Twice in this evening in the span of 15 minutes and least one before today, I've shutdown a Windows XP SP3 VM that was in fullscreen mode and my menu bar has not returned after the shutdown. I can bring up the Library and restart the VM but the menubar is MIA. Of course now when I actively try to reproduce it, I can't. It's some combination of moving between spaces and shutting down the VM that causes it. The menu is definitely not on another space and it does NOT appear when I mouse up to the top of the screen.
If anyone sees this behavior or finds my menubar, please reply.
I remember seeing a menubar issue back in mac menu bar and dock does not go away in full screen mode; if I recall correctly it was slightly different. I'm not able to look it up in the internal database at the moment, but I think we concluded it was an Apple bug.
Of course, if you can come up with specific reproduction steps, it would be helpful.
The one I was remembering is Leopard-specific, had the menulets (sound, clock, wireless, spotlight, etc.) visible but nothing else on the menu bar (including the background), is being tracked as bug 216375, and we're pretty confident it's an Apple bug.
My menu bar area was clean, no apple, menus, clock or menulets. I know the menus were not accessible but I did not try to hover over the menulets or clock. And I could not move a window into the menu bar area. Also the maximize window button would not take over the area under the menu bar. It could be an OS X bug but I would like to get the reliable reproduction steps down.
1. Start virtual machine
2. Go fullscreen
3. Mouse up to menubar, select VMware Fusion > Hide VMware Fusion
4. Click on Fusion Dock icon, virtual machine should unhide
5. Mouse over where menubar clock should be
I reproduced your bug report but this is different than the issue I'm seeing. In my case the VM acts like it's in single window mode but there's no menu bar on top and the menu bar does not appear when I mouse up to the top. My recollection is that I can't also trigger menu accelerators (key shortcuts), I have to shutdown my VM and restart Fusion to get my Fusion menu bar back. Switching to other apps shows their menu bars.
I have also lost the menus from my vmware. I find this very unfortunate and I am hoping that anyone of you could have found a work around to the problem.
Kindest Regards,
Stained
