I think we have difficulty to reproduce the bug. One of our QA spent almost 1 day with several setups and still unable to reproduce. I said this just to let you know that we did not ignore the SR, but please understand that it is not an easy one.

I tried today with my setup, and can partially reproduce the bug. When I drag some files over IE7 in Mac screen I noticed that some area is high-lighted, which is weird, and may cause problem. But I never see VMwareUser took 100% CPU. I guess what happened here is that when you drag some files over IE7, we take it as a host->guest DnD, and will do some mouse simulation inside guest. But for some unknown reason in dual-screen mode we updated the mouse in wrong places, and VMwareUser may be confused with wrong mouse updates. So I think the workaround is that if you only do host DnD, try not to drag over any guest Unity window. Also can not confirm if you can reproduce the bug by dragging some files over any Unity Window?

We will do more investigation about mouse update in dual-screen mode and try to get a fix. Thanks for your feedback.

Have you tried the 2.0.2 that was just released? I noticed in the release notes some comments about fixing bugs related to CPU consumption. They mentioned coherence mode, transferring files between guest and host, etc. -- all of which seemed to be related to this problem for me. After I installed it I turned sharing of "My Documents" back on and so far I haven't had a problem (a week or so).

Even worse, VMWare charges for any kind of support , even via e-mail. This is their bug and they should fix it. I reported this eons ago, and they claimed they had found the problem, but it never got fixed. And they do not list my VPN issue in the "known problems" section of the release notes.

I switched back to Parallels. It is a much better deal. They give you the free Kaspersky security Suite, the Acronis disk manager and backup tools, and FREE support that is actually responsive. I can also use up to 8 CPUs.

As well, I have learned to live without Unity. I'm sticking with VMware, as my virtual infrastructure at work is all VMware based and it is easier to migrate VMs to my MacBook when necessary. Oh well.

The problem does only occur in Unity, whether shared folders are on or off.
I have also gone back to using Fusion in full screen mode and all the 100% CPU problems have gone.
I think VMWare have more than enough info on this problem and can recreate it themselves so hopefully they'll sort it soon. Using Unity with 2 screens is very useful but at the moment I can live with XP on one screen and Leopard on the other.

Where is the "VM" folder?

What is the "VMX" file?

Thanks,
Tom

The only VMWARE files I can find are the VMWARE Fusion.app file in the applications folder and the user/documents/virtual machines/Windows XP Home edition.vmwarevm.

That's it. Where else should I look?