Part of the slowness seemed to result from extreme disk activity. The harddisk just keeps on rattling. This not only slows down my VM, but every other application of my MacBook.

I really hope that VMWare will fix this issue. Meanwhile I will downgraded to my previous Fusion 2 version.

After downgrading (Version 2.0.6 (196839)) everything ran at full speed again.The difference was immense!!

The net result being:

• I spent about 40 euro
• I spent about an hour getting the serial number, even getting the serial number was slow;-(
• I spent a couple of hours going through different suggested solutions:
  • Uninstalling and installing Fusion 3 -> did not help
  • Unintstalling and installing Fusion Tools -> did not help
  • Trying different settings of virtualization instead of default automatic -> did not help

Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac8,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version: IM81.00C1.B00
SMC Version (system): 1.30f1

Hurry up with a fix or I am outta here.

I would like to add my voice to those of the people who have already responded to this issue. I have been using Fusion 2.0 for about a year on a 2.2 GHz MacBook, 4 GB RAM. It ran pretty well, including with Windows 7. I can't figure out how Fusion 3.0 is supposed to be an upgrade...it's slower, and I haven't figured out how to stop it from displaying the window for the first listed vm -- very annoying. What about the 3.0 product makes it an upgrade?

Don

I shut down all virtual machines before upgrading to Fusion 3. On boot-up, the new vmware 3.0 tools were installed. Is there some reason that the vmware tools 2.0 need to be uninstalled first? Perhaps you can make the tools installer take care of that issue.

The VMs are slower to load. Once the progress bar runs its course, the Macintosh "spinning pizza" takes over. Fusion 2.0 did not cause the pizza to appear, and the pizza seems to prevent the user from doing anything else (outside of Fusion 3).

The Fusion 3 application is more sluggish to quit (File -> Quit).

Regarding the reappearance of the window for the last VM used, this behavior appears to be new. Preventing it is not an option in the preferences or the Window menu. It's confusing. Why did you need to make this change?

Thank you,

Don

This morning on my MacBook (2.2 GHz, 4 GB, OS 10.5.8), it took 2 minutes and 5 seconds from the time I clicked the resume button, for Win XP64 to come up. For some reason I was lucky today, the spinning pizza came up for only 5 seconds. At other times, the pizza has run for 10-15 seconds (I'm guessing here, I did not time it).

I didn't ever time Fusion 2, but it definitely seems a good deal slower.

Regarding the toaster analogy, it's more like you're loading the toast for me than remembering the last toast darkness setting. I have five VMs, and I expect to see only the window that lists those VMs, so that I can choose the one that is relevant today. When I add some function that changes an inteface behavior, I usually provide a preference setting to turn it off.

I don't want to get too much off track here, but in the same vein, you changed something with keyboard mapping in Fusion 2 from earlier versions. Now I must go to the "Modifier Keys" in System Preferences, so that my PC keyboard works in Fusion 2 / Fusion 3. In Modifier Keys, I normally have the control key mapped to be the command key on the Mac side, and I must disable this each time I go between the two environments. I've tried checking and un-checking various options in Keyboard and Mouse preferences in Fusion 2, but nothing appears to work.

Do you think that I should uninstall the vmware tools?

Thank you,

Don