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VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

bgertzfield — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 02:25:01 GMT

Hi folks,

Just wanted to make our faithful forum readers be the first to know that VMware Fusion 1.1 beta is now available!

http://www.vmware.com/beta/fusion/

Your existing serial numbers still work with VMware Fusion 1.1 beta, but if you haven't yet purchased 1.0, you can use the temporary serial number on the download page.

Here's the release notes with everything that's new in the 1.1 beta:

http://www.vmware.com/beta/fusion/releasenotes_fusion.html

We worked really hard on this release, so please let us know about any feedback you have, constructive criticism, or issues you run into!

NOTE FROM PAT

The goal of this post and initial thread was to let people know about
VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta. We are getting great reports from people in
this thread, but it is hard to track them all hidden in this thread.

So, we are going to lock this thread and request that users who have
issues create a new thread and mention the version number and refer to
Eric Tung's post [d-1070] for guidance in giving us a much information as possible to help track down any potential issues.

Thanks,

Pat

Message was edited by: Pat Lee

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

Pat Lee — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 18:59:14 GMT

The goal of this post and initial thread was to let people know about VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta. We are getting great reports from people in this thread, but it is hard to track them.

So, we are going to lock this thread and request that users who have issues create a new thread and mention the version number and refer to Eric Tung's post [d-1070] for guidance in giving us a much information as possible to help track down any potential issues.

Thanks,

Pat

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

mykmelez — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 18:56:52 GMT

HPReg wrote:

"freeze on waking when accessing filesystem" bug

Can you give me a pointer to a precise description of that bug (forum thread, SR number, ...)? I'm sorry to ask, but we are dealing with a large number of bugs, and I wasn't aware of this one.

Sure, no problem. I originally reported it in this thread:

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/97997

Whereupon I learned that it had been previously discussed in this thread:

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/88178

It is apparently being tracked in bug 189786381.

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

HPReg — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 18:48:34 GMT

"freeze on waking when accessing filesystem" bug

Can you give me a pointer to a precise description of that bug (forum thread, SR number, ...)? I'm sorry to ask, but we are dealing with a large number of bugs, and I wasn't aware of this one.

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

mykmelez — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 18:38:37 GMT

{quote:title=mykmelez wrote:}I was able to put my laptop to sleep, wake it back up, and wake up to full-screen mode.

It's unclear whether or not the "freeze on waking when accessing filesystem" bug has been fixed, though. I guess I'll know soon enough.

Nope, that bug has not been fixed, which means I still have to suspend my VM before putting my laptop to sleep. And since suspending the VM turns off full-screen mode, the recent fixes to full-screen mode actually don't benefit me much.

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

Gary D Archer — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 17:20:15 GMT

Ok, my experiance to date is not as good. Install went very quick, and after I turned off debugging things sped up. It feels slightly slower, especially running Outlook and a few other office applications active. I may have to see if boosting the memory to the VM will help.

Also, I was hoping that shared folders would be fixed for VM's that have joined a domain. I'm running XP SP2 and have joined a corporate domain which seems to have broken the shared folders.

It won't resolve .host, as an example:

C:\>net view
.host
System error 53 has occurred.

The network path was not found.

C:\>

I saw indications that this would be fixed in a future release of fusion and vmware tools. I noticed that you mapped the shared folders to my Documents folder on my Mac, so that raised my hopes, but no luck.

Shared folders did work correctly on a stand-alone Vista version I also have installed, but that is not where I need it.

I am getting around the issue by mounting folders that I've explicitly shared out from my VM to my Mac then moving files to/from as necessary... but this is a multiple step process, and not much liked.

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

HPReg — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:54:44 GMT

Apparently that is an Apple bug. See comments 20 and 21 in this thread.

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

peterwor — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 04:06:22 GMT

I tried to upgrade on Leopard 9a559 (first tike upgrade over 10.4.10) and the beta will NOT install. It fails no matter what I do.

Here is an excrpt of install.log I even tried pacifist and extracting the contents of the packages and manually installing the update , it even appears to work but the about box say I', still running 51348 so nada. The entire install.log is attached.
I have tried to fill out a support ticket but no can do, I keep getting this error says "account" needs to be filled in. No idea what that is al about.

Just as an FYI, this wasn't a clean install of 9a559 it was an upgrade of 9a559 over 10.4.1o but that was the very first upgrade on this machine ever done.

Thanks for any help.
Peter

Sep 26 23:51:17 Aragorn-C2D runner198: Administrator authorization granted.
Sep 26 23:51:17 Aragorn-C2D Installer187: ================================================================================
Sep 26 23:51:17 Aragorn-C2D Installer187: User picked Standard Install
Sep 26 23:51:17 Aragorn-C2D Installer187: Choices selected for installation:
Sep 26 23:51:17 Aragorn-C2D Installer187: Upgrade: "VMware Fusion"
Sep 26 23:51:17 Aragorn-C2D Installer187: Install VMware Fusion.pkg : com.vmware.vmware.application : 1.1.0.1.1
Sep 26 23:51:17 Aragorn-C2D Installer187: ================================================================================
Sep 26 23:51:17 Aragorn-C2D Installer187: It took 0.00 seconds to summarize the package selections.
Sep 26 23:51:17 Aragorn-C2D Installer187: -IFPKGDerivedDocument sortedPackageLocations: result = (\n file://localhost\n)
Sep 26 23:51:17 Aragorn-C2D Installer187: -IFDInstallController(Private) _buildInstallPlan: location = file://localhost
Sep 26 23:51:17 Aragorn-C2D Installer187: -IFDInstallController(Private) _buildInstallPlan: file://localhost/Volumes/VMware%20Fusion/Install%20VMware%20Fusion.pkg
Sep 26 23:51:17 Aragorn-C2D Installer187: _installNextPackage of 1
Sep 26 23:51:17 Aragorn-C2D installdb201: started (uid 96)
Sep 26 23:51:17 Aragorn-C2D installdb201: Opened receipt database on '/' with schema 17.
Sep 26 23:51:17 Aragorn-C2D Installer187: Starting installation:
Sep 26 23:51:17 Aragorn-C2D Installer187: Preparing volume "Macintosh HD" for installation
Sep 26 23:51:17 Aragorn-C2D Installer187: Configuring volume "Macintosh HD"
Sep 26 23:51:18 Aragorn-C2D Installer187: Preparing disk for local booted install.
Sep 26 23:51:18 Aragorn-C2D Installer187: Free space on "Macintosh HD": 111 GB (119592333312 bytes).
Sep 26 23:51:18 Aragorn-C2D Installer187: Create temporary directory "/private/tmp/Install VMware Fusion.pkg.18762VGXC"
Sep 26 23:51:18 Aragorn-C2D Installer187: run preflight script for VMware Fusion
Sep 26 23:51:18 Aragorn-C2D runner198: preflight203: + export PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
Sep 26 23:51:18 Aragorn-C2D runner198: preflight203: + PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
Sep 26 23:51:18 Aragorn-C2D runner198: preflight203: + LIBDIR='/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion'
Sep 26 23:51:18 Aragorn-C2D runner198: preflight203: + 'http://' -x '/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/boot.sh' ''
Sep 26 23:51:18 Aragorn-C2D runner198: preflight203: + '/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/boot.sh' --stop
Sep 26 23:51:18 Aragorn-C2D runner198: preflight203:
Sep 26 23:51:18 Aragorn-C2D runner198: preflight203: VMware Fusion 57919: Shutting down VMware Fusion:
Sep 26 23:51:18 Aragorn-C2D runner198: preflight203:
Sep 26 23:51:18 Aragorn-C2D runner198: preflight203: No matching processes were found
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Sep 26 23:51:18 Aragorn-C2D runner198: preflight203: kextunload: unload id com.vmware.kext.vmcrosstalk failed (result code 0xe00002c2)
Sep 26 23:51:18 Aragorn-C2D runner198: preflight203:
Sep 26 23:51:18 Aragorn-C2D runner198: preflight203: kextunload: unload id com.vmware.kext.vmmon failed (result code 0xe00002c2)
Sep 26 23:51:18 Aragorn-C2D runner198: preflight203:
Sep 26 23:51:18 Aragorn-C2D runner198: preflight203: kextunload: unload kext /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/kexts/vmmon.kext succeeded
Sep 26 23:51:18 Aragorn-C2D runner198: preflight203:
Sep 26 23:51:19 Aragorn-C2D runner198: preflight203: kextunload: unload kext /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/kexts/vmci.kext succeeded
Sep 26 23:51:19 Aragorn-C2D runner198: preflight203:
Sep 26 23:51:19 Aragorn-C2D runner198: preflight203: kextunload: unload kext /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/kexts/vmioplug.kext succeeded
Sep 26 23:51:19 Aragorn-C2D runner198: preflight203:
Sep 26 23:51:19 Aragorn-C2D runner198: preflight203: kextunload: unload kext /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/kexts/vmnet.kext succeeded
Sep 26 23:51:19 Aragorn-C2D runner198: preflight203:
Sep 26 23:51:19: --- last message repeated 2 times ---
Sep 26 23:51:19 Aragorn-C2D Installer187: Processing VMware Fusion:
Sep 26 23:51:19 Aragorn-C2D Installer187: Determining files to install
Sep 26 23:51:19 Aragorn-C2D Installer187: It took 0.10 seconds to create the install plan for Install VMware Fusion.
Sep 26 23:51:19 Aragorn-C2D Installer187: Configuring deferred files
Sep 26 23:51:19 Aragorn-C2D Installer187: Determining obsolete files
Sep 26 23:51:19 Aragorn-C2D Installer187: An exception was thrown from the install queue while running IFInstallElement. NSRangeException. *** -NSCFArray objectAtIndex:: index (1) beyond bounds (1).
Sep 26 23:51:19 Aragorn-C2D Installer187: Install failed: The Installer encountered an unknown error that failed the install. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance.
Sep 26 23:51:21 Aragorn-C2D Installer187: IFDInstallController 729770 state = 7
Sep 26 23:51:21 Aragorn-C2D Installer187: Displaying 'Install Failed' UI.
Sep 26 23:51:21 Aragorn-C2D Installer187: 'Install Failed' UI displayed message:'The Installer encountered an unknown error that failed the install. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance.'.
Sep 26 23:51:23 Aragorn-C2D installdb201: done. (0.019u + 0.008s)

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

BP9906 — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 02:12:20 GMT

So far looks good. I love how the full screen mode sticks. With the vmmouse="false" options, I can stick into my VM permanately until I hit CTRL-Apple. Havent tried DX9 support or Unity changes. I'll eventually use Unity, once it becomes more user friendly and integrated w/ OSX. Until then, I'm fine w/ Full screen or Windowed mode.

Product seems very stable for a beta copy. No issues yet. A little slower boot up, but thats expected in a beta version.

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

mykmelez — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 23:23:12 GMT

TheAngryPenguin wrote:Initial Observations:
...
1) Debug is enabled by default, even if it wasn't post-upgrade. This was somewhat annoying as the VMtools install took much longer than it could/should have. But nonetheless, it's survivable. Please make sure that the next GA honors the user's previous preference!Hmm, that didn't happen when I upgraded. I had debug disabled in 1.0, and it was still disabled when I started up 1.1beta1.

3) Thanks for fixing the busting out of full screen mode issue. Running VMware with VirtualDesktops is finally on par with that other virtualization product beginning with the letter "p".

Seconded! Seems to work ok so far. I was able to put my laptop to sleep, wake it back up, and wake up to full-screen mode.

It's unclear whether or not the "freeze on waking when accessing filesystem" bug has been fixed, though. I guess I'll know soon enough.

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

HPReg — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:48:03 GMT

Stefsun,

This is a BETA version you are using. Even if you disabled debugging in the preferences, you have only affected the execution of the virtual machine (that is mostly cpu virtualization). Everything else (drivers, UI, ...) is still running debug code. Any performance comparison with any other released piece of code is meaningless.

12. Terrible networking speed. Needs double time than Parallels in my

domain at work to copy a file, or save one to desktop from Lotus.

Are you using NAT or bridged?

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

Stefsun — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:07:12 GMT

Well AliasMe I am not comparing Fusion with Parallels anymore, (huge speed difference to make comparing worthwhile, and to tell you the truth the latest Parallels version 5160 is not only very very fast, but very very stable and uses much less resources than Fusion, while doing a thousand things more).
I am trying to compare Fusion 1.0 and 1.1 beta, and this is what I have found so far, with debugging extensions disabled of course, Windows XP SCSI VM, and a MacbookPro 2.4 Santaroza with LED and 4 GB RAM.

1. Fusion 1.0 needed 2 bounces to launch, 1.1 needs 7-8. Every single time.
2. The graphics are MUCH slower than 1.0.
3. A funny thing is that Unity is a little faster than Windowed mode. Compared to Parallels the graphics are 1/3 of the speed of course in any condition.
4. Much much longer time to suspend compared to 1.0
5. A LOT of error messages in the log about not being able to load .msg files from the Library/ApplicationSupport/Vmware folder.
6. Less proccessing speed inside the VM.
7. Don't care, didn't test DX 9 graphics, have Bootcamp if I want to play an occasional PC game.
8. HORRIBLE redrawing speed. Couldn't be more slow even if they tried.
9. For the FIRST TIME, CPU tests like Geekbench and PassMark show Parallels as the winner, (at least in CPU tests it used to be the other way around).
10. Did I mention the HORRIBLE redrawing speed? It really puts me off immediately.
11. STILL, no way to change the primary network interface, unless you hack the boot.sh file.
12. Terrible networking speed. Needs double time than Parallels in my domain at work to copy a file, or save one to desktop from Lotus.
13. Moving a window around in Unity mode pegs an incredible 120% of vmware-vmx+fusion processes.

Well, until next time.

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

rmclachlan — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:12:24 GMT

dp_fusion wrote:

So far I have no artifacts, and I've never really cared too much what the screen looks like when I drag windows around. I've worked on some great and some very bad windowing systems and have concluded that the work that goes into that kind of tidyness is wasted on me. What I like about Fusion is the robustness and reliability compared to the competition. It's what I expect from Unix systems in that regard, and Solaris is a pleasure to run again on my Mac.
Regardiing your aritifact, what is its lifetime or does it never go away?

The artifact disappears imediately on stopping the drag. It is purely a cosmetic thing. However in a piece of production software it is something that should be sorted out at some time as the point of unity is a seamless integration of both Mac & Windows environment. I guess it is the knind of thing I find irritating and you don't

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

dp_fusion — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:06:56 GMT

So far I have no artifacts, and I've never really cared too much what the screen looks like when I drag windows around. I've worked on some great and some very bad windowing systems and have concluded that the work that goes into that kind of tidyness is wasted on me. What I like about Fusion is the robustness and reliability compared to the competition. It's what I expect from Unix systems in that regard, and Solaris is a pleasure to run again on my Mac.

Regardiing your aritifact, what is its lifetime or does it never go away?

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

rmclachlan — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:50:17 GMT

etung wrote:
I actually asked about that a while back, and was told the developers tried live updates, but this slowed down the system too much (especially if you have lots of guest windows open). By caching background window textures, dragging is smoother.

mmm...not sure that is a good solution - smooth dragging but ugly updating. Parallels seem to have this one the other way round, good background updating but slightly choppy dragging!

here is a screenshot of the start icon on the start bar. The yellow band is an artifact of the windows desktop, it should be masked out so that the mac desktop fills the yellow area.

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

etung — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:41:07 GMT

rmclachlan wrote:
dragging a window leaves acopy of the windows content on a window behind it until the drag is complete.

I actually asked about that a while back, and was told the developers tried live updates, but this slowed down the system too much (especially if you have lots of guest windows open). By caching background window textures, dragging is smoother.

Also a better mask is needed for the start icon on the start bar, it looks odd with that yellow band above it.

Not sure what you're talking about. Screenshot?

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

rmclachlan — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:28:17 GMT

I was surprised that the latest beta did not address the window update region problem when dragging windows in Unity, i.e. dragging a window leaves acopy of the windows content on a window behind it until the drag is complete. Functionally ok, but cosmetically poor and gives the impression of a sluggish graphics handling. Also a better mask is needed for the start icon on the start bar, it looks odd with that yellow band above it. All else seems good so far.

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

dp_fusion — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:21:41 GMT

It's working perfectly with Rhino CAD 4.0 and all other apps I've tested. No games here. No install issues, picked up my S/N and all settings. Nice!

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

aliasme — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:08:12 GMT

Stefsun, you had some pretty good insight into subtle performance issues previously. What specifically seems slow: code execution, screen redraw, overall feel, overall performance of disk intensive ops, etc.

The screen redraw, latency when navigating folders, menu item responsiveness, and missing click events (click menu, wait, nothing, focus, click again, ok! app opens) were my complaints about 1.0 compared to Parallels. People seem pretty happy about 1.1, so I'm curious what you are seeing. I will have a chance to start using it later today.

And before anyone gets too excited, Parallels has been fast, but crashes constantly. I haven't seen this many blue screens since 1996 when people were overclocking p486s with heat-syncs made out of soldered forks.

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

Piggy — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:00:50 GMT

Neither. Download Apple's Boot Camp so that you can run Windows natively.

Games need to access the hardware as directly as possible and virtualization products such as VMware and Parallels will interfere with that by their very nature.

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

aliasme — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:49:37 GMT

I'm looking forward to trying this. I have been doing some heavy coding in Visual Studio under parallels and it's been blue-screen-o-rama (literally 5-6 times a day). I'm looking forward to see how 1.1 is and to see if it's my code or a lack of pointer/mem_mngt prowess in Parallels that was causing the trouble.

This looks like an ambitious release with a lot of changes. Congrats guys!

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

Andreas Masur — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:48:27 GMT

newbe786 wrote:Thanks Piggy for all the informative differences. I didnt even know about Parallels until you mentioned about it. I looked it up and I have a small question to ask you, I mainly need windows to run on my Mac for Gaming using PC games. In your opinion what would you choose as stable not crashing with excellent graphics, either the Parallels software or Fusion? This is just for Gaming purposes. Both look like they have decent stabilities but I dunno which one would be better? Any thoughts?

Well..to be honest....if your main goal isto run games I would rather suggest using Boot Camp and native Windows....

Ciao, Andreas

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

Rzn8tor — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:39:01 GMT

I notice that redrawing windows seems very slow in both XP and Ubuntu (haven't gone back and tried it in Vista). Just dragging a window around on the screen is very choppy, with 3d on or off. Debug mode is off.

It is smoother in Unity Mode.

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

newbe786 — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:30:00 GMT

Thanks Piggy for all the informative differences. I didnt even know about Parallels until you mentioned about it. I looked it up and I have a small question to ask you, I mainly need windows to run on my Mac for Gaming using PC games. In your opinion what would you choose as stable not crashing with excellent graphics, either the Parallels software or Fusion? This is just for Gaming purposes. Both look like they have decent stabilities but I dunno which one would be better? Any thoughts?

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

Rzn8tor — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:33:40 GMT

DirectX 10

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

HPReg — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:27:41 GMT

OK, I think I know what is going on. We will try to really fix it for the final release of Fusion 1.1. Thanks!

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

TheAngryPenguin — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:00:46 GMT

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/92256

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/89781

HPReg wrote:Can you remind us of what the #4 issue is precisely?

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

npomeroy — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:59:51 GMT

Same problem here. My mouse is the MX 400 and OSX sees it all the time. But the Caps Lock notification appears with all the VM's upgraded and Caps Lock off in all.
FWIW - Mac Pro, v2.2.2 of the Logitech Control Center, and just looking at Windows VM's for now.

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

kshree — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:55:27 GMT

"You should only see it if the host and the guest have different Caps Lock settings (for example the host if off, and the guest is on). Do you see a notification when you move in/out even if both environments have the same Caps Lock settings?"

Cap lock settings haven't been changed on either one. They are both caps off.

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

bgertzfield — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:52:03 GMT

archieleach wrote:
Not your bug. Fixed in newer version of Leopard. Thanks.

Hi Archie,

What version of Leopard is the bug fixed in? Is it newer than the latest seed (9A559)?

This user reported the same error as you with 9A559:

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/104638

If you do have access to a newer Leopard seed and can confirm it's fixed, that would be a huge relief for us.

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

macguy918 — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:42:00 GMT

I am not sure where you want us to report this kind of problem, so please tell me where to do this next time.

I have a Macbook Pro with 2 GB of RAM and have been running VMWARE Fusion 1.0 pretty much full time for the past month. I am running a Windows XP virtual machine. I had suspended the machine and installed the VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta.

After installation, I got a warning that I needed to reinstall VMWare Tools. I did that, and now I get a registry error every time I try to boot my VM - which had been running Windows XP fine until I installed this beta.

I tried reverting to a snapshot that I took this morning before I installed the beta and the Snapshot Reversion seems to work and I have a functioning VM until I try to shut down or restart. At that point the machine will no longer boot up and I get the registry error blue screen.

Is there a way to go back to VM Fusion 1.0 and see if I can somehow get a functioning VM back? I would hate to have to create a new VM from scratch. That would take all afternoon.

Thanks

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

Wes W. — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:41:07 GMT

HPReg wrote:
You should only see it if the host and the guest have different Caps Lock settings (for example the host if off, and the guest is on). Do you see a notification when you move in/out even if both environments have the same Caps Lock settings?

Caps lock was turned off on all guests, so shouldn't have behaved this way.

FWIW, the Logitech software is somewhat cruddy anyway, so this isn't a major issue.

Example, the Logitech "Control Center" fails to find my mouse (MX 700) about 2 of 3 boots. Further, using the mouse wheel can cause the system to lock-up (esp. in a VM or something graphical like Google Earth), fortunately Expose functions restore the responsiveness. Use of the Apple wheel mouse causes none of these issues.

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

Piggy — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:36:41 GMT

Yes, you must have a copy of Windows to install same as if you went to the store and purchased a computer without any operating system. VMWare takes up 123 MB on my drive. My Windows XP virtual machine takes up 21 GB.
No. I don't even have Boot Camp installed though I will at some point. I have an external device that requires a firmware upgrade and I can't do it through VMware (at least the 1.0 production release). Kind of risky to do a device firmware upgrade through a VM anyway which is why I'll install Boot Camp.
CrossOver isn't even in the running. The leading products are VMware and Parallels. VMware has more experience with virtualization than anyone else. IMHO Fusion is the professional's choice (meaning Information Technology people) and Parallels is the consumer choice. I own both but use VMware exclusively now and have un-installed Parallels from my laptop. I mIight install Parallels on my kids iMac at some point.

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

HPReg — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:33:39 GMT

Can you remind us of what the #4 issue is precisely?

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

HPReg — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:31:34 GMT

You should only see it if the host and the guest have different Caps Lock settings (for example the host if off, and the guest is on). Do you see a notification when you move in/out even if both environments have the same Caps Lock settings?

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

Wes W. — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:26:27 GMT

kshree wrote:
"Logitech Control Center Caps Lock notification no longer displays when moving in and out of virtual machine windows"

Even with the latest beta, I still see this in the single window or full window mode.

Ditto, even after upgrading to the latest VMware tools on Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, & XP guests.

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

mstocum — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:21:12 GMT

Fair enough. It's good to know it's at least on the radar.

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

Piggy — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:01:16 GMT

I had some display issues after upgrading and re-installing VMware Tools:

Couldn't get the Windows guest to use the VMware status bar area even after toggling it off.
Mac OS X windows would not restore. Switching to them via OS X Command-Tab or choosing the icon from the Dock didn't restore them. I had to minimize VMware in order to restore them.
Full Screen view mode wasn't full screen.

I uninstalled VMware Tools, rebooted and re-installed. So far things are working as expected.

On a personal note, I'd like to see beta releases more frequently however not at the risk of system instability nor broken, previously functioning features. I depend on VMware and want to be able to benefit from bug fixes, usability and performance enhancements as soon as possible. I realize this may not be possible. VMware probably has a long QA cycle and the results - extreme system stability - speak for themself. I also own Parallels and have un-installed it from my MacBook Pro. I view VMware as solution for professionals such as those in IT (me).

Keep up the excellent work!! Kudos to the Mac VMware team!

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

newbe786 — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:14:28 GMT

Hello Everyone, I'am new to this forum and I was very much interested in trying out VMware fusion 1.1beta. I'm running a 24" iMac intel core 2 duo (Aluminum cased) Mac and was hoping to get windows running on this. I just wanted to know what everyone thinks of the 1.1 beta release?? Is it worth downloading this? or downloading the 1.o non beta? If someone can answer these questions I have I would much appreciate it.
1. Do I have to have a copy of my windows xp to install after downloading Fusion? and how much space does it take up approx?
2. Do I need to do a partition on my Mac to run Fusion with Windows?
3. Which is better and more stable to use, I heard a lot of good reviews about CrossOver Mac 6.1, it takes up less space than Fusion but it still has its own drawbacks just like Fusion I'm sure.

Thanks to everyone who answers my questions really looking forward in hearing your opinions on Fusion 1.1beta or the NON.!!!!!

P.s I did read over the getting started manual a bit confusing but anyhow I didn't see anything on this website addressing my questions I have asked so I hope they will be answered here at your wonderful forums for Fusion.

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

Pat Lee — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:46:15 GMT

Supporting multiple monitors and getting it right so it handles monitors of different resolutions, different offset locations takes time. We know it is important, but it won't happen for VMware Fusion 1.1.

Pat

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

mstocum — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:29:07 GMT

Any chance of multiple monitor support showing up in Unity in this release?

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

archieleach — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:21:00 GMT

Not your bug. Fixed in newer version of Leopard. Thanks.

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

bgertzfield — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:50:30 GMT

archieleach wrote:
Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro Installer207: An exception was thrown from the install queue while running IFInstallElement. NSRangeException. *** -NSCFArray objectAtIndex:: index (1) beyond bounds (1).
Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro Installer207: Install failed: The Installer encountered an unknown error that failed the install. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance.

Hi archie,

This is disturbing. How exactly are you entering your serial number? Are you typing it in, pasting it in, dragging and dropping it in? Somehow, you've hit a bug in the serial number user interface.

If you could describe the steps you took to reproduce this (you don't have to share your serial number!), it would be very helpful.

You can also continue past that step of the installer without entering a serial number, then enter it later from the VMware Fusion -> Licensing... menu.

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

etung — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:35:39 GMT

Hi - Will this be fixed? I'm used to run my VMs from external hardrives (FAT) but since I started using Fusion I need to copy my VMS constantly in stead of using them directly from my FAT external HD.

A workaround is to use 2GB split disks instead of the default monolithic - a slightly more verbose explanation is A Beginner's Guide to VMware Fusion. If you have enough space, you can convert existing disks with vmware-vdiskmanager or my GUI wrapper, New version: 0.2007.06.18

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

coopermj — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:10:44 GMT

Well, now, that's embarassing. Checked it 5 times, but finally did an option-refresh to clear the cache and a WHOLE NEW PAGE loaded.

Stupid browser caches.

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

kshree — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:03:32 GMT

Did you click this link?

http://www.vmware.com/beta/fusion/

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

coopermj — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:53:43 GMT

Okay, maybe I'm clueless here, but the beta link took me to what looked like the Fusion main page and clicking on any of the evaluate links took me to the 1.0 download. Did I miss something?

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

dale.kilborn — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:35:04 GMT

Just installed Fusion 1.1 and it feels snappier than 1.0 and unity is smoother as well, of out curiousity tried to install Vista Ultimate and Aero is stil disabled, what version of Direct3D is needed for Aero to function?

Dale

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

Stefsun — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:26:22 GMT

It's even slower than 1.0, if that's possible.
Graphics are dead compared to Parallels 5160, it takes 6-7 bounces to just open the main program, and yes the debugging checks are disabled.

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

kshree — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 08:29:23 GMT

"Logitech Control Center Caps Lock notification no longer displays when moving in and out of virtual machine windows"

Even with the latest beta, I still see this in the single window or full window mode.

Show Taskbar in Unity Mode didn't work, not repeatable

Rzn8tor — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:26:51 GMT

Installed the update, booted XP guest, installed Tools, and restarted guest.

Selected Show Taskbar in Unity Mode and got a black bar, where the taskbar was in single window mode. Switched to single window mode the black bar remained; switched to full screen and the black bar remained.

Shut down the guest and it stayed on Saving your settings... for 10 minutes or so; vmx continued to use 8-9% CPU. After forcing Power Off, quitting and restarting Fusion, XP guest loaded without errors and taskbar was back. Switched to Unity Mode and Show Taskbar... now works.

R8

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

modular747 — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 06:43:15 GMT

A quick run shows a couple of persisting problems with Unity and Win XP. Certain apps such as Firefox 2.0 don't show in the Dock when open. Closing all guest windows leaves the taskbar nonfunctioning. On the plus side, the taskbar can be moved to the top or sides without causing distortion of open guest windows. I would still like to see an exclude the Dock area option for Unity.

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

c_montoya — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 06:40:24 GMT

Virtual machines stored on drives formatted with FAT32 may crash in VMware Fusion.
This problem is accompanied by the error message: Argument list too long.
Testing suggests that this problem may indicate a corrupted disk.

____

Thanks

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

archieleach — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 05:10:41 GMT

Sep 25 22:06:56 MacBookPro /System/Library/CoreServices/Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Installer207: vm_protect: 0
Sep 25 22:06:56 MacBookPro Installer207: @(#)PROGRAM:Install PROJECT:Install-356
Sep 25 22:06:56 MacBookPro Installer207: @(#)PROGRAM:Installer PROJECT:Installer-274
Sep 25 22:06:56 MacBookPro Installer207: Hardware: MacBookPro2,1 @ 2.33 GHz (x 2), 2048 MB RAM
Sep 25 22:06:56 MacBookPro Installer207: Running OS Build: Mac OS X 10.5 (9A558)
Sep 25 22:06:56 MacBookPro Installer207: Env: PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
Sep 25 22:06:56 MacBookPro Installer207: Env: TMPDIR=/var/folders/7K/7KIxKtnWFeaO-+M1aW66g++++TI/-Tmp-/
Sep 25 22:06:56 MacBookPro Installer207: Env: SHELL=/bin/bash
Sep 25 22:06:56 MacBookPro Installer207: Env: HOME=/Users/xxxx
Sep 25 22:06:56 MacBookPro Installer207: Env: USER=xxxx
Sep 25 22:06:56 MacBookPro Installer207: Env: LOGNAME=xxxx
Sep 25 22:06:56 MacBookPro Installer207: Env: DISPLAY=/tmp/launch-7VQvgg/:0
Sep 25 22:06:56 MacBookPro Installer207: Env: SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/501/nl.uu.phil.SSHAgent.socket
Sep 25 22:06:56 MacBookPro Installer207: Env: Apple_PubSub_Socket_Render=/tmp/launch-oLh5Ak/Render
Sep 25 22:06:56 MacBookPro Installer207: Env: __CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING=0x1F5:0:0
Sep 25 22:06:56 MacBookPro Installer207: Env: SECURITYSESSIONID=9b0720
Sep 25 22:06:56 MacBookPro Installer207: Env: COMMAND_MODE=unix2003
Sep 25 22:06:56 MacBookPro Installer207: VMware Fusion Installation Log
Sep 25 22:06:56 MacBookPro Installer207: Opened from: /Volumes/VMware Fusion/Install VMware Fusion.pkg
Sep 25 22:07:02 MacBookPro Installer207: fileURLForURL = x-disc://VMware%20Fusion/Install%20VMware%20Fusion.pkg
Sep 25 22:07:02 MacBookPro Installer207: fileURLForURL = file://localhost/Volumes/VMware%20Fusion/Install%20VMware%20Fusion.pkg
Sep 25 22:07:02 MacBookPro installdb210: started (uid 96)
Sep 25 22:07:02 MacBookPro installdb210: Opened receipt database on '/' with schema 17.
Sep 25 22:07:08 MacBookPro installdb210: done. (0.008u + 0.008s)
Sep 25 22:07:22 MacBookPro runner218: Administrator authorization granted.
Sep 25 22:07:22 MacBookPro Installer207: ================================================================================
Sep 25 22:07:22 MacBookPro Installer207: User picked Standard Install
Sep 25 22:07:22 MacBookPro Installer207: Choices selected for installation:
Sep 25 22:07:22 MacBookPro Installer207: Upgrade: "VMware Fusion"
Sep 25 22:07:22 MacBookPro Installer207: Install VMware Fusion.pkg : com.vmware.vmware.application : 1.1.0.1.1
Sep 25 22:07:22 MacBookPro Installer207: ================================================================================
Sep 25 22:07:22 MacBookPro Installer207: It took 0.00 seconds to summarize the package selections.
Sep 25 22:07:22 MacBookPro Installer207: -IFPKGDerivedDocument sortedPackageLocations: result = (\n file://localhost\n)
Sep 25 22:07:22 MacBookPro Installer207: -IFDInstallController(Private) _buildInstallPlan: location = file://localhost
Sep 25 22:07:22 MacBookPro Installer207: -IFDInstallController(Private) _buildInstallPlan: file://localhost/Volumes/VMware%20Fusion/Install%20VMware%20Fusion.pkg
Sep 25 22:07:22 MacBookPro Installer207: _installNextPackage of 1
Sep 25 22:07:22 MacBookPro installdb221: started (uid 96)
Sep 25 22:07:22 MacBookPro installdb221: Opened receipt database on '/' with schema 17.
Sep 25 22:07:22 MacBookPro Installer207: Starting installation:
Sep 25 22:07:22 MacBookPro Installer207: Preparing volume "Macintosh HD" for installation
Sep 25 22:07:22 MacBookPro Installer207: Configuring volume "Macintosh HD"
Sep 25 22:07:23 MacBookPro Installer207: Preparing disk for local booted install.
Sep 25 22:07:23 MacBookPro Installer207: Free space on "Macintosh HD": 37.2 GB (39985729536 bytes).
Sep 25 22:07:23 MacBookPro Installer207: Create temporary directory "/private/tmp/Install VMware Fusion.pkg.207g6z8tz"
Sep 25 22:07:23 MacBookPro Installer207: run preflight script for VMware Fusion
Sep 25 22:07:23 MacBookPro runner218: preflight222: + export PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
Sep 25 22:07:23 MacBookPro runner218: preflight222: + PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
Sep 25 22:07:23 MacBookPro runner218: preflight222: + LIBDIR='/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion'
Sep 25 22:07:23 MacBookPro runner218: preflight222: + ''
Sep 25 22:07:23 MacBookPro runner218: preflight222: + '/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/boot.sh' --stop
Sep 25 22:07:23 MacBookPro runner218: preflight222:
Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro runner218: preflight222: VMware Fusion 51348: Shutting down VMware Fusion:
Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro runner218: preflight222:
Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro runner218: preflight222: No matching processes were found
Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro runner218: preflight222:
Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro runner218: preflight222: No matching processes were found
Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro runner218: preflight222:
Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro runner218: preflight222: No matching processes were found
Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro runner218: preflight222:
Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro runner218: preflight222: No matching processes were found
Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro runner218: preflight222:
Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro runner218: preflight222: kextunload: unload id com.vmware.kext.vmcrosstalk failed (result code 0xe00002c2)
Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro runner218: preflight222:
Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro runner218: preflight222: kextunload: unload kext /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/kexts/vmmon.kext failed
Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro runner218: preflight222:
Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro runner218: preflight222: kextunload: unload kext /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/kexts/vmci.kext failed
Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro runner218: preflight222:
Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro runner218: preflight222: kextunload: unload kext /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/kexts/vmioplug.kext failed
Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro runner218: preflight222:
Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro runner218: preflight222: kextunload: unload kext /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/kexts/vmnet.kext failed
Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro runner218: preflight222:
Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro runner218: preflight222:
Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro runner218: preflight222:
Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro Installer207: Processing VMware Fusion:
Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro Installer207: Determining files to install
Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro Installer207: It took 0.13 seconds to create the install plan for Install VMware Fusion.
Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro Installer207: Configuring deferred files
Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro Installer207: Determining obsolete files
Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro Installer207: An exception was thrown from the install queue while running IFInstallElement. NSRangeException. *** -NSCFArray objectAtIndex:: index (1) beyond bounds (1).
Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro Installer207: Install failed: The Installer encountered an unknown error that failed the install. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance.
Sep 25 22:07:28 MacBookPro installdb221: done. (0.004u + 0.003s)
Sep 25 22:07:32 MacBookPro Installer207: IFDInstallController 75EC10 state = 7
Sep 25 22:07:32 MacBookPro Installer207: Displaying 'Install Failed' UI.
Sep 25 22:07:32 MacBookPro Installer207: 'Install Failed' UI displayed message:'The Installer encountered an unknown error that failed the install. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance.'.

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

nesmex — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:54:03 GMT

Hi, I downloaded and installed Fusion beta 1.1. I still have wireless bridged issues. When I first installed the upgrade I had network connectivty (local and internet), but after upgrading the VM tools and rebooting, I lost internet connectivity. I had to reboot once more to gain connectivity again. Same issue as reported in the thread posted by Pat

I'll keep playing around to see if there is any improvement on this

Cheers,

Nestor

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

TheAngryPenguin — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:46:51 GMT

Initial Observations:

0) Nice Jive Forums redesign!

1) Debug is enabled by default, even if it wasn't post-upgrade. This was somewhat annoying as the VMtools install took much longer than it could/should have. But nonetheless, it's survivable. Please make sure that the next GA honors the user's previous preference!

2) Hiding the Staus Bar is nice. There was a slight delay until its usefulness became apparent as I had to wait until the new VMtools finished loading to appreciate it. For MacBook users and those otherwise screen real estate envious, this is definitely welcome!

3) Thanks for fixing the busting out of full screen mode issue. Running VMware with VirtualDesktops is finally on par with that other virtualization product beginning with the letter "p".

4) The bridged-mode networking issue seems to be resovled. The device list in my WRT54G (w/ Tomato) is no loger displaying duplicate IP and MAC addresses.

Edit: I have to renig on #4 -- they eventually showed up.

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

bgertzfield — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:44:50 GMT

archieleach wrote:

Neither my serial number (paid) or the beta number works..recent build of Leopard:

The serial number you provided is not valid, or has expired.

Sorry about the inconvenience. Can you post the contents of the file:

/var/log/install.log

so we can see what the internal error is?

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

Bob Zimmerman — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:35:26 GMT

I think this dialog might need a little updating. Still says DirectX 8.1.

Admittedly, I'm running on a MacBook, but I would have expected it to say something like "there is experimental support for DirectX 9.0c except for shaders", but better.

Edit: Forgot to say that I like the addition to that and other Settings dialogs. That little message should help a lot with the number of people who are confused about why they can't make hardware changes.

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

archieleach — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:30:15 GMT

Neither my serial number (paid) or the beta number works..recent build of Leopard:

The serial number you provided is not valid, or has expired.

Any ideas how to fix?

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

HPReg — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:02:58 GMT

Welcome back, Richard! We missed you! (seriously)

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

adamsimpson — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 03:53:42 GMT

Awesome, can't wait to try it out.

Re: VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

rcardona2k — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 03:23:02 GMT

Thanks Ben! Just in time for my return to the forums!