VMware Communities : Unanswered Threads - VMware Fusion® (for Mac)

ONLY FIRST PAGE OF MULTI PAGE DOCUMENT PRINTING

dysartj — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:26:54 GMT

Hi,

This is a reprint of an earlier post.

I have XP running in Fusion 2 on a new IMAC with 4GB RAM and MacOS 10.5.8. When I try to print a document from an application in XP, I only get the first page.

It is as if there is a setting to print 1 of
1 somewhere inside the Fusion setup.

Printing is normal on Mac side. XP prints through Mac.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

No mic input with Fusion 3.0 and Windows 7

Seidner — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:27:55 GMT

I use Fusion 3 with Snow Leopard and Windows 7. The microphone in my MacBook Pro is not working in Windows but works in Mac. I use Skype and similar programs. In the device manager in Windows, the isight camera has a yellow mark next to it but the camera is working. Speakers work fine. Help please!

Fusion 3.0 - Unable to use 2560x1440 resolution - 27-inch iMac - Windows 7

Scott Francis — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:35:03 GMT

2560x1440 isn't listed in the Resolution menu, and it's not listed as a mode in Advanced.

I tried updating the driver and Windows 7 indicates I'm using the latest.

Any ideas?

multiple render targets in Fusion 3.0

fasthazard — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:46:47 GMT

Has anyone had luck with applications that use multiple render targets? I upgraded from Fusion 2.0 to 3.0 hoping to find better GPU virtualization, but this feature is still missing. Any clarification from VMware staff would be appreciated.

matt

VM Fusion 3 runs extremely slow with XP HOME vs VM Fusion 2.06 with XP PRO

LordandMaster — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:39:20 GMT

I am running VM Fusion 2.06 with XP Pro on a 2.4 Ghz with 4MB RAM Macbook Pro running Snow Leopard 10.6.2. From a restart of the computer, It takes 13 seconds to resume and 6 seconds to save the virtual machine state. This machine has 30 MB of Hard Disc space allocated to VM Fusion and 1 CPU and 1956 MB of Ram.

On a second newer Macbook Pro I am running VM Fusion 3.0 with XP Home on a 2.53 Ghz with 4MB RAM Macbook Pro running Snow Leopard 10.6.2. From a restart of the computer takes 3 minutes to resume and 13 seconds to save the virtual machine state. Without restarting the computer it takes 21 seconds to resume and 13 seconds to save the virtual machine state. This machine has 40 MB of Hard Disc space allocated to VM Fusion and 1 CPU and 1992 MB of Ram.

In all cases, no other applications are running either on the Mac or the Virtual machine. Why does VM Fusion 3 run so slowly on my newer machine? How do fix this?

Sound when the VM window is not active

Tkosh — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:38:57 GMT

In Fusion 2 the sound always worked even if the window is not in the foreground. I don't think that's the case in 3.0. Is there a switch somewhere I am missing?

network down after shutting down VM

midnight1187 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:16:27 GMT

I am running Fusion 2.0.6 and have a Win XP Pro vm and a Redhat Linux vm. When I shut down either vm, the Mac network stops working... any help is appreciated.

Interested in virtualization, lots of questions.

omnicow — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:43:18 GMT

Hello! I've heard about the trend of virtualization for a while from my friend in the IT field, but I've only now begun considering ways that I could implement it to benefit my situation. One of the great features, to my understanding, of virtualization, is a fuller utlization of resources. Computers have always had a difficult time of parsing their jobs to different cores, or different processors, so, if you were to divide up the processors of your computer between different tasks, you could make much more effecient use of your processing power. Well, that's how it seems that it would work in my head. So, here's my first question:

Okay, when shopping for a computer, spending extra on a faster single processor will net greater end result that spending extra on two slower processors. But in this scenario, let's say someone decided to splurge and get the extra speed and extra processors, and ended up with a top of the line 2.93Ghz 8 Core Nehalem. That computer will be faster than a quad core 2.93Ghz, but definitely not faster than two quad core 2.93s running side by side. So, if one was to divide that 8-core computer up into two OS X Server virtual machines, and run fully processor intensive tasks on each of those VMs, would it equal the power of the two separate quad core machines? (minus of course a hopefully reasonable performance drop from the processing used by the original operating system and vmware application) Furthermore, would making four VMs give even greater productivity increases due to further spreading of processing? It makes a lot of sense to me that it would. Am I crazy, or am I just starting to realize the possibilities of virtual machines?

Okay, if that's true, then that opens up a lot of doors. One very powerful computer and four old computers could become four pretty powerful computers with a cumulative processing power much greater than that of the host machine. Expendature on multiple machines could be greatly lowered, and upgrade costs would be consolidated. So, if that works, my next question would be how remote client machines could access these virtual machines so users can give commands to them. The obvious answer would be VNC, and I have been experimenting with this a bit. So far though, I'm unable to find a zero-latency solution. I have a 4Gb fibre network, so I'm not worried about bandwidth saturation. As of yet, no VNC applications that I've found send more than 1 MBps. JollysFastVNC works pretty well, and is the best I've found, but still not whating I'm hoping for in a sitatuion with no bandwidth limitations. I understand that these applications are generally geared toward WAN access, but is there a remote control option suitable for zero-latency LAN situations?

My next concern, assuming that the distribution of processing in VMWare Fusion works the way that is should, is the distribution of other resources. One particular area that I'm curious about, and hope to test soon, is storage. Hard drive speed is commonly a bottleneck in computers, and purchasing RAID cards, enclosures, and fast drives to remedy this is a big expendature, especially if it has to be done for every system in your environment. Well, if all of your computers, or four of your computers, were virtual machines inside of another computer, then the expendature on setting up a fast RAID volume could be much lower, hypothetically. This is the way that I imagine it, please tell me if it works like this:

Your host machine is running it's OS on it's internal drives, but it's using an external SAS RAID card to connect to a much faster array. Let's say assume this RAID array has a read and write speed around 800 MBps. This is the array used to host your virtual machine operating systems. If all four of the virtual machines are being accessed for a lot of hard drive access simultaneously, will each of them have access to 200 MBps, or will the array be bogged down by the multiple requests, causing slower access speeds for all users? Furthermore, if all four virtual machines are sitting idle, using 5% of the drive speed each, and suddenly one gets a command for a lot of hard drive access, will it be able to use the remaining 85%? If so, this makes virtualization a very attractive solution for providing fast hard drive access to multiple computers.

Am I mistaken in thinking that RAM is assigned to a virtual machine instead of being shared the way that a hard drive would be? I've seen my friend set up a virtual machine before, and I remember him choosing an amount of his system RAM to dedicate to that computer. If that's the case, then one would probably need to max out their RAM for the host machine, but it would be worth it to not have to purchase three more equally powerful computers.

The last piece of hardware that I have a question about, and the one that I'm most worried about would be the video card. The video card would have to be shared by all virtual machines, right? I'm unsure if video card processors are multi-core these days, so I don't know if they would benefit in productivity by being fed manually threaded tasks. If they're not, would the video card get bogged down if it was receiving graphic intensive tasks such as phot editing on two or more virtual machines? If so, could installing multiple video cards remedy this? Would these video cards need to be assigned separately to different virtual machines, or are GPUs more effective at threading tasks than mult-core processors?

Alright, I'm sorry for all of the lengthy questions, but I'm very excited by the possibilities created by VMWare. Any replies at all would be very welcome. Thanks a bunch!

-Ryan

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.

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

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

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.

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!

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?

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

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.

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 ????

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

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!

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,

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,

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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?

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.

Using a Window VPN

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

Hi --

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

Thanks!

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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Bluetooth issue in F3

~Von — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:22:43 GMT

Hello,

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

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

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

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

Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.

THx

~Von

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

Using OpenGL 2.1 in Windows 7 WITH dual monitors

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

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

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

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

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

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

Using Driver Detective in Windows XP under funsion 2.0.6

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

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

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

Thanks in advance for any help.

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?

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

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

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

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

Thank you,
Scott

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

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

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

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

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

Thanks.

Mike

Fusion v3.0.0 (204229)
Win XP SP3

Is VMWare Fusion 3 fixed yet?

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

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

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

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

VMware 3 - No bootable device was detected.

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

Hi,

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

No bootable device was detected.

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

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

can someone help, please?

Ninerle

IMAC 10.6.1, Snow leopard OS

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 - 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

VMWare Resume Fail

jafar — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:11:24 GMT

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

VMWare Resume Fail

jafar — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:09:03 GMT

VMware Fusion 3 with Windows 7 x64 internet

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

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

New install Fusion 3, Win7 64 bit, installation does not start when inserting windows cd

ullebu — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:02:49 GMT

Hello. I'm new to mac, and just bought a brand new MacBook Pro today. Downloaded Fusion 3 and installed the program without any problems.
When trying to create a new virtual machine, I was told to insert the installation disc om my desired operating system. I inserted a newly bought original Windows 7 Pro OEM 64 bit software. Then it starts spinning, but nothing else happends. Fusion stand "quite" in the "Introduction" window telling me to insert the installation disc of my desired system, but the continue-buttom does not change from light grey.. so I can not press Continue.

So nothing happends when inserting the original windows 7 cd.
Any idea of what can be wrong?

Thank you in advance for your help.

Kind regards,

Bent, from Noway

Fail to use USB external disk (formatted in NTFS)

Kenneth868 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:23:33 GMT

Hi all,

I have a XP intalled in Fusion 3 and now I want it to use my usb external 1TB drive formatted in NTFS and connected via USB.

I can read usb drive in Mac but when tried to connect it to my virtual machine, XP fail to respond (looks like XP is wainting for something)
and only "Force Shutdown" can turn it off.

Anyone got similar experience ? Any suggestions ?

Regards
Ken

nouvelle version disponible de fusion

volgan — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:34:41 GMT

Merci de me dire en FRANCAIS comment passer de fusion 1.1.1 à fusion 3
Cordialement

HGFS on a Linux guest and filenames containing ':' (colons)

peteg42 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:18:28 GMT

Hello,

Under Fusion 3 on Snow Leopard, it seems that filenames containing colons are not mapped properly. For example:

OSX host$ ls -alF doc/bugs/typo_in_skeleton.pm:_sessionncgi.mdwn
-rw-r--r-- 1 peteg peteg 309 Nov 17 10:34 doc/bugs/typo_in_skeleton.pm:_sessionncgi.mdwn

Linux guest$ ls -alF doc/bugs
...
-????????? ? ? ? ? ? typo_in_skeleton.pm:_sessionncgi.mdwn
...

Linux guest$ ls -alF doc/bugs/typo_in_skeleton.pm\:_sessionncgi.mdwn
ls: cannot access doc/bugs/typo_in_skeleton.pm:_sessionncgi.mdwn: No such file or directory

Can anyone verify this, and perhaps suggest a cure?

cheers
peter

Can someone please walk me through setting up a virtual machine after eliminating boot camp partition? Have copied the entire Bootcamp partition to on an external HD.

MikeBA — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:20:19 GMT

Based on how well XP runs using Fusion 3.0 with no BootCamp partition on my MacBook Pro, I want to phase out of running her the BootCamp partition XP on my wife's MacBook. I have made an up-to-date copy of her entire BootCamp partition on an external hard disk, including XP, all applications and data files. I am told I can remove the BootCamp partition from her macbook using BootCamp Assistant. What is not clear to me from looking at Fusion help and user guide is how I can get Fusion to create a VM on her macbook by importing what is out on the external HD. It is not clear if it the same as importing a PC. Would appreciate step by step guidance.

Copied VM has shared network folder flaw...

madcity12345 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:16:14 GMT

I made a copy of VM #1 and saved it in the same folder on my Mac as VM #2. VM #2 is not recognizing my shared folder with OSX although Windows is working fine otherwise. The error message is below and VM #1 is working fine. Thoughts?

Restarting WinXP...

FoxGrey — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:41:25 GMT

Hi,

Whenever I attempt to restart WinXP in Fusion 3 ( and as I recall Fusion 2) from within XP, the reboot fails
and I have to restart the VM from the Virtual Machine Menu.

When I restart after a "Patch Tuesday" request for a reboot, the system shuts down and generally I get
the small black window and "nothing happens...".

When I chose restart from the Windows Startup Button the system shuts down and sometimes I get a
Startup screen that sloooowly appears very faint and gradually brightens up but the marching dots
never appear. Again I need to restart the machine from the virtual machine menu.

Am I the only one who has this problem? Is there a fix?

I am running the latest Snow Leopard ( 10.6.2) on a 4GB mac book pro.

Jerry

Snapshot limits and where do I see any replies to questions?

HappyHerbalist — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:34:38 GMT

I havd had the same problem about 40 other people have with limit of open snaphots and the non functioninh roll back. I've posted my question which I couldn't find the answer for online (nor did the other 40 I reckon). So now I'm thinking is what good is a discussion when no one answers

connecting USB devices

tassiecelt — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:29:16 GMT

Since upgrading to the new version of VMware my USB devices that I have permanently connected no longer automatically connect when rebooting. It is now necessary to manually connect the devices, does anybody know why this is?

Importing Parallels 5.0 WinXP VM into Fusion 3 freezes in middle

pkaisn — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:53:47 GMT

I have a Parallels 5.0 VM with Win XP on it. I tried importing it into Fusion 3, but it gives me an error and stops in the middle. Thus I can not run it with Fusion. Any suggestions? I've tried multiple times. It's not a problem with my Fusion 3 - Ubunto works fine.

MacBook Pro 3.06ghz/8gb Ram, OS X 10.6.2

I thought Fusion 3 supported 3D gaming?

loft6 — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:30:24 GMT

I've installed Dreamfall: The Longest Journey on Fusion 3.0 running Windows XP SP2. The installation goes fine, but when I launch the game I get the error: "OS doesn't meet minimal requirements" to run the game.

The games minimum requirements are XP, 1.6GHz, 256RAM, DirectX9.0, 3D 64MB video card.

I'm running Fusion on a Unibody MacBook Pro 2.4Ghz with 2GB RAM.

I don't get it? Dreamfall is a three year old game. Why can't it run in Fusion?

From your website:

http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/features.html

"Windows Powerhouse

Optimized to offer the best Windows performance without impacting the power of your Mac, VMware Fusion delivers best-in class graphics support for Windows and advanced 3D graphics for avid gamers. With a highly optimized 64-bit engine, advanced memory, and CPU management technology, VMware Fusion turns your Mac into a Windows powerhouse and lets you run the most demanding Mac and Windows applications side-by-side at maximum speeds. Play Full HD videos and run your favorite 3D Windows games better than ever with best in class OpenGL 2.1 and DirectX 9.0c Shader Model 3 graphics support—all without rebooting."

Force 96 dpi in an openbox Linux vm

VirtualMachineandGuestOS — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:38:34 GMT

I have a huge menu font problem in a Linux virtual machine that uses openbox as a window manager; the distro is called #!CrunchBang Linux and it is based on Ubuntu 9.04. The menu fonts are fine until you expand the vm window, and then they get huge in all applications. I know what the solution is - to force 96 dpi in a display setting, but this distro doesn't have the option in a display setting as do other distros running gnome or kde. I assume that the config file I need to fix is one created by vmware tools, but I don't know what the name of the file would be, where it would reside or how I would specific the setting in that file. Can anyone help me on this?

Mac user with Linux tendencies

Fusion 3 freezes when loading games, forces hard reboot

chort — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:59:40 GMT

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

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

My Hard Drive Died got a new one HD and VMWare cannot connect to VM

zeee — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:46:58 GMT

I have my VM backed up on a backup HD I dropped and dragged the file over from the Backup HD to the Mac and I cannot access the VM. What am I doing wrong?

Here is the error message:

"VMWare cannot connect to VM make sure you have rights to run the program etc...."

Not sure what to do to get it running.

I using a macbook unibody 2.4 w/4gigs of ram running OSX 10.5.5

The VM is XP Pro

PLEASE help.

THANKS!!

Focus won't switch to application when launched

a18ion — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:06:04 GMT

I just upgraded to Fusion 3.0 and a feature seems to have disappeared. I use Spaces on my Mac and VMware occupies a particular space (in Full Screen mode). With Fusion 2.x, if you clicked on a guest application in the dock (e.g. MS Word) from any space, then you were automatically switched to the space running VMware and were focused on the newly launched app.

In Fusion 3.0, the application does launch in it's assigned space, but you don't move to it automatically; you stay where you are and have to move to the right space manually. This is unlike native Mac applications (where you automatically move to whichever space you've assigned the app), nor like it was in Fusion 2.x which functioned more Mac-like.

Why has this feature disappeared? Is there a fix for this?

VMWare 3 / Windows 7 Ultimate: file sharing with network PC's not working?

dagobert39duck — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:21:44 GMT

I have installed VMware 3 on my iMac (Snow Leopard, 2.5 GB RAM) and am running Windows 7 as a guest system. For the network adaptor I am using NAT. There are one eMac and a Windows XP PC attached to the iMac via cable network. Moreover, an apple notebook communicates to the iMac via WLAN. The apple notebook runs on both Snow Leopard and (via boot camp) Windows XP.

Now, the iMac can communicate with the guest Windows 7 without problem via the shared folder as one would expect. However, file sharing between the guest Windows 7 and eMac, Windows XP PC and notebook respectively, does not work. File sharing between the iMac and the latter three is possible.

Any hint about what might be the cause for this?

Grateful for a reply.

Fusion 3.0, Bootcamp and Office 2007 Activiation Issue

MookieSJ — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:40:56 GMT

I'm wondering if anyone has seen or is still seeing this issue:

Issue Summary: Installed Bootcamp with release versions of Win7/64 and Office 2007 on a MacBook Pro. Installations and activations go great. Bootcamp is running perfectly. Load up Mac OS 10.6.1, install Fusion 3.0.0, launch the Fusion Bootcamp VM, install VMWare Tools. When I go to launch Office 2007 through Fusion it tells me that I need to Activate the product in order to use it. I go back to native Bootcamp and all is well in the world.

Solution Attempts:

Found an older FAQ on this exact issue that says you need to upgrade to Fusion 2.0 or later... so that's a bust.
Found another FAQ/Post/Something that says to make sure that the VMWare tools are installed... tried uninstalling, reinstalling, uninstalling, etc.. nothing.
Tried removing the bootcamp partition from the VM library and creating it over again... zippo.
Started to get a bit frustrated and was thinking OK, I'll just burn an additional Office activation for the Fustion VM. Tried the auto activate and it tells me I'm out of activations. Check the activate by phone option but it doesn't launch the phone activation page with the phone number to call. I know I can find the phone number somewhere and get another activation, but that's beside the point now. I'm just frustrated with a product that isn't working.
Tried updating to Mac OS 10.6.2 just in case but that was a no go as well.

Am I the only one still seeing this issue? Have a suggestion for something I haven't tried yet? Anything would be helpful... I have very little hair left. =)

Jeppesen Skybound doesn't work in Fusion 3.

zerb — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:36:11 GMT

For those who use the Jeppesen USB Skybound data writer, it (unfortunately) does not work in Fusion 3. Jeppesen tech support was unhelpful. I was able to work around the problem using Bootcamp on a different Mac, which works fine, but those of you w/o that option might want to stick with the old Fusion.

Deleted VDMK Descriptor File

Ferdrenalin — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:46:04 GMT

I am using VMware Fusion 2.0.4 on a MacPro running OS 10.5.7

In working with one of my virtual machine files I apparently deleted the .vdmk "descriptor file." I say apparently because I have no idea how that happened. The whole virtual drive file was moved (i.e. the one that includes all the snapshots and vmdk, vmx, vmxf, etc files that are visible when "show package contents" is selected ) but it wasn't deleted. However, when I went back to restart the virtual machine there was a dialogue box that said "File not found: xxxxx.vmdk This file is required to power on this virtual machine. If this file was moved, please provide its new location." I put the composite (main) file back where it was but that didn't change the result.

After looking, I determined that in fact there was no .vmdk file by the name indicated in the composite virtual machine file. Subsequent reading on the forums indicates the missing vmdk file is the small one that I think is called the "descriptor file". At any rate, by comparing it to other virtual machine files I have that are still operable operable, it appears to be the file that contains information such as: CID, parentCID, Extent description, ddb.uuid, ddb.geometry.cylinders, etc.

All of the other files which make up the virtual machine appear to be intact. The virtual machine shows as suspended in the virtual machine library. Is there a way to recover from this (yes a back up would have been smart, but...)?

Thanks.

getting "windows cannot access the specified device..." when trying to run a *.exe I downloaded

callagga — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:04:59 GMT

Hi,

I'm getting "windows cannot access the specified device..." when trying to run a *.exe I downloaded. That is when I download an instal package from the net, or even download it on Mac then transfer it across to C: on the guest.

Fully message = "windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item."

Any ideas?

I'm on latest version of Mac & Fusion.

thanks

Problem with VMR7 in Fusion 3 that was fine with Fusion 2

bret3d — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:04:10 GMT

Using the lastest release of VideoRedo (http://www.videoredo.net), a video editing software, the Preview screen is not rendered correctly after I upgraded from Fusion 2 to Fusion 3. I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate. It's in black and white and divided into threes. Attached is a screen shot. VideoRedo is set to use VMR7.

Video Driver: VMWare SVGA 3D (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM)

Driver Provider: VMware, Inc.
Driver Date: 9/17/2009
Driver Version: 7.14.1.31
Digital Signer: Microsoft Windows Hardware Compatibility Publisher

Thanks for looking into this.

-Bret

What's the best way to split apps and data between 2 drives on Macbook Pro?

jerryz — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:01:57 GMT

I have a recent Macbook Pro and have installed a second internal drive. They are both 500GB but one is 7200RPM and the other is the 5400RPM. I am running OSX and Fusion 3 with Windows XP. I'm looking for suggestions on how to best configure data and apps across both drives for the best performance - particularly under Windows. I spend the bulk of my time in XP for business (MS Office apps) and just mail, browsing and music on the OSX side (for now.) I do have MS Office 2008 for Mac as well as iWork that I haven't used much. I do like to keep my business and personal info separate, so that's why I am using Fusion. I am open to other suggestions.

One of the things that is driving this is that I've been having a problem with getting several seconds of delay while typing in PowerPoint and Word, and haven't been able to determine exactly where the issue is. I have run the Activity Monitor during some of the "delay" times, and what I see is "vmware-vm" taking a huge amount of CPU cycles - well over 100%. Recently it hit 135%.

So maybe I have 2 issues - 1) delays and 2) the best way to split apps and data between the drives.

Up to now, I have been using the second drive as a backup using SuperDuper, but I do have alternatives for backups.

Thanks.

-Jerry

Accidently Deleted VMDK files

jsvette56 — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:12:18 GMT

I accidently deleted a number of VMDK files and now VMWARE won't boot and says it is looking for Window-s021.vmdk file. I have a Time Capsule backup but cannot seem to find where these files are located so I can recover them. I recovered the entire VMWare library directory but still it doesnt boot. Any ideas on where these file might be?

Fusion 3.0 - how could I bind a physical NIC to a VM ?

Giri73 — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:35:52 GMT

Hello Community

I know that this question was asked and answered already several times, but after digging for tips and tricks (like http://communities.vmware.com/thread/97712) - it seems to me that things may changed with Fusion 3.0...

I was not able to follow the instructions with Fusion 3.0 to bind a physical NIC to a VM - who could help me with valid tips for Fusion 3.0 ?

Goal:

My Mac has 3 physical NIC's (1x onboard, 2x USB Ethernet cards)
The onboard card E1 should be used for management purposes
card E2 should be bind to VM1 in bridge mode
card E3 should be bind to VM2 in bridge mode

Any tips ?

Many thanks
Daniel

No Acceleration for Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare, Fusion 3, Windows XP Pro SP3, DirectX 9C

monoclast — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:33:25 GMT

I have:

Mac Pro (Dual Intel Xeon 2.8 GHz, 6 GB RAM)
VMware Fusion Version 3.0.0 (204229)
Windows XP Professional SP3
Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare (Game of the Year Edition) Version 1.6

The game starts without error, but as soon as I join a multiplayer game, everything is dog slow. I get around 2 frames per second. Obviously, 3D acceleration is not active. What can I do?

Fusion 3, Windows 7 x64, and mouse drag speed

cbonsall — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:14:47 GMT

I'm running Fusion 3 on a MacBook Pro, early 2008, snow leopard, with 4GB RAM. I have 2GB assigned to a VM with Windows 7. I spent quite a few hours doing a clean install of Win 7 and getting everything working satisfactorily (the Internet connection was a particular headache). There's one problem, however, I haven't been able to resolve ...

There's an excellent DTP application, Ovation Pro for Windows, which I recommend to anyone looking for a low-cost alternative to Quark Express/Pagemaker/InDesign. When the mouse is dragged across the Windows 7 desktop, as soon as the pointer reaches an OvationPro document window it changes to the I-shaped text caret (as expected) but the drag speed also SLOWS dramatically (i.e. within the document window drag speed is very sluggish, compared to elsewhere on the desktop). This does not appear to happen with any other application I use (e.g. MSWORD, Acrobat, IE8). I've found two circumstances in which it doesn't happen -- 1) it does not happen in UNITY view (only <single window> and <full screen> views); 2) it doesn't seem to happen (or is much less obvious) if (in Control Panel>All Control Panel Items >Mouse>Pointer options) <Enhance pointer precision> is switched OFF.

Is this a Fusion 3, Windows 7, or Ovation Pro problem? I should add that OvationPro works fine in XP (with Fusion 2) and I know someone who uses a standalone Windows 7 PC who doesn't experience the mouse drag problem with OvationPro.

If anyone feels like investigating the problem, then a fully-functional demo version of OvationPro can be downloaded from: http://www.davidpilling.info/cd/main.html (double-click the first link on the page)

This is a perfectly safe download, and occupies less than 1.5 MB of disk space.

Syncing between Calendar/Address Book and Outlook

AlastairMumford — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:30:28 GMT

I need to use Outlook for a client and wondered if its possibly to sync my outlook calander/address book with my Mac calendar/address book through VM Fusion?

Cheers

Alastair Mumford

Fedora 11 / Modeline Help

Danuary — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:02:52 GMT

Hi,

I've got VMware Fusion 3 on a 13" MBP. My primary need is to run a Fedora 11 VM, which I run fullscreen.

The system is configured for graphical bootloader support at the MBP's 1280x800 resolution ( vga=0x36a), but when gdm starts, the system drops to 800x600 until I log in, when vmware-user again kicks it up to 1280x800. The switch in X messes up GNOME toolbar layout and background display, and is just generally annoying.

I've tried a variety of modelines in xorg.conf to correct this. I always seem to get something to the effect of:

(II) VMWARE(0): Not using mode "c1280x800" (hsync out of range)

in the logs. My current modeline attempt looks like this:

Modeline "c1280x800" 83.46 1280 1344 1480 1680 800 801 804 828

Does anyone either have a Modeline that works for 1280x800, or sync/refresh ranges I can use for the Monitor section that would make this Modeline work?

Thanks for the help!

vsock and vmxnet3 cannot be installed during installing vmware-tools after upgrade to VMware Fussion 3

BoyceMACme — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:48:23 GMT

After upgrading to VMware Fussion 3 from version 2, I started to install the new vmware-tools on my old FC4 Linux Virtual Machine.

During the installation, I pay attention that vsock and vmxnet3 cannot be installed. Would you mind introduce me what application will need vsock and vmxnet3?

In my application, I have to implement multiple vmxnet and map it to my multiple network interface on Mac. During VMware 2, I have worked successfully for such config. Not sure whether without properly installing vsock vmxnet3 would affect my existing application or not.

During VMware 3 vmware-tool installation, vsock and vmxnet portion has below error:

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vsock-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. \
MODULEBUILDDIR= modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-i686'
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vsock-only/linux/af_vsock.o
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vsock-only/linux/af_vsock.c:303: error: unknown field ‘slab_obj_size’ specified in initializer
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vsock-only/linux/af_vsock.c:303: warning: missing braces around initializer
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vsock-only/linux/af_vsock.c:303: warning: (near initialization for ‘vsockVmciProto.name’)
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vsock-only/linux/af_vsock.c:303: warning: overflow in implicit constant conversion
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vsock-only/linux/af_vsock.c: In function ‘__VSockVmciCreate’:
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vsock-only/linux/af_vsock.c:2431: error: ‘struct proto’ has no member named ‘slab_obj_size’
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vsock-only/linux/af_vsock.c:2431: warning: passing argument 4 of ‘sk_alloc’ makes integer from pointer without a cast
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vsock-only/linux/af_vsock.c: In function ‘VSockVmciRegisterProto’:
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vsock-only/linux/af_vsock.c:2724: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘sk_alloc_slab’
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vsock-only/linux/af_vsock.c:2726: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘sk_alloc_slab_error’
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vsock-only/linux/af_vsock.c: In function ‘VSockVmciUnregisterProto’:
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vsock-only/linux/af_vsock.c:2761: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘sk_free_slab’
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vsock-only/linux/af_vsock.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** ~~_module_/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vsock-only~~ Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-i686'
make: *** http://vsock.ko Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vsock-only'

The VM communication interface socket family is used in conjunction with the VM
communication interface to provide a new communication path among guests and
host. The rest of this software provided by VMware Tools is designed to work
independently of this feature. If you wish to have the VSOCK feature you can
install the driver by running vmware-config-tools.pl again after making sure
that gcc, binutils, make and the kernel sources for your running kernel are
installed on your machine. These packages are available on your distribution's
installation CD.
http:// Press the Enter key to continue.

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmxnet3-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. \
MODULEBUILDDIR= modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-i686'
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmxnet3-only/vmxnet3.o
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmxnet3-only/vmxnet3.c: In function ‘vmxnet3_check_link’:
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmxnet3-only/vmxnet3.c:141: sorry, unimplemented: inlining failed in call to ‘vmxnet3_tq_start’: function body not available
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmxnet3-only/vmxnet3.c:281: sorry, unimplemented: called from here
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmxnet3-only/vmxnet3.c:143: sorry, unimplemented: inlining failed in call to ‘vmxnet3_tq_stop’: function body not available
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmxnet3-only/vmxnet3.c:287: sorry, unimplemented: called from here
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmxnet3-only/vmxnet3.c: In function ‘vmxnet3_suspend’:
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmxnet3-only/vmxnet3.c:4463: warning: ignoring return value of ‘pci_enable_wake’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmxnet3-only/vmxnet3.c:4465: warning: ignoring return value of ‘pci_set_power_state’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmxnet3-only/vmxnet3.c: In function ‘vmxnet3_resume’:
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmxnet3-only/vmxnet3.c:4509: warning: ignoring return value of ‘pci_set_power_state’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmxnet3-only/vmxnet3.c:4516: warning: ignoring return value of ‘pci_enable_wake’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmxnet3-only/vmxnet3.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** ~~_module_/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmxnet3-only~~ Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-i686'
make: *** http://vmxnet3.ko Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmxnet3-only'

The driver for the VMXNET 3 virtual network card is used only for our advanced
networking interface. The rest of the software provided by VMware Tools is
designed to work independently of this feature.
If you wish to have the advanced network driver enabled, you can install the
driver by running vmware-config-tools.pl again after making sure that gcc,
binutils, make and the kernel sources for your running kernel are installed on
your machine. These packages are available on your distribution's installation
CD.
Press Enter key to continue

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-root/modules/pvscsi-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. \
MODULEBUILDDIR= modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-i686'
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-root/modules/pvscsi-only/pvscsi.o
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/pvscsi-only/pvscsi.c: In function ‘pvscsi_probe’:
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/pvscsi-only/pvscsi.c:237: sorry, unimplemented: inlining failed in call to ‘pvscsi_write_intr_mask’: function body not available
/tmp/vmware-root/modules/pvscsi-only/pvscsi.c:590: sorry, unimplemented: called from here
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-root/modules/pvscsi-only/pvscsi.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** ~~_module_/tmp/vmware-root/modules/pvscsi-only~~ Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-i686'
make: *** http://pvscsi.ko Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-root/modules/pvscsi-only'

Unable to compile the pvscsi module. If you wish to have the pvscsi feature,
you can install the driver by running vmware-config-tools.pl again after making
sure that gcc, binutils, make and the kernel sources for your running kernel
are installed on your machine. These packages are available on your
distribution's installation CD.
Press Enter key to continue

By checking my FC4 linus package, it looks like I should have all required components:

~~root@localhost ~~~# rpm -qa | grep binutil
binutils-2.15.94.0.2.2-2
~~root@localhost ~~~# rpm -qa | grep kernel
kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4
kernel-devel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4
~~root@localhost ~~~# rpm -qa | grep gcc
libgcc-4.0.0-8
gcc-4.0.0-8
gcc-gfortran-4.0.0-8
gcc-c++-4.0.0-8
~~root@localhost ~~~# rpm -qa | grep make
automake-1.9.5-1
automake14-1.4p6-12
automake17-1.7.9-6
automake15-1.5-13
make-3.80-7
automake16-1.6.3-5

Please help direct me what else I have to install before installing vmware-tools so as to successful install vsock and vmxnet3.

"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?

Migration Assistant and size requirements

vdanen — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:09:32 GMT

I've just upgraded my PC to Win7 and wanted to use the migration assistant to get it into fusion v3. I've connected and it's ready to make the virtual disk... the problem is that it wants 1TB of space! I get that I have a 1TB disk on the PC, split into 2 500GB partitions, but the first partition is using 70GB and the second is using 20GB. I can see vmware wanting 100GB of space, or even 200GB.. but 1TB? My macpro has 4 drives, but they all have stuff on them... they're all 1TB, but I can't dedicate an entire drive to Win7.

Is there a way to work around this or reduce the size needed for the vm?

Magic Mouse

Ted Stam — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:06:09 GMT

My Magic Mouse works in VM Fusion 3 Win 7 Bootcamp partition VM, but finger swipes only work for vertical cursor and not horizontal. Anyone get this working? If so, how?

Thank you

"Cannot load the hive..." conundrum

fhturner — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:48:00 GMT

Well...this is FUN! Have a client running Fusion and having trouble w/ its Windows XP VM bluescreening w/ the 218 "Cannot load the hive..." error. I'm able to boot from a Windows installer CD, but it will not recognize any disks, so I cannot replace the corrupted registry file. My guess is this is due to the VM disk being Bus Type "SCSI", and the CD only knows IDE. Aside from trying to install another entire VM to open the existing VM disk image and manipulate those files, I'm a bit at a loss as to how to continue. Will I have to resort to this (will it even work?), or can anyone think of a way to work around? I should add that, contributing to the excitement is the fact that this client is a few hours away and I'm doing this all remotely...woo hoo.

Thanks for any help!

Fred

Fusion 3.0: Acrobat 8 and Word 2003 crash when opening files on shared folders

fellowweb — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:01:05 GMT

Hi everyone,

I have recently upgraded from Fusion 2.0.5 to 3.0.0 on OS X 10.6.2. Snow Leopard. I still run my Windows XP SP3 virtual machine as I used to. However, now Acrobat 8 and Word 2003 started crashing frequently when opening documents on shared folders.

Each program opens and instantly closes again as soon as one tries to open such a document.

To add some further confusion, Word and Acrobat can open the exactly same files when I launch them via Finder's Open with dialog out of OS X.

First, I thought that this issue might be due to long folder/file names. However, having tested with folder/file names of different lengths it does not seem to only depend on this as Word and Acrobat also crash on pretty short folder/file names.

I could not find any similar problems in this forum. Does anyone have an idea?

Win 7 Logon Icons Missing except mine.

Ted Stam — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:33:56 GMT

I have 4 users on my Windows 7 Bootcamp installation. Fusion 3 made all my Win 7 user icons go away from the logon screen except mine. This is terribly annoying. To switch users, I have to click on Switch Users and enter the username and password. This user will then stay as the only active icon on the logon screen. All others are gone. How does one fix this? I've tried every control panel and regsitry tweak I could find, including secpol.msc, gpedit.msc, userpasswords2, etc.

This persists when running the bootcamp partition natively outside of Fusion 3. I just want my logon screen back with all the user icons. Can anyone help?

Open a jpg from XP Explorer in Mac Photoshop

garry4 — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:02:23 GMT

I have a shared folder with jpgs. From Windows Explorer can I click on a jpg and have it open in Photoshop for the Mac?

Using XP and Fusion 3.0

disc space

FDR — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:06:19 GMT

I'm running xp pro as my virtual pc. It is a file about 96 GB. How can I make this file smaller, or how can I make the allowable space on my Apple hard drive permit a larger file?

nat config in Fusion 3

mike.t — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:40:52 GMT

Hi all - I have been running a linux web server using VMWare Fusion 2. I just upgraded to Fusion 3 and now my web server is not visible outside of the mac. I have the vm configured with a NAT network adapter using ip address 172.16.156.10. In the file:
/Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion/vmnet8/nat.conf
I previously had the line
80 = 172.16.156.10:80
which mapped the web server to the external port. Now when I edit nat.conf it gets overwritten by Fusion - probably when it starts. So, how can I edit Fusion's nat configuration?
Thanks

XP VM can't find hard disk......

adamhodgkins — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:50:58 GMT

Hi,

I've had a Windows XP Pro VM running for ages, and yesterday it threw a wobbler about system files. The only way that I stand a chance of fixing this is to run a repair from an XP disk.....

The machine will boot from CD fine, but when I come to press 'r' for recovery or if I try and continue it says it cant find the hard disk....

I've mounted the VMDK and I can browse it fine, it's just that Fusion it can't be seen......

Anyone come across this or know how I can get the hard disk to be visible agin?

Cheers

Adam

VS 2010 B2 running slow

vmWareAAA — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:45:33 GMT

I have an XP Pro VM. I recently installed VS 2010 B2 on it. It is WPF based. It runs a bit slow and "choppy" in the VM. How can I optimize it?

XP VM never automatically "powers off"

codethought — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:09:05 GMT

I had a problem with VMware 2 where my VM ended up hanging after some intense net traffic via Office Communicator. After that, my VM has never "powered off" automatically when I shut down. It just goes to the screen that says "It is now safe to turn off your system" or whatever it says...

Any idea how I can fix this? And PLEASE don't say "recreate your VM". That involved IT tech tickets and pain... lots of pain...

Performance best practices

CuriosCat — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:02:31 GMT

Just curious what everyone's experience and insights are regarding best practices when setting up a new VM. For example:

Do you use a fixed-size disk?

Do you permit VMware to split the virtual disk into 2GB segments (it does this by default, and I would imagine juggling multiple fragments like this hurts performance)

Does 32-bit vs 64-bit make a difference? The Mac OS X kernel generally runs in 32-bit, even in Snow Leopard, possibly meaning a performance penalty for 64-bit guests?

How do you configure VMware for prioritization between host and guest OS?

I'm not having any big problems (certainly nothing like the minute-long beachball waits noted in some threads), but eking out a bit more performance still wouldn't hurt.

I should also note that my guest OSes are primarily Fedora 11, Windows Vista and Windows 7. I do not have an XP virtual machine; many of the posters experiencing severe slowdowns seemed to be using XP.

Fusion 3, XP Pro new-install questions

davidb2 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:28:51 GMT

I just did a fresh install of XP Pro SP3 with Fusion 3.0 (OS X 10.5.8, MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2.33 GHz, 3 GB RAM, 512 KB given to Fusion).

Previously I had been running XP Pro SP3 imaged from Parallels with Fusion 2.0.6 in the same setup. The VM was contained in five .vmdk files in my User folder totaling about 7.5 GB and there was a separate .vmwarevm file in ~/Documents of about 650 MB.

Two questions:

1) When I installed the VM, I thought I specified to split the files, but all I see is one .vmwarevm file of about 7 GB. Is that the way it is supposed to be?

2) I used Easy Install, but then clicked Customize to change the disk size from 40 GB to 12 GB. (I have minimal space needs.) Does that cancel the supposed performance boost I might otherwise receive? In any event, I am not noticing any. Maybe I should have stuck with 40 GB?

Thank you,

David

Crash, 2.0.6, VM is XP Pro SP3, NOT_IMPLEMENTED bora/devices/mainmem/mainMemHosted.c:2237

sminar — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:50:12 GMT

Hi All,

I'm new to the group but a long time Fusion user. I've been fairly trouble-free until recently.

I converted my primary Windows physical machine to a Fusion VM about 3 weeks ago, intending to make my Mac my only HW platform. Mixed results for numerous reasons.

The converted VM came from a P4 development machine running XP SP3, Office 2007, Visual Studio 2008 and numerous dev tools. First attempt at a conversion failed. 2nd worked, but I had trouble due to host SW problems. Short story, Digidesign Pro Tools LE SW on the Mac is problematic with Leopard or Snow Leopard.

Despite the issues, I have been running the VM successfully as long as Pro Tools is not on the host. However, I encountered my first VMware Fusion unrecoverable error. It happened when I attempted to start the VM after a Mac OS restart. The message text was:

VMware Fusion unrecoverable error: (vcpu-0)

NOT_IMPLEMENTED bora/devices/mainmem/mainMemHosted.c:2237
A log file is available in "/Users/sminar/Documents/Virtual Machines.localized/JetA.vmwarevm/vmware.log". Please request support and include the contents of the log file.
To collect data to submit to VMware support, choose "Collect Support Information" from the Help menu.
You can also run "/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/vm-support.tool" directly.
We will respond on the basis of your support entitlement.

I've attached the Collected Support Info.

Any ideas about how to proceed would be greatly appreciated.

Missing headers for FreeBSD vmblock driver

joemarcus — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:09:06 GMT

I'm trying to compile the vmblock module for FreeBSD 8.0. The distribution is missing two important headers:

compat_mount.h

compat_priv.h

Where can I find these two headers? I am running VMWare Fusion 3.0.0 (204229). Thanks.

How to move a Boot Camp partition to a native VMware virtual machine?

msprice — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:33:09 GMT

After searching the DB for an answer and failing to find one, I decided to post this. I have VMWare 2.0.6 running Windows from a Boot Camp partition. I set this up initially because I thought I may need to run Windows natively for various reasons, but this has turned out not to be the case. I am considering moving my Windows installation to a true virtual machine, but I don't know how to do that in a way that preserves my software installations on Windows. Can I use the VMWare converter to create a VM from the Boot Camp partition in a manner similar to if Windows was running on a physically separate machine? Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

Mike

Unable to share virtual machines between user accounts

mmcva — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:17:44 GMT

I have so far been unable to share a virtual machine between user accounts on the same computer; here's what I've done:
-moved the virtual machine to macintosh hd>users>shared
-confirmed that permissions were set to read & write for everyone, as well as for individual users
-control/right click on the machine to confirm that permissions were also set to read & write (I have to admit that I quickly got fed up with logging in to every single file in order to change these, so many have permissions set to 'everyone>read&write' rather than to individual users; also, many of the applications are also set up so that only the owner of the computer haf full privileges - does that matter?)

Despite doing this, none of the other users can access the machine and are greeted with an error message when attempting to do so ("the document windows xp professional could not be opened") - any idea how this can be fixed?