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fix network card on copied VM image

tongueroo — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:22:56 GMT

Hi guys,

So, Im having trouble getting on of my vmfusion ubuntu images to talk to the
host os (macosx).
I created these images a little differently.

There are 3 images: ubuntu1, ubuntu2, ubuntu3.
I created ubuntu1 and ubuntu3 by going through the complete install process
via the vmfusion wizard to install an os.

Here's a screenshot with the network info for all 3 VMs:
http://www.screencast.com/t/N2EzY2M3N

However, for ubuntu2, I created this VM differently. I just copied the folder
that contained all the vmfusion file for ubuntu1 and renamed the VM it from
ubuntu1 and ubuntu2. This is probably why the network identication is exactly
the same on both ubuntu1 and ubuntu2.

root@ubuntu1:~# ifconfig -a | grep 'inet6' | grep Link
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe41:f1d3/64 Scope:Link
root@ubuntu2:~# ifconfig -a | grep 'inet6' | grep Link
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe41:f1d3/64 Scope:Link
root@ubuntu3:~# ifconfig -a | grep 'inet6' | grep Link
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe50:363b/64 Scope:Link

On ubuntu2 I manually release the ip address, with "dhclient -r && dhclient",
and manually assigned it the ip address of 172.16.89.131, with "ipconfig eth0
172.16.89.131".

Unfortunately, I still cannot talk to the ubuntu2 from the host os with ping:

From the host os I can only ping ubuntu1 and ubuntu3, but not ubuntu2.
tung@walle:~ $ ping -c 2 172.16.89.130
PING 172.16.89.130 (172.16.89.130): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 172.16.89.130: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.285 ms
64 bytes from 172.16.89.130: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.400 ms

172.16.89.130 ping statistics ---

2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.285/0.343/0.400/0.057 ms
tung@walle:~ $ ping -c 2 172.16.89.136
PING 172.16.89.136 (172.16.89.136): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 172.16.89.136: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=7.601 ms
64 bytes from 172.16.89.136: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.344 ms

172.16.89.136 ping statistics ---

2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.344/3.973/7.601/3.628 ms
tung@walle:~ $ ping -c 2 172.16.89.131
PING 172.16.89.131 (172.16.89.131): 56 data bytes
^C # Ctrl-C because this hangs

172.16.89.131 ping statistics ---

2 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
tung@walle:~ $

Anyone have any suggestions? I know that I can also just do a clean install
by going through the vmfusion wizard but it would be nice if I could just fix
the network card.

Tung

"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.

Can Fusion do x64 Windows on a late 2009 Mac Mini?

dirkce — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:58:31 GMT

I'm looking for a solution to create and run images of Windows Server 2003 x64 Enterprise Edition and OS X Server 10.5 for small scale software testing.

Can I do this on a late 2009 Apple Mac Mini with VMWare Fusion 3?

I've heard that there are firmware limitations on this device that prevent 64-bit operation.

Thanks!

Memory Freeze Up

XUSN — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:09:30 GMT

I've seen posts of different variations of the same theme, but they haven't worked for me. I use VM to support XP on my Mac. It recently froze because I was out of memory. I discovered that I have ~ 60Gb of segmented files:

Windows XP Professional - s001.vmdk
Windows XP Professional - s002.vmdk
Etc. up to 034

How do I delete the dupes or other data embedded in these separate files to clean up memory. I know it is VM Fushion related and not underlying XP data. Thanks.

VM not freeing up space from Windows 7 deleted files (windows.old)

jmcrtp — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:26:16 GMT

I have a windows 7 upgrade I bought, and I also have the install disk but windows 7 makes me upgrade from vista 64-bit. Basically I install vista 64-bit and end up with an 8 GB or so VM. Then I do the upgrade to windows 7 and with my windows.old folder I am at around 20GB. I need to get this down to 10GB or less. I can delete the entire windows.old folder with or without using recycle bin functionality. I can shutdown and/or suspend multiple times. Windows 7 sees that it has a 40GB partition and it is using about 10GB of it. The problem is that my VM is still 20GB on my mac. No matter what I seem to do I can't delete this data. I would love to just install windows 7 cleanly but it won't let me since I have an upgrade, it makes me actually upgrade from vista. It won't allow me to upgrade from XP or even use that installer since XP is 32 bit. I don't have any data on the VM I just want to end up with a fresh windows 7 64-bit VM with no data on it, but that only takes up 8-10GB on the mac (or less).

I have also tried the VM cleanup and it does not help at all. VMware fusion 3.0 is not getting the memo from windows that these files were in fact deleted. Is anyone else having this issue?

I'm running VMWare fusion 3.0.0 (204229) on Mac OS X 10.6.2 on a Macbook pro system, 8GB RAM, 256GB Solid State HD.

I have tried to delete these files many times by reinstalling windows from scratch, then I started to backup the VM and try to delete the files using different methods (with recycle bin, no recycle bin, etc.) and I am never able to get VMware to clean up the VM.

data cannot be read or written / vmdk failed

chuckomoss — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:30:18 GMT

Greetings,

My host is a MB Pro with OS X - 10.5.8, the guest is Windows XP - SP3, VMWare Fusion 2.0.6 and I'm looking for help with two areas, 1) Challenges creating a reliable backup VM 2) What could cause the vmdk file to crash.

This morning and last night when trying to copy my VMware Fusion file to an external hard drive as a backup copy, I recieved the following message, "Finder cannot complete the operation because some data cannot be read or written."

I have no idea why this particular VM file cannot be copied. I was able to copy an earlier version a few weeks ago.

Additionally, I have woken up twice this month to the following message:

"Operation on file my vmware fusion path and file name.vmdk failed. If the file resides on a remote system, please make sure your network connection and the server where the disk resides are functioning properly. If the file resides on removable media, reattach the media. Choose Abort to terminate the session. Choose Continue to forward the error to the guest operating system."

When I choose > Abort, then I would get the following message:

VMFusion cannot sync with disk before abort. Disk my VM file name and path may be inconsistent.

I had to re-build my VM the last time (September) to get past the "failed" error. Since the upgrade to VMWare Fusion 2.06 (yesterday), this has not occurred, but I now cannot make the backup copy on an external hard drive.

What suggestions do you have?

Thanks in advance,

Charlie

Fusion 3/Windows 7 Ultimate/multiple displays

plaintiger — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:33:03 GMT

with much trial and tribulation and repeated downloading and installing of monitor drivers, i can get all three of my monitors working at 1680x1050 in Windows 7 Ultimate under Fusion 3, but every time i do anything - open a window, click, whatever - my cursor jumps to my rightmost monitor (which is neither designated as #1 nor set as my main display).

is this a Fusion problem or a Snow Leopard + Fusion problem or a Windows 7 problem or what? my 3-monitor setup works fine until i get into Fusion 3 and Windows 7; it worked perfectly under Snow Leopard + Fusion 2 + XP Pro as well.

i guess my next step should be to test in XP under Fusion 3...i'll do that and report my findings...

...okay, i'm reporting my findings: it seems to have something to do with Windows 7 because - performance aside - the setup's still working perfectly in XP Pro under Fusion 3. (i have the same complaints everybody else seems to have regarding Fusion 3's performance - didn't i read that Fusion 3 performs better than Fusion 2?? isn't that part of the reason i forked over money for this?? unless i'm imagining that claim, i deserve my money back.)

now: does anybody know how to make a three-display setup work correctly in Windows 7 Ultimate running under Fusion 3 running under Snow Leopard? that is, without the cursor jumping to places it shouldn't jump to and such? i don't expect decent performance until Fusion 3 is updated. which i think VMWare owes it to us to do sometime, oh, say, tomorrow.

Better Performance with XP or Windows 7? SUGGESTIONS PLZ!!!

iplaydc87 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:29:26 GMT

I have the 2009 late macbook pro with 2.26 Intel Core Duo with 4 GB DDR3 Ram (with snow leopard) and I have just purchased Fusion 3. I will be using fusion mainly for microsoft office for school. As far as performance on both my mac and fusion, is it better to use windows 7 or windows XP on Fusion? 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

Vista Business much faster under Fusion 3.0.0, but also blurry and full of artifacts

ewestby — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:07:29 GMT

I just upgraded from VMware Fusion 2.0.6 to 3.0.0 and I must say I'm blown away by the speed improvements. There's a huge problem, though: the screen is far blurrier than it was before even though I am certain I am running in my MacBook Pro's optimal fullscreen resolution of 1440x900. It's as if the 3D acceleration isn't bothering to keep the screen crisp and clean, but only focusing on performance. The entire screen is blurry, as if I were running a resolution requiring anti-aliasing, and what's worse, there are visual artifacts everywhere: mostly horizontal and vertical lines, but also bogus shadows and patches of random color. It's essentially unusable in this state.

But fast.

Yes, I upgraded my VM's VMware Tools to the version included in 3.0.0 and rebooted both the VM and host. My system's specs are:

Host: MacBook Pro (late 2006), 2.33GHz Core2Duo, 3GB RAM, ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 graphics with 256MB display RAM. Full specs here: http://support.apple.com/kb/SP24

VM: Vista Business SP2 with 1GB RAM allocated, 3D acceleration turned on. Vista now reports a Windows Experience index of 2.9: much higher than the 1.0 index I was getting under Fusion 2.0.6!

Any help would be appreciated. SURELY this isn't how 3D acceleration is supposed to work.

Ubuntu 9.10 + VMWare Fusion 3.0.0 -- BROKEN AUDIO -- VMWare? Are you there?

ivocal — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:05:09 GMT

There are several posts on both VMWare and Ubuntu forums about broken audio with Karmic and VMWare Fusion (2 and 3)

For the record, audio works great when Karmic is installed on my Dell laptop. Audio is broken when installed on VMWare Fusion.

Some people have suggested that removing pulseaudio is a solution to this problem. I have tried this and it does work "somewhat", but I reject it as a solution.

Here are the issues with removing pulseaudio:

You lose the System -> Preferences -> Sound controls and with it the ability to select among multiple audio devices. I need the ability to connect multiple audio devices and select among them on the fly.
If you suspend/resume then your audio is right back where it was before you removed pulseaudio, so clearly removing pulseaudio did not "fix" the problem.

Why should I have to cripple the OS audio support just so I can use it with VMWare?
Where is the update that VMWare should have pushed out already to solve this problem?
Why is VMWare silient on this problem? Where is your acknowledement of the issue and expected fix date?

Remember, Ubuntu works fine on standard hardware, but not on VMWare virtualized hardware. I would say that this makes it a VMWare problem, since you advertise that you support Ubuntu Linux. Therefore, a series of linux OS tweaks just to get partial audio support cannot be considered a "solution".

Wake up VMWare...

Windows 7 unable to connect to the internet

damaze — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:20:58 GMT

I am running the trial of Fusion 3 while I am waiting for my free upgrade. I am running Windows 7 64 bit and I am getting the message "Windows did not detect any networking hardware".

I have installed VMWare tools and done just about everything I have found online and in the knowledgebase. Please help me out. My Mac is connected to my network but I cannot get the virtual machine connected.

Please help. I have tried NAT and Bridged options with no luck. This was working when I had Win XP Pro loaded with Fusion 3.

Thank You

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

Unable to access internet after upgrading to 3.0 and Windows 7

terra72 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:08:32 GMT

I've gone through the complete upgrade of VM Fusion (to 3.0) and Windows (from XP to 7) and while it wasn't without issues (mainly memory), I finally got it to work. And it works extremely well, much faster than VMF2/XP, with one important exception: I cannot connect to the internet over my wifi network.

I've tried all the different network settings in VMware Fusion, and it consistently tells me that I am connected (Virtual Machine // Network Adaptors // Settings). However, when I try to actually access the net, it can't find the network and none of the 'troubleshooting' tools help me.

I'm a little frustrated as Windows 7 actually works really well in VMware Fusion 3.0 with the exception noted above.

Any ideas?

Thx

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

Recent Applications

rianquinn — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:14:23 GMT

Is there a "defaults" terminal command for turning off the Recent Applications that are shown in VMWare Fusion 3's Windows menu. If not why? That seems like a pretty standard thing to turn off.

Windows 7 Media Center performance?

henrik7 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:05:41 GMT

I have a MacBook Pro (latest) 2.5Ghz with 4GB and under Windows 7 (Fusion 3.0, 1cpu, 1GB), the Media Center or Media Payer works but performance for HD videos recorded on a Media Center TV is choppy. I am curios if others have gotten the Media Center to display recorded TV smoothly or if this is simple a limitation of Fusion 3.0. Anyone?

- Henrik

How to detach Command key from Windows menu?

Snorkledorf — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:16:09 GMT

I'm running XP SP3 under Fusion v3.0.0 (204229), latest VMWare Tools etc.

My goal is to disable the binding of the Mac Command key to the client Windows menu, and I've been totally unsuccessful doing it.

I experienced a brief surge of hope when I realized there was a key mapping preference that bound the two together in Fusion v3's preferences. (Was it there in v2? Anyway I just noticed it now.) But no matter if I change it to a different key, disable it, delete it outright (my current state), or even disable Key Mappings altogether, the two are still stubbornly linked together. I really like the binding of e.g Command-C to ctrl-c so I don't have to completely rewire my brain. On the other hand, I also have 25 years of Mac experience telling my thumb that pressing the Command key a little early does nothing in particular, so the Windows menu keeps popping up "on its own." This is one binding I would love to be able to get rid of.

Is there anything else I should try?

Vm crashed - line 63 syntax error

theflin56 — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:32:20 GMT

I have read some of the line 63 syntax error post, but do not see how to fix this error. This is the second time my VM has crashed with this error. The first I just simple created a new VM. I would rather recover this one if possible due to the data that is on it. Any recommendations? Thanks in advance.

Tom

Cannot conect to Win XP VM using Remote Desktop

bmgoldstein — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:28:01 GMT

I cannot connect to the Windows VM running on my Mac from a remote Windows PC using Remote Desktop. All windows settings have been configured to allow remoe desktop sharing of the Windows VM. The remote Windows PC is on the same wireless network in my home as the Mac running the Windows VM. I have tried connecting to the Windows VM with network NAT and Bridge settings but neither work. I have allso tried connecting using the Windows VM computer name and IP address and neither of these worked.

I can however connect to a remote Windows PC on the same wireless network using Remote Desktop on my WIndows VM on my Mac. Why am I able to use remote desktop to connect to other PCs but not to connect to it?

Any other settings I need to check?

Any adivce is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Bruce

Fusion 3- VM needs to be running for Disk Cleanup???

beckettb — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:34:17 GMT

While continuing to diagnose slowness issues for my Windows XP VM that I've been running since Fusion 1.x, I noted that "Disk cleanup is recommended" appeared under the VM's hard disk settings. Per the embedded help:

"Procedure

1. With the virtual machine shut down or powered off..."

So I shutdown the VM and clicked "Clean Up". It would simply say "cleaning up deleted files" and then quickly exit. This did not change the status of "disk cleanup recommended" nor did it seem to be consolidating any of the VM's myriad of VMDK files.

After searching the forums and internet, I stumbled across a single reference where someone noted that their VM had to be turned on (despite this appearing counter-intuitive and the opposite of the stated procedure) for Disk Cleanup to do anything. So I started up the VM and tried again- sure enough it proceeded to present the "Cleaning up deleted files..." dialog with a status bar that actually represented something was going on. (I guess I'll know in a few hours just what...)

Does anyone know? Is this an error in the manual as a hold over from 2.x or is this a bug? I

Brian B,

Virtual windows stuck while trying to shut down after an automatic windows update

ffusa — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:29:03 GMT

Virtual windows XP on my MacBook Pro was automatically updating a windows update and then attempted to shut down. It is now stuck in attempting to shut down. I cannot get it to respond. Any ideas?

Thank you.

Dan

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

Windows won't close

drwilke — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:11:36 GMT

I have the "Windows is shutting down" screen but it is not closing and trying to shut down the Virtual Machine isn't doing anything. What can i do?

Fusion 3 - Windows 7 Dual Monitor Fullscreen Mode breaks when a UAC prompt is triggered

nathaneb — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:56:55 GMT

Hola,

I've been using Fusion 2 with Windows 7 for months and just went to Fusion 3. It's cool to have Aero turned on, but there is an annoying glitch that happens only with Aero enabled. I always run in full screen with the "Use all displays in fullscreen" mode checked. This spans the desktop between my two 21" monitors. Whenever windows triggers the UAC prompt with aero enabled the dual monitor spanning turns into dual monitor cloning (single screen displayed identically on both monitors). If I go to the view options of Fusion 3 and turn off/on the use all displays in fullscreen mode it will set things back to normal. This does not happen when aero is turned off. A little help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Sound not working on Ubuntu 9.10 (VMware Fusion 3.0.0 on an iMac)

eleetselad — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:05:20 GMT

I'm running VMware Fusion 3.0.0 on an iMac. I have created an Ubuntu 9.10 (released version) Virtual Appliance. All seems fine except there is no SOUND.

Any suggestions for a fix? Thanks!

Success installing drivers for iSight from a Snow Leopard DVD in Fusion 3.0.0 XP VM?

avanpelt — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:16:54 GMT

Hi, all.

I want to use my built in iSight in my XP SP3 VM for the first time. When I connected the iSight to the VM, I got the message from Fusion that I should install the Boot Camp drivers for the iSight. Fair enough. . .

I popped in my Snow Leopard DVD and immediately two options popped up relating to sharing my CD/DVD drive with a MacBook Air or remotely installing Snow Leopard on a MacBook Air. I've got a MacBook Pro, so I could care less about the MBA.

No problem, I thought. I browsed the Snow Leopard DVD to the "Boot Camp" folder and double-clicked "setup.exe". I get error almost immediately from the Windows Installer which says that the installer encountered errors before Boot Camp could be configured.

OK, I thought. . .I'll just use the New Hardware Wizard in XP and when it prompts me to locate the driver, I'll point it to the \Boot Camp\Drivers location on the disc. No go. . .no drivers found.

Has anyone had any success installing the iSight driver off a Snow Leopard DVD since upgrading to Fusion 3.0.0?

Thanks for your help!

Virtual Machine does not start up

sixtus — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:57:48 GMT

HI there,
After the OSX Leopard 10.5.7 to Snow Leopard 10.6.0 OSX upgrade, my Virtual machine does not start-up
On any attempt to launch Windows XP virtual machine, this error is reported : "NOT_IMPLEMENTED bora/devices/mainmem/mainMemHosted.c:1967"

Can You help me to solve the problem without reinstalling VMware Fusion?
If I have to reinstall Fusion and/or Windows XP, how can I do to not lose all my windows applications currently installed?

I 'm using the 1.1 (62753) VMWare Fusion version
Is it compatible with Snow Leopard?
I attach the log file created during startup process.

thanks a lot

Enable Hardware-assisted virtualization (HAV) in BIOS in a VMWare Fusion 3 VM

frobitz — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:03:26 GMT

Hi,

I'm a web developer and have a Windows 7 Pro install on Boot Camp with IE6, IE7 and IE8 running via XP Mode (VirtualPC) via the recent article on Sitepoint,

I'd like to be able to access these through the Boot Camp Partition option in VMWare Fusion 3 but I'm blocked by not having Hardware-assisted virtualization enabled in the VM, and there's not option in the BIOS.

I realise running a VM inside a VM is a bit crap, but for my purposes I don't think the slowness will matter as it will be just to check rendering issues when coding CSS/HTML.

Additionally I don't want to install XP or Windows 7 inside VMWare VM's on OS X as I'm happy with my Boot Camp set up and don't want to use up more disk space, nor waste money on more M$ licenses!

I have come across some hacks for older version of Fusion but somehow doubt they work on 3.

Can anyone suggest a solution?

Thanks!

How can I check the status of my upgrade serial number?

bmwdk — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:02:25 GMT

I ordered Fusion 2 (with free upgrade to Fusion 3) from Amazon on October 7, 2009. I mailed in the requied forms to get a Fusion 3 serial number on Oct 31,2009. I have not heard anything back, and when I check the serial number page with the Fusion 2 serial number, I get the following messgae:

The serial number you entered is not yet processed.
Please allow 2 weeks to update our systems if you mailed in your form.
If you have not mailed your upgrade eligibilty form, Please follow the
instructions below.

I has been 3 weeks since I sent in the the forms and my trial serial number has 4 days left, so I am getting desperate. I tried to open a support ticket on the web a week ago, but did not hear anything back, not even a ticket number as promised on the web site.

So back to my original question, does anybody have an idea of how I can find out the status?

Keyspan serial to usb adaptors configuration question.

tdhcsc — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:59:12 GMT

I'm currently using Parallels( older version ) and am thinking of switching to 'Fusion'.

We use our Macintosh on our cruising sailboat as a navigation computer. Most of the navigation programs are PC based.

We are trying to configure two Keyspan serial to usb adaptors for sending and receiving high frequency email over the ham radio. I'm really having trouble configuring both Keyspan adaptors to work at the same time. ( one has to go from the computer to a digital translator (Pactor modem) connected to the hf radio and a second cable goes directly from the computer to the HF radio to control the radio frequency settings. I've been working on getting this to work for about 6 hours and have started to wonder if switching to Fusion will solve the problem. (don't like hitting my head against a wall)

So, the question is,, Is it easy to configure 2 Keyspan serial to usb adaptors to work with Fusion? I have the working on the Macintosh side but setting it up with Parallels and then XP is driving me crazy.

If Fusion is an easier way to go and I could set it up reasonably easily I'll put my money down and switch in a heartbeat.

thanks.

VM Fusion Using Twice As Much Disk Space As Allocated Drives?

emarsh — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:30:30 GMT

I've got an XT vm setup to for about 30gb of virtual disk space, but it's taking about 65gb on my drive. Is this normal? Is there a way to reduce the amount of disk that's being used?

There are a number of vmdks in my vm's folder. Are they all necessary?

Thanks,

Eric

dilbert
dilbert.vmdk
dilbert-000005.vmdk
dilbert-000003.vmdk
dilbert-000001.vmdk
dilbert-000004.vmdk
dilbert-Snapshot8.vmem
dilbert-Snapshot253.vmem
dilbert-Snapshot472.vmem
dilbert-Snapshot493.vmem
dilbert.vmem
dilbert-000002.vmdk
dilbert.vmss
dilbert-Snapshot8.vmsn
dilbert-Snapshot253.vmsn
dilbert-Snapshot472.vmsn
dilbert-Snapshot493.vmsn
dilbert-000006.vmdk
vmware.log
vmware-1.log
vmware-0.log
vmware-2.log
dilbert.vmxf
nvram
dilbert.vmx
dilbert.vmsd
Applications
dilbert.vmx.lck

Newbie question regarding Fusion 3 - Windows 7 (upgrade) and virtual disk

ronross — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:55:38 GMT

Hello,

I apologize if these issues have been discussed on other threads, but I looked and did not find those specific to what I am doing. Since I am a new user, my experience using Fusion is limited only to the few short days of operational usage.

I received my iMac the other day and wanted to install Windows 7 (upgrade version) using Boot Camp and accessing it either by natively booting to Win7 or through Fusion accessing Boot Camp. My friend, who has more experience than me suggested I use VMware Fusion to run Win7 through a vitural drive and not bother using Boot Camp and a "hard partition". He indicated it would be faster and easier to manage (not so sure now).

I mounted an external drive and within that drive created 4 partitions, one of which was dedicated to Win7. I then installed VMware Fusion on the iMac and went about loading windows on the external drive using the easy method. The easy install did ask for the activation code for Win7 and I provided it in the location specified. Everything was humming along nicely until Windows 7 complained that it could not find a supporting earilier version of Windows. I did have a genuine Windows XP disk ready to throw into the iMac as soon as it needed, but instead it cancelled the install.

I then went to Google and poked around for some answers and found out that Win7 will install in Fusion without an activation code. I uninstalled VMware and reinstalled it, started the process all over again, not putting in the Win7 activation code and everything went well........except now there is no request for activation from Windows. I poked around and couldn't find anywhere to click a link to the activation of Windows, or for that matter a place to write in the activation key.

What's up with that?

Ron

vmware fusion upgrade from v3

rogersavery — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:07:41 GMT

Just want to say thanks for the upgrade from v3 to v2.06

v3 ran like a dog - I have now upgraded to v2.06 and my virtual machines run amazingly quickly

it doesn't even slow os x down to a crawl like v3 does

I am a bit confused as to why the version number is going backwards though

menu application fusion don't appear

domnath888 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:35:23 GMT

hi
i have juste installed fusion for mac and i dont view application menu ????

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

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

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VMWare Fusion 3 Windows 7 bootcamp partition blue screen on startup (error 0x0000007b)

gozulin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:22:43 GMT

I have a fresh install of windows 7 on my bootcamp partition. I installed the bootcamp drivers and it works fine when booted natively .

Now, using VMWare fusion 3 to start it as a virtual machine causes it to blue screen and reboot with: error 0x0000007b .

If I pick Safe Mode , I also get the dreaded blue screen.

if I pick the Launch Startup Repair option, it boots into that mode just fine.

And, of course; when I reboot my mac into windows natively, it starts up fine.

Possibly relevant details:

Running Snow Leopard
Macbook Pro 17¨
I enabled Snow Leopard's NTFS write by adding my disk identifier into fstab.
I had not used VMWare fusion 2 to virtualize my windows 7 bootcamp partition prior to installing VMWare Fusion 3.

EDIT: Attached my VMX file in case it helps.

Mouse motion speed changes with Fusion 3 and MS Mouse

hconceicao — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:34:12 GMT

Hi all,

Has anyone experienced weird changes on the mouse motion speed with Fusion 3? From times to times, it goes crazy here.

I'm using a microsoft comfort mouse and windows 2008.

Juniper VPN and VMware

Hushpuppy — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:36:59 GMT

Has anyone ever gotten this to work? I have tried 3 different VMs (Virtualbox, Parallels, and VMware) and no joy. This is my last one. If I can't get VMware to work, I'll go with Bootcamp.

This is for connecting to a Juniper SA4500 appliance. You login on a webpage and you get to RDP to your machine in some sort of jail; you don't get a full IPsec VPN connection to work. Outside of this webpage, your regular Internet connection on your box continues to work as before. I assume this is the crux of the problem.

Thanks for the help.

Clicks with Intuos 3 pen go to "wrong" window

MacNephDoc — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:49:48 GMT

Environment: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit VM running within Mac OS X 10.6.2 (Snow Leopard) on a 2008 dual Quad Core 2.8 GHz Mac Pro.

I'm running (via Citrix Server over the internet) a Java Machine version of a large health care entity's electronic health record. I use a Wacom Intuos 3 graphics tablet for screen navigation. Sometimes when I click the Intous pen on a clickable region of the Java application, the click is sensed not by the clickable region of the foreground window in the VM, but rather by a window in the background (whatever native Mac application lies in the background window. Bringing the VM to foreground focus again and clicking with the Intuos pen in exactly the same spot works as intended.

I've installed the latest (Oct '09) versions of the Mac and Windows Wacom drivers into the Mac OS and Windows OS (VM) respectively. The drivers are said to be Snow Leopard and Windows 7 compatible, respectively.

I've not tried clicking at the same VM window regions with a USB mouse, but I can do that.

I see that there have been discussions about problems with Wacom tablets and VMWare fusion, but I haven't seen discussions that describe problems such as I'm describing. Are these known issues? Is there anything you'd like me to do to clarify my problems to the VMWare community?

Thanks so much,

Cannot read CD on MAC

yaboo1964 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:16:04 GMT

I have just installed Fusion 2.0. Have it loaded with VISTA. I need to install some programs from CD. When I go into Explorer, it see's the drive but not the CD. Help. I am really new to MAC and even newer to Fusion.

Thanks

Shared Folders vs Virtual Disks to access WinXP files?

MacNoo — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:08:14 GMT

Being a new Mac user coming from Wintel -- including Win s/w and files -- I am trying to determine the best configuration for disks to allow for concurrnet MacOSX and Windows file usage and backups.

My latest "brilliant idea" is to simplify the file storage and backup question by having just HFS+ on the physical drives and providing R/W access to those drives from WinXP in Fusion by using Shared folders. I haven't completed investigation yet but it seems a much better solution than having separate NTFS and HFS partitions on the physical drives and mounting the NTFS partitions in Fusion as needed and having to figure out backups for the two sets of partitions -- my current setup.

Has anyone any story to share on this whole question of co-existing of MacOS and Windows and the best way you've found to deal with storage and backups?

Ken

How do I uninstall VMWare TOOLS??

hanseric — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:29:17 GMT

VMWare Tools is not working. I can't even get my guest OS (Windows XP Home) on the 'net whereas it was working perfectly previously for weeks and weeks. Then suddenly died.

But Fusion thinks it is still working I guess. When I try to Install VMWare Tools, it appears that my only option is to Cancel VMWare Tools Installation. Is it trying to install itself already? Or did I start that one of these times I tried to repair it and it got stuck installing?

How do I kill that process and restart it? Or better yet, how do I yank it out by the roots and reinstall VMWare Tools from the beginning?

Also, as a side note, this discussion forum's UI is kind of goofy. Every other forum on earth has "Start a Topic" right above the forum itself. Here it is at the top of the page with tons of non-forum links between "Start a topic" and the forum itself. Is this a forum page or a knowledge base home page? Looks like it is trying to be both and it adds time trying to hunt around finding a way to start a topic. Now I know, but I'd suggest changing that one. Maybe I'm the only one...kind of suspect not though. Might be worth investigating.

Cheers,

Hans

Ubuntu 9.10 and fusion 3 - no sound

rbnuser — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:42:10 GMT

Run up ubuntu 9.10 under fusion 3 today. Seems OK apart from no sound I see from google that there are issues with the pulseaudio now used by default. Anyone any pointers to getting it to work under Fusion 3? What is involved in selecting packages for alternative audio support?

Does 3.0 work with expose in unity mode or still doesn't?

bytekeeper — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:15:20 GMT

Hi chaps,

I'm just trying to convince myself to buy 3.0 and want to understand whether the old good 2.x unity+expose

bug is addressed in 3.0 or still there. Namely, I'm talking about the problem in expose when all unity

windows show same screenshot of the topmost app window. To replicate, simply maximize two or more

guest apps while in unity mode and then go to expose screen. If the bug is still there all unity windows

will show same screenshot of the topmost window and if the bug is fixed each unity window

will show its own correct screenshot as expected.

VMware Tools failed install with Fusion 3.0 (install package error)

chambo — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:58:42 GMT

Get "This installation package could not be opened. Contact the application vendor to verify that this is a valid Windows Installer package."

It mounts the Tools drive, but fails when launched. I've tried installing directly from the .exe file.

Please advise. Thanks.

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

VMWare Fusion 3 - Warcraft III Textures all Jacked Up

MarkFletcher — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:46:27 GMT

Hi,

Currently running Warcraft III v1.6.1 under Win XP SP3 Guest on VMWare Fusion 3.0. Host system is a MacBook Pro, 2007 model.

Ive noticed that when playing Warcraft III in VMWare Fusion, the water textures do not appear correct. Ive compared this to running Warcraft III in Bootcamp. I know the the DirectX 9 support in VMWare Fusion is a bit flakey, but I was wondering if there was anyone out there in the community who plays Warcraft III in a VM and has experienced the same issues? If so is there a workaround?

Thanks!

Mark

VMware Tools won't stay installed...Fusion V3 Vista Ultimate 19Nov09

kemosabe4 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:35:57 GMT

So far, I have not much within Fusion V3 to complain about...thank God. But one minor annoyance is that when I reboot the VISTA client after having installed VMware Tools, I'm back to "Install VMware Tools" again. So, I install it again, and while that particular session is still up and operating, it says "Update VMware Tools". ONCE I "shut down" that session though and reboot the next day (or whenever), the system reverts to the former state of "Install VMware Tools".

What am I doing wrong - or why won't it stayed installed? My xP client works fine and VMware Tools STAYS installed on that client. The same seems to be the case for my UBUNTU Linux client as well. Only in Vista am I experiencing this problem.

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.

Can't open files in the Virtual Machine from Mac OS.

surfdust — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:01:40 GMT

I need to be able to use apps on my mac to open files that are in the virtual Machine (win xp pro). I can open files on the Mac from my VM but just not the other way around. I've followed the instructions for choosing to open in host application from within the VM but it didn't work and through an error. Shouldn't there be a way to share the files on the VM so that files can be opened and worked on from within Mac.

Please help if you know how to do this. Thanks.

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

Unable to install Windows 7RC on VMware Fusion 2

newbe56 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:47:51 GMT

I'm trying to install (a clean one) the Windows 7RC (32bit) on my Mac Book Pro 4.1, with Mac
OS X V 10.5.8, using VMware Fusion 2.0.6. My problem is,
the
installation is asking for "A required CD/DVD drive is missing. If you
have a driver floppy disk, CD, DVD or USB Flash drive, please insert it
now".
I try the Mac OS X original installation CD, but it didn't have
the drive. Try the Windows7UpgradeAdvisorSetup.exe, but it runs for
hours and hours, and
shows nothing. So, how can I solve this problem.
The CD/DVD is a Matshita DVD-R UJ-867 ATAPI. Searched the internet, but
did not find anything helpful.
Also, I've downloaded the Win 7RC about a week before MS remove it from the site, so, I suppose it is the final version.
From a MS communitie, I've received an answer that, the problem is with VMware, as follows:

" Hi,

Regarding
the error you received, it should be a hardware issue, considering this
machine (hardware condition) is virtualized by VMware Fusion and we have limited recourses about how it works. Therefore, it is recommended that you contact VMware for further investigation since they are familiar with their products.

Note:
Microsoft provides third-party contact information to help you find
technical support. This contact information may change without notice.
Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this third-party contact
information.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation."

So, I ask, is there a solution for this issue?

Thanks

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!

vcpu-0| TOOLS call to unity.launchmenu.open failed.

VicL — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:32:48 GMT

Hello Folks;

I am running a MacBook Pro/ OSX 10.5.8/ Fusion 3 with a Win7 guest.

I am having much problem getting the Menu bar application to load my windows application list, or to respond to the keyboard shortcut assigned to it.

The only piece of information I have is this from my VMWare log:

vcpu-0| TOOLS call to unity.launchmenu.open failed.

Any ideas?

Thank you,
vic

why is hard drive constanly working in VM ware 2.0.6

paulcwr — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:23:37 GMT

Hi, i have a virtual machine running XP on VM Ware Fusion 2.0.6 but i notice that periodically the windows system will be reading/writting massive amounts of data to the hard drive (even when there are no windows apps running). this restults in dramatically slower system performance on the mac side of the computer too.

I can see it's windows doing that because the hard disk icon on the VM ware window is blue (See picture). This will go on for 1-2 hours then quieten until 1 or 2 days later. Strangely, even if i shutdown the PC guest OS and restart, the hard disk activity remains until some mysterious task is done.

does anyone have any idea why this might happen?

p
PS. RAM is set at 1064 MB (my mac has 4GB RAM).

Anyone get a returns on Fusion 3?

tatt2ed — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:10:31 GMT

If so how?

As with so many here I am utterly dismayed that VMWare released Fusion 3. As some one already said Fusion 2 was solid and I had recommended to many people. I was working with getting my old PC into a VMware. OH BOY did that not work and waste several hours.

The "Migrate your PC" via Fusion 3 was a dismal failure. It couldn't connect and I did manage to find a thread yesterday with 3 pages of other having the same issues.

The Convertor for Windows doesn't seem work with XP.

I installed the VMware tools on my Windows 7 installation and it slowed it down to where I can barely use it. Media player no longer works ....

I use to be a major supporter of VMware products.

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?!

Apple keyboard drivers in 3 with Windows 7 64 bit.

jonoslack — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:44:17 GMT

Hi There
I don't seem to be able to get the proper (UK) keyboard installed in Windows 7 64bit on fusion 3
If I try and install from the boot camp section of the SL installation DVD:
applekeyboardinstaller
I get the message:
You have to run the 64 bit version of DPinst.exe on this machine.

Is there another way of getting my \ etc. in the right place!
thanks in advance

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.

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.

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

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

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

"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.

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.

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?

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?

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!