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virtual machine is locked

davidlquinn — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:21:48 GMT

could not get windows to shut down, so i finally had to hold down the power button until it shut down the entire computer. now i cannot get back into it. when i go back to the virtual machine(fusion ver 2.0), it says the file is locked. when i try to unlock it, i get the option to either "take ownership" or "cancel". when i try to take ownership, i get: "Taking ownership of this virtual machine failed. The virtual machine is in use by an application on your host computer. Configuration file: /Users/HOME/Documents/Virtual Machines.localized/Windows XP Professional.vmwarevm/Windows XP Professional.vmx"

any ideas how to get windows open?

Beta 2 - Unity Question

dlhotka — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:17:56 GMT

Right off - MANY thanks to the dev team for multiple snapshots!

Now, regarding Unity 2.0, it's unclear from the descriptions (and I don't want to install the beta until I understand this better), can you completely disable Unity, the shared folders, etc? I want and need to keep my windows envrionments inside a sandbox, and not mix them with my mac environment.

Add Printer

produce manager — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:30:02 GMT

I can't figure out how to print to my printer from applications I am running in my Virtual Machine. My OS is Windows XP Home Edition. Applications are Excel and Word. All the documentation, tutorials, etc. indicate that the default printer on my iMac System (an HP 2605dn) would automatically be recognized/added by VMware Fusion as my default printer in my Windows OS. But it is not happening. I've tried a bunch of work around approaches, but nothing has worked. I'm frustrated. Can anyone help me?

Beta 2 has no sound with Vista (build 105708)

peterwor — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:57:26 GMT

I've been using this beta with Windows XP with no problem. On a whim I decided to try and install a Vista Ultimate VM, everything seems fine with the exception that I have no sound. I apparently have no sound device installed according to Vista. Sound work fine in XP and I've tried uninstaling the device and reinstalling with no luck.
Has anyone else seen this behavior with Vista

TIA,
Peter

Beta2 high process usage

wila — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:45:49 GMT

Hi,

A few days ago, when I was on the road, I've seen a problem where I noted that in the taskmanager in windows XP had a VMwareUser process at 97% for an hour or so, making the VM (and most of the host machine) unusable. I had to reboot both in order to regain a workable VM again and then at that stage it became clear to me what had happened...
Not sure if VMware can fix it or even if they should be blamed, but maybe it's possible if they can reproduce the issue, which is why I'm reporting it here.

OK, so I had a working WinXP sp2 VM on a bridged network -the office LAN here- and had to leave... so I suspended my VM and closed the macbook.
When I wanted to resume working, I connected to a wireless Access Point and tried to get my email. Much to my surprise, outlook wasn't very responsive.
Even after I got myself a new IP adress (using ipconfig /release /renew to get a new addy from the DHCP server)
After a long long time, my patience was gone and I rebooted as told.

Now the problem appears to be related to my network IP address changes and the hostbased firewall product used in this VM. FWIW, this is the personal firewall product from Sunbelt, the paid version of their "free personal" product. From how it looks now, the problem was either that the VM had no IP address and vmware-tools was still trying to use the old address OR the VM had an addy but the Sunbelt firewall was blocking vmware tools using it -without throwing a popup which it should have done.

Sorry for the slightly vague report, but it was late friday after a few beers when this happened.

--
Wil

CAPs Sync

PLG — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:51:43 GMT

This morning... I attempted to log on to my Win2k install. I started an old password bank utility and tried to log in. To my surprise, my master password FAILED! I freaked! How could I forget my master password? I have had it for ages.... getting that old already? I must be crazy....

Nope... The Caps lock was indicated as off on my keyboard while I was in WinXP when it was actually on. I used the menu to send a CAPs lock signal to WinXP and the two were synced again... I could log in again.

This might need a bit of tuning....

locked out of XP!! help!

NickieO — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:51:40 GMT

I had a crash last night, and things got messy, so I reverted to a snapshot.

Since creating the last snapshot and logging in again, my corporate network log-in password has changed. So today I hooked up to LAN launched the snapshot version, and it opened allowing me onto the network, and access my mail etc. However I get a pop-up saying "Windows needs your current credentials". When I log out of XP I cannot log back in again as the XP rejects the new password . (and I can't remember the old password)

In other words, I'm effectively locked into my VM machine, and I can only use it by launching a snapshot. If I log out I can't log back in again and have to revert to snapshot again.

How do I get it to accept the new password?

Thanks in advance

MacBook Pro. OS 10.5.4
Fusion 2.0rc1
XP

VMware Fusion Beta: Discussion Forum [LOCKED] or is it?

WoodyZ — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:15:13 GMT

I guess the lock is broken!

Mirrored Folders don't play nicely with Picasa

elvo86 — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:46:28 GMT

One of the primary reasons I virtualize Windows on my Mac is to use Picasa. After switching to Fusion 2 Beta, I was pleased to see the mirroring feature, as the mapped drive implementation never worked so well with Picasa (Picasa only searches one level deep on mapped drives instead of recursively). The mirrored Pictures folders seemed to work great, indexing all of my pictures. However, when I try to move pictures from one folder to another in Picasa, I get a prompt asking me if I want to do so and then it never happens. I can't move the files in Explorer while Picasa is running because the files are locked, making it quite difficult to manage pictures in Picasa--defeating the purpose. Picasa also seems to have problems detecting new pictures in mirrored folders.

Of course, this could be a problem with Picasa and not Fusion, but apparently the mirrored folders don't look enough like regular folders for Picasa to deal with them correctly.

Cannot Grab Mouse

PeteGingaNinja — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:49:10 GMT

Ever since I've upgraded to RC1, I cannot grab the Mouse in any VM window, other than when it's running in Unity mode, it won't even let me grab it in Full Screen Mode!

Plus after I try and get it to grab the mouse, it sets the Tracking speed of the Mouse in System Preferences really low!

Any ideas?

AutoCAD 2008 Mouse Performance

flosse — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:12:12 GMT

My english is not so good

I discovered that on the new 2.0b2 the mouse crosshair inside of a AutoCAD-Window is moving a lot slower and not at the same speed as the standard windows mouse pointer outside the AutoCAD-window does. This makes the work with AutoCAD much difficult.

I resolved the problem with deactivating the two HID-conform mouse drivers in windows system control - mouse - hardware. Now the AutoCAD-crosshair has the same speed and performance as like the windows mouse pointer.

This works also in unity and single window - mode.

Greetings from Italy

Flosse

MacBook Pro CD
OS X 10.5.4
VMWare Fusion Build 107508
Windows Vista SP1 with all updates.

dual core issues/reinstalling guest

flomvudi — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:26:42 GMT

If I am understanding correctly, in order to build a dual-core windows guest, the dual core setting must be on at the time of import (switching it on after the fact does not help).

My XP guest is currently running in singlecore and I may therefore need to reimport. I am wondering whether I can re-import my current guest and keep my settings, or do I need to do a clean re-install?

If I do a clean re-install what will be my status with microsoft reactivation, must I explain to the microsoft staffers about my VMware guest, will they allow me to erase this one and install a new one?

thanks very much

Recovering vmdk image from snapshot tree

tedstreete — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:08:29 GMT

I suffered a file system corruption yesterday, caused by a failing disk. Disk Utility was able to restore some semblance of order to my file system. I lost a number of files from my VMware Fusion bundle, but think I was able to recover some (all?) of the snapshot tree. I also have a 7 day old backup if any files from that backup are useful in the recovery:

These are the files I managed to

Virtual Disk-000001-s001.vmdk Virtual Disk-000001-s002.vmdk Virtual Disk-000002-s001.vmdk Virtual Disk-000002-s002.vmdk Virtual Disk-000003-s001.vmdk Virtual Disk-000003-s002.vmdk Virtual Disk-000004-s001.vmdk Virtual Disk-000004-s002.vmdk Virtual Disk-000005-s001.vmdk Virtual Disk-000005-s002.vmdk Virtual Disk-000006-s001.vmdk Virtual Disk-000006-s002.vmdk Virtual Disk-000009-s001.vmdk Virtual Disk-000009-s002.vmdk Virtual Disk-000010-s001.vmdk Virtual Disk-000010-s002.vmdk Virtual Disk-000011-s001.vmdk Virtual Disk-000011-s002.vmdk Virtual Disk-s001.vmdk Virtual Disk-s002.vmdk Windows XP Professional-000001-s001.vmdk Windows XP Professional-000001-s002.vmdk Windows XP Professional-000001-s003.vmdk Windows XP Professional-000001-s004.vmdk Windows XP Professional-000001-s005.vmdk Windows XP Professional-000001-s006.vmdk Windows XP Professional-000001-s007.vmdk Windows XP Professional-000001-s008.vmdk Windows XP Professional-000001-s009.vmdk Windows XP Professional-000001-s010.vmdk Windows XP Professional-000001-s011.vmdk Windows XP Professional-000001.vmdk Windows XP Professional-000002-s001.vmdk Windows XP Professional-000002-s002.vmdk Windows XP Professional-000002-s003.vmdk Windows XP Professional-000002-s004.vmdk Windows XP Professional-000002-s005.vmdk Windows XP Professional-000002-s006.vmdk Windows XP Professional-000002-s007.vmdk Windows XP Professional-000002-s008.vmdk Windows XP Professional-000002-s009.vmdk Windows XP Professional-000002-s010.vmdk Windows XP Professional-000002-s011.vmdk Windows XP Professional-000003-s001.vmdk Windows XP Professional-000003-s002.vmdk Windows XP Professional-000003-s003.vmdk Windows XP Professional-000003-s004.vmdk Windows XP Professional-000003-s005.vmdk Windows XP Professional-000003-s006.vmdk Windows XP Professional-000003-s007.vmdk Windows XP Professional-000003-s008.vmdk Windows XP Professional-000003-s009.vmdk Windows XP Professional-000003-s010.vmdk Windows XP Professional-000003-s011.vmdk Windows XP Professional-000004-s001.vmdk Windows XP Professional-000004-s002.vmdk Windows XP Professional-000004-s003.vmdk Windows XP Professional-000004-s004.vmdk Windows XP Professional-000004-s005.vmdk Windows XP Professional-000004-s006.vmdk Windows XP Professional-000004-s007.vmdk Windows XP Professional-000004-s008.vmdk Windows XP Professional-000004-s009.vmdk Windows XP Professional-000004-s010.vmdk Windows XP Professional-000004-s011.vmdk Windows XP Professional-000005-s001.vmdk

I'm running VMWare Fusion Version

Assuming these files are not corrupted,

Thanks for any guidance.

Does anyone know what THIS
licensedtoquill — Tue, 16 recover:
Windows XP Professional-000005-s002.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000005-s003.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000005-s004.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000005-s005.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000005-s006.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000005-s007.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000005-s008.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000005-s009.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000005-s010.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000005-s011.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000006-s001.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000006-s002.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000006-s003.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000006-s004.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000006-s005.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000006-s006.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000006-s007.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000006-s008.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000006-s009.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000006-s010.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000006-s011.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000009-s001.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000009-s002.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000009-s003.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000009-s004.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000009-s005.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000009-s006.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000009-s007.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000009-s008.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000009-s009.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000009-s010.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000009-s011.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000010-s001.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000010-s002.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000010-s003.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000010-s004.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000010-s005.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000010-s006.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000010-s007.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000010-s008.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000010-s009.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000010-s010.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000010-s011.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000011-s001.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000011-s002.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000011-s003.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000011-s004.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000011-s005.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000011-s006.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000011-s007.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000011-s008.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000011-s009.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000011-s010.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-000011-s011.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-s001.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-s002.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-s003.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-s004.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-s005.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-s006.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-s007.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-s008.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-s009.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-s010.vmdk
Windows XP Professional-s011.vmdk
vmware.log
2.0b2 (107508), and most of these snapshots are from the new Auto Protect feature if it's relevant.
can I rebuild a vmdk from the latest snapshot, and if so, how?
console message means please? (Never managed to get a Linux VM working in Beta 2)

Sep 2008 02:27:09 GMT

Trying to install a Linux VM in Beta 2. Any one will do for the moment though I am a bit reluctant to install one of the really old ones recommended on the MVMWare site as being appoved for use with V1

Anyway whatever I download wont install onto the hdd. have managed to get a HH to work from CD but none of the peripherls would work.

The most I can find is this console error message which contains such a huge number of error messages that I MUST be doing something very wrong indeed: Does anyone know what it means or if the supposed lack of a license is what is causing the problems please? (I obviously have a license number or VMWare woudlnt work and have got XP Pro installed and working properly and all peripherals working as well)

9/15/08 9:15:48 AM 0x0-0x24024.org.mozilla.firefox373 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:15:48 GMT WARN Tick skipped because the timer fired too soon.
9/15/08 9:15:58 AM 0x0-0x24024.org.mozilla.firefox373 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:15:58 GMT ERROR EbayUserService.getMyEBay onError: 1
9/15/08 9:15:58 AM 0x0-0x24024.org.mozilla.firefox373 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:15:58 GMT ERROR EbayUserService.getMyEBay onError: 1
9/15/08 9:15:58 AM 0x0-0x24024.org.mozilla.firefox373 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:15:58 GMT ERROR EbayUserService.getMyEBay onError: 1
9/15/08 9:25:46 AM 0x0-0x24024.org.mozilla.firefox373 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:25:46 GMT FATAL An error occurred trying to check the url on location change.
9/15/08 9:25:46 AM 0x0-0x24024.org.mozilla.firefox373 TypeError aURI is null
9/15/08 9:41:54 AM 0x0-0x24024.org.mozilla.firefox373 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:41:54 GMT FATAL An error occurred trying to check the url on location change.
9/15/08 9:41:54 AM 0x0-0x24024.org.mozilla.firefox373 TypeError aURI is null
9/15/08 9:57:43 AM 0x0-0x24024.org.mozilla.firefox373 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:57:43 GMT FATAL An error occurred trying to check the url on location change.
9/15/08 9:57:43 AM 0x0-0x24024.org.mozilla.firefox373 TypeError aURI is null
9/15/08 9:59:16 AM com.apple.quicklook1880 Cannot load message dictionary "/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/messages/en/quicklookd.vmsg".
9/15/08 10:02:49 AM 0x0-0x14014.com.vmware.fusion144 VNCENCODE 3 show cursor with invalid cursor definition (bug 51988)
9/15/08 10:02:49 AM 0x0-0x14014.com.vmware.fusion144 VNCENCODE 2 show cursor with invalid cursor definition (bug 51988)
9/15/08 10:02:53 AM 0x0-0x14014.com.vmware.fusion144 Vmdb_SetCurrentPath Failed: restoreGuestHandler/in (Schema path not found)
9/15/08 10:08:58 AM 0x0-0x24024.org.mozilla.firefox373 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:08:58 GMT FATAL An error occurred trying to check the url on location change.
9/15/08 10:08:58 AM 0x0-0x24024.org.mozilla.firefox373 TypeError aURI is null
9/15/08 10:27:57 AM 0x0-0x24024.org.mozilla.firefox373 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:27:57 GMT FATAL An error occurred trying to check the url on location change.
9/15/08 10:27:57 AM 0x0-0x24024.org.mozilla.firefox373 TypeError aURI is null
9/15/08 11:25:10 AM 0x0-0x24024.org.mozilla.firefox373 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:25:10 GMT FATAL An error occurred trying to check the url on location change.
9/15/08 11:25:10 AM 0x0-0x24024.org.mozilla.firefox373 TypeError aURI is null
9/15/08 12:03:28 PM 0x0-0x24024.org.mozilla.firefox373 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:03:28 GMT FATAL An error occurred trying to check the url on location change.
9/15/08 12:03:28 PM 0x0-0x24024.org.mozilla.firefox373 TypeError aURI is null
9/15/08 12:44:42 PM 0x0-0x24024.org.mozilla.firefox373 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:44:42 GMT FATAL An error occurred trying to check the url on location change.
9/15/08 12:44:42 PM 0x0-0x24024.org.mozilla.firefox373 TypeError aURI is null
9/15/08 1:36:11 PM 0x0-0x24024.org.mozilla.firefox373 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:36:11 GMT FATAL An error occurred trying to check the url on location change.
9/15/08 1:36:11 PM 0x0-0x24024.org.mozilla.firefox373 TypeError aURI is null
9/15/08 1:41:26 PM 0x0-0x24024.org.mozilla.firefox373 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:41:26 GMT FATAL An error occurred trying to check the url on location change.
9/15/08 1:41:26 PM 0x0-0x24024.org.mozilla.firefox373 TypeError aURI is null
9/15/08 1:43:55 PM 0x0-0x24024.org.mozilla.firefox373 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:43:55 GMT FATAL An error occurred trying to check the url on location change.
9/15/08 1:43:55 PM 0x0-0x24024.org.mozilla.firefox373 TypeError aURI is null
9/15/08 1:50:10 PM com.apple.quicklook2574 invalid stream length 12730368; should be 84028.
9/15/08 1:50:10 PM com.apple.quicklook2574 invalid stream length 12730368; should be 63982.
9/15/08 10:07:05 PM 0x0-0x14014.com.vmware.fusion144 VNCENCODE 2 show cursor with invalid cursor definition (bug 51988)
9/15/08 10:08:03 PM com.apple.quicklook4206 failed to find start of cross-reference section.
9/15/08 10:08:21 PM quicklookd4206 EXCEPTION CPMessageException: (null)
9/15/08 10:11:28 PM 0x0-0x14014.com.vmware.fusion144 Cannot load message dictionary "/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/messages/en/vmware.vmsg".
9/15/08 10:11:28 PM 0x0-0x14014.com.vmware.fusion144 Cannot load message dictionary "/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/messages/en/vmware.vmsg".
9/15/08 10:11:28 PM 0x0-0x14014.com.vmware.fusion144 Licensecheck: Invalid license file.
9/15/08 10:11:28 PM 0x0-0x14014.com.vmware.fusion144 PowerOn
9/15/08 10:11:33 PM 0x0-0x14014.com.vmware.fusion144 Licensecheck: Invalid license file.
9/15/08 10:11:53 PM 0x0-0x14014.com.vmware.fusion144 Cannot load message dictionary "/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/messages/en/vmware.vmsg".
9/15/08 10:11:53 PM 0x0-0x14014.com.vmware.fusion144 Cannot load message dictionary "/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/messages/en/vmware.vmsg".
9/15/08 10:11:53 PM 0x0-0x14014.com.vmware.fusion144 Licensecheck: Invalid license file.
9/15/08 10:11:53 PM 0x0-0x14014.com.vmware.fusion144 PowerOn
9/15/08 10:11:58 PM 0x0-0x14014.com.vmware.fusion144 Licensecheck: Invalid license file.

Fusion RC1 and OpenOffice 2.4

Adam T S — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 02:14:05 GMT

Unable to save OpenOffice Calc documents if document located in Shared Folders (Mac Documents folder). Receive a General I/O Error from OpenOffice 2.4 Calc when trying to save. If I move the document to the desktop in the vm (MS Vista SP1) I can save without any issue.

Questiona about Fusion

schwartz — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:37:01 GMT

I'm not seeing options for the following options I see in Parallels and VirtualBox

Ability to move the VM between physical nic's on the host on the fly (wire to wifi for instance). This can be done in parallels without rebooting the vm.

Ability to change boot oder of devices within vm (cdrom, drive, floppy)

Hardware settings - vt-x/amd-v, io apic, acpi, pae

Are these options present and I'm just missing them or is Fusion still a bit behind other copetetors in the MacOS space?

I'm also having issues with fusion hanging up when installing opensolaris and when patching ubuntu 8.04.

thanks

Bill

Boot Camp partition showing up twice in VM Library

baker1975 — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:12:36 GMT

Hi there,

Every time I launch Fusion RC1, my Boot Camp partition is showing up twice. I can remove the "phantom" one by right-clicking and selecting "Delete" but this is not desireable not to mention I don't use the Boot Camp partition EVER with Fusion. Any thoughts??

Fusion 2.0 RC uncontrollably locking up

ahallam — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 01:49:00 GMT

I'm having an issue with Fusion 2.0 RC1 locking up after an indeterminate amount of time.. Nothing recovers, including force quitting the app. It happened with the last beta as well, but I'd used the VM with earlier versions with no problems. I've uninstalled/reinstalled Fusion, deleted and created new VMs, all to no avail. The VM continues to lock up at some point after boot. Running XP Pro with all the latest patches applied... Anybody else been having this problem?

Console output from system.log follows:

Sep 15 20:37:19 Maitake 0x0-0xd20d2.com.vmware.fusion2516: Unable to scan the partition table of "/dev/disk2".
Sep 15 20:37:19 Maitake vmware2516: .sdef error: Operation could not be completed. (NSXMLParserErrorDomain error 1549.)
Sep 15 20:37:19 Maitake vmware2516: line number: 2
Sep 15 20:37:20 Maitake vmware2516: .sdef error: Operation could not be completed. (NSXMLParserErrorDomain error 1549.)
Sep 15 20:37:20 Maitake vmware2516: line number: 2
Sep 15 20:39:29 Maitake 0x0-0xd20d2.com.vmware.fusion2516: Cannot load message dictionary "/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/messages/en/vmware.vmsg".
Sep 15 20:39:29 Maitake 0x0-0xd20d2.com.vmware.fusion2516: PowerOn
Sep 15 20:39:40 Maitake 0x0-0xd20d2.com.vmware.fusion2516: 2008-09-15 20:39:40 no printer configured or none available
Sep 15 20:39:40 Maitake 0x0-0xd20d2.com.vmware.fusion2516: 2008-09-15 20:39:40 adaptor daemon booted
Sep 15 20:39:40 Maitake 0x0-0xd20d2.com.vmware.fusion2516: 2008-09-15 20:39:40 no locale info available
Sep 15 20:39:40 Maitake 0x0-0xd20d2.com.vmware.fusion2516: 2008-09-15 20:39:40 connector "vmlocal" booted
Sep 15 20:39:41 Maitake 0x0-0xd20d2.com.vmware.fusion2516: 2008-09-15 20:39:41 CUPS HTTP Server tag version 10200 != CUPS HTML TITLE version 10306
Sep 15 20:39:43 Maitake 0x0-0xd20d2.com.vmware.fusion2516: 2008-09-15 20:39:43 default printer not configured or unavailable
Sep 15 20:39:45 Maitake 0x0-0xd20d2.com.vmware.fusion2516: VMM64: peer call: 31526 cycles
Sep 15 20:40:03 Maitake 0x0-0xd20d2.com.vmware.fusion2516: VIDE: (0x1f0) OUTB Cmd 0xf5, Unknown ATA Command on drive 0
Sep 15 20:42:20 Maitake 0x0-0xd20d2.com.vmware.fusion2516: VIDE: (0x1f0) OUTB Cmd 0xb0, Unknown ATA Command on drive 0
Sep 15 20:46:29 Maitake 0x0-0xd20d2.com.vmware.fusion2516: VIDE: (0x1f0) OUTB Cmd 0xf5, Unknown ATA Command on drive 0
Sep 15 20:46:37 Maitake 0x0-0xd20d2.com.vmware.fusion2516: TOOLS unity.launchmenu.open failed: failure of the transport layer
Sep 15 20:48:29 Maitake 0x0-0xd20d2.com.vmware.fusion2516: VIDE: (0x1f0) OUTB Cmd 0xb0, Unknown ATA Command on drive 0
Sep 15 20:59:55 Maitake 0x0-0xd20d2.com.vmware.fusion2516: TOOLS (null) failed: failure of the transport layer
Sep 15 21:00:34 Maitake 0x0-0xd20d2.com.vmware.fusion2516: VIDE: (0x1f0) OUTB Cmd 0xf5, Unknown ATA Command on drive 0
Sep 15 21:02:27 Maitake 0x0-0xd20d2.com.vmware.fusion2516: VIDE: (0x1f0) OUTB Cmd 0xb0, Unknown ATA Command on drive 0

Chrome and McAfee AV

NickP-CA — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:40:08 GMT

I noticed with McAfee AV that I get NO options when going into the main McAfee AV settings screen, it's just a blank bordered frame.

I have Chrome installed... Anyone know if McAfee AV depends on IE 7 for rendering?

Also the system seems A LOT slower with McAfee AV then with previous Free AVG

Sound Lag

SethWillits — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 23:08:17 GMT

Anyone else experiencing laggy sound? There's about a half second delay that I'm experiencing. (2.0rc1)

Paste Special

jmcsaky — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:23:43 GMT

If I paste text from Excel to Word using the "Microsoft Office Excel Worksheet Object," the font displayed in the Word document does not match the font in Excel. If I double click to edit the worksheet object, then the font is displayed correctly but then returns to an incorrect font when I click outside of the worksheet object.

This behavior is also observed in Fusion 1.1 . Has anyone else run into this problem?

Trouble with 2.0 RC1 - OEL 4.6 guest becomes unresponsive

cowillia — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:54:03 GMT

Don't know if anyone has seen this:

I am running a guest with Oracle Unbreakable Linux 4.6 (basically redhat RHEL 4 AS). After 10-30 seconds of logging on (boots ok with no error) the guest vm becomes unresponsive. I can move the mouse, but there is no respones to mouse clicks, keyboard etc. I try to go into fullscreen mode, but the resolution doesn't automatically update. Basically dead, have to power off the machine (vmware itself and the host os is still responding normally.)

I check the system.log and see the following error messages:

Sep 11 12:52:08 macintosh-6 0x0-0x9b09b.com.vmware.fusion8559: 2008-09-11 12:52:08 connector "vmlocal" socket write failed with 101
Sep 11 12:52:08 macintosh-6 0x0-0x9b09b.com.vmware.fusion8559: 2008-09-11 12:52:08 connector "vmlocal" socket line desynced, resyncing...
Sep 11 12:52:41 macintosh-6 0x0-0x9b09b.com.vmware.fusion8559: 2008-09-11 12:52:41 connector "vmlocal" socket line resynced due to timeout condition

Tried restarting VMware as well as OS X. (running 10.4.4 up to date on a macbook pro with 4GB of ram)

Any thoughts?

I thought I may have corrupted my guest disk somehow, so I installed a new guest from scratch on a different physical disk. Same result with the same error messages.

Googled for the error message and didn't find anything useful.

Interestingly, I did not see any entries in the vmware-vmfusion.log for the same timestamps...

instability ?!

iaw4 — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:24:07 GMT

I was trying to figure out why kubuntu did not work with unison, as I had hoped. Alas, something deeper and weirder seems to be going on, even with plain old ubuntu (not kubuntu).

I installed amd64 ubuntu 8.04.1 md5=b78ef719e3361e726b89bab78c526ad0 on a Mac Pro 2.8GHz*2*4 under fusion Version 2.0rc1 (113392). the first time, I succeeded in the install. I then did a full update inside ubuntu. succeded. Next, I started installing konsole (with its 10 or so added files). The ubuntu operating system hangs in the middle of this app install. So, I figured it to some weird ubuntu corruption, even though this has never occurred on real hardware for me.

I decided to install another fresh ubuntu from start again. This time, it has stopped at 94% in the main ubuntu install.

My guess is that you cannot diagnose this from afar, but if it helps you, I can put the virtual machine on a web server for you to download and try out. just drop me a personal email.

PS: I did a check for viruses just before it, and rebooted in between at least once just to make sure I was not going crazy.

regards,

/iaw

Can't connect to VM after upgrade to RC1

chaplovejoy — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:38:48 GMT

I have just upgraded to RC1 and am now receiving a message:

VMware Fusion cannot connect to the virtual machine.
Make sure you have rights to run the program and to access all directories it uses and rights to access all directories for temporary files.

This happens when attempting to start every virtual machine I have defined. I've tried creating a new one as well and got the same result. Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this? These were working properly with the previous beta release.

Thanks,
chap

Is 2.0 Final Due This week?

DevotedDad — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:05:47 GMT

All,

I thought that I remembered a eWeek article from a week or so ago indicating that Fusion 2 final would be out this week ... is that correct?

Ken

"Quicksave" style snap-shotting?

nikolaihunt — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:09:37 GMT

I love the fact that 2.0 supports multiple snapshots, but in my workflow the most common scenario is taking a quick throw-away snap-shot before doing something that alters the OS environment, then rolling back shortly afterward. So I would also greatly benefit from having one snapshot that is just always overwritten and can be restored from in one click/hotkey.

Does something like this exist in 2.0?

Unity always grayed-out

andykeck — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 02:48:58 GMT

I hate to start a new thread as I have an uneasy feeling that I have missed an existing discussion of the problem that I'm having, but that I just can't find it. Anyway, here's my issue...

For some time now, Unity has been unavailable to me. I've been using the 2.0 betas as they were released and am currently using 2.0rc1. The host OS is at 10.5.4. I've upgraded the VMware tools as necessary, and have even gone so far as to uninstall then reinstall them. Drag and drop from the host doesn't work either, but other features I associate with the VMware tools, like screen resolution, do seem to work. Any ideas on how to attack this?

thanks,
andy

Boot USB Device

PeteGingaNinja — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:50:00 GMT

Is it possible to Boot from a USB Device?

I've tried but doesn't seem to let me! Could this be a feature that could be implemented?

The reason I ask is I have a Live Linux on USB and now and again I like to customise it, but would be handy to do it from a Virtual PC rather than going to a PC to boot off it!

Windows 2008 and Unity

GabrielM — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:03:18 GMT

Hello,

I've just updated my VMware to Windows 2008 and find that there is a lot more flickering and redrawing going on than with Windows XP when in Unity mode. Is this a known problem?

Thank you.

VM Fusion (ver. 2.0rc1 Beta) Corrupt Snapshot (Saved Memory) - How to Restore?? - "The file specified is not a virtual disk"

hunterburke — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:43:45 GMT

I just recently upgraded to the Beta version of VM Fusion (Version 2.0rc1 (113392)) and when I tried to restart my computer yesterday I received a message that the memory is corrupt:

"The saved memory file "/Users/hunterburke/Documents/Virtual Machines.localized/Windows Vista.vmwarevm/Windows Vista-Snapshot5.vmem" is corrupt and cannot be restored.

Error encountered while trying to restore the state of group memory from file "/Users/hunterburke/Documents/Virtual Machines.localized/Windows Vista.vmwarevm/Windows Vista-Snapshot5.vmsn"."

The snapshot is still in my folder and the files still seem to be in the Virtual Machine folder (.vmem and .vmsn). Is there anyway to restore this image? Can I save the documents that were saved to that snapshot???

Updated Sept. 14th - I am now getting another error message, which is preventing me from opening the virtual machine and associated snapshots. "Check for missing files failed: The file specified is not a virtual disk."

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks
Hunter

How to stop Time Machine from backing up vm bundle for VMware Fusion 2.0b2

dpny7030 — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:43:25 GMT

I got dependent on Fusion 2.0 Beta 2 before I bought my own license (Release 1). So, I'm more or less happily running Fusion 2.0 Beta 2 (107508) with a license number from Version 1. I run a Windows XP guess and use Time Machine nightly to back up. In Time Machine Preferences, I elected to exclude Downloads, Video, Music, Pictures, Virtual Machines and Virus Quarantine (a folder I create for ClamXav). Whether I use the "+" button to add the exclusion or dragged the folder in from Finder, I'm somewhat concerned that the "Do not back up" list does not show the full path of the folder. What kind of problem would I get if I have two subfolders with a common name, each under its own parent folder that have different names (i.e. different path name).?

This question is related to this next issue.

Since I keep all sort of stuff under my home\Documents folder, it is not included in Time Machine's Backup Exclusion list, but its subdirectory (i.e. home\Documents\Virtual Machine) is listed (simply as Virtual Machine). Now, my Time Machine backups include everything in my home\Documents folder (good), and also include the Virtual Machine folder (undesired and confusing).

Is there something else I need to do? Is this a known bug in Fusion 2 Beta 2? If so, what's the intended design once it's fixed. I would like to know that so I can adjust my Time Machine backup scheme to prepare for the future.

I believe my questions are related to Fusion design, although I suspect some anomaly is due to its Beta status. If some thing has already been addressed in the Fusion Beta Forum, please direct me with a link. Thanks in advance for your patience.

VMWare Fusion RC 1 and iPhone 2.1 Firmware Update

samo_ecrisk — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:42:43 GMT

To VMWare Support:

I hope you read this. When I tried to install the iPhone 2.1 firmware update on my iPhone with VMWare Fusion running (I use Windows XP), the following occurred: The download and installation appeared to complete and the iPhone rebooted. After the iPhone attempted to reboot, the iPhone was recognized by VMWare Fusion as a USB device and I received the notice that the installation failed. So, I tried restoring my iPhone with VMWare fusion off and then the installation completed. However, these extra steps took about an hour to complete. It would be nice if I could be running VMWare Fusion during a firmware update (and also, I believe, a restore), but it appears I can't. Is there something that can be done to prevent this? Love the product! I left the Parallels world over a year ago and I will never look back! Keep the improvements, stability and speed coming! Thanks!

no USB devices after Upgrade 1.13 -> 2.0 RC1

hubschraubaer — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:00:43 GMT

Dear all,

after upgrading to Fusion 2.0 RC1 my Windows XP VM didn't recognize any USB devices.

I installed the upgrade, then upgraded the VM. After the first boot, WinXP tries to install the drivers for two new devices: VMware Virtual USB Mouse and VMware Virtual USB Hub. Unfortunately, the drivers could not be located automatically. Also upgrading the VMware Tools did not solve the problem - no drivers found. The upgrade leaves me with no USB device support, except the Apple iSight. This renders my WinXP VM pretty useless, as Online-Banking with Starmoney and a Cherry Smartcard Reader is the only real application for this setup.

Any suggestions?

Kind regards,

Dirk

editing the top level "Applications Menu"

cbolin — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 19:29:33 GMT

In a previous release of Fusion I could have sworn I was able to add (by a hack) to the Application menu (the first menu you see when you click the menubar "Applications" and see things like Programs and my computer, etc). Is there any way to do this?

I'd like to remove the useless Windows Find and add Locate32 which actual does something?

I also seem to remember I couldn't change the icons for the top level application menu. Is there any way to do this?

Thanks.

Neither FireFox nor IE work in Beta.

rumirocks — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:34:58 GMT

Tried changing to Bridge. No luck.

Is this common to others?

How do I change back to version 1.3? Can anyone give me a link to some instructions?

This is a horror story for me; I have to make a presentation next Tuesday out of the country; I am SOL if I can't get something that works.

What was I thinking going with a beta?

Anyone coming to VMworld this week in Las Vegas?

Pat Lee — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 06:43:38 GMT

Hope everyone is well! The VMware Fusion team has been working their butts off to get VMware Fusion 2 ready to go.

So, this week at VMworld in Las Vegas, some of us will be there talking about VMware Fusion 2 at the VMware booth, there are two VMware Fusion 2 specific sessions, and multiple birds of a feather sessions.

If you are going to be in Vegas for VMworld this week, please come by the booth and say hello and let us know here in the forums in case we can come up with time for a quick meetup with you all!

Thanks,

Pat Lee
VMware

drag and drop doesn't work in unity

Rzn8tor — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:36:14 GMT

I think this is an old issue, although I can't find anything pertinent in the release notes or beta forum. With 2b1 drag and drop from WinXP to OSX does not work for me.

Infinite loop if disk space is low - cannot exit Fusion

mccalli — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:52:48 GMT

I have a problem with 2.0rc - my laptop drive is very often full and I sometimes launch Fusion without there being enough disk space to complete launching.

Fusion will correctly inform me of this and ask me to free up space, but it's not always convenient to do so and in most cases I'd like to quit Fusion in order to look through the files. However, Fusion will not lot me quit - it just repeatedly shows me the low space warning and nothing but an OK button. I have to force quit, and usually must then manually kill off Fusion processes from the Terminal before I can successfully relaunch.

I've got a video of what happens here:
http://eruvia.org/imagedump/vmware-fusion-2-low-disk-space/

Is there a way of quitting? And if not, this has just become a feature request for that dialog to gain a 'Cancel' button to cancel my attempt to launch the vm.

Ian

multiples CPU for macPro

NNois — Tue, 06 May 2008 08:57:33 GMT

Hello,

The only reason that keep me from Fusion is that he doesn't support more than 2 Cpu... Is that new beta could support more CPU for macpro users ?

It's an important feature for us because we need all CPU for computing faster, for example 3D rendering, Video Computing etc...

Thanks

Application constantly disappearing and reappearing into the OS X dock?

GabrielM — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:38:43 GMT

Anybody here is seeing this problem? In Unity mode (2.0 RC1), I have an application that sometimes disappear from the dock and then reappear a second after. Its a little bit annoying!

2.0rc1/b2 restores suspended VM state twice (twice longer than 1.1.3)

onomatopej — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:40:30 GMT

I dunno what's wrong with 2.0rc1 or older betas, but when restoring suspended VM XP SP2/SP3 Fusion restores the machine twice! I see the progress bar of "Restoring Virtual Machine state..." going from 0% to 100% twice! Which makes it twice longer than 1.1.3.

Also suspending VM takes ~2x longer than in 1.1.3.

I'd be grateful if you could fix this regression.

guest OS X leopard server doesn't boot after full disk encryption

champa — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:31:22 GMT

I'm trying to test PGP 9.9 functionality with OS X leopard, so I download Fusion 2.0 Beta, virtualized OS X server, install PGP 9.9 and started encrypting the virtual hdd. Everything works fine up to where I reboot the guest VM and it no longer sees the boot partition. Would this be a limitation of Fusion? I've been using VMware workstation for the same test in Windows environment but currently my focus has changed to Mac OS X.

2.0rc1 vmware-vmx consumes much more memory than set per VM

onomatopej — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:52:50 GMT

Recently I found out that my laptop is very laggy when running VMware, I got XP SP3 guest under Fusion with 256MB memory, however when I launch Activity monitor vmware-vmx has 401MB of real memory and 1,22GB or virtual memory allocated, VM ware gui 64MB of memory (why does it need so much ?!) that makes ~465MB for running 256MB guest -> 209MB overhead, isn't this too much?

Here's the "top" snapshot:

43939 vmware-vmx 17.6% 2:27.39 24 132 954 16M+ 13M- 401M+ 679M
43936 vmware 0.1% 0:32.36 5 213 790 34M+ 43M- 64M 438M

How is it possible if I set it to have only 256MB ? Shouldn't vmware-vmx memory be just a bit above 256MB ?

Attaching VM ware logs.

TV viewing on Macbook

Conrad44 — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 03:02:47 GMT

Hi,

I can't view TV on my macbook running Vista on Fusion. The PVRX2 - the UI for GBPVR Client just hangs (no window refresh). I use GBPVR with the Hauppauge Card and decoders. I tried EVR video renderer (overlay doesn't work either). The VRM9 (DirectX 9) rendener does not seem to be supported by Fusion.
I use Fusion version 2.0 RC.
It looks like the chipset (although doesn't have full 3D hardware acceleration) is pretty capable. Will version 2.0 support DirectX 9 or 10 ?
I think that any TV tuner will have similar problems until DirectX is supported.
Below is an excerpt from WIkipedia about the Chipset.

GMA X3100
The GMA X3100 is the mobile version of the GMA X3000 used in the Intel GL960 and GM965 chipsets. The X3100 supports hardware transform and lighting, up to 128 programmable shader units, and up to 384 MB memory. Its display cores can run up to 333 MHz on GM965 and 320 MHz on GL960. Its render cores can run up to 500 MHz on GM965 and 400 MHz on GL960. The X3100 display unit includes a 300 MHz RAMDAC, two 25-112 MHz LVDS transmitters, 2 DVO encoders, and a TV encoder. In addition, along with the latest drivers, the product can support DirectX 10.0 and Shader Model 4.0.

Are any other TV tuners supported by Fusion drivers.

Thanks,

Greg

How do you get the VM to link up to the wireless hardware on a MacBook Pro?

licensedtoquill — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:28:52 GMT

Am having this problem: VM sometimes accesses the network, usually doesnt. Doesnt seem to make a difference whether it is set to NAT or Bridged only or Host only hardware

Linux file change notification for shared folders

luv2skydive — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:05:22 GMT

VMware Fusion 2.0rc1 does not notify the Linux kernel when files are changed in shared folders by the host operating system.

NDAS XIMETA Software with Fusion RC1

pfonseca — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:37:55 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to use NADS Ximeta Windows software v3.30.1602 on a Windows XP Virtual machine with Vmware Fusion 2 RC1 using a bridged network connection.

The software installs, I register the device, but can't connect to it. Any idea why or a workaround to make it work, or is it not supported on this kind of virtual machine configuration?

Regards,

Fusion Apps Exits when Windows are Closed?

PeteGingaNinja — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:12:03 GMT

Got a recurrant problem in Unity mode.

When I close windows down, especially an Internet Explorer Window, the Fusion App exits. Now it's ok, I can just open it back up again and it all comes back no problems, but this is rather annoying!

Is this a bug or have I got a funny setting going on or something!

I'm running a Mac Pro with 2x Monitors and it's using both monitors in Unity mode, but it doesn't make any difference, if I'm using one or two monitors and doesn't mater where the IE window is! I'm not running Spaces.

Cheers

Pete

quite happy with RC1 so far

IMware — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 02:04:11 GMT

I'm so far quite impressed with RC1, especially when the problem with Unity mode crashing the display when disconnecting from an external monitor is fixed. Waking with the external monitor connected is also working well so far. Copying files between folders in the virtual machines is also very fast.

I haven't played with Expose or Spaces, since they aren't worth the trouble for me at this time. But seems like others who do like them still have problems.

Like the multiple snapshots feature, too.

Well done, consider it was only 2 months ago that I was complaining about all these issues!

Sql and mouse pointer

Alexgpl — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:14:43 GMT

Two problems, always related to Autodesk - Autocad:
1-after installing Fusion2 beta RC1, Sql server ,that came with Autocad, start eating 750 mb of ram in the VMachine (that means almost half of VM's RAM). Before, with Fusion 1.x, worked good.
2-the pointer in Autocad. Moving the mouse on the screen in Unity Mode (just in Unity), the pointer starts flickering. So in Unity Autocad is impossible to use.
Any idea???
Thanks a lot!

Odd behavior and HDD clacking sounds when bootig up two VMs at once

elitedev — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:42:12 GMT

I'm having odd (and dare i say scary) issues in Fusion 2.0RC if i boot up two VMs at the same time.

my setup is as follows:

Mac Pro, 14GB RAM, OS X 10.5.4, VMs (and only VMs) on secondary 500GB HD.
First VM: Windows 2008 Server 64 bit, 8GB of RAM, 4 CPUs
Second VM: Windows XP, 1GB, 1CPU
as recommended, im running in "optimize for VM performance" mode

either VM runs fine and smooth on its own. it's worth noting that the XP VM is set to the "Classic" UI theme.

things get weird when i have the first VM (my main work VM) running, and the boot up the second one as well. first, my harddisk starts making really scary clicking sounds, as if VM is trying acrobatics on the disk that stretch it to it's limit. if i ignore (or try to ignore the sounds, the VM boots up fine, and appears to run fine but: it comes up in "Luna" mode, not Classic. beyond that everything is fine, settings wise, but the UI Theme is wrong.

i can repeat this as i please

reset VM to last (same) snapshot
boot it up

if my other VM is running at the time, it come sup in Luna (and HDD clacks), if my other Vm is not running, it comes up in Classic, and HDD makes no sounds.

i would chuck this up to an actual physical HD problem except

(a) fsck finds NO problems on the disk
(b) again: both VMs work fine, on their own
(c) i just created these VMs newly on this fresh disk, after having similar problems on the old disk (which i ever could find any errors on, outside VMware)

any ideas? to me, this feels like (i know this sounds stupid) VMware is trying to do things with the disk, on hardware/driver/whaever level that it should not. like, it's literally sending the head back and forth as it reads the data for the different VMs.

one thing i'll try next is what happens if i move one of the two VMs to a different HDD.

any suggestions would be appreciated. as it stands, this doesn't fill me with warm and comfy feelings, hearing those sounds from the HD.

thanx,
marc

Vista Business SP1: VMware Tools remains "not installed" despite multiple installation actions

tlholaday — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:06:34 GMT

I am unable to get VMware Tools to install on a guest machine running Vista Business SP1. When I select "Install VMware Tools" from the menu, the disk image mounts and setup.exe is offered as a choice; but within setup.exe, my choices are Modify, Repair, and Remove. I started with Modify, then Remove, then Repair.

My current approach is to remove the McAffee antivirus on the grounds that maybe it is preventing the Tools installation.

Any suggestions? I'd rather not dispose of the VM and start again fresh.

Minor Fit & Finish: Window size at startup

Jay Levitt — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:15:45 GMT

This is such a minor quibble that I hate to even bring it up, but the more I see it, the more I realize how annoying it is:

When Fusion 2.0rc1 starts my Windows XP guest, the window resizes two or three times as it goes through POST and then Windows startup. And I could swear - is this even possible? - that I see a "glitch" line on the screen, like you'd see on an old multisync monitor as it switched sync frequencies.

It's purely cosmetic, and it's not an action that I have to repeat a lot, but it just feels... rough. And Parallels doesn't do this. If I were to install trial versions of both programs, I'd tend to assume that VMWare was the less stable of the two. Which is most definitely NOT the case!

Guest won´t start: Message "NTLDR is missing" or so ;-))

since1954 — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:33:23 GMT

Hi!

After a crash a friend of mine could´t start his guest again. A message somewhat as in the subject appeared.

Any ideas, how to start?

TIA

P.S.: Mac OS X 10.5.4, Fusion Beta 1

Parallels Transfer tools problem

edgley — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:13:49 GMT

When I drag my Parrels virtual machine into the tool and hit convert it comes up and says:

The virtual machins is running or paused

When its not. Any pointers please?

Thanks,

Simon.

VMWare Fusion 2.0rc1 Stop "New Hardware Found" on every launch???

looter — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:44:18 GMT

Every time I launch VMWare Fusion version 2.0rc1 I get the annoying "New Hardware Found" and see a few quick popups in the lower right corner of the VM screen "VMW device..."

This was not happening every time I launched Fusion 1.xx.

XP Pro SP2
Mac Pro 10.5.4

Any ideas how to stop this? (Oh, the Windows experience!)

Shift / click and Beta

miles_hot — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:22:54 GMT

I'm sure I used to be able to click somewhere and then shift/click elsewhere in a list to select the continuous range however now I can't. Possibly this has changed at the same time as I upgraded to the Beta to get dual screens working. There is also some rather odd behavior going on around the CTRL key - it works as expected if I press <shift> and then <control> but not if my fingers go down the opposite way around (for instance when zooming the contents of a window).

I have unchecked the "allow Mac keyboards short cuts" options.

Can anyone help me with this as it is really slowing me down to have to slide the mouse over the range to be selected!

Many thanks

Miles

Error on resume

Rzn8tor — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:23:44 GMT

WinXP Pro VM is suspended, Fusion is not running (computer was just booted). Click on Word in the dock, which starts VM; temporary window comes up, then the following error:

Virtual device serial0: File "/var/folders/jS/jS-Ll4sSEMuEAsBD+2x0VE+++TI/-Tmp-//vmware-lynn/thnuclnt-203/socket" exists, but no server is listening to it.

This is the second time, in two days, this has happened. Both times were after the Mac had been booted up for the day.

At this point the VM cannot connect to the network.

Other OS'es (non-windows)

Obeechi — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 03:49:21 GMT

I'm ready to start playing around with other OS'es

I read good things about FreeBSD, but don't see much here about it. In fact, if I start the process of creating a VM without the install disk, I see Solaris 10, and Linux distrubtions (Red Hat, Ubuntu, but no Fedora)

So I'm inclined to try Solaris. (Didn't see OpenSolaris, so I guess its safer to just go with Solaris 10). Though, when I looked at Sun's website, I couldn't find out what that might cost, unless it's really only 35 dollars.

For adding two more OS'es it looks like Ubuntu and Solaris. Will I be able to run these as VM's straight off an external drive?

The way around the USB limitation is to clone the Mac with SuperDuper and then boot from Firewire and install the VM's there - but then to not to use this volume for additional backups. However, then I'd have to fuss with booting from the External Drive... Or, maybe, install internally, then move to an external drive, and then move back to an internal each time before booting (I have space limitations with my internal drive).

Also, should I use only one core (of my intel core duo), as I do with Windows?

Am I wrong to think that Solaris might be a good platform to learn Java on? I mean, its not supported in Xcode as far as I can tell (deprecated isn't it? - though WebObjects seems highly esteemed), and I really don't want to fool with Windows any more than necessary. Not sure how good Eclipse on the Mac, and then there's Netbeans. I mean, whatever the ideal platform is, seems using a VM opens the door to it.

Pound Sign

NeilStacey — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:40:31 GMT

How do I get the Pound Sign instead of the Hash mark?

Intermittent Bridge Networking

sellisd — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:11:54 GMT

I'm using Fusion 2.0 RC1 on Leopard 10.5.4. I have a Windows XP SP3 guest OS that I have set up with bridged networking and I'm having intermittent connectivity issues. While I'm working throughout the day, the network will stop routing traffic. The network adapter in Windows appears to be fine, it just won't send or receive traffic. Then a short time later (usually within 2 minutes) it will start working again. I can force it to start working again by switching between NAT and bridged networking modes. Disconnecting and reconnecting the adapter doesn't resolve the problem.

The reason I need bridged networking is a piece of software that connects to our projectors in the office. It won't connect through NAT, but works fine through bridged until the Guest OS can't talk on the network.

I've read through many threads about networking and configuration, but I haven't been able to find any similar problem posted. There is nothing in the logs about this problem either. Any pointers on what to try next would be appreciated.

Dean

Capture only select OS X Keyboard Shortcuts?

JJOHNSTON_AB — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:08:10 GMT

I prefer to run VMWare in a situation where it doesn't capture all of the OS X shortcuts, allowing me to continue using spaces, expose, etc. Unfortunately, I run Windows in Fusion so I can program in Visual Studio where use of the function keys is imperative. I would really love it if there were some way to only have the VM capture select system keys (like F9, F10, and F11) and allow other system commands (like Ctrl-Left for spaces) to continue to be handled by OSX. Is there a way to accopmlish this currently, if not, consider it a feature request.

Solaris 10 x64 install hangs on RC1 with NAT

wp2 — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 02:46:51 GMT

With Fusion 2 RC1, I successfully installed Solaris 10 with VM type set to "Solaris 10". I created a new VM as "Solaris 10 64-bit" and tried to install. I had the following problems:

1. Whan installing in graphical mode, it hangs after the desktop comes up, after prompting for language. The Solaris Install Console has only "Completing system identification". During this time, the cursor is very unresponsive to the mouse.

2. If I switch to text mode install, I get past system identification with no problem, but when it gets to the disk configuration, no disks show up. I have a 20 GB disk configured.

This is with default memory and NAT network, whether I boot from DVD or ISO image.

Switching from NAT networking to Bridged, and bumped up memory to 1 GB. This cures the problem using the GUI. The install proceeds normally. I did not retry the text mode install.

Stystem: 2008 Mac Pro, 6 GB memory

The VMware VMCI Sockets service failed to start due to the following error: The system cannot find the file specified.

baker1975 — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:33:59 GMT

HI there,

I am getting this on all my W2K and W2K3 servers using 2.0b2. I have reinstalled VMware Tools to no avail. Anyone else seeing this??

Scott

Did I damage my VM with only 10% free space

Obeechi — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:22:04 GMT

I have Vista Ultimate with updates, inc SP1. I also installed Quickbooks, an antivirus program, diskeeper, and Frameworkx Shortcut manager. So I haven't loaded with tons of apps.

I did defrag at one point. Everything seemed fine. Then after a few auto updates, I notice that I've reached up to only 11% or so freespace.

So I shrink first, then try to defrag. At first it seemed like normal, but then the defrag cut itself short. Its far from done. I ran virtual defrag, ran the shinking again. Ran defrag in the host again and again. Each time a few slivers get moved and then it quits. What gives? Does it have anything to do with Shadow copy or does it indicated I screwed up my virtual files by letting the available free get too small?

I did increase the disk by 5GB.

MacBook Pro intel core duo. Leopard 10.5.4

Fusion 2.0RC1 Vista SP1 Activation?

ahd455 — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:18:23 GMT

The release notes for Fusion 2.0 RC1 claim that the Vista SP1/Boot Camp activation issues from the previous beta have been corrected, however that does not seem to be the case for me.

I'm running Vista Ultimate 32 in Boot Camp. I have Office 2007 installed. I've used this Boot Camp partition with Fusion 1.3 previously, however I did experience the ping-pong Office and Vista activation problem when switching between a boot camp boot and running Vista via Fusion. I solved the Office activation issue by copying around the files (via a startup .vbs) and with the help of the KB article 1004917 (adding the SMBIOS.reflectHost = 'TRUE' to the .vmx file and reinstalling VMWare tools) I solved the vista activation issue as well.

I upgraded to Fusion 2.0 Beta 1 with no problems. Fusion 2.0 Beta 2, however, caused me the activation issues that were described elsewhere, so I downgraded back to Fusion 1.3.

After reading how the activation issues were supposed to have been fixed in Fusion 2.0 RC1, I upgraded to RC1, however I'm having no luck getting Vista SP1 to remain activated. If I activate it in boot camp, it wants to be reactivated when running under Fusion, and vice-versa. I tried the solution in the aforementioned KB article (.vmx entry was already present) but with no joy.

Although Office did ask to be re-activated after the upgrade to 2.0RC1, I've had no additional prompts from Office to activate -- the script that copies the registration files around is still in place and appears to be working.

My question, then, why am I back at the ping-pong Vista SP1 activation? If the issue has been corrected, can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong here? Any constructive suggestions?

Thanks.

2.0 RC1 Boot Camp Preprocessing error and BSOD

golbiga — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:50:24 GMT

I keep on getting preprocessing failed when I want to start up my boot camp partition in fusion 2.0 rc1. Attached is the log file, when I boot up i get the stop 7b error. I've tried registry fixes and i've made sure that specific drivers known to cause the issue are in the correct location. Any help is appreciated.

Size of VHD Inaccurate

runtoofar — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:00:19 GMT

Two issues I've run into but not sure if they are bugs. First one, I created a VHD with Windows Vista x64 Edition. Simple installation took up 12 GB of the 24 GB allocated for the VHD. This seemed rather high but I didn't think much into it at first. I then began installing other programs and noticed the amount of disk space was decreasing twice that of what was actuall installed. So I started researching further, I turned on viewing of ALL files (system, hidden, etc.) and did a simple properties check on every folder/file on the VHD inside of Windows and came up with 11 GB however properties of the VHD (c: drive) shows 22GB (approx. double), leaving me only 2 GB of free space. Thinking perhaps it was just an issue with Windows Explorer reporting the wrong information, I attempted an installation of a program approx 2GB in size and Windows would not allow it due to lack of disk space. Am I going crazy here or is there something messed up with my VHD? I started it on Beta 1, upgraded to RC 1, even downgraded it to 1.x, uninstalled the beta software and reinstalled 1.x without any luck. Has anyone else ran across this?

Second issue, after unmirroring the four default folders, but leaving mirroring on, I can no longer copy files to the "Shared Folder" on Mac. It reports in Windows as having zero space left (which is inaccurate). I have no tried to turn mirroring back on, but the reason I removed it was two of each folder (Documents, Music, Photos, Videos) were showing up inside of Windows Vista. This may be how this is meant to be, but I was thinking those folders would just be shared across both drives, not have two instances each.

VMWare Fusion 2.0rc1 (113392) vs SUSE 10.0: vmware-config-tools.pl can't find vsock.o

jfriesne — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:51:11 GMT

Hi guys,

I just upgraded to VMWare Fusion 2.0rc2 (build 113392) and all was going well until I tried to upgrade the VMWare Tools install of my SUSE 10 guest.

First, choosing "Upgrade VMWare Tools" from the menu didn't work (the CD icon never showed up on my KDE desktop), so I dug the linux.iso file out of /Library/Application Support/VMWare Fusion/isoimages and copied it over to the SUSE guest, mounted it, grabbed the VMWareTools-e.x.p-113392.tar.gz file out of it, and expanded the file to my home folder. So far, so good.

Then I ran the vmware-install.pl script as root, which worked fine until the vmware-config-tools.pl stage, at which point I got stuck at this message:

None of the pre-built vsock modules for VMWare Tools is suitable for your running kernel. Do you want this program to try to build the vsock module for your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)?

... at which point I tried to have it build the module, but it couldn't because the kernel sources weren't installed, and when I installed them it still couldn't because they weren't configured, and when I (tried to configure) them, it still couldn't because they weren't the right version, at which point I despaired and came here for help.

So my questions are:

1) The vmware-config-tools.pl script appears to be looking for the file /usr/lib/vmware-tools/modules/binary/bld-2.6.13-15-i586smp-SuSE10/objects/vsock.o, which doesn't exist. Some other modules exists in that folder, and vsock.o does appear in other nearby folders... was it an oversight that vsock.o wasn't included for SuSE10? Or is there some other reason it's not there? Other versions of VMWare Fusion have been able to install their VMWare-tools without needing to compile anything, what has changed with this build?

2) If I do need to get the install script to compile the vsock.o module, how do I go about doing that? I thought using YaST to install the kernel-sources package would be sufficient, but it seems there are more steps that are needed. Alas, I'm not yet a Linux guru of sufficient rank to know this stuff... ;^)

Thanks for any hints you can provide,
Jeremy

Why does CD disappear when I try to add a VM?

licensedtoquill — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:00:35 GMT

Installed Beta 2 easily. Picked up Boot Camp immediately and without a hitch. Runs perfectly

But when I try to add a VM for Linux (Hardy Heron though it also wont install BackTrack 3 which is Knoppix), the CD suddenly disappears and the VM starts to boot from an Athlon network PXE with the error message "media failed"

I suddenly get an error message telling me that another VM is using shared devices adn that I wont be able to access them. Which may explain why the CD isnt seen by Fusion? The new VM wont see the CD but it also doesnt see or install from an Intrepid .iso on my Mac desktop.

The Hardy Heron or Intrepid or ubuntu icon is created on the desktop but when I try to access it, all I get is the PXE BOOT FAILED error message

Does anyone know what is going on? I have installed the tools and there doesnt seem to be any difference in all this between using normal or Unity mode?

How to get virtual machine library up in RC1

toddbe — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:48:38 GMT

I had the virtual machine library set to open automatically before this upgrade. Cannot figure out how to do this, instead of OS starting automatically.

thanks,

Todd

Does anyone know if the Fusion Sleep/External Monitor Bug has been addressed?

euthymic — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:18:09 GMT

I don't wish to update from 1.3 (which has this problem) to a beta of 2.0 unless this problem has been fixed. Anyone know if this made the list of bugs to be worked out?

Original description and discussion linked below

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/106087

Unity still doesn't play well with fusion in 2.0 RC 1

zig_k — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:44:29 GMT

I'm still having the issues discussed in the following post

http://communities.vmware.com/message/1045025

where using expose with unity results in badly rendered windows. I just wanted to check that this is still a known issue.

VMWare Tools on XP Guest crashes after upgrade

newsmom — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:19:59 GMT

I just upgraded from beta 2 to RC 1. Everything went smoothly until I updated the VMWare Tools, which were out of date. The install seemed to finish fine, but an error immediately came up stating that VMWare Tools Service has encountered a problem and needs to close. Restarting, doing a repair install, and removing/rebooting/reinstalling VMWare Tools all resulted in the same error. Advice?

VMWare Fusion RC1, Windows XP Pro guest, running as Admin user.

Task Bar Hidden behind Dock in RC Fusion 2

obsilver — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:59:58 GMT

Under Unity mode the windows task bar is hidden behind the OS X dock when both are located at the bottom of the screen. Is this the default behavior? Is there a way to have Fusion Unity mode respect the windows task bar area and not "cover" it when both are located at the bottom of the screen. Under Parallels the dock and task bars do not interfere with each other's screen locations.

Thanks

Orrin

Solaris 5/08 on Fusion 2rc ?

kalou — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:48:44 GMT

Hello all,

I've tried to install latest Solaris yesterday on a 3GHz imac. Choose text only mode, but after more than 30 minutes, I can only see half a line filled with dots .. nothing more ..

Is there any options/tweaks that I should try to get this working ?

Will 5/08 be supported as a guest for Fusion ? In the FAQ I can see that u3 is supported.. but it's not available for download.

Kalou

Gray Box Appearing in Win XP SP3 over Outlook 2003

Bergmane1 — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:45:24 GMT

Hello-

i'm wondering if anyone has seen this.

I am running Windows XP SP3 in the latest RC1 of Fusion 2.0.

When running Oulook 2003, when i click on some emails, i get a grey box that appears and blocks the outlook window.

It's intermittent, and i'm not sure what causes it.

Also, when minimizing windows, I get a "residue" piece of the former maximized window in the top left corner of the screen.

Anyone else seeing this? I'd take a screen shot, however when i do, the grey box doesn't appear!

thanks,

-Evan

Printers not working

JeromeZ — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:45:22 GMT

When I attempt to access the print... command from an application (e.g., Word, Excel) in my XP client it hangs the application and eventually I have to force an End Now to kill the application. When I click on Printers and Faxes on the start menu, my cursor shows the clock for a few seconds and then nothing happens (BTW, the same thing happens when clicking on *Control Panel*).

I have tried uninstalling VMware Tools which never completes (it eventually hangs, clocking). I have successfully run Repair from the VMware Tools installer, but it has not remedied this issue.

I have:

Fusion 2.0 RC1

MacBook Air 1.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, SMC Version 1.23f9; Mac OS X 10.5.4 (9E17); Graphics GMA X3100

Windows XP SP3

Printers Enabled in Fusion settings

Thanks for the help

Show Package Contents - if the vmdk's and their splits were in their own folders

Obeechi — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:04:51 GMT

You know, I almost wish that the vmdk's and their splits (especially when there are splits) where inside their own folders with the .vmwarevm package.

For example, to keep a composed mind, I have a folder in Documents called Fusion, and within this folder I have a folder called Windows Vista (soon to be side by side with VM's of other names like Linux and Solaris) and within this folder I have two alias folders, one each for the split virtual disks that reside on an external disk formated in Mac OS Extended Journaled (so I can access this disk from both OSX and Windows, with no need to toggle), and a folder called Vmwarevm where my VM is tucked into.

So when I open up Fusion:Windows Vista I see the following folders or aliases
Vmdk E (an alias for an external disk)
Vmdk F (an alias for an external disk)
Vmwarevm (a folder containing my vmware bundle, and maybe also an alias for VMX Extras and maybe vdiskmanager, et -- since it would be helpful to gauge whether a VM is running or not before you open up VMX Extras, by judging the vmwarevm icon in the same folder et)

So to get to the point, it would be nice if there were also a folder alias for each of the two virtual disks that are internal to my vmwarevm package. However, to be able do so requires these disks to be inside folders of their own within the bundle, and in fact, doing so would prevent that .nvram from sticking itself between the vmdk and its splits (which always bugs me).

Is it allowed to move these split disks into their own folders within the bundle? I don't want to muck things up. To be able to do so would give me an overview of all the disks I might have from the perspective of the folders and the Finder, and choosing a disk for virtual defragging would be choosing from folders (aliases) where all the disks can be referenced from one place.

RC1 Mouse problems

jegender — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:00:44 GMT

I cannot get my mouse to work on any of my vm's since upgrading from beta 2 to rc1. Whenever I click on the screen it never accepts my mouse input. I have updated all of the vmtools and mouse fails to work on Windows XP SP3, Vista, Linux (multiple distros). I don't know what else to try. I have uninstalled and reinstalled a few times and nothing works. Please help!

Fusion 2 - better VMware Shared Folders?

mdelvecchio — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:37:15 GMT

can anyone say if the lagginess of Shared Folders has been fixed in the upcoming fusion release?

on my xp guest, it takes a second or two to open a Shared Folder. after the initial delay the folder is "cached" and opens more quickly, but since this happens for each new folder it sucks big time.

thanks,
matt

Virtual appliance completely frozen

mragain — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 03:19:47 GMT

I was recently having some performance issues with one of the earlier releases of Fusion Beta, and in the hopes it was just windows memory leek told the machine to reboot. After sitting watching the clock spin for 10-15 minutes I then went to the Fusion menus and set it to restart the OS. Some of the icons started closing down, but I ended up looking at a black screen.

I've updated to RC1 of Fusion with the same results. My frustration is that with parallels I always had the option to "Hard Turn Off" the vm, but Fusion apparently will not allow that. I've select restart, shutdown, and send ctrl-alt-del from the menus so many times that I've given up hope. I've forced quit Fusion only to have it go to the same frozen screen after I launch it again. If I try to exit Fusion politely then it merely suspends the vm in this frozen state.

Did no one at VMware think windows would ever need to be hard rebooted? Seriously, surely there has to be a way I can "pull the plug" to the vm's power and then be able to power back on as if the machine had merely had a power outage.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

$RECYCLE.BIN

Obeechi — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 06:36:05 GMT

I'm not real crazy about this folder showing up on my Mac's Desktop after enabling Mirrored Folders. I noticed that if I right-click the Trash icon on Windows Desktop (Vista), that I can delete it. That should, I assume, cause the $RECYCLE folder to disappear (and I would do this with the VM powered down). But if I do this will I be able to empty the trash in Vista?

Also there is a Thumbs.db file on my Mac Desktop now, which per "Get Info" is a UNIX Executable file. Is this something to do with MACfuse?

(I was in Terminal the other day, for one of the first times, but don't remember creating such a file)

RC1 prevents Mac from auto sleep while a virtual machine is running

thejfk — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 12:01:21 GMT

VMware 2 RC1 still prevents Macs from auto sleeping after the time set in the energy saving preference pane, while a virtual machine is running. This isn't meant to be so, is it?

/robert

RC1 on go slow with XP SP3 bootcamp partition?

flashcamo — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:33:35 GMT

Hi,

I accept this is not final release & I'm a klutz so just thought I would post my experience in case it's of interest to developers. I see other recent threads with (possibly) similar issues & that solution is maybe coming.

Yesterday I took a plunge & changed from 1.1.3 to RC1 and at the same time installed XP SP3 (form SP2). Now everything has gone sluggish in VM. Accessing shared folders/files takes a minute or two. Processing things is also way slower.

I ran Geekbench to add some science to my observations. VM in Bootcamp reports about mid 2000, Bootcamp alone reports low 7000 & OSX gets mid 7000. I think Geekbench used to give me high scores in VM (def faster than this).

Maybe once the final release comes out I will re-install everything but obvioulsy some part of the changes yesterday has done something funny. If anyone has ideas I would be grateful but don't wanna be a pest over this.

I attached a capture of activity monitor showing lots of red ink whilst running VM, which I don't get under just OSX. Maybe an issue? Also, have tried changing access to shared folders (on & off) & processor & RAM numbers.

Hmmm... still LOVE VM just reminds me of windows in 1995 now...

Cam.

System is macpro 2.8 osx10.5.4 with dual screens 6gb ram & lots of hard disks.

Windows Apps showing up in "Open With" dialogue in OS X

ralphthemagician — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 03:28:59 GMT

I know that one of the new features is the ability to open Windows applications from OS X, but I've turned off the option "Allow your Mac to open applications in the virtual machine" and I'm still seeing a few spotty entries for apps in OS X, like Windows Explorer pictured below. Is this a bug, or are certain applications like Windows Explorere supposed to ignore the setting?

What file does VMware modify that stores these entiries?

At a second glance, it appears that a lot of file associations have been polluted. Checking and unchecking the box does not correct it.

Minimize to dock

carson.jc — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:26:25 GMT

When minimizing an XP active window, it goes to MacOS X Dock, then automatically reappears.

I cannot minimize any XP window.

Host Mac OS X 10.5.4
VM Fustion Version 2.0b2
Windows XP sp3 guest loaded on Boot Camp partition

2.0 RC1 Display issue

geoman — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:20:13 GMT

I am running XP on Fusion 2 RC on an iMac with an additional 23" 1920x1200 cinema display. Tools are installed with Fusion. The guest is set up using 2 processors with 1024 MB memory assigned.

I am using some geological software (Kingdom Suite by SMT) and have the following issue with it.

In map mode, the software displays the X dimension as double the Y dimension, or 100Y=200X.

XP is set to use 2 screens spanned, ie 3840X1200.

Text used outside and inside the map displayed window is normally sized, but graphic elements are distorted.

Any ideas on how to fix?

I've attached a screenshot to demonstrate the problem.

Added piece of info: the software vendor thinks it may be related to the video driver but cannot verify.

Autochk not found

axwack — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:26:14 GMT

My windows recently installed SP3 in my instance and now I get an Autochk not found error with a subsequent BSOD. The Windows instance goes into an infinite loop. I read that you can copy the authochk.exe file to the system32 directory but I can't get into the system to do this. Has anyone seen this problem and been able to fix it?

This is VMWare Fusion running on Mac Os X 10.5

Deus Ex in 2.0b2 - Improvements, but still very slow

SethWillits — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:07:48 GMT

I just tested Deus Ex again in 2.0b2 and although all of the sound, graphical, and input problems I had with prior versions are fixed, it runs dog slow at 5-15fps on my Mac Pro. 3D acceleration is on, the VM has plenty of RAM, and my system is not busy. Bummer. With 3D acceleration off, the game runs fast, but only at a tiny resolution, in a window, and 16-bit.

caps lock bug

dadaz007 — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:35:49 GMT

I have a bug with fusion 2 RC1.

When I lock caps in fusion, 'return' to mac os an unlock it, it stay locked in fusion (fusion doesn't care about mac os caps lock state of mac os).

Unity, MacbookPro, Two Displays == Bug with 1st/2nd Display

Gryzor — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:29:37 GMT

Hi, I have been using VMWare since 1.0 (along with Parallels) on my MacBook Pro 2.0 w/2gb RAM. (1st gen).

Here's the issue:

I have a Windows XP VM (and Vista Business VM as well for testing purposes) where I work with Visual Studio 2005 (and 2008). The Macbook Pro has an external display attached. Both screens are at 1440x900. The external 22'' display is set as the "primary" display in OSX (the Menubar is in the external display); the reason for this is that this display is bigger and I'm getting old

Here's the deal: Visual Studio debugs my application in the Screen #1. Always. I want to tell my Windows (in the VM) that my Primary Display is the Macbook's Internal display. And I do that, however when using Unity this is utterly ignored. If you "identify displays" while under Unity, no matter how you drag the screens in Windows Display Preferences (in order to accomodate the Macbook's display), the screen #1 is always my external display. This is bad because I want to have Visual Studio in the "big" screen (#1 for OS X) and the application in the "Macbook Pro" display (#2 for OSX).

In other words, VMWare is ignoring Windows' Display Preferences under Unity (and under full screen too). This is an problem I have to solve by moving VStudio to the smaller Macbook display, something I want to avoid, because I prefer the external display for reading code and debugging. The small screen of the Macbook Pro can be perfectly used to "operate" the application while debugging.

Any idea how to "fix" this?

SETUP: Macbook Pro 2.0 GHZ. 2Gb Ram. Mac OS X 10.5.4. VMWare 2.0 RC1 (happened under Beta1 and 2).

Thanks in advance,

Martin.

Connectivity Issue with Sierra Wireless 810U (USB) card

treidland — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:32:53 GMT

I was successfully using my Sierra Wireless card with 1.1.3 until I decided to try the 2.0 beta 2. I have reverted to 1.1.3 but still cannot connect using the wireless card (the Windows network says "local access only" - Mac OS X works fine).

I'm using the Bootcamp partition with Fusion. MB Pro with OSX10.5.4 if that makes any difference.

Thanks in advance for any help or ideas!

Download Virtual Appliances, Mobile Safari?

Obeechi — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:48:14 GMT

I have Safari in a folder called Apple in my Applications folder. I also have the Developer SDK for iPhone (wanna be) and when I choose Download Virtual Appliances from the VMware Fusion menu it wants to open up Mobile Safari from the developers folder. I tried moving Safari back to the home folder Applications folder... and the same thing happens. Of course, Mobile Safari won't launch.

XP SP3 VM hangs/shuts down, hangs Fusion

rtgoodwin — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:41:46 GMT

Hey all,

Here are the details:

- Fusion 2 RC (also on beta)
XP SP3 VM, 1024 GB RAM, 20GB disk, Single CPU, Shared folders (but not mirrored, not boot camp)
~5GB free on Mac partition
Not set to "optimize mac performance" (due to bug)
MacbookPro 2.4ghz, 4gb RAM
Leopard 10.5.4
Guest VM apps include:Office 2k7, Cisco VPN client, Symantec Endpoint Protection, Xara Xtreme (graphics editor), FSCapture (screen capture)

More often than not, the situation occurs when I walk away and leave the machine idle. I come back and find the machine either at screen saver or sometimes at the last screen state, and it is hung. I have the beachball, and Fusion itself is hung. I can't get into menus, etc. I have to force quite the vmx and Fusion processes, and Fusion stays with the little white "dot" that indicates its running in the dock. If i try to log out/back, I can launch Fusion but the VM shows locked. (I briefly messed with deleting lock files but doesn't seem like what I should do). So I reboot and then boot things back up to normal...wait a day or so and bam here we go again.

Nothing shows up in the logs from what i can tell, but I'll paste the last contents below. This has happened about 10 times int he past two weeks making my VM very untrustworthy.

How does one go about troubleshooting this? Keep in mind my VM is my production work-day machine so I can't have it out of commission for days on end ideally (Yes, I know, beta/RC, but Fusion is extremely stable!)

Thanks!
Richard

Sep 05 04:30:43.217: vmfusion| VMHS: Connection to VM broken: cfg: /Users/rg/Documents/Virtual Machines/Windows XP Professional - freshstart.vmwarevm/Windows XP Professional - freshstart.vmx; error: Pipe connection has been broken; state: 3
Sep 05 04:30:43.232: vmfusion| Unmounting the vm: /Users/rg/Documents/Virtual Machines/Windows XP Professional - freshstart.vmwarevm/Windows XP Professional - freshstart.vmx
Sep 05 04:30:43.233: vmfusion| Unmounting VM complete: /Users/rg/Documents/Virtual Machines/Windows XP Professional - freshstart.vmwarevm/Windows XP Professional - freshstart.vmx
Sep 05 04:30:43.256: vmfusion| -PLGuestAppMgrDelegate updateHandlers: Guest doesn't have 'set handler' capability, won't update guest handlers.
Sep 05 04:30:43.258: vmfusion| -DUIGuestAppMgr refreshGuestAppsToPublishWithDelegate:doneSelector:contextInfo:: Guest doesn't have the Unity capability, won't re-publish proxy applications.
Sep 05 04:30:43.260: vmfusion| Mount state values have changed: /Users/rg/Documents/Virtual Machines/Windows XP Professional - freshstart.vmwarevm/Windows XP Professional - freshstart.vmx
Sep 05 04:30:43.262: vmfusion| Reloading config state: /Users/rg/Documents/Virtual Machines/Windows XP Professional - freshstart.vmwarevm/Windows XP Professional - freshstart.vmx
Sep 05 04:30:43.370: vmfusion| VMHS: Transitioned vmx/execState/val to poweredOff
Sep 05 04:30:43.423: vmfusion| -PLGuestAppMgrDelegate updateHandlers: Guest doesn't have 'set handler' capability, won't update guest handlers.
Sep 05 04:30:43.423: vmfusion| -DUIGuestAppMgr refreshGuestAppsToPublishWithDelegate:doneSelector:contextInfo:: Guest doesn't have the Unity capability, won't re-publish proxy applications.
Sep 05 04:30:44.722: vmfusion| Setting power state poweredOff (reported)
Sep 05 08:29:59.139: unknown| Caught signal 15 -- pid 214 (eip 0x95b1c5e2)
Sep 05 08:29:59.144: unknown| Caught signal 15 -- pid 214 (eip 0x95ad368e)
Sep 05 08:29:59.144: unknown| Caught signal 15 -- pid 214 (eip 0x95b1c5e2)

Cannot assign available PCI slot...

bbatx — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:43:25 GMT

Just updated to RC1 and upon launching my XP Pro virtual machine I was asked to upgrade the virtual machine and I clicked on Yes, but when trying to start the VM I get:

"Cannot assign available PCI slot to vmci0."

I click on OK and it goes back to the startup window.

Any help/pointers would be appreciated. I searched this forum for the message and did not come up with anything.

Thanks.

Disabled Unity?

EMR — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:33:30 GMT

I don't get it. After upgrading to beta 2 (and, yes, I have updated VMware tools), Unity is greyed out. My client is a 64-bit Vista Ultimate. I've disabled application sharing between the guest and the host, and I haven't activated folder sharing either. Do such things have a bearing on Unity?

On the other hand, I haven't actually restarted my Mac. Perhaps upon reboot this issue will solve itself (???).

Thank you for giving users the choice of manually identifying the type of guest. Mine had been wrongly identified as Windows Server 2008 64-bit edition!

Fusion 2.0 RC1 with Windows VISTA - some questions/hints...

UlrichCM — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:10:49 GMT

OS X 10.5, german

Fusion 2.0 RC1

VISTA Business as guest, german

1. cmd-L should show the Fusion Programmlist. But it locks Windows. How could i disable some key combinations for Windows in unity so that they work for OS X?(It change from unity to window mode!)

2. If i switch with cmd-TAB between Windows Applications, the screen switches but not the focus of the keyboard!

3. How could i disable the Fusion Icon, if i enabled the Windows Application Icons?

4. cmd-L, the Fusion Application List will show almost everything. How could i configure it, to ignore some path's? It always shows many Program twice.

5. If i shutdown -s -t 0 my Windows, Fusion switches from unity mode to window mode. If i start then and switch to unity mode, cmd-ESC won't work if taskbar was disabled. Enable/Disable Taskbar...then it works!

6. If you switch whith cmd-TAB to Fusion how could i 'press' Windows-E to start Explorer or Windows-R to start the Run dialog?

Regards,

Ulrich

"PCI to PCI bridge" detected in a loop

GabrielM — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:25:33 GMT

Hello,

I just upgraded to the RC from version 1.1.2. I upgraded the tools, but after rebooting the system keeps on detecting a "PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge" and offers to install it (Found New Hardware Wizard). After clicking Next and installing the device, it prompts me once again. It does this forever. I looked at the device manager and the PCI to PCI bridges are all added! I tried deleting all the PCI-to-PCI bridges but the system keeps on detecting it.

Any idea?

Problems with new ATI Radeon HD 3870 video card

Molestrangler — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:46:42 GMT

I just upgraded my video card to something that handles Apples pro applications better. So I decided to try out Fusion beta!

1. Booting Vista Home Basic takes more than 3 mins now, before booting was less than 30 seconds.
a. No issues before I downloaded the Beta version, Fusion seemed to work just fine with the HD 3870.

2. I cannot verify is 3D is working, actually Vista seems to be slower!!
a. I cannot run any of the 3D screen savers '3D text' and 'Bubbles' just give me a white screen, moving the mouse brings up a dialog box stating the application had stopped responding.
b. I have all the Vista 'eye candy' switched off to improve performance, this is from using the released version of Fusion

MacPro 2.66GHz (2007).
11gig RAM.
Two displays.
I am running Vista on my second display in full screen mode.
The stock video card is not installed.