 107508.
Usage: vmware-vdiskmanager OPTIONS <disk-name> | <mount-point>
Offline disk manipulation utility
Operations, only one may be specified at a time:
-c : create disk. Additional creation options must
be specified. Only local virtual disks can be
created.
-d : defragment the specified virtual disk. Only
local virtual disks may be defragmented.
-k : shrink the specified virtual disk. Only local
virtual disks may be shrunk.
-n <source-disk> : rename the specified virtual disk; need to
specify destination disk-name. Only local virtual
disks may be renamed.
-p : prepare the mounted virtual disk specified by
the drive-letter for shrinking.
-r <source-disk> : convert the specified disk; need to specify
destination disk-type. For local destination disks
the disk type must be specified.
-x <new-capacity> : expand the disk to the specified capacity. Only
local virtual disks may be expanded.
-R : check a sparse virtual disk for consistency and attempt
to repair any errors.

Other Options:
-q : do not log messages

Additional options for create and convert:
-a <adapter> : (for use with -c only) adapter type
(ide, buslogic or lsilogic)
-s <size> : capacity of the virtual disk
-t <disk-type> : disk type id

Options for remote disks:
-h <hostname> : hostname of remote server
-u <username> : username for remote server
-f <filename> : file containing password
-P <port> : optional TCP port number (default: 902)
-S : specifies that the source disk is remote, by default
the remote options are assumed to refer to the
destination.
Disk types:
0 : single growable virtual disk
1 : growable virtual disk split in 2GB files
2 : preallocated virtual disk
3 : preallocated virtual disk split in 2GB files
4 : preallocated ESX-type virtual disk
5 : compressed disk optimized for streaming

The capacity can be specified in sectors, KB, MB or GB.
The acceptable ranges:
ide adapter : http://1MB, 950.0GB
scsi adapter: http://1MB, 950.0GB
ex 1: vmware-vdiskmanager -c -s 850MB -a ide -t 0 myIdeDisk.vmdk
ex 2: vmware-vdiskmanager -d myDisk.vmdk
ex 3: vmware-vdiskmanager -r sourceDisk.vmdk -t 0 destinationDisk.vmdk
ex 4: vmware-vdiskmanager -x 36GB myDisk.vmdk
ex 5: vmware-vdiskmanager -n sourceName.vmdk destinationName.vmdk
ex 6: vmware-vdiskmanager -r sourceDisk.vmdk -t 4 -h esx-name.mycompany.com \
-u username -f passwordfile "storage1/path/to/targetDisk.vmdk"
ex 7: vmware-vdiskmanager -k myDisk.vmdk
ex 8: vmware-vdiskmanager -p <mount-point>
(A virtual disk first needs to be mounted at <mount-point>)

How to register VMware Fusion 2.0 beta2?

etung — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:38:43 GMT

I think it gets shown a couple times, then takes the hint and stops. I don't see it anymore. In ~/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/preferences, I see:

pref.registrationViewed = "TRUE"
pref.registrationViewedCount = "3"

I'm not sure of the mechanics of how to actually register, I always skipped that part. I think it's the standard link-your-key-to-your-VMware-account.

Licensecheck warnings running vmrun?

rcardona2k — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:16:47 GMT

Thanks Eric. At least I can suppress the warnings by redirecting stderr to /dev/null

I created a wrapper vmrun which does vmrunquiet $@ 2> /dev/null and vmrunlog $@ 2>>vmrunerr.log this works like a champ!

Fusion 2.0b2: Stuck at 'Preparing VMware Fusion'...

rcardona2k — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:43:38 GMT

Yes, that did the trick, Eric.

Thanks

Winners of Switch to Fusion video contest

rcardona2k — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:30:24 GMT

I just saw the reel of the winners of the Switch to Fusion video contest

http://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/2008/07/my-switch-to-fu.html

Congratulations!

HOW-TO: Run OS X in a Fusion VM

WoodyZ — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:10:12 GMT

If you had looked at the date of the OP you'd have known it was an April Fools Joke!

At the present time Fusion does not support the running of OS X in any of it's public released versions and when it does if will be OS X Leopard Server running on OS X Server according to the last word I saw from someone at VMware.

VMware releases Fusion 1.1.3 build 94249

etung — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:51:19 GMT

There were some changes (e.g. Vista SP1 activation for Boot Camp, Linux HGFS, etc.) Depending on your .vmx settings, you might not get prompted.

Does Import... support OVF standard?

eableson — Mon, 19 May 2008 13:50:43 GMT

Ah yes - all the joys of an immature standard. I'm guessing that the OVF "standard" leaves too much leeway in it's internal structure for guaranteeing cross-hypervisor compatibility at the moment, hence the issue you're seeing with files published by the various vendors. It would be good if everybody learned to play nicely together, but with the contested marketplace at the moment, everyone seems to be doing their very best to impose a vendor lock-in so you pick your hypervisor and run with it, and the OVF format is a casualty of this behaviour right now.

I'm hoping (with you) that this will get ironed out and all of the system virtualisation products will soon have a standard 'import' button or menu item that can read OVF files from everybody.

Glad to hear that at least the VMTN OVF machines are readable via Fusion with the updated shells script.

Library view request: Switch to running VM

rcardona2k — Tue, 06 May 2008 04:59:05 GMT

I'm liking my VM Library view in full screen mode! For machines that are not running, double-clicking starts them up, great. For VMs that are already running, possibly in another space, double-clicking on it in Library does nothing. I also find myself clicking in the thumbnail (actually quite large in full screen) and nothing happens.

i spy new VMware Tools ISO images for darwin, pre-Win2k!?

Pat Lee — Tue, 06 May 2008 04:20:41 GMT

rcardona2k wrote:
Looks like VMware Fusion has upcoming (if not now), support for OS X Leopard Server and (gasp!) better support for 9x/ME, NT??

Here's the isoimages list:

darwin.iso
freebsd.iso
linux.iso
netware.iso
solaris.iso
winPre2k.iso
windows.iso

Rats, my Leopard Server DVD is at work.

Snoop!

Darwin.iso does nothing at this time!

With regards to WinPre2K, the goal is to stop having to build those drivers on a regular basis and they are now static. Break them out of the distribution as we add new features to Windows 2000 and later with tools and not have to worry about pre-2K stuff now.

Sorry!

Pat

How do you add notes to a VM?

rcardona2k — Tue, 06 May 2008 04:05:24 GMT

Nope, no reference to upcoming "Notes:" in the Known Issues section. Yes, I read the whole list (quite long )

Guest what I'm doing?

rcardona2k — Tue, 06 May 2008 02:37:00 GMT

Before You Begin
Back up all your virtual machines before installing VMware Fusion 2.0 Beta 1
This is beta software. We advise that you make backups of all your existing virtual machines before starting the installation.

This should be in BOLD in between every other section of the Release Notes. I'm running Winclone on my Boot Camp partition and I'm refreshing my VM backups on my external LaCie Big Disk Extreme.

IF you lose data with the beta, I WILL reply with this thread. If you don't have the space to backup, the beta program is NOT for you.

<soapbox off>

VersionTracker reports Fusion 1.1.2 build 87978 available

rcardona2k — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:25:28 GMT

Thank you for the update Pat!

VMware has perfect timing as I just downloaded Windows XP SP3 from MSDN today and installed it right before 1.1.2 was released. Now I take comfort knowing Fusion and the VMware Tools fully support Windows XP SP3. Long live XP! (in Fusion, of course)

OS X on OS X and TPM

RRMRRM — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:51:40 GMT

Thanks.

Sun Microsystems to acquire Parallels!

borisdusek — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:41:36 GMT

I think that innotek and Parallels together will be a stronger competitor to VMware, and competition is good great! At least they could release a good quality free desktop product that would compete hard with VMware Fusion/Workstation and that would make VMware drop the prices of the mentioned products.

Troubleshooting 'Prepare Host' - Not Ready

bbookman — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:35:56 GMT

If anyone else sees this, please report it to VMware support. We are trying to track down the root cause and your assistance in this is appreciated.

Can't install with .NET Framework 2.0 and 3.5

rcardona2k — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:40:54 GMT

Yes, I rolled back to a clean install of Windows Server 2003 SP2 without applying any Automatic Updates of .NET Framework 2.0 SP1 or installing VS2008 and the install works fine.

New Mac for the holidays?

ClayMon — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:40:23 GMT

Well, a mid-ranged Mac was not announced at MacWorld. My bank account is safe for the moment.

Hopefully, buy this time next year Apple will release such a product.

Windows top guest OS choice, duh - what else do you run?

Technogeezer — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:41:21 GMT

In no particular order, I run:

Windows XP
Windows 2003 Server (32-bit)
Ubuntu Gutsy (32-bit)
Solaris 10 U4 x64
RHEL 4 x86
SLES 10-based "soft-appliance"

Most of my stuff is work related - we use a lot of VMware Workstation for customer demo and self-education purposes. Fusion has worked out great for transportability to/from the VMware Server and Workstation environments I use at work.

MacTech benchmarks Boot Camp, Fusion, and Parallels

highphilosopher — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 04:23:47 GMT

I hate to be a critic, but I do have some issues with this benchmark.

1. Multi-processor. The purpose of multi processors in a VM is if you are using more than one application. Multi processor environments don't usually help out single software packages, unless they are multi process webservers, database servers etc. That being said, multiple processors increases the application run times when you have more than one application running in a vm. This should not have been dismissed immendiately. If you were running say... Visual Studio AND SQL management studio in a windows VM with the multi processor option on, you would notice a major increase in speed versus the single processor mode of parrallels.

2. How often do you only run one windows application at a time?

3. The said the ran the test multiple times and used the later test scores when possible. This allows a system that implements caching of programs to perform faster across the board. Single runs should have been used. Or multiple runs after clean reboot of both the VM and the Host.

Error installing ESX Server 3.0.2u1/3.5 under Microsoft Hyper-V

Schorschi — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:05:13 GMT

I have not had such a good laugh in a very long time! Because it is there... Of course! How many times have we all figured out something the original developer or designer never intended to work does? Look at Anaconda? Have we not all tweaked it beyond all rational thought? Or customizing initrd.img? LOL But the best comment in the thread is... "I bet you money that the hyper-v admin console runs on a 64 bit host." Classic! VMware if there as a 'duhe' award, you would win hands down for this one.

Windows XP SP3 doesn't require a license key to install

rcardona2k — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:46:49 GMT

There is good news for virtualization users. If you get a copy of Windows XP SP3 (when it ships) or use slipstreaming to create an XP SP3 installer from your existing media, you don't need a license key to install the OS! This is actually one reason to bypass the "Window Easy Install" option in VMware Fusion's New Machine Wizard.

The license key requirement is temporary as you only get 30 days to enter a valid license key and activate Windows.

There are more details on this change in Ed Bott's Microsoft Report at ZDnet.

Even though Vista and Windows Server 2003 SP2 already work this way, since Windows XP OS installation and activation are recurring issues here, I thought I would pass this along,

Unity coming to Workstation 6.5 on Linux/Windows!

matthewls — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:01:03 GMT

Great news! Thanks for passing it along.

Anyone attending VMworld Europe in Cannes?

Pat Lee — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:53:59 GMT

The Fusion product marketing/business development team will have people in the house, though I don't know exactly who yet. I won't be able to make it due to personal committments, but we will have people there.

Pat Lee

Group Manager, Consumer Products

VMware

HOW-TO: Enable 3D accelerated graphics

webfrasse — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 07:22:17 GMT

Hi!

It's not only gaming that needs DirectX. I use a Photo Software package from DxO, Optics Pro. Version 5 is currently only available for Windows and requires DirectX. Works ok in the latest beta from Parallels but not at all in VMware:-(

/Mikael

VMware Fusion Free to "Select" Bloggers

rcardona2k — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:51:34 GMT

"Don't look a gift horse in the mouth."

VMware Fusion 1.1 RC build 61385 is out

hendry — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:24:47 GMT

This fix worked for my problem: http://communities.vmware.com/message/784667

Thanks,

Fusion beta 3 made me revive Boot Camp

rcardona2k — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 01:26:42 GMT

I could be very tempted to run all of my dev testing from firewire for now though

I'm comfortable with the level of XP Boot Camp support to have migrated all my VMs off the host to a firewire drive and leave a lone XP partition in Boot Camp. Doing this has cleared tremendous space on my MBP's internal drive. I can't believe how many copies of Windows I had. What a waste of space

Fusion Support Request form damaged

Pat Lee — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 16:29:11 GMT

Something got messed up in the navigation of the web late last night, but the web team has fixed the problem now.

Pat Lee
Senior Product Manager - Mac Products
VMware

Thank you team, Beta 3 Build 43733 is out

etung — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 00:49:21 GMT

One other question, are the snapshot files around 1/2 GB in size?

It depends on how much you use them - the base disks will stay the same but the delta disks will grow over time. Both use the vmdk extension; the delta disks tend to have a bunch of numbers at the end of the name. 1/2 GB seems reasonable for light/moderate use.

Another possibility is these are suspend files (vmem), which will take as much space as you allocated RAM to the VM - again, 1/2 GB seems reasonable.

HOW-TO: Turn your existing VMs into a Beta 3 VM package

rcardona2k — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 15:36:38 GMT

I can then in finder do a Show Package Contents the view the .log files and also edit the .vmx file in an editor?

Yes, packages work like you can expect, you can show contents, etc.

Can't customize toolbar?

BostonFrank — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 13:56:29 GMT

I do hope that some other solution comes up for that toolbar because I'm tired of accidentally "removing" and adding devices as I shuffle windows around. At the very least the toolbar should remain hidden when the program is stopped and restarted.

At first it was kind of neat to see the devices there that you could "plug and unplug" but now it's just annoying and kludgey, especially when you have a bluetooth mouse and you accidentally assign bluetooth to the virtual machine... then bye bye mouse

HOW-TO: Disable debug checks in Beta 3

rcardona2k — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 03:06:16 GMT

Yep, I snapped the picture, right before unchecking it.

VMware Fusion later beta on display at TSX?

rcardona2k — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 02:51:29 GMT

Since he was at TSX, I guess Alessandro got his information first-hand.

Kudos Rob

Boot Camp drivers disc for Vista available

rcardona2k — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:34:12 GMT

I've applied them to my XP image. The installer does offer to upgrade them. As for improvements, the read me file is scant on details. The updated drivers appear to be working fine for me.

What should VMware Fusion cost ?? But wait...if you act now....

taiidani — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:22:28 GMT

I'd say $69-79 if you want to be competitive and attract more casual users, and up to $99 if you want to focus on developers or people that really need the product.

Most casual people will buy Fusion so that they can do Windows stuff on their Mac, and if you get 3D fully stable and supported then all the gamers will use it too. But these people don't want to spend tons of cash and, aside from piracy, will have to buy a copy of XP/Vista to be used. That's a heavy price right there, so the price chosen for Fusion will have a drastic effect on the amount of people buying it.

Ideas for Fusion Presentations at VMworld 2007?

jocelyng — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:30:21 GMT

That's pretty nifty! You've clearly thought through/dealt with all the in-the-wild issues.

Yes, I'd definitely submit that topic under DV, probably under Secure Desktops, actually, which IMHO ought to be labelled Managed Desktops.

VMnet8 (NAT) missing from host adapters list

HPReg — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 22:38:24 GMT

You can also use bridge for that.

VMTN Blog: Clarifying the 3D video

zerock — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:18:40 GMT

this is awesome too bad, i wanted to play Empire at War (it uses directx 9), so i will wait for when thats available on VMware, otherwise, awesome beta!

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mkskb core dump

smuehlst — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 14:57:10 GMT

Today I Installed beta 2, and I have hit the same problem again. It definitely involved switching the applications with ALT + TAB inside the Windows XP VM. I had the Windows XP VM running in a window, not in full screen mode, and while the ALT + TAB panel inside the Windows XP VMware window was visible, I had moved the mouse cursor outside of the window.

List of tip messages?

rcardona2k — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:49:47 GMT

is this the only tip that's presented in this format? Is there a list of others? I would like to be informed about the VMware Tools being out of date this way!

VMTN Discussion Forums; 404 error on Terms of Use

Daryll — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:25:34 GMT

Hey there,

Thanks for letting me know. I'll look into changing the broken link in the help file

-Daryll

Off-topic: ArsTechnica - VMware's current position on OS X in VM

rcardona2k — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 03:54:35 GMT

http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2007/2/11/6995

VMWare on (not) virtualizing OS X: "Oh yeah, us too."
As a followup to that statement from Parallels, I was able to also get in touch with Srinivas Krishnamurti, VMWare's Director of Product Management and Market Development in order to get VMWare's official position on the matter. Previously, the company indicated that they might perhaps give into temptation and allow users to run OS X in a virtual machine on non-Apple hardware despite what Apple thinks, but Krishnamurti says that's not so.

Read more at the link above... There's a lot of commentary on this one at the site.

SR 366156 : ASSERT vmcore/vmm/cpu/segment.c:423 bugNr=19580

rcardona2k — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 19:02:48 GMT

I received this vmcore module core resuming an Ubuntu VM while Window XP was booting in the background. The Windows VM was unaffected.

[code]NOT_TESTED bora/devices/net/macVNet.c:383
Feb 11 12:46:46.001: vcpu-0| Triple fault.
Feb 11 12:46:46.001: vcpu-0| MONITOR PANIC: vcpu-0:ASSERT vmcore/vmm/cpu/segment.c:423 bugNr=19580
Feb 11 12:46:46.001: vcpu-0| Core dump with build build-36932
Feb 11 12:46:46.001: vcpu-0| Writing monitor corefile "/Users/rcardona/Desktop/ubuntu 6.06/vmware-core.gz"
Feb 11 12:46:46.009: vcpu-0| Beginning monitor coredump
Feb 11 12:46:46.232: vcpu-0| End monitor coredump
Feb 11 12:46:46.232: vcpu-0| Beginning extended monitor coredump
Feb 11 12:46:46.232: vcpu-0| Writing anonymous pages at pos: 401000
Feb 11 12:46:46.524: vcpu-0| Msg_Post: Error
Feb 11 12:46:46.524: vcpu-0| [msg.log.monpanic.beta] *** VMware Fusion internal monitor error ***
Feb 11 12:46:46.524: vcpu-0| vcpu-0:ASSERT vmcore/vmm/cpu/segment.c:423 bugNr=19580
Feb 11 12:46:46.524: vcpu-0| There is a problem in this version of VMware Fusion.
Feb 11 12:46:46.524: vcpu-0| We rely on your feedback to improve the quality of our product.
Please submit a support request that describes the problem at our Web page "http://www.vmware.com/info?id=8".
Do not forget to attach the log file (/Users/rcardona/Desktop/ubuntu 6.06/vmware.log) and
the core file (/Users/rcardona/Desktop/ubuntu 6.06/vmware-core.gz).
Feb 11 12:46:46.524: vcpu-0| To collect files to submit to VMware support, run vm-support-lx.
Feb 11 12:46:46.524: vcpu-0| We appreciate your feedback,
Feb 11 12:46:46.524: vcpu-0| -- the VMware Fusion team.[/code]

Off-Topic: OS X in a VM -> never, for now

rcardona2k — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 14:58:00 GMT

ArsTechnica has published a small article on the state of running OS X in a virtual machine. It is nice to see Ben uphold the same opinions as posted here about the legality and concern for end-user's behavior, service and support and potential exposure.

http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2007/2/9/6983

From Parallels: "We won't virtualize OS X until Apple says so":
"We won't enable this kind of functionality until Apple gives their blessing for a few reasons," [Ben] Rudolph told Ars[Technica]. 'First, we're concerned about our users 'we are never going to encourage illegal activity that could open our users up to compromised machines or any sort of legal action. This is the same reason why we always insist on using a fully-licensed, genuine copy of Windows in a virtual machine' it's safer, more stable, fully supported, and completely legal."
...
So, "never," then? That seems like the answer we're getting, as it's no secret that Apple has been very strict on (absolutely not) licensing its operating system for use on anything but Apple hardware.

VMTN subscription can download Converter Enterprise but no license??

rcardona2k — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:48:35 GMT

I doublechecked and VMTN subscribers are not entitled to Converter Enterprise licenses.

Every contact I have with VMware confirms this. You can use the Starter edition for free but the Enterprise version is a new product which costs $$ or is part of Virtual Center.

Thanks for all your efforts. The VMTN subscriber train stops here...all passengers please exit to the station...

Off-topic: Congrats on the VMware IPO

rcardona2k — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 05:07:08 GMT

I sat in on the inventor call on the expected usage of the proceeds of the IPO. I certainly hope employee retention incentives and investment around Fusion are part of the deal

VMware has certainly grown: from 300 employees at acquisition to nearly 3,000 and in Steve Herrod's recent posting, VMware development has expanded to Austin, TX!

More power to VMware.

Where is the Service Request vm-support script located?

rcardona2k — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 12:02:22 GMT

Please also pass along this tip: there are easy-to-use GUI sudo wrappers, my favorite is Platypus, check out:
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/12046
or
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19870

You can have a .tool Terminal script with a prompt for the Administrator's password in a GUI!

Off-Topic: Parallels owned by SWsoft??

csoto — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:31:24 GMT

I agree. I am particularly interested in Fusion, not really because of features or performance, but rather because of ridiculously simple interoperability between it and our existing and prolific VMware (VI3, Workstation and Player) infrastructure. But does that matter to Joe Average and his need to run some Windows apps or Linux? Nope. I'll heartily recommend Parallels Desktop to such users, particularly if it retains the build quality exhibited by even the public betas, and it stays competitively priced (catalog vendors are bundling it with new Macs!). Here's hoping that VMware benefits from that competition!

OS X on OS X buzz overkill

rcardona2k — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 22:10:37 GMT

Alright, shoot me dead but I thought the big story was SWsoft owning Parallels, not Diane's Greene's and Beloussov's remarks:

VMware's CEO Diane Greene told me last week that her company's existing x86 desktop product is already being used by some to run Mac OS on computers from Dell, Hewlett-Packard and others, though this is not intentional on VMware's part. ... by coincidence will make it easier to run Mac OS on a non-Apple computer. He [Beloussov] also insists that is not deliberate, but just a consequence of the nature of the technology, especially now that Intel builds virtualization technology into its chips.

Both companies' products specifically aimed at the Mac will remain self-consciously crippled in order to satisfy Apple's demands that users not be encouraged to put Mac OS on a non Apple machine. But pressures seem to be building in a way that Apple and Jobs will increasingly have a hard time controlling," Kirkpatrick reports.

This one statement has all the Apple watcher sites, the OS x86 forums, Slashdot, digg, MSDN Channel 9, virtually everywhere I look in an uproar about EULAs, piracy, Apple's lock-in etc.. The amazing thing to me is if you search this forum, it's not like the possibility of running OS X in the VM is unexplored or unthought of. The idea is without a doubt appealing but currently impractical because of... Apple.

Duh...anyone on the Apple bandwagon has to, just has to be used to the tight grip, it's just second nature to me. Whether it's Clones part I, iPod+iTunes, OS X and in five months, the iPhone.

Sure there are there stolen, hacked versions of OS X on the high seas if you want to run them. There are VMs of OS X on the torrent sites. But what's the real goal? What some people don't realize is running OS X is an experience and if running OS X by itself in a VM all you have on a beige frankenbox or even a Dell Dimension C521 that's not even the experience of a mini.

Perhaps the debate will die down, but until there's a retail or OEM version of OS X that installs legitimately in a VM, probably on Apple hardware, the whole issue is a non-issue -- unless you want to run your copy of OS X at sealand.

Leopard was mysteriously absent at MacWorld (at least remotely), Vista is GA anyday now, with Apple on a high, and WWDC scheduled for June it will be intruiging to find out how entrenched Apple is on OS X, OS X on virtualization and, oh, "world domination" of x86 PCs.

If there is any doubt I want to see this too and not just for dev/test, automated, unattended applications or consolidation on Apple hardware. I hope Apple sees this too.

my two cents,
Richard

Video: Fusion's Product Manager at MacWorld

DannyD — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:02:04 GMT

Nice find rcardona2k

Has anyone tried 802.1q tagging with the e1000 NIC?

bgarner — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 02:48:46 GMT

I have not tried to use tagging from a fusion guest. However I don't see how tagging would get you anything if your vm was nat'd. The only vlan available would be the default one.

If you are going to try vlan tagging with a fusion guest I would use bridged mode at this point. Some day we might get cool virtual switch functionality that supports tagging but I wouldn't expect it to be in place now.

Blake-

Does VMware for Mac have a chance?

synapco — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 19:22:45 GMT

When Job's announced his change from the PPC to Intel, I along with everyone else was surprised but at the same time looking forward to what was to come.

We now see part of the what is to come in the form of programs from Parallels and VMware and even Wine. These companies saw an opportunity and now we are seeing the reward.

The consumer - like me - is very happy and willing to beta test these products, because at the end of the day the consumer wins. Just look back to when these products were introduced and what we can now due? Fantastic and will only get better!

So does VMware for Mac have a chance? You bet and not only that, but most likely at the end of the day they may be the major vendor. Why? VMware's market has long be established and its foundation (unless I am missing something in my readings) is firm and based on horizontal market integration.

Parallels business plan is actually more verticle. Parallels understands this and that to me is one of the reasons you see so many updates from their product. They understand they have a short window to put out a good product (and they have an excellent product) that not only attracts customers but a buyer. Yes I expect they will be purchased - by who is the $1M question. Apple, Inc - no, but why not VMware? Interesting thought.

Remember this is just the beginning. So when we have 35K potential beta Vmware testers - this represents just a fraction of what is to come. Right now there are considerably more Mac users that are NOT on Intel machines. Vmware is aware of this potential market - and as these owners move to Mac Intels, VMware's, Parallel's and even Wine's business strategy can only at the end of the day see more $$$ signs on their income statement.

As to product comparison. I do not use Wine, but I have VMware and I purchased Parallel's at $39.95. I like both products. Personally, I believe VMware's product is more stable, but Parallel's continues to improve and is of course faster due to VMware's "debug" lock. Yes I really like Coherence - but with Leopards "Spaces" - what is the big deal? And yes I am aware of other products that due the same thing.

Which product do I use on a daily basis? Right now I use Parallels only because my USB Logitech Revolution mouse causes my entire system to lock when I try to use it with VMware's beta. I have a bug report w/files in to VMware on this and expect it to be resolved in their next beta.

How much am I willing to pay for the product/s? I have already paid for Parallels, but that does not mean I would not be willing to pay VMware for their product. If VMware's feature set is more stable, richer and more easily manageable then, at least to me, a price range of $99 to 150 would not be out of the ball park.

But hey - why talk price now (or trash for that matter) when we can just set back and smile and smile and smile at the benefits we the customer are getting.

Are you blocked, stuck, confused in anyway by Fusion?

allen.watts — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 20:16:04 GMT

Thanks! i'll look into that

Fusion @ MacWorld; GA by mid-year; pricing to be set at product release

bgertzfield — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:19:18 GMT

Thanks to everyone who came by the Fusion booth at Macworld yesterday (Tuesday). It was hard not to be overwhelmed by the crowds, I have to say, but the response was tremendous.

I'm so glad VMware has such a big fanbase. Breaking into the Mac market will be interesting and different from what VMware is used to, but I feel it's really important to show folks that every Intel platform is an equal player in VMware's virtualization story.

That being said...

However, everything at Macworld (even bgertzfield's
ethereal beauty) [...]

Aw, shucks. Thanks, Brian.

No documentation/info on removing and deleting VMs

rcardona2k — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 22:48:40 GMT

Yes, that's it. OS X simple - drag to the trash and empty. My original note was more for VMware to document the obvious steps.

If you just want to remove the VM from the Welcome inventory list, but keep the VMDK disk file then delete the .VMX file only.

VMware vm-support-mac.tool script issues

rcardona2k — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 21:00:20 GMT

You don't need to use the FTP site for a 278K. That's a bug. Just attach it to the online support request. After you fill out the description page, on the next page it gives you a button to browse for the attachment to send. You can also just reply to the automatic email notification and send the log file as an attachment.

OS tips for Mac users

rcardona2k — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 06:38:06 GMT

Fusion is a lot about opening the usage of OS's other than OS X which sort of creates a set of problems like "how do I...?" or "what the best way to..." or even just what are "good usage tips in ...". Many of these questions end up here but they're not really about Fusion itself.

This is one article I clipped from a digg poster called "20 things the average person doesn't know about XP" I like it because it's all text with short descriptions, no ads and all the tips are on one page.

My favorite tip is how to power up right to the desktop without a Welcome or login screen and it's done cleanly without downloading a utility or going into the registry.

What are other good OS tips for OS X users? How about some Linux tips?

x64 Guests and Processor Check Utility for 64-bit Compatability?

SillyRegistration — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 16:39:50 GMT

Exact,

You need a Core 2 Duo machine. See the following post for exact CPU support: http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=532145&#532145

I had a Core Duo MBP last year and sold it after realizing that in Windows (BootCamp), the VMware CPU checker told me I could not run 64-bit VMs... It was a big deception then...

Virtual Battery side-effect: system standby

rcardona2k — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 04:25:21 GMT

I enabled the Virtual Battery because it's nice to work in full screen mode without having to go the Host to check the remaining battery time. But there is one side-effect I didn't expect. I was working on the Host and my XP VM went into standby mode by itself. I caught it because Windows shows the standby screen and the console window goes dark. I resumed the VM twice before I realized the VM was running off the power saving policy for the battery. Normally I disable screensavers in VMs because they're not really saving anything. But this is first time I've had to override a power policy. I checked and Windows defaults to system standby after 5 minutes, doh! It's easy enough to disable this but I thought I would document it here in case anyone else enables the virtual battery or runs into this issue.

Where's the virtual battery?

rcardona2k — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 14:11:45 GMT

What does your OS X battery indicator show? Mine shows what you're describing as the battery is recharging, then when it reaches 99-100% the indicator just shows "on AC power" with no charging bolt. If your battery somehow doesn't reach 100% charge maybe it stays in the state you're describing.

How HARD is it to sign the VMware Windows drivers?

n6mod — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 06:42:48 GMT

The whole
point of the beta program is to run with these
gazillion sanity checks enabled, so the final product
is rock solid.

In my world that's an alpha program. In Beta, you run with the code you intend to ship. Just think of all the race conditions you'll find when you turn off the gratuitous asserts.

But I digress. I'll be taking a hard look at Lab Manager in January, but in order for that kind of outlay to make sense for us, we'll need to be able to run the same VMs on our desktop/notebook machines when we're offline. I haven't spent much time with Fusion yet, but my initial impression is quite poor. (painfully slow screen repaints, and the ubuntu install failed)

Instructions for running vm-support-mac.tool confusing

rcardona2k — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 01:14:21 GMT

Out of curiosity, why is 'cd Desktop' needed?

It's not needed but it's convenient for two reasons: 1) Your Desktop is writable, and 2) the icon to send as an attachment to VMware is easily visible for dragging. Or if you're prompted to attach the file you can click the Desktop as a quick destination to locate the file. I find it's a very convenient location than /Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion or even /tmp.

Fusion networking very robust so far

amr.malik — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 15:56:18 GMT

Thanks, I meant ifconfig -a (half of my brain is in windoze world I think)

Well, the ip that the VM claims to have I can't ping from the host side. I tried both NAT and Bridged, not a big deal. I will check out the doc you mentioned.

On my RHEL4, it seems to work fine through NAT, i think that particular VM publisher forgot to mention a teeny config detail probably.

Can I make the toolbar hidden persistent?

rcardona2k — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 00:38:00 GMT

Thanks - I like to confirm here that it's a legitimate issue before opening an official SR. Based on your helpful response, I've now opened SR 346418 on this issue.

VMware Fusion Build 36932 expiration date

Tacticus — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 12:19:30 GMT

Thanks, i was looking for that information.

Fusion serial numbers NOT in VMware Store Serial Number History

rcardona2k — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:46:29 GMT

Thanks, I had a stale page in my browser's cache, after I reset my cache, everything looked fine.

I would also expect my serial numbers to show in the VMware Store. All of my other beta serial numbers are there including the private beta of Fusion.

Bridged networking working for anyone?

rcardona2k — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:37:05 GMT

Got it, thanks!

Unfortunately, wireless + NAT + VPN is still not working; see my past posting on this issue:
PPTP VPN not connecting through Fusion NAT

Will Fusion be included in a VMTN subscription?

IscariotJ — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 12:32:39 GMT

There's an official comment on virtualization.info - http://www.virtualization.info/2006/12/vmware-fades-out-vmtn-subscription.html

It's official, it's gone. A real shame.

Fusion Build 33141 expiration date

HPReg — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 06:55:51 GMT

Any news of a public Fusion beta by 25 December? (A special day at my house.)

It is your lucky day. You can start downloading the Fusion public beta at http://www.vmware.com/fusionbeta

Merry Christmas!

I wish I could try Fusion on an 8-core MacPro...

rcardona2k — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 22:16:49 GMT

I don't have the resources to acquire a dual-core Mac Pro and then invalidate the warranty by replacing the CPUs with quad-core Xeon 5355s but ZDNet UK does. Here's the benchmark on such a beast:
http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/0,1000000193,39284700,00.htm

Perhaps someone can invite them to F&F.

Thanks to the Fusion team @ VMworld 2006!

bgertzfield — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 04:23:08 GMT

I had a blast! You folks were all terrific -- the feedback, suggested features, and constructive criticism were all appreciated.

Thanks to everyone who came to VMworld 2006!

Speculation allowed?

mikeboss — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 09:21:11 GMT

seems highly unlikely to me, but one poster at another forum claims that it will be free! we'll see...
http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=3023238&postcount=122

VNC of Console session a final product feature?

sgmelin — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 08:24:52 GMT

Hi,

I know for a fact (and also based on the posts from
VMware folks) that the final feature list is still
somewhat up in the air. The more features, the
longer until RTM, and the company I work for would
*really* like to see this product very soon. We have
a *lot* of Mac users, and a Player or Workstation
"light" type app for initial release would be very
advantageous to us and VMware.

What do you think: Takes it longer, to delete a working feature out of the final product, or leave it where it is?

Bye,

Sven

Autofit Guest mode?

bgertzfield — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 16:54:50 GMT

We do still need kernel modules in the guest, for our custom drivers like networking, memory management, etc.

The Tools come with pre-compiled kernel modules for most popular Linux distributions now, but if you have a custom kernel or a very new/very old distribution, you'll still have to run vmware-config.pl to build the modules at install time.

Core Duo hardware-enforced DEP enabling PAE in XP SP2?

rcardona2k — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 03:00:53 GMT

I noticed my paltry 256 MB Windows XP SP 2 VM was operating with Physical Address Extensions (PAE), so I thought this implied I may have /PAE in boot.ini. I don't have the /PAE option but I do have /noexecute=optin option. This must mean the Core Duo has hardware-enforced Data Execution Prevention (DEP).

I looked over the benchmarks for software-enforced DEP and the impact of DEP are in the noise. I assume hardware enforced DEP is no big deal? I found I could disable PAE with /noexecute=alwaysoff, but I'll assume for now Windows knows "what's best." Does anyone have any comments?

Side note: Parallels doesn't enable PAE with the /noexecute=optin option. Neither does Parallels enable PAE with /noexecute=alwayson nor /PAE. They must be masking this CPU option for some reason...

No message when VMM fails to start

rcardona2k — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:41:04 GMT

Thanks. I found I can tail that log at /Library/Logs/501/console.log. There's also a nat log in /var/log

Workflow for running Live CD/DVDs sub-optimal

rcardona2k — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 03:33:46 GMT

You bring up good points...

My suggestion is:
1. Either a button or menu item called "Run Live CD/DVD..."

2. Opens a dialog with these options:
[code]Run Live content from:
(x) Host's CD/DVD drive
( ) Choose CD/DVD image [Browse...]
/Path/to/chosen/image.iso

Guest Operating System: [Drop down list, same as in New VM]

Advanced Options

RAM 256 MB[/code]
The VMX for this VM can either be stored in /tmp, settings loaded into the VMM all in memory or can be stored in a private VMX in your VMware Fusion.app bundle space.

Fusion doesn't update VMDK path in VMX after file browsing

rcardona2k — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 11:46:11 GMT

That's a good idea.

Thanks

Typo restoring with configured Serial Port

bgertzfield — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 03:46:55 GMT

Since Macs do not have physical serial or parallel ports, we figured power users like yourself would be fine with configuring them via the .vmx file, and shutting down the VM to remove them.

I don't think we should add UI menu entries or buttons for this, since it would confuse the novice Mac user, who has no idea what serial or parallel ports are.

Thanks for reporting the typo, though! Sounds easy enough to fix.

Awesome Windows Fusion VM built

rcardona2k — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 02:53:45 GMT

I'm using a monolithic, pre-allocated disk at the moment. On my next dynamic disk VM I'll give this a try.

Error specifying LSI Logic oem driver for Windows XP installation

rcardona2k — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:56:44 GMT

I solved my problem. There's something wrong with the FLP creation process on OS X. I took my FLP to a Windows box with VMware Server 1.01 and it failed exactly the same way. So I created an LSILogic disk using a virtual floppy driver there and that one worked. I brought that floppy image back to Fusion and it solved the problem.

I thought the problem might be end-of-line conversions but my Text Editor is tell me the EOL is CRLF. I also verified with a binary viewer. So that's not it, at least for the .oem, .inf and .txt files on the disk. I'll see if I can dig into this further.

This outcome is another reason LSI Logic or VMware should provide a virtual FLP disk file for all supported virtual devices.

How 'experimental' is Vista support?

DannyD — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:44:18 GMT

Interesting Microsoft seeks premium to allow virtualization of Vista.
http://appleinsider.com/article.php?id=2164

Virtual floppy not implemented :(

rcardona2k — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 05:00:09 GMT

Disregard my post above, this is how to create a formatted floppy, named floppy.dmg in one shot:
[code]hdiutil create -volname virtual -size 1440k -fs MS-DOS floppy[/code]
The file will have a .dmg extension, so just rename to floppy.img to make the floppy mountable in the Finder by double-clicking on it. To be able to select it in the Fusion file browser, you'll need to change the extension to .flp.

I prefer to keep my virtual floppies with a .img extension and edit the VMX config accordingly.

Release Note correction: right-clicking the mouse

Harliv — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 04:04:23 GMT

I prefer a 2 button mouse as well. This is just good in a pinch or if I am sitting somewhere without my external mouse.

Trapped in input grabbed/captured mode?

brianriceca — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:55:56 GMT

One trick that's worked for me in the past to get out of input-grabbed mode was to pick up my Apple Remote and launch Front Row, and then exit it. It gives me my dock back, as well as the Fusion pull-down menu.

I am not sure it's supposed to do that, but it is kinda handy.