Hello,

I've had VMWare RC crash on me (reported as SR 196847301 with crash log and whatnot).

I then restarted the VM (it seemed to have suspended the VM before crashing hard? Is that possible) and after a few minutes VMWare locked up (wouldn't respond to mouse input) and then Finder died, and eventually I had to powercycle the laptop.

Now it's up and running again.

Danny Joe and elantric,

We believe we have a fix for this "vmioplug" panic.

Here are instructions to test the fix before we wildly release it in
Fusion 1.1.

1) Install Fusion 1.1 RC 1 (build 61385) as before (i.e. I assume you
are still running Tiger).

2) Download these 2 files on your desktop
http://ftpsite.vmware.com/download/vmware-vmx
http://ftpsite.vmware.com/download/vmware-vmx-debug

3) Backup Fusion 1.1 RC 1 files and use the new files instead, by using
these commands in Terminal:

dir='/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/vmx/Contents/MacOS'
sudo mv "$dir"/vmware-vmx "$dir"/vmware-vmx.old
sudo mv "$dir"/vmware-vmx-debug "$dir"/vmware-vmx-debug.old
sudo mv ~/Desktop/vmware-vmx "$dir"
sudo mv ~/Desktop/vmware-vmx-debug "$dir"
sudo chown root:wheel "$dir"/vmware-vmx
sudo chmod 4755 "$dir"/vmware-vmx
sudo chown root:wheel "$dir"/vmware-vmx-debug
sudo chmod 4755 "$dir"/vmware-vmx-debug

4) Restart your Mac

5) Start your VM, and click in it to send keyboard/mouse input to the
VM

If your Mac is still alive at this point, our fix is effective. Please
let me know and thanks for your help with this.

The fix that you posted has resolved my issue. As soon as I upgraded fusion to the latest version my macbook pro started to panic each time I started my windows xp vm. After applying the fix everything is working fine. For the record my macbook pro was purchased in August.

Except that my MacBook Pro was purchased in July and I experienced the crashes. They can't be specific to only very "new" Santa Rosa MacBook Pros.

Hello Folks,

I upgraded my system (MacBook C2D 2GHz, 2GB, bought December 2006) to Leopard last week. When I noticed that there was also a new RC of Fusion for Leopard I upgraded that to. So far everything works as expected, but there is one thing which really annoys me.

There's a process called vmware-vmx (I suppose that is your core process for handling all virtual machines) which eats up about 100% CPU while the virtual machine (Windows XP in my case) is just idleing. And I think this is not the normal behaviour. Having 100% cpu utilisation drives the fan of the MacBook like crazy and noisy so that it's not able to work in a library. I noticed that the cpu utilisation rises to 100% only after 10 minutes. In the first 10 minutes the vm is running everything seems normal to me.

Can you help me to fix this problem?

Thanks,

Jan

Hi Martin,

thanks for your advice. I opened a new thread. Please look here for further details. I gave some more information and a screen shot:

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/110708

Cheers,

Jan