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Can't Run Hyper V on Virtual WIndows 2008 64 bit Server

mavioo7 — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:19:49 GMT

Hello,

I am unable to add Hyper V Role on Virtual WIndows 2008 64 bit server that I created on my Mac OS X 10.5.6 with 2.5Ghz Core 2 Duo and 4GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, VMware Fusion version is 2.0.1

Error: Hyper V Cannot be installed, Server Manager has detected that the processor in this computer is not compatable with Hyper-V, ...,the feature must be turned on the BIOS

Thank you,

Mavi

Backslash Key

Richard Starling — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:13:30 GMT

I am using Fusion 3 with Windows 7 Enterprise and a UK 15" MacBook Pro. I have searched everywhere and can find no way of making the '\' (backslash) key work. Does anyone have a solution?

Workflow advice needed to get XP bootcamp Parallels to Snow Leopard Win7 Fusion Virtual?

Herojig — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:00:49 GMT

Hi all, first let me say that I love fusion and all my other macs are fusion3 and win7 machines - fantastic! But I have one macbook used by wife that has XP and Parallels. I want to get it to use fusion3 and win7, like her desktop has, but not sure where to begin. The mb is already upgraded to snow leopard. I understand that you have to use some MS gizmo to update her XP to Win7 and preserve her programs, settings, and data, but when you throw Fusion into the mix, I don't know where to begin...do you? thx!!!

Can't get E72 to Connect on USB

tomkeator — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:45:20 GMT

I am using XP Pro on Fusion 3.0 and can't get E72 to connect using USB. In VMF the settings are reading the unit and when I go to repair in Install Hardware the message is there are no drivers installed.

Disconnect/failure to refresh desktop when changing views in Fusion 3.0

AarowB — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:05:49 GMT

While running Windows 7, x64 edition, from a bootcamp partition, I will often change the view from single window to full screen and back. When doing that, icon size is distorted, you lose the windows tool bar, which makes it very difficult to function. The only time it seems to come out of that mode and reset itself is after it's been sitting for about 15-20 minutes. Shouldn't desktop proportionality be based on screen size?

Symptoms and observations:

Problem occurs when changing any aspect of the view while Windows is running.
Unable to directly click on icons (have to fish around around the screen): The UI doesn't refresh when the view is changed
All icons on desktop are still there, including start menu and toolbar, but the UI doesn't show them.
VM starts with desired view, icons, etc properly synched with UI.
VM resets to appropriate view when shutting down or restarting
Resolution and other options in control panel don't change when changing from one view to another

Anyone else having this problem?

My machine and software:
Mac: Mid-Late 2008 MacBook Pro (17"), OSX 10.6.2, 2.5ghz Core2Duo, 4gb RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 512mb, 17" screen with 32-bit pixel depth
Windows: BootCamp native running Windows 7 Professional

VMware - FIX FUSION 3 - NOW!!!!!!

francis.carden — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:17:56 GMT

I LOVED FUSION 2.0 - I ranted about it to 100's of people. Best thing since sliced bread is what I used to say.

Now I upgraded to Fusion 3 and it's TERRIBLE. Performance is a joke. I use this in my daily work and if I'm lucky it still works. I can't rely on it now for my demonstrations. Shame. Shame. Shame.

Being a user of Fusion 2 since it was released, I can say I rated the s/w as a 9 or 10 for enterprise use. Now I rate it as a 3.

I will be doing a Video this weekend of how bad it is and will post it online. Since no one from VMware seems to bother to read these forums or comment. I suggest they see what people said about united Airlines when THEY didn't listen...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo

VMware Fusion 3 runs extremely slow...

JangMunho — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:32:48 GMT

First, my MacBook Pro:
Core 2 T9300 @ 2.5GHz
4GB memory
250GB SATA HDD
Snow Leopard 10.6.1
VMware Fusion 3.0

When I was using Leopard and VMware Fusion 2.x, the virtual machines ran fast, but now they are extremely slow. BTW, I enabled the 64-bit kernel.
I managed to find the reason, that is because the process "mds" in the host OS, not a problem of the guest os. Everytime I turn on my Windows XP in VMware, "mds" will show up in the Activity Monitor window, and take up about 2%~20% CPU usage, the hard disk becomes noisy at the same time. What I could only do is to wait, after about 1 hour, mds will "calm down", and my MBP returns quiet. But, when next time I turn on my virtual machine, "mds" will show up again...

"Mds" is driving me crazy... I tried to google for answers, but no result.
Anybody is facing this issue too? Or anybody knows how to deal with the problem? Thanks!

prolific usb to serial dropping characters with linux

chrisw957 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:40:37 GMT

I'm using fusion 2.0.6 with Ubuntu as the guest. When I try to use a new prolific usb to serial adapter, it discovers ok, and if I launch minicom, I can send a receive small numbers of characters ok, but if the device I'm talking to sends more than a few characters, then it drops characters. This is at 115200kbps. I tried a keyspan usb to serial adapter and it does the same thing. There doesn't appear to be anything in the linux log that is related to this.

I installed the trial of parallels, and imported the ubuntu vm and it works fine with the prolific serial adapter, so I know the hardware and OSX side are ok.

Any solutions for this problem?

Thanks.

Drag and Drop copying not working in Fusion 3

ek116 — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:07:12 GMT

I can't drag files from Mac OS 10.6 over to my XP running on Fusion 3. I could before with Fusion 2. Now, there seems to be a wall where I can't drag it into the XP background. Any workaround? Thanks.

Fusion 3, Win7 64bit super sluggish

typemismatch — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:34:29 GMT

I'm running on Snow Leopard, 8x Core, 10GB Ram, MacPro - 2009 Model. I have Fusion 3 and running my BootCamp x64 Windows 7 image.

It seems very sluggish, generally I'd say it was acceptable for a first release but office applications for example, I can out type the keyboard which is odd. I'm in full screen mode. I don't get this problem in non-3d mode.

thanks

Upgrade helper service

gordon142 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:36:32 GMT

With VMware tools installed, there is a service and process called "vmupgradehelper.exe" that is running at all times, even when I'm booting directly to my Boot Camp partition (no other VMware services stay running when booted directly). I do not remember it in versions prior to 3.0. Is this normal, or something that should have maybe only been run once and never go removed for whatever reason? In any case, I can't see any reason why it should be running when booted directly into Windows. One of the reasons I like VMware over Parallels is that VMware is pretty good about not loading all its integration extras when booting directly with Boot Camp (Parallels does, and they actually prevent the Boot Camp drivers from working properly, which is infuriating). More info would be appreciated.

Microsoft Office applications crashing when opening Shared files from the Mac - Fusion 3 + Windows 7 Pro

mattsmithvm — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:19:43 GMT

OK, So newly installed Fusion 3 + WIndows 7 Pro with Office 2007.

All my files are stored on the Mac, and I've got VMware shared folders on your mac switched on for the folder... All used to work fine in Windows XP + Fusion 2.

But now, PowerPoint has a critical error when opening a file through the shared folder, but the same file opens fine if it's say in the actual Windows area. Checked my XP VM - and it's doing it there too!

Is this a bug with Fusion 3 - any help guys?

Thanks,

Matt

Using Multiple Monitors with Fusion 3.0

PatAlexander — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:12:48 GMT

I am wondering if there is a way to use dual monitor functionality for the functions that are contained in Fusion 3.0. That is, if I have Microsoft Word open on my MacBook Pro, I want to open the internet program I must run on IE8/Windows 7 on the other monitor. I understand that I am running virtual office and that this is not a normal function. I am trying to find out if there is some product that will enable this?

Unity in Fusion 3 runs a bit like a joke for me

Nixta — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:43:33 GMT

I can only imagine that not everyone sees this kind of shonky performance out of Unity. The way it runs for me really is kind of a joke.

See this video here (none of the artifacts are because of the video recording software - Camtasia - in fact I was surprised it recorded everything I saw):
http://www.screencast.com/t/FiI2TKGhIi

I'd be interested to know whether there are people who do not see this happening, or whether VMWare are aware of this and intend to fix it.

I am running on a late 2007 2.2Ghz MBP with 4Gb RAM and a 320Gb 7200rpm drive. I have dual displays (laptop@1440x900 + DELL S2409W@1920x1080).

Shared folder documentation

ukchucktown — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:15:08 GMT

Can somebody point me to the official documentation on shared folders. I find bits and pieces littered all over the place but can't find an official document from vmware. Nothing of any complexity in the Getting Started Guide. I need to understand how to change vnic ip address ranges and mount shared folders under Linux. Both are pretty trivial in VirtualBox where I'm migrating from so i need to understand the process in vmware. Thanks.

Fusion 3.0 Migration Assistant - Error - Help Please

BillF15219 — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:19:34 GMT

I have just downloaded the VMWare Fusion 3.0 30 day trial. I have installed it on my Intel MacbookPro with the 30 day product key. No problems there. I then downloaded and installed the PC Migration Agent on my Windows XP Media Center Edition 2002 SP3 Dell XPS laptop. Both the Macbook and the Dell are in Windows Workgroup. I logged in to the Dell's Administrator account (password enabled) and turned off both the Zone Alarm firewall and the NOD32 AntiVirus. I start the VMware Fusion PC Migration Agent and immediately get my 4 digit code. On the Macbook, I have the firewall setting set to "Allow all incoming connections". File Sharing is turned on and SMB is enabled. On the Mac, I open VMware Fusion and from the "Getting Started..." screen I choose, "Convert my existing Windows computer to run as a virtual machine on this Mac". I then enter the 4-digit code from the Dell on the Mac. Enter the User Name and Password (Administrator and my admin password) and click continue. The Mac logs into the PC and gives me the Space Needed and Space Available (so it's making the connection). I click Continue, and add my Mac admin password. The Mac tells me it's calculating and after a few seconds I get the following: An Error Occurred - "An error occurred while creating the virtual machine. If you have enabled System Preferences -> Security -> Firewall, disable the firewall while migrating your PC."

I have tried this numerous times (using both the 4-digit code and the IP address) and get the same error each time. I have no idea what is wrong. I am excited to try Fusion, as I am currently a Parallels user. If anyone can be of any help, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Bill

Mouse pointer in VM gets stuck displaying hand cursor, sometimes disappears altogether

jkwuc89 — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:40:21 GMT

System info:

MacBook Pro running Leopard with all patches downloaded and installed
Spaces configured for 4 desktops, VMWare Fusion assigned to space #2
VMWare Fusion Version 2.0 (116369)
VM is running Windows XP Professional in Full Screen, 3D graphics is turned off
Gaming preference is set to Auto-detect mouse for gaming

Problem Description:

I leave my Windows XP VM running all of the time. I use either the mouse or the keyboard to switch from Spaces desktop #1 to #2 quite often. OS X will switch the mouse pointer to the hand cursor when Spaces is activated even when quickly switching between spaces. Usually, when I switch to the space containing my full screen VM, Fusion will allow Windows XP to redisplay the mouse cursor using its the Windows of mouse pointers. But after some time (a day or two or perhaps after bring my MacBook Pro out of sleep mode...I have not determined the exact scenario), using spaces to switch to space #2 containing my XP VM will no longer change the mouse pointer from the hand cursor displayed by OS X to the Windows set of pointers. Instead, the mouse pointer continues to be displayed as the OS X hand pointer even though the XP VM has control of the mouse. And under some circumstances, the mouse pointer will completely disappear inside the VM after a space swtich

I have determined that this only happens when running the VM In full screen mode. I have also determined that simply restarting the XP VM does not correct the problem. I must shutdown the VM and then, restart VMWare Fusion to correct the problem. Switching the VM from Full Screen to Windowed mode and then, back to Full Screen also does not correct the problem.

I have also tried changing the Gaming preference to no effect.

Keith Wedinger

Bearcatnews.com

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PowerPoint 2007 performance in Fusion 3.0

8Sfitz — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:10:20 GMT

Does anyone have any advice for increasing the performance of Powerpoint 2007 when running Fusion 3.0 on a Mac Pro? I installed Windows 7 - 64bit and the installation went fine. I have tried allocating 4 processors and 5 out of my 6mb of RAM to the virtual system and it still has a lot of screen lag when I run the PPT files.

I'm frustrated because I purchased Fusion 3.0 and the Windows 7 only to run the PC version of PowerPoint (2007). I have to access features that Microsoft (the bastards) have locked out of the MAC PowerPoint version. But I can't del with the SLOW performance on the virtual side.

I can't begin to imagine running a game on the virtual side...the lag would have to be immense.

Any suggestions?!

Two major issues with 3.0

blakemiddleton — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:32:36 GMT

Upgraded to 3.0, and created a new Win7 VM from scratch. Installed VMware tools, unistalled, reinstalled several times. I still have two nagging issues I can't get worked out. One is the mouse. When I move the cursor to the VM, the mouse slows down and moves at a different speed. This is highly annoying not to have the mouse move consistently in both OSs. I have tried all the mouse settings I can think of, and none of them help. I tried to install SteerMouse, but when I clicked inside the VM, the whole system crashed. The other major problem is dual monitor support. I can check the "use all monitors in full screen" mode, and the desktop will show up on both screens. But when I move the mouse over to the second screen, the pointer turns into the OSX black pointer and will not do anything in windows. If I click, the mouse jumps way off to the right. So basically dual monitors are unusable. This happened in both new installs of Win7 32bit and 64bit; same behavior. My system is early 2006 Mac Pro, OS X 10.6.2, 8 GB ram. Anyone have any suggestions on how to fix these problems? If not I will just downgrade to version 2 and wait until a new version comes out.

Send keystroke or mouse event to Unity app?

Jay Levitt — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:02:45 GMT

I know they're not directly scriptable, but does anyone know a way to send a keystroke (any keystroke!) or mouse-move event to a Fusion 3 Unity application (Windows XP or Windows 7) without bringing it to the foreground? The following AppleScript works, but interrupts whatever I'm doing. I looked at vmrun, but while it can launch an application in the guest, it can't send events. I suppose I could have it launch an .EXE that then presses a key inside the VM, but is there an easier way?

tell application "VMware Fusion"
activate "/Virtual/VMs/Jasper.vmwarevm"
end tell

tell application "System Events"
tell process "VMware Fusion"
set mykey to menu item "Caps Lock" of menu 1 of menu item "Send Key" of menu 1 of menu bar item "Virtual Machine" of menu bar 1
click mykey
click mykey
end tell
end tell

Keyboard Sensitivity

saru88 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:06:45 GMT

I am now using Fusion 3.0 and have found it rather frustrating when typing in MS Word. I try to type in Japanese and the letter or character that I type repeats itself rapidly and will not stop until I hit the return key or something else. I have never experienced this before. I am using 10.6.2. Is there anything I can do to remedy this?

Many thanks,
koji

Windows Lose Focus

PeteGingaNinja — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:59:46 GMT

I use VMWare Fusion 3.0 in Unity mode all the time, and I mainly use MS Visual Studio 2008 on a Windows XP VM, and it really annoys the hell out of me that VMWare keeps losing the focus to the Visual Studio window, it seems especially when the IntelliSense windows pop up when I'm typing, but it's not always just then, it's quite random.

Just wondering if anyone else has had this problem and please please please fix it, as its really annoying! I've got my mouse settings set to never optimise for games.

I'm using a Mac Pro with 2 monitors.

block virtual ports

bszaronos — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:45:57 GMT

Is there anyway to block virtual ports ?

I need to say block port 8088 from two virtual machines.

normally i would do this on my router. But because the two machines are running virtually i don't know how to block them.

thanks

VM suspends when Host suspends

kwakito — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:06:45 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying out Fusion V3. I installed Windows 7 which is a little slow (i'm using 1GB of RAM for the guest). My question is "why is it that the guest suspends when the Mac suspend? I'm using Snow Leopard on an iMac.

Thanks.

Edward

Online Store issue (no response)

eN0ch — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:54:56 GMT

Hi folks,

Apologies for posting this here, as it doesn't really belong in a tech forum. But unfortunately I've drawn a blank trying to get an answer through a feedback form I submitted over a week ago. (Rather disappointing service, to be honest.) Maybe someone could forward this issue on to someone who can help me.

I'm trying to buy an upgrade to Fusion 3 through the online store, and I want the upgrade + subscription option. But there's definitely something wrong with whatever software the store uses to calculate currency exchange rates. I'm in Australia, so my currency (naturally) is the Australian dollar. The USD price for the option I want is $59.99. If I select 'AUD' in the currency menu it becomes $118.52. On the current exchange rate it should be more like $64.

Needless to say I don't want to risk paying double what I should for the product. Help needed. Thanks.

Regards,
Lance <º))><

MacBook 2.16 OSX 10.6.2
Fusion 2.0.6 WinXP

Networking to use Homeworks Illumination

ljpell — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:25:22 GMT

The computer is directly connected to the Lutron processor with an Ethernet cable (inverted). If I connect using a windows machine, it works in an instant. But with Fusion, I can't. I just don't understand. In the software it gives me the option to "update network adapters" but nothing appears. The Static IP address for the Lutron processor is 192.168.250.<processor address>. I've connected with a true windows computer using a IP address like 192.168.250.10 for example, but I had access to a network adapter.

I bought Fusion for that very piece of software. Nothing else. i like my Mac as it is. But now I'm very frustrated. Please help.

Using Fusion 3, Snow Leopard 10.6.2 and the software Homeworks Illumination

"stopping job because the scheduler could not execute the backend" printing error

mykmelez — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:55:11 GMT

When I try to print something to a printer configured in my Mac OS X host and made available to my Ubuntu 9.10 guest via Virtual Machine > Settings > Printers > Enable, Ubuntu tells me: There was a problem printing 'DOCUMENT-NAME' (job JOB-ID): 'stopping job because the scheduler could not execute the backend.'.

Printing to the printer in Mac OS X works fine, however, as does configuring the printer in Ubuntu and printing to it directly. I see the same behavior with two different printers. Does anyone know what's wrong and how to fix it?

Mouse gets slower and slower (fusion 3 / win7 / Autocad 2010)

prommy76 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:05:35 GMT

Hello!

I got the problem, that the mouse pointer gets slower,
when i work with Autocad 2010 (Fullscreen with 10.6 / Fusion3 / Windows
7). The Mouse-setting is set to "no optimized for gaming".

to
solve it, i accelerate the mouse speed in OSX until it reached the
highest speed. after that i have to reboot to get the original/normal speed.

Its the same problem i got under Fusion2 (XP with ACAD 2008), which i never really solved...

has anyone got the same problem / experience?

thanks a lot

prommy

VMware 3.0 running w/10.6.2 SL: Using lots of CPU (no activity however)

cfm56d7b — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:01:50 GMT

First - background about my environment:

Macbook Pro 17" 2.4 GHz, pre-unibody, 4GB of RAM
Mac OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard / booted in 32-bit mode
VMware 3.0:

. Single Windows XP Pro SP3 virtual machine, originally created under VMware 2.0.5
. The virtual disk was recreated under VMware 3.0 (now virtual SCSI)
. 1 CPU, 1 GB of virtual memory

Performance has been flawless to date. No problem of any kind. Today, VMware 3.0 began to consume lots of CPU, even if WIndows XP partition was doing nothing at all: System Idle was 98%, no SVChosts looking for automated updates, no anti-virus updates or scans. Zero activity. There are no external devices connected to the VM.

I've shut down virtual machine. VMware main process was still consuming anywhere between 40% and 60% of the CPU time as reported by Activity Monitor.

VMware logs do not contain anything out of the ordinary; very few threads to follow at this point. Any ideas?

Borderlands (game) has rendering issues with shadows (pure black patches)

wickedgrey — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:27:03 GMT

Mac Pro 1,1 with OSX 10.5.8
2x Dual-Core Intel Xeon, 3 GHz
6 GB RAM, 2GB-ish assigned to WindowsXP (Boot Camp partition)
NVidia 8800 GT 512MB, 191.07 windows driver ( http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_191.07_whql.html )

I have VMWare Fusion 3.0.0 (30-day trial) set up to run Windows XP off of a Boot Camp partition. While booted directly into windows, I am able to run the game Borderlands with no problems. When I try and run the game under Fusion, I get graphical glitches that pretty much render the game unplayable (see attached shadows.png).

The graphical issues get worse if I turn dynamic shadows on (see attached dynamic.png). While I haven't tried an exhaustive set of combinations, changing each of the graphical settings individually did not seem to change the problem (with the exception that Dynamic Shadows = On spread the problem quite a bit - all shadows were jet black, and sometimes rendered in the foreground, and Ambient Occlusion = on made almost everything render as if lit at half intensity; very dark).

There are also minor graphical seams in some of the menus. See 'dynamic.png' - there is a small line after the word "Exit" in the menu; that line tracks with the mouse cursor. Similar artifacts appear in other menus, some in fixed locations, some tracking with the mouse.

Any suggestions? Thanks!

AppleScript 'keystroke' in VMWare Fusion

RobHalliday — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:49:56 GMT

Hello...

Am trying to adapt an old workflow that used to involve using AppleScript to 'type' commands in Windows XP applications running in VirtualPC to use VMWare Fusion instead.

I used to use the AppleScript 'keystroke' command to do the typing - eg: keystroke 'red 100 green'.

This worked fine in VirtualPC

In Fusion, any numbers get stripped out, so what ends up appearing in the WIndows application is 'red green'. Which is wrong.

Anyone else encountered this and/or have any suggestions or workarounds?

Thanks,

Rob.

Multiple instances of Mac OS X Snow Leopard virtual machines

brian_erdelyi — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:29:52 GMT

I'd like to setup a server running multiple instances of Mac OS X Snow Leopard in a guest virtual machine.

Is there a VMWare View that can run Mac OS X Snow Leopard?
Is there a Citrix or Terminal Services for Mac so multiple users can connect concurrently to a Mac OS X desktop?

Any suggestions? I'm ok with using VMWare fusion to run multiple guest virtual machines, each running Mac OS X Snow Leopard so users can connect via VNC.

Help with Registration

lugesm2 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:57:48 GMT

I am aware that this is a technology forum, but I have experienced no success when trying to contact VMWare about my registration problem.

On the 2nd day that Fusion 3 was available, I purchased the upgrade package to upgrade my Fusion 2.06. Everything went well, and I have been running Fusion 3 since.

However, I now get a small notice in a small window each time I launch Fusion 3. The note in this window states that I have 7 days on this "30 day trial" version. So, I click on "REGISTER" under the "VMWare Fusion" menu and enter my product key.

Think this would fix the problem. No. I still get the nagging window that I have only 7 days remaining.

I sent an email to VMWare Support but have received no reply.

Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong ?

Thanks, L

Fusion 3 - Error printing to Adobe PDF 8.0 (Distiller) on Mac host

cbonsall — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:28:32 GMT

Windows 7 VM on MacBook Pro4,1, 4GB RAM, Mac OS X 10.6.1 ...

Attempts to print from Windows to Acrobat 8 (distiller) as a network printer on the Mac fail with the error message (in the print queue), "Error: /usr/libexec/cups/filter/thnucups failed". On the other hand, printing to a physical printer (lj1220) connected via time capsule works.

Can anyone offer a solution?

Use bluetooth device in a n XP vm

manslang — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:22:37 GMT

HI,

I'm running XP in a Fusion 3 virtual machine (no Boot camp) on Mac OS X 10.6.2.

I tried to setup bluetooth on my VM but something obviously went wrong.
I used the "Connect Apple Bluetooth USB Host Controller" option and
that kicked a windows process to start I noticed, but in windows I still
can't see I have a bluetooth adapter at all. How can I make Windows
realize I have a bluetooth adapter on the host Mac?

Secondly, If I now try to connect the Apple Bluetooth adapter I get the message: "The "Apple Bluetooth USB Host
Controller" device requires that you install Apple's Boot Camp driver disc in the virtual machine."
How is this done? If I mount the Leopard install DVD in the vm windows opens aInstall Assistant window with the options to either remote install Mac OS X on a MacBook Air or DVD/CD sharing.

Installing VMWare Tools in Fedora

parkernathan — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:21:34 GMT

Hello!

I just installed Fedora 12 onto my Mac under Fusion, and the process went rather smooth. However, I'm not sure how to install VMWare Tools onto Fedora. I'm a complete Fedora newbie, so I'm not exactly sure how to install it.

Thanks!
Nathan

Annoying screen "twitch" since upgrading to Snow Leopard

pufferdude — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:59:46 GMT

I've been running Fusion 3 on my MBP since it was in beta, with good results. Last week I upgraded from 10.5 to 10.6.2, and ever since I've been seeing an annoying screen "twich." As best as I can describe it, periodically (perhaps every 2 minutes or so) the screen flickers extremely fast... it's as if it is going full blank, then back on in nearly an instant, withe the perceived result being a VERY annoying "twitch."

Since I've never seen anything like this before and it only started after upgrading to Snow Leopard, I have to assume there is some negative interaction with 10.6 and Fusion3 that doesn't exist in 10.5.

Is anyone else seeing this?

How do I save a VM so I can run VMware player in otherplatform

echi111 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:01:16 GMT

I just bought and installed Fusion in my Macbook. I created a VM for Windows XP. How could I save thsi VM so I can copy it to my Windows 7 or Linux PC and use VMWare player to run the VM?

Thanks very much.

Eric

McAfee

klaatu13 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:27:06 GMT

Hi,
every time I start up my Virtual Machine I keep getting this message about McAfee, well I don't have McAfee on my machine, so is there any reason why I keep getting this message ?

I do have VirusBarrier 5x by Intego ....

Steve

Aero Lag

AbstractLS — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:59:45 GMT

I seem to run fine on VM fusion 3 as long as Aero is off, with Aero on it is very laggy, known issue? running on 27 inch Imac with I7 quad core and 8GB of ram, 2 processors assigned to VMWare and 4GB of ram

Fusion 3.0 is just fine for me, EXCEPT...

SteveHarper — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:48:08 GMT

Vista startups are WAY TOO SLOW!

However XP startups are even more faster with 3.0.

Does anybody know why this is?

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How can I rename my .vmwarevm file?

StuPidasl — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:30:20 GMT

When I installed Windows 7 Pro 32 Bit upgrade, I did it by upgrading an existing Windows XP Home VM. Unfortunately, my "Windows XP Home Edition.vmwarevm" file did not rename itself to reflect that it is a Windows 7 VM. Does anyone know how to rename this file? I tried renaming it in finder, but then VMWare wouldn't recognize it.

Black Screen problems

jdschwam — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:15:29 GMT

Hello,

I have been watching this forum for over a month, and tried many suggestions, but the problem persists.

(Many months ago I tried 2.0.5, and it did work then, but I did not have time to learn VM try so I let it sit until now)

MBP, 10.6.2, Fusion 2.0.6 (bought and tried 3.0 but backed it out), XP SP3, 120gb.

XP SP3 boots to a black screen. Can guess where to find the user login button to click, and it continues to login, but still not display.

I see many entries for 'black screen' but, other than trying the Power off option, I do not see any other recommendations. Maybe I just do not understand what people are saying.

I am using Boot Camp and an trying use it in VM.

I really want to open in vm so I can get a backup I trust, and start using the mac again.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Vista screen resolution won't "stick" after Fusion 3 upgrade

kastorff — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:31:50 GMT

My Vista Business SP-2 VM was working fine in Fusion 2.x. After installing Fusion 3 and upgrading the VMware Tools in the VM, Vista no longer remembers the video settings. I typically run the VM's at 1152 x 733 screen resolution since that works well in the 1280 x 800 mode of my Macbook when it's not hooked up to the external monitor. My XP Pro SP-3 VM remembers the screen setting as before, but Vista opens to a much smaller window each time it boots (854 x 480). I also have trouble resizing the window by using the lower left hand corner of the VM window. Previously, I could pretty much drag the window to any size, but after the upgrade, the window resizes in discrete "chunks" and doesn't allow the fine tuning I was able to get before, making it very hard to get precisely 1152 x 733.

First, is anyone else seeing this type of behavior? Is there a fix?

Second, is there a way to manually set the VM screen size? By editing a settings file or something?

"Logging in to your PC and gathering information." goes FOREVER, in migration assistant

tj1234 — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:13:35 GMT

I attached a screen shot png file. I'm wondering if i did something wrong? It hasn't finished "logging in" for hours.

I think I wish there were just a way to do this using my external hard drive. I exported my old machine using vmware converter, but I get an error, when I try to import it. I have attached that screen shot, also. I had downloaded vmware converter last week, before fusion 3 was released, and used that to put it on the external hard drive. I wonder if it's simply that it's not compatible with fusion 3.

I really don't care how I do it, I just want to get my PC on my Mac.

note: I have XP Professional SP3 on my pc, and snow leopard on my mac.

Converting from virtual to preallocated disk

Pokytrokyt — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:37:21 GMT

I've seen a couple threads here about converting a fixed disk to growable (virtual) disk in Fusion. What I've found is that virtual disks SUCK for performance. I have a new model Macbook Pro 15, which is running Fusion for Mac r3. I have a bootcamp partition accessible in Fusion running Win XP Pro... which runs OK under Fusion. When I import that VM into Fusion as a virtual disk, the performance is worse than mediocre. Since the only difference is the hard disk (same software, same apps, same memory and CPU allocation), I'd like to convert the virtual disk to a preallocated dsik. Does anyone know some way to do this? Thanks,

Solidworks graphical bugs in Fusion 3, which didn't appear in Fusion 2

eobet — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:44:17 GMT

Hello!

I just installed the trial of Fusion 3, and I'm very disappointed to find the following new graphical glitches, which didn't appear in Fusion 2:

If you open a sketch in Solidworks 2009 SP 3.0, nearly all of the sketch lines are invisible, including ones you try to create.

Now, I'm pretty sure this is due to the new DirectX 9 3D support in Fusion 3, but Solidworks is an OpenGL application.

Oddly enough, though, disabling the 3D acceleration inside of Solidworks is greyed out. And disabling the 3D acceleration in Fusion 3 kinda defeats the purpose of having it, it seems.

Anyone know where I can file an official bug report about this?

And step two, I guess is, how do I downgrade to Fusion 2 again?

Thank you!

[Bug] Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 hangs at starting udev

EdOfTheMountain — Sun, 03 May 2009 16:58:38 GMT

Bug:
RHEL 5.2 guest freezes at "starting udev". This started occurring after I switched to 2 virtual CPUs. The problem is not consistent. Before I put my host to sleep and then reboot this morning, I was able to successfully run the REHEL guest and see the two CPUs running. I suspect it may have something to do with my second USB Ethernet adapter getting a different USB id assigned.

Another possibility is something to do with the VMWare Tools. When I was booting into the hang-up this morning, it was informing me that I need to install VM Tools even though they were already installed. I went back to 1 CPU, and all was normal again.

This seems to be a Fusion issue - under VMware workstation 6.5.2, I have never seen it hang with 2 CPUs in the RHEL guest VM. However, when using Workstation, both ethernet adapters were not removable; they were both PCI cards in a Xeon machine.

System:
VMware Fusion: 2.0.4
Host: MacBook Pro 15" OS X 10.5.6, 2.4GHz Core2 Duo, 4GBRAM
Two Nics: Trendnet USBTU-ET1000C with open source Pegasus drivers, and built-in adapter
Guest: RHEL 5.2 with 2 network adapters bridged to my two physical adapters on host.

VMware Bug Tracking Rant:

I am disturbed that Vmware users are prevented from reporting bugs unless they have a current paid support contract. Reporting bugs on a community forum will certainly prevent additional clues from ever reaching the official bug tracking system; clues that can help developers identify a pattern to help isolate where the problem is and where it is not and where to focus their efforts.

As a software developer, I would have been willing to reward my customers for each bug found to help improve my application. I do not understand why any software company would make it difficult to report bugs. As a long time customer and evangelist of VMware products, my perception of VMware as a company has been lowered.

Any tips on a work-around for two cpu operation are appreciated,

-Ed

IrDA USB device only works when booting Snow Leopard in 32-bit kernel mode

pdevaal — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:05:37 GMT

I have software for the Polar heartrate watch running on Windows XP under VMWare Fusion. The software uses the Polar IrDA USB 2.0 device to communcate with the watch. It worked untill I upgraded VMWare Fusion to 3.0, then it stopped working.

Now I have found out that it is not VMWare Fusion causing the problem, but the fact that I also switched MacOS X Leopard to run with 64-bit kernel extensions. When I reboot in 32-bit mode (press the 2+3 keys during boot) the device works again from WinXP under VMWare Fusion 3.

Fusion 3 - Windows XP window opens behind Mac window

davidanson — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:56:49 GMT

Upgraded to version 3 and I have my key applications in the dock. Now when I start them they are coming up behind currently-open Mac application windows rather than on top (in Windows parlance this is called the Z order - don't know if it is the same in Mac Language) which was how they worked in version 2.

Is this a known 'feature' or is there a setting I should change?

TIA

upgrade to W7 and vmware fusion 3.0 - can no longer access \\vmware-host

jgw7 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:31:15 GMT

I was running OS 10.6.1, Vista and Fusion 2.0.6, and had \\vmware-host\z: as a mapped network drive visible (which was the same location as the 'vmware shared folder' icon provided by Fusion on my windows desktop)

after upgrading to Fusion 3.0 and W7, the 'vmware shared folder' desktop icon still works fine...BUT the mapped drive is no longer accessible ("vmware-host is not accessible") ... this is causing major issues, since many of my windows apps were set up to use the shared Documents folder (quicken, turbotax, etc).

I tried the suggestion to uninstall/re-install vmware tools, but I get an error message during the uninstall that the vmware-host drive is no longer available!! ("error 1606: could not access network location \\vmaware-host\shared folders\documents")

I tried a fresh install of Fusion 3.0, followed by a fresh install of Vista (everything was working fine to this point), and then installed the upgrade to W7, and the same problem re-appeared.

I also tried both NAT and Bridged modes for the vmware network adapter with no affect.

It's interesting that I can still dbl click the "vmware shared folder' desktop icon and go to the shared folder... and then in the left hand window pane under 'network' the "vmware-host" is listed but if I click on it I get the "vmware-host is not accessible" error message...!!

please help!

Using a Window VPN

rbagchi — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:26:01 GMT

Hi --

I need to access a network using a windows VPN client. Is there a general way to make OSX able to use the VPN (aware of the new DNS server and routing those IP address through the VPN)?

Thanks!

VMware 3 - No bootable device was detected.

ninchen — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:22:17 GMT

Hi,

I installed the new version vmware fusion3 and I can't install WIN XP OS. This is the error message I receive:

No bootable device was detected.

A bootable device might be a CD, floppy, hard disk, or network device, as when booting with PXE.
To install an operating system, insert a bootable CD or floppy and restart the virtual machine.

I created an ISO image and I received the same error.

can someone help, please?

Ninerle

IMAC 10.6.1, Snow leopard OS

XP via bootcamp to Win 7 VM - license issue?

digidan — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:42:52 GMT

Hello!

I'll be getting a new Mac pretty soon - specifcally, a brand-new, 3.06 Ghz 27" iMac. I currently have a 2.2 Ghz MacBook Pro (late '07), running 10.6.2, as well as Windows XP SP3 via boot camp. As I'm frankly sick of rebooting every time I need to run a windows app, I'll be purchasing a copy of Fusion 3 with the Mac.

I plan on using Fusion's migration assistant to migrate XP over to the iMac - as advertised on the product page. However, the XP install is from an "OEM install disc" - it's licensed only for my MBP, running under Boot Camp. Thus, XP will immediatly complain I need to buy a new license. I'm expecting this, as I ran into this issue before when I tried to migrate to a virtual machine in the past - XP sees the change in (virtualized) hardware and asks for a new license. Since XP is getting up in years, (and there's an excellent sale at my
campus computer store), I'd like to just use a Windows 7 (Pro) upgrade
disc to upgrade XP after migrating to the iMac.

A quick look through the support pages here indicates that it's possible to go bootcamp to vmware, and Windows XP to Windows 7 in a VM. What I haven't been able to find is if it's possible to migrate from an OEM copy of XP on bootcamp, to VMware, and then to Windows 7 via upgrade. Has anyone tried this?

I assume that I'm stuck in the same situation as if I were attempting to migrate from a generic windows machine (eg, HP or Dell) with OEM copy of XP, to the iMac/Fusion and Win 7 - so I'm hoping somebody has figured this out.

Thanks,

-Dan

Should I upgrade to Fusion 3.0

kreedXDM — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:24:54 GMT

I've been running Fusion 2.0.2 for about six months, running Win XP. It has been perfect so far on my MAC Notebook Pro with 4GB RAM, 250 GB disk. My configuration is 50 GB disk for XP, 1 GB RAM. I store no documents/data in the XP partition, with one execption: a windows version of Teradata (4 GB database).

I only use XP for windows apps for which a Mac version is unavailable: Statistica, Visio, ERwin, Teradata, Excel with VB macros, Access etc. I do not access web other than for updates from XP. This configuration is highly efficient, the file sharing is perfect except for Teradata load util MLOAD which gets confused with Mac ascii file terminator. I'm having no problems and performance is good. For now, I see no need to upgrade to Windows 7.

Question: is Fusion 3.0 worth the upgrade hassles?

Error: Failed to connect to peer process.?

Solar-Eclipse — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:49:40 GMT

Hello,
I have Windows XP Professional as my current VM OS and it has worked perfectly until last weekend I went to boot it up and an error came up that said "Failed to connect to peer process."
And it wouldn't start up or anything.
So I tried making a whole new virtual OS and it still came up with the same error.
Can anyone help?
Thanks

VMware Fusion 3 does not support 256 bit color (colour) mode for Windows 98 SE

telcik — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:17:05 GMT

PROBLEM / ISSUE:

VMware Fusion 3 does not support 256 bit color (colour) mode for Windows 98 SE

SCENARIO:

I installed the default Windows 98 SE operating system (no upgrades/patches) and then installed the VMware Fusion Tools using the Virtual Machine menu option. VMware Tools installs the display adapter "Vmware SVGA II" which does not support 256 bit color mode.

If you select "256 colors" from the "Settings - Colors" field on the "Display Properties" panel then restart Win 98 SE, you are prompted at reboot to start in "Safe Mode" because Win 98 SE could not restart in 256 color mode.

SOLUTION:

So far ... none.

I have seen a few VMware community notices by other users with VMware Fusion 2.x, so I presume this problem has been around for some time.

VMware Support ... are you planning to resolve this issue, as it prevents running older graphics-based applications (eg. old games).

Is there a workaround ? I have tried reducing the screen area to 640x480, but this did not resolve the issue.

Revised scenario description.

Mac Wireless Drivers Needed for Windows!

phil799 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:25:15 GMT

I have a MacBook Pro with a Windows 7 Virtual Machine. When I try to find a wireless network in Windows 7 it says I need to install the drivers for my network adaptor. Please link me to the drivers.

Thanks In Advance,
Phil

Only prints first page from multi-page document

brentsallee — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:27:18 GMT

I installed VMWare Fusion on a client's computer to run Windows XP Pro (w/ all the updates) and QuickBooks 2009. Everything was going great when all of a sudden Quickbooks will only print the 1st page out of a multiple page document. The printer is Ethernet driven and plugged into an Apple Airport Extreme. The brand new iMac the client is using is also hard wired into the AEB. Again, we can print multiple page documents on the Mac side just not on the windows side.

Thanks,
Brent

Bluetooth issue in F3

~Von — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:22:43 GMT

Hello,

I am having an issue with a software package that I use called remote professional. This is a windows app that allows me to view the screen and take screen grabs of my Nokia series 60 mobile phone over Bluetooth. I have used this app successfully on my MBP running Fusion 2.0.6 and my XP VM. I'd simply have have the VM take control of the Apple Bluetooth and once done XP recognized the bluetooth device and remote pro worked fine.

Once F3 was released, I installed it and built a Windows 7 VM of both x32 and x64 and attempted to get the remote pro package working and could not. I'd have the VM take control of the Apple Bluetooth and W7 would install its native bluetooth drivers. These appeared to install correctly as I was able to pair the Nokia phone to the W7 VM however when i attempt to use the remote pro software, it can't make the connection to the W7 (x32 or x64) VMs. I uninstalled the Windows BT drivers and grabbed my SL install disc (I am running 10.6.2 on my late 07 MBP) and installed the Apple BT drivers from the disc. No joy here. For fun, I loaded my XP VM that was working perfectly under F 2.0.6 and upgraded the VM tools and now it can see the Nokia device but remote pro can't connect.

To make sure it wasn't an issue with the remote pro software, I grabbed a usb bluetooth dongle and plugged that into the W7 VM and it immediately recognized the BT module, installed the BT drivers and after pairing with the Nokia, remote professional can make the connection to the XP, W7x32 and W7x64 VMs. THe connection is being made with the generic windows BT drivers.

Does anyone have any idea why the Apple bluetooth wouldn't be working in the cases mentioned above? The only thing I have yet to try is to replace the generic BT drivers with the Apple BT drivers from the Leopard install disc. My XP VM that was running successfully under F1 to 2.0.6 started its life as a bootcamp partition under Leopard in December 2007. I later migrated this to a standalone VM but it retained its original Apple BT drivers.

Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.

THx

~Von

Pass through idle/activity timer to guest?

Jay Levitt — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:18:20 GMT

I just started using a brilliant program called PostureMinder. It watches your webcam and nags you when you're slouching. It's only available for Windows.

I have it working fine under XP, and Fusion 3 on Snow Leopard routes the webcam right through to the guest. But there's a problem; it needs to know when you're at the keyboard, or else it'll misinterpret the webcam image. I'm often active in Snow Leopard, but I'm not doing anything in the XP guest, and so PostureMinder thinks I'm inactive.

Is there some way for Fusion to pass my idle/inactivity state through to Windows? I can update to Win7 if needed. I imagine I (well, someone) could write an AppleScript that keeps checking system idle and sends keystrokes to the guest, but that seems the long way round.

Windows 7 VM DOES NOT ACTIVATE FROM BOOTCAMP PARTITION

heroman — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:58:09 GMT

Hi folks,
I can boot into Windows 7 Pro which is in a bootcamp partition on a Macbook Pro, and its activated, but when I try to run VMware Fusion 3.0, its a no go. I can't activate the VM running off the bootcamp partition. And VMware Tools is installed. Is there a fix for this?
TIA

VMware Fusion 3.0 is slow for me, too

zabouti — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:54:30 GMT

I've been seeing complaints about the slowness of VMware 3.0, but I never expected this:

I tried to download a file from the NC Board of Elections from inside my VM running Linux 2.6.24-24-virtual

Here's the command I used:

$ /usr/bin/curl -o ./vdb_updater/ncboe/2009_11_17_ncvhis68.zip ftp://www.app.sboe.state.nc.us/data/ncvhis68.zip

After 72 minutes, it had downloaded only 71K, so I killed the process:

% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current+
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed+
1 5346k 1 71136 0 0 21 0 72:24:56 0:54:44 71:30:12 0+

Since I was downloading to the OSX filesystem mounted inside the VM, I could run the same command in OSX (snow leopard).
The mac did it in 30 seconds!!!

% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current+
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed+
100 5346k 100 5346k 0 0 172k 0 0:00:30 0:00:30 --:--:-- 280k+

real 0m31.311s+
user 0m0.030s+
sys 0m0.157s+

This is pretty bad. Is there any explanation for such a drastic difference in speed? Do I have to use disks inside the VM itself?
Do I have to go back to leopard? Back to VMware 2.0?

What in the world is going on here?

I was running in a server installation of JeOS (ubuntu 8.04), with no gui installed, from the command-line.

This should be fairly easy for the VMware people to replicate. What should I expect?

P.S. I have never tried this in VMware Fusion 2.X, so perhaps this is not new behavior, but given the pain I had moving from 2.X to 3.0, I'm afraid to go back.

Fusion 3.0 eats processing even when no VM is running

JonSmart — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:59:31 GMT

I have just noticed that VMWare is using 60% of my dual core processor, and no VM's are running. If I quit VMWare fusion and restart it shows a processor usage of 1.2%, if I leave it for an hour this increases to 20%. I have done nothing, what is it doing? If I watch the Activity monitor, I see that VMWare fusion eats 0.1% additional processing every minute!

To recreate this I have VMWare in a seperate SPACE on my MAC, I simply Run the App, do not start any VM's and carry on using the MAC OS in another space to do other tasks. Check activity monitor sometime later and see that VMWare is using a large percentage of my CPU. I have also just noticed that the thread count is ever increasing, therefore I fear that VMWare has a thread leak!

Has anyone else seen this issue?

Additional images the first showing the processor usage since the first post, the second once I had simply switched views (Spaces) to make VMWare fusion in focus, still no VM's running (all shutdown):

Anyone got any ideas?

True 64-Bit Availability?

JNaeve — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:59:28 GMT

I've seen several threads on the subject but haven't seen this specifically addressed and was curious whether a true 64-bit version of Fusion 3.0 is going to be released for those of us running Mac OSX 10.6.x Snow Leopard. I'm assuming this would make a substantial difference in performance as when I'm running Fusion now, it seems to really drag down the performance of my computer and when I look at the Activity Monitor, I see several "vmnet-xxx" apps running in standard 32-bit mode. Some insight as to the availability would be very much appreciated.

Best regards,
Jim Naeve

Installing VMWare Tools crashed in Fusion 3.0, now can't install and can't map shared drives. Error 1324 My Documents.

dorts — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:59:33 GMT

Hi

Upgraded to 3.0. Installing VMWare Tools hung the first time, now can't install (error 1324, Character problem with My Documents).

Can see the drives when I browse to try to map them as network drives thru XP, but then when I try and actually map, it can't find the path

please help

Using OpenGL 2.1 in Windows 7 WITH dual monitors

ekrall — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:49:11 GMT

Hi, I’m running Windows 7 in Fusion 3.0 on a MacPro with two monitors. The primary windows program I use is Solidworks, and I’ve found that it runs very smoothly when I enable OpenGL 2.1 using the method outlined here:

http://communities.vmware.com/message/1406642#1406642

My problem is that after I install the XPDM driver I can only use one monitor. I’ve tried to regain use of both monitors using this method:

http://communities.vmware.com/message/1402203#1402203

…but it doesn’t seem to work for Windows 7. It reinstalls WDDM driver and I wind up back where I started.

Migration problem work around

KayFisher — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:07:03 GMT

New to macs. I also had the "Unable to find the system volume, reconfiguration is not possible".
I tried 4 times. Each time it took about 3 hours to copy over 100Gb then failed.
After that I had 4 invisible files in my user directory. As best I can remember the file names were ".WMwareMigration0,
.VMwareMigration1, .VMwareMigration2, and .VMwareMigration3". I am not sure of the exact file name but I am sure
they all started with a DOT and they all had Migration as part of the file name and they were all numbered from 0 to 4.
When I saw Time Machine was attempting to backup over 500Gb from my new iMac I got suspicious. I had to google to figure out
how to turn on invisible files to delete the darn things off my disk.

Here is the work around: I downloaded a "try it free" version of Parallels" and there accompanying XP program
"Parallels Transport Agent for Windows". It migrated my XP system successfully (but it took 6 hours).
After that I went back to Fusion and it was able to File/Import the virtual system that Parallels made.
Then I removed Parallels from my iMac and XP.

Sounds hokey but it worked for me.
I had a support call logged in but they haven't suggested anything yet!

Respectfully,
Kay Fisher

Using Driver Detective in Windows XP under funsion 2.0.6

Bill Walster — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:31:59 GMT

To start up Driver Detective you need to select a Machine Brand (Dell, for example), a Product Line (Dell Precision WorkStation, for example), and a Product Model (M2300, for example). See attached for a screen shot. What should be entered?

I am trying to find and install a driver for a Samsung SGH-t239 cell phone. I have a USB cable made for it, but cannot find a driver.

Thanks in advance for any help.

CANNOT make VMWare Fusion 3 Start Windows 7 Install

evaughan — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:42:12 GMT

I think I've tried everything!

Macbook Pro with Snow Leopard. Just downloaded VMWare Fusion 3, and then downloaded Win7 64 bit version. When I create an ISO image on the disk, and then point to it as an installation file on disc, it starts, shows "DHCP" and then a spinning wheel followed by PXE-E53 No Boot Filename Found. Exiting Intel PXE ROM./ No Operating System Found.

So I have 1. Downloaded the Win7 64-Bit ISO, and this happens. 2. I have used the Win7 CD/DVD Utility to create a bootable disc. When I try to create the new machine, Fusion 3 just loops reading the DVD inserted (the bootable CD created in the above step). I have tried all combinations I can think of and cannot get it even to start to install.

Ideas would be appreciated. Come on VMWARE! It shouldn't be this hard!!

vmware.log contains lots of same message. Fusion 3.0

mckl — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:23:43 GMT

I got same log message over and over in vmware.log

Nov 16 18:56:19.214: mks| Shader compile error: ERROR: 0:1: '' : integer constant overflow
Nov 16 18:56:19.214: mks| Shader compile error: ERROR: 0:1: '' : integer constant overflow
Nov 16 18:56:19.214: mks| Shader compile error: ERROR: 0:1: 'constructor' : too many arguments
Nov 16 18:56:19.214: mks| Shader compile error: ERROR: 0:1: '' : integer constant overflow
Nov 16 18:56:19.214: mks| Shader compile error: ERROR: 0:1: '' : integer constant overflow
Nov 16 18:56:19.214: mks| Shader compile error: ERROR: 0:1: 'constructor' : too many arguments
Nov 16 18:56:19.214: mks| Shader compile error: ERROR: 0:1: '' : integer constant overflow
Nov 16 18:56:19.214: mks| Shader compile error: ERROR: 0:1: 'constructor' : too many arguments
Nov 16 18:56:19.214: mks| Shader compile error: ERROR: 0:1: '' : integer constant overflow
Nov 16 18:56:19.214: mks| Shader compile error: ERROR: 0:1: '' : integer constant overflow
Nov 16 18:56:19.214: mks| Shader compile error: ERROR: 0:1: 'constructor' : too many arguments
Nov 16 18:56:19.214: mks| Shader compile error: ERROR: 0:1: '' : integer constant overflow
Nov 16 18:56:19.214: mks| Shader compile error: ERROR: 0:1: 'constructor' : too many arguments
Nov 16 18:56:19.214: mks| Shader compile error: ERROR: 0:1: '' : integer constant overflow
Nov 16 18:56:19.214: mks| Shader compile error: ERROR: 0:1: '' : integer constant overflow
Nov 16 18:56:19.214: mks| Shader compile error: ERROR: 0:1: 'constructor' : too many arguments
Nov 16 18:56:19.214: mks| Shader compile error: ERROR: 0:1: '' : integer constant overflow
Nov 16 18:56:19.214: mks| Shader compile error: ERROR: 0:1: '' : integer constant overflow
Nov 16 18:56:19.214: mks| Shader compile error: ERROR: 0:1: 'constructor' : too many arguments
Nov 16 18:56:19.214: mks| Shader compile error: ERROR: 0:1: '' : integer constant overflow
Nov 16 18:56:19.214: mks| Shader compile error: ERROR: 0:1: '' : integer constant overflow
Nov 16 18:56:19.214: mks| Shader compile error: ERROR: 0:1: 'constructor' : too many arguments
Nov 16 18:56:19.214: mks| GL-Backend: Creation of required composition program failed, fallback to default composition program!
Nov 16 18:56:19.215: mks| CreateFragmentShader: Shader compile error
Nov 16 18:56:19.215: mks| Shader compile error: ERROR: 0:1: '' : integer constant overflow
Nov 16 18:56:19.215: mks| Shader compile error: ERROR: 0:1: '' : integer constant overflow
Nov 16 18:56:19.215: mks| Shader compile error: ERROR: 0:1: 'constructor' : too many arguments
Nov 16 18:56:19.215: mks| Shader compile error: ERROR: 0:1: '' : integer constant overflow
Nov 16 18:56:19.215: mks| Shader compile error: ERROR: 0:1: '' : integer constant overflow
Nov 16 18:56:19.215: mks| Shader compile error: ERROR: 0:1: 'constructor' : too many arguments
Nov 16 18:56:19.215: mks| Shader compile error: ERROR: 0:1: '' : integer constant overflow
Nov 16 18:56:19.215: mks| Shader compile error: ERROR: 0:1: 'constructor' : too many arguments
Nov 16 18:56:19.215: mks| Shader compile error: ERROR: 0:1: '' : integer constant overflow
Nov 16 18:56:19.216: mks| Shader compile error: ERROR: 0:1: '' : integer constant overflow
Nov 16 18:56:19.216: mks| Shader compile error: ERROR: 0:1: 'constructor' : too many arguments
Nov 16 18:56:19.216: mks| Shader compile error: ERROR: 0:1: '' : integer constant overflow
Nov 16 18:56:19.216: mks| Shader compile error: ERROR: 0:1: 'constructor' : too many arguments
Nov 16 18:56:19.216: mks| Shader compile error: ERROR: 0:1: '' : integer constant overflow
Nov 16 18:56:19.216: mks| Shader compile error: ERROR: 0:1: '' : integer constant overflow
Nov 16 18:56:19.216: mks| Shader compile error: ERROR: 0:1: 'constructor' : too many arguments
Nov 16 18:56:19.216: mks| Shader compile error: ERROR: 0:1: '' : integer constant overflow
Nov 16 18:56:19.216: mks| Shader compile error: ERROR: 0:1: '' : integer constant overflow
Nov 16 18:56:19.216: mks| Shader compile error: ERROR: 0:1: 'constructor' : too many arguments
Nov 16 18:56:19.216: mks| Shader compile error: ERROR: 0:1: '' : integer constant overflow
Nov 16 18:56:19.216: mks| Shader compile error: ERROR: 0:1: '' : integer constant overflow
Nov 16 18:56:19.216: mks| Shader compile error: ERROR: 0:1: 'constructor' : too many arguments
Nov 16 18:56:19.216: mks| GL-Backend: Creation of required composition program failed, fallback to default composition program!

is there someone out there that can explain why i get this message.
And hopefully how to solve it.

Mac os x 10.6.2
MacBook Pro 2.8 GHz Core 2 Dou

Installing OS X Server 10.5 in Fusion 3.0 on a MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo

DoomsdayInc — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:32:20 GMT

This has probably been answered somewhere in here, as I've seen a few discussions regarding similar issues, but I'm trying to install OS X Server 10.5 as a virtual machine in Fusion 3.0, on a MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo. Am I correct in assuming that I can not install OS X server in a VM on a MacBook Pro, though I could install it in a VM on, say, a Mac Pro?? Is the limitation here because I'm doing this on a laptop??

When I start the install of the VM, I get the Apple and the spinning wheel, but after a few minutes, teh Apple is replaced with a circle with a line through it. I'm assuming my assumption from above is correct, but I would just like verification. I get no visible error messages of any sort, though I haven't tried reviewing any installation logs.

Just wondering if anyone has a definitive answer on this.

Thank you in advance.

Windows XP VM using external number pad on Macbook Pro / Function Key Access

ssouter — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:22:23 GMT

I am planning to use Fusion on a laptop with an external number pad. Right now I use Fusion on my iMac with a full keyboard.

Do external number pads get recognized as their own keys or are they mapped to the numbers above the letters? I need to know if the main numbers above the letters can be mapped sepately from the external number pad because I use a terminal program in the Windows VM where the keys need to be mapped to a WYSE60 keyboard for my accounting / business system. Specifically I need to be able to use the Windows function keys F1 thru F10 which I solved by mapping 1 thru 0 although this is clunky. Perhaps there is another option in Fusion to be able to access the full function key list via the Mac laptop keyboard

Thank you,
Scott

OpenGL 2 program crashes with Fusion v3 - anyone get OpenGL 2 to work?

mjferrari — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:06:46 GMT

I participated in the v3 beta testing with a program that requires OpenGL 2 to run. During the beta, this program would crash upon starting.

I just installed the trial of v3 in the hope that this problem with OpenGL 2 has been resolved, but unfortunately I still get the same crash

Has anyone successfully run any OpenGL 2 programs/benchmarks that work under Fusion v3? My program works perfectly under Boot Camp.

Thanks.

Mike

Fusion v3.0.0 (204229)
Win XP SP3

Is VMWare Fusion 3 fixed yet?

rianquinn — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:32:22 GMT

Have they come out with a patch for VMWare FUsion 3 yet, or is it still dog slow? What I am looking for particularly is have they figured out why:

The system as a whole is so slow
Why Unity doesn't work (dragging windows is slow and croppy, slow response time, etc....)

Currently I am using Parallels 5 with great success, but I would like to use VMWare Fusion. Hopefully they can get Fusion to run as fast as Parallels

Unable to boot image after increasing size of image hard disk

tajasa — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:20:50 GMT

Team,

Need some urgent help here.

I increased the size of my XP image in which i was prompted to delete all previous snapshots. After deleting the snapshot and increase the size of the XP professional image, it now attempts to book from network and received the message that no bootable device was detected.

How do i resolve this to start the image again

Resizing a Virtual Disk for Windows Guests with Step by Step Instructions

Pat Lee — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 20:40:19 GMT

There have been a number of questions on how to resize virtual disks and confusion around how this works with regards to Windows partitions.

While the vdiskmanager tools to resize the virtual disks are pretty quick, you still have to use third party tools to get to the desired end point of a larger Windows system virtual disk or actually partition in this case.

To make it easier for people to resize their virtual drives and operating system partition, I took some of my fleeting personal time to write this overview that includes all the steps required to resize a virtual disk with vdiskmanager GUI and then resize the partition with the open source GParted Live CD (ISO).

LEGAL STUFF
This is my personal document and not supported in any way by VMware. Also, I take no responsibility for any of the tools recommended or issues in my write up.

As always, make a backup of your virtual disk before performing resizing your disk as actions like these that could make your virtual machine unbootable. Don't say I didn't warn you!

Hope this is helpful to folks. Any and all feedback is welcome.

Pat

Downgrade back to Fusion 2.06

mikeypas — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:46:54 GMT

Hi! I tried upgrading from Fusion 2.06 to 3.0 but it really messed up my system. I am talking about completely freezing the system while my Windows (XP) VM was booting up, and the boot up process took about 1 hour. Yes, 1 hour to get into the desktop, and which point was still frozen.

Anyway, downgraded back to Fusion 2.06 and all is well regarding boot time. The only thing is, the VM still has VMTOOLS from the fusion 3.0.

Is that going to be a problem if i'm using 2.06?

When I try to reinstall the 2.06 VMTOOLS, I get "A new version of vmware tools is already installed"

Thanks

Mike

Best Practices for Maximizing Windows Guest Speed / Performance with VMware Fusion

bioniccat — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:33:57 GMT

Hi All,

Apologies if this has been covered elsewhere, but I just can't seem to find a single thread about best practices for maximizing performance of your Guest OS using Fusion. I know this is a somewhat broad question. In my case I'm using mostly Windows XP as the guest OS. I'm a Macintosh consultant and have many clients who need to run Windows for the occasional (or perhaps not so occasional) application or use.

Overall I'm pleased with the performance of Fusion and certainly its reliability (having switched from an often frighteningly flakey Parallels.)

With that said, I'm wondering if the VM Vets can offer a run down of suggestions for how to make a Windows VM cook as best as can be expected. Along those lines, what is "normal" speed. Should a virtual machine run 50% as fast as a "real" PC with the same specs? 70% as fast? Again, I know this can vary greatly depending on a variety of factors, but just looking for some generalities and suggestions.

Anecdotally, it seems odd by on well endowed Macs with plenty of memory, allocating more memory to the VM doesn't necessarily speed it up, but sometimes actually makes it feel sluggish. (I haven't run any performance tests, but I'm basing this solely on how the VM "feels" and responds.) I find it odd that regardless of the amount of memory installed in the Mac, "512MB" always seems to be the "recommended" value in the settings.

Further along those lines, on a multicore machine, should allocated more cores result in quicker performance as one would logically conclude?

So does anyone know of or have such a document or care to offer any suggestions? I'm thinking of something along the lines of "set your disk up in this fashion, allocated x% of your physical memory to the VM, allocate X% of the cores, don't do this, but DO do this...." and so on. I know that surely one size won't fit all. Just looking for some general guidelines if anyone would care to weigh in on this.

Apologies again if this has been covered a million times. I've found the occasional "my VM is slow" thread, but nothing along the lines of best practices.

Thanks all,
Stephen

BTW--I'm running VMWare Fusion 3 as are most of my clients, though some are still on 2.x.

Vmware Fusion 3.0 - OpenSolaris 2009.06 - no mouse cursor

mbialas — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:37:50 GMT

I just started to use VMware Fusion 3.0. I have no problems with my Windows XP or Ubuntu 9.10 VM's. Today
I've tried to install OpenSolaris 2009.06 (32 bit). I start the VM with the Live-CD. When the Gnome-Desktop appears I
have no visible mouse cursor. The mouse is working, the icons are highlighted when I move it around. And I can
open the menu. But it is not visible.

Has somebody the same problem? Or maybe found a solution?

VM settings:
Solaris 10
1 CPU, 768 MB RAM
Bridged network
20 GB SCSI HD
USB

Mac:
Intel iMac 17" early 2006
1.86 GHz Intel Core Duo
Snow Leopard 10.6.1

How to use webcam on Windows 7 ?

mightyd — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:59:55 GMT

Hi,
I am a macbook user.
I installed Windows 7 with using VMware 2.0, most of things work well, except a web camera.
The thing is I downloaded Live MSN messenger which is for Windows, and I tried to do video chat, but it couldn't find the cam.
I tried to install a Macintosh drivers for windows, but since I am using tiger OS,
so I thought that it could work if I install the drivers that I used to use for bootcamp thing.
But it didn't work either,, maybe the drivers are for Windows XP.
How can I set up the Mac drivers on Windows 7? Is it impossible to use webcam on Windows7 yet via WMware 2.0?
God, it is way harder than I expected to use without any troubles to use mac and windows together..
Please help me~

Is there a conversion path from 1.1.3 to New 3

BenInBlack — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:17:55 GMT

Hi all,

I need to know how to convert from 1.1.3 to 3.

I tried multipe times with 2.x version and they were just dogs (and yes i tried all the tricks) they just didn't stand up to 1.1.3 in speed. So I don't have 2.x version of fusion. do I have to convert to 2.x then to 3.x or can I convert 1.1.3 direct to 3.

Hey, I'm on 1.1.3 becaue I need speed and I run multiple instances. 2.x was a dog and now 3.x I see by reports is a even slower. I left Parallels because they kept adding eye candy and not addressing the performance, now I see fusion is doing the same thing.

I wish VM would just come out with an optimized 1.1.4 version for snow leopard so those of us that just need a way to run windows on the mac with out all the bells and whisles, CAN!!!

I would pay full price and some for a version 1 that works optimized for snow leopard

Problems with Fusion 3 Upgrade

davidanson — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:23:52 GMT

Upgraded to Fusion 3 today from version 2 on Snow Tiger and the two vital Windows programs in daily use are unusable.

1. Sage Act v 6 starts up by displaying a splash screen which is forced on top of the screen for a few seconds and then this should disappear leaving the login dialog, only it doesn't. I suspect the login dialog is behind the splash screen but I can't see it to be able to progress

2. Sage Accounts appears to work OK until I try to print out an invoice at which point it freezes. So I can't issue invoices to customers.

Anyone else finding similar problems and/or have solutions?

TIA

David Anson

bug : the network unusable after using dreamweaver FTP

yodark — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:23:50 GMT

Hello,

When I use dreamweaver to interact with a server on a virtual windows (XP and Vista). It works but after some variable number of upload download the network fail. Then impossible to connect to internet any more on WMware fusion. Even if I disable and re enable the network card. Even if I shut-down the WM and even if I quit Wmware fusion. I have to reboot MacOS in order to make WMware working again.

I'm using WM fusion 2.0.4 on macbook pro unibody and a macbook (simple).

I have the same problem on my new macbook pro and the old one. Same problem occurred on my boot camped vista and my stand alone windows XP VM.

Ooops V3 VMDKMounter Snow Leopard

ChipMcK — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:26:11 GMT

This prompt do not occur with V3 running on Leopard 10.5 OSX

It does come up when on Snow Leopard and attempting to Open With VMDKMounter

Port Forwarding to VMWare

MarcBollinger — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:19:55 GMT

Hey there,

Let's say that I have a service running inside of VMWare Fusion and have it setup as a NAT connection (my only option here at work.. IPs are restricted).

Is there anyway I can tell OSX to essentially forward the service request to the private VMWare IP?

Marc

Vista won't see added HD

jkoseattle — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:53:44 GMT

I created a second hard disk in my Fusion virtual Vista machine, but when I go to the Windows Explorer, it doesn't show my second drive, just the original C: drive. In Device Manager, it shows that there are two drives, but the file system doesn't show it. How do I fix this>

No bootable device was detected

EthanA — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 07:19:38 GMT

I just installed the evaluation copy of Fusion 1.1 for the Mac. The install went smoothly. After it had finished installing, I inserted a CD of Windows 2000 Professional. The CD has installed Windows 2000 Professional before. An error message says "No bootable device was detected... Insert a bootable CD" Of course, I searched the discussion forms. I only have one DVD player. I can select it manually. I can watch the DVD appear in my finder as I disconnect and connect my DVD. I can see the contents of the DVD on my Mac.

In the window it says "No boot filename received" and "Operating System not found"

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Weird noises from my USB headset after upgrade to Snow Leopard

DJRmpy — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:00:06 GMT

Has anyone else experienced any weirdness with a USB headset in VMWare Fusion after upgrading to Snow Leopard? I'm currently on Fusion v 2.0.5 (173382). Worked fine in Leopard, but after the upgrade to Snow Leopard, my USB headset now makes a lot of clicking and squawking noises. I've tried two different USB headsets and both exhibit the same behavoir. These are used for VOIP, but the noise comes from them just from 'connecting' them to the appliance without even actively using them.

The applicance is Windows XP SP3 (32 Bit).

Any suggestions?

VMWare Resume Fail

jafar — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:11:24 GMT

Hi guys
I was having trouble with my mac, seems like the HD is going but I am experiencing a bit of an issue here.
One of my VM is on Suspended when I had issues with the HD.
I now cannot resume it, it'll give me the dreaded cannot Sync with disk "Disk /Users/acerliej/Documents/Virtual Machines.localized/Windows XP Professional.vmwarevm/Windows XP Professional-000002-s002.vmdk may be inconsistent." error after locking up my Mac.
Other VMs seem to work OK.
Is there anyway I can "unresume" or shutdown the machine manually?

how to start guest OS in verbose mode?

d_k1 — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:58:32 GMT

I'm trying to find a way to boot the guest OS (Mac OS X Server) in verbose mode. When I hold down the cmd-v keys when starting guest OS it invokes a window asking user to choose between (booting from hd, booting from DVD or ejecting DVD). So, how can I get the guest OS to boot in verbose mode?

VMWare Resume Fail

jafar — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:09:03 GMT

Copy Paste in Fusion 3 (Text as Images)

kahunamike — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:12:53 GMT

I'm having difficulty with trying to Copy and Paste between Fusion and Mac OS X Snow Leopard. When I copy from Microsoft Excel or Microsoft OneNote in Fusion and Paste it in Mac OS X, it always pastes it as an image. I don't want it as an image and the only workaround that I have thought of is to paste it in Notepad within Windows XP and then Copy-Paste it into Mac OS X. Is there a way to default it back to the way Fusion 2 handled Copy-Paste. I may just stick with Fusion 2 if there's not a good fix since it's wasting a lot of my time. Thanks.

Macbook Pro 10.6 Snow Leopard

Windows XP running in VMWare Fusion 3

Mike

Fusion Unity mode - not showing Java window

noetus — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:14:44 GMT

I have a Java window that won't show up in Unity mode in v3.0. I can see it in the preview window, and it is there when I switch to single window mode, but it disappears when I go into Unity mode. The Java window is part of Powerfolder.exe.

VMware Fusion 3 with Windows 7 x64 internet

runningfish — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:31:14 GMT

So I just finished installing Windows 7 64 bit on VMware Fusion which is running on my mid 2009 MacBook Pro 15" it is working fine except I cannot Connect to the internet, i get an error message saying "Could not connect Ethernet0 to virtual network "/dev/vmnet8"." saying to refer to the vmware.log file for more info, i cannot find the .log file and i need to connect to the internet to activate windows and McAfee.

Screen goes blank

editoremma — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:26:22 GMT

This has just started happening. I start up VMware and it starts fine but once I select Full Screen the screen goes black. If I choose Single Window the window remains black and nothing I can do returns the screen from black. I toggle from Full Screen to Single Window and the screen remains black. Has anyone else seen this? I am running Vista if that makes a difference.

Possible to pass parameters to a Windows app from OS X?

digdugggler — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:16:48 GMT

Is it possible to launch a Windows application from OS X while Fusion is running and pass arguments to that target application? I can see how to create aliases in either the dock or on the desktop to launch a Windows application, but is there any method to pass parameters to that target (supported or hacky)?

Edit: I see that it was not possible over a year ago, I was wondering if things had changed with 3.0.....

Converter fails to convert Windows 7 x64 machine

kmoize — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:26:53 GMT

I've spent 3 days trying to determine why I can't use either the new PC migration tool or the standalone converter (4.0.1) to generate a usable virtual machine image.

I think the problem is that neither conversion method can identify the OS correctly. When I look at the machine summary, it identifies the OS as "Other" and then tries to generate the virtual machine incorrectly. The actual error is Failed: Unable to create VSS snapshot.... I was able to generate a virtual machine that worked fine for the Windows 7 32 Utilmate install. When it was generated, it was recognized as a Vista OS.

Has anybody had similar problems and found a fix for this? Does anyone know if VMWARE is planning to udate either of the converters to work with Windows 7? Has anyone been able to successfully create a virtual machine image that works for Windows 7?

PC - HP Quad, Windows 7 x64 Professional

Mac - Macbook Pro 17, Dual 2.8 MHZ, Fusion 3

Thanks

Fusion 3 and Win7 - VM Screen Size

RogueMonk — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:59:24 GMT

I'm using Windows 7 with Fusion 3. I use it in "Single Window" mode.

I'm wondering if there is anyway to set the screen size so that its the same each time I boot into the VM? As it stands now, It defaults back to an 800x600 resolution. So I have to stretch it out to my desired size each time it boots. Is there any way to set a default screen resolution tat doesn't reset on each boot? Thanks.

PS - I have tried to manually set the resolution in Control Panel. It doesn't maintain upon a reboot.

Fusion 3 freezes when loading games, forces hard reboot

chort — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:59:40 GMT

I was previously able to play TF2 in Fusion 2 (albeit not very smoothly). I upgraded to Fusion 3, upgraded VMware tools in my XP SP1 VM, and tried to load TF 2. It freezes the entire host OS and forces a reboot. I then tried installing Company of Heroes. I can navigate all the settings menus, but when it gets halfway through the loading screen for a map, it freezes in the same manner.

I have a MBP 15" with a Radeon X1600. Here's the vmware.log: