Pat, if you have more than 1 VM's do you need to upgrade each one individually or does 1 upgrade cover them all?

Obviously you didn't read the Known Issues section of the Fusion 2.0 Release Notes!

• The McAfee anti-virus ISO remains mounted.
  If you start the installation of McAfee VirusScan Plus, the McAfee ISO remains mounted, which can lead to two problems.
  • If you cancel the installation and later try to install the bundled anti-virus again, either by clicking Install when the anti-virus prompt appears, or by selecting Virtual Machine > Install McAfee VirusScan Plus,
    nothing will happen. These commands actually mount the ISO, but leave
    the launching of the anti-virus installer to the autorun. Because the
    ISO is already mounted, the autorun is not triggered. To work around
    this, eject the mounted anti-virus ISO image by selecting Virtual Machine > CD/DVD > Disconnect CD/DVD. Then select Virtual Machine > Install McAfee VirusScan Plus to start the McAfee VirusScan Plus installer again.
  • Because the anti-virus ISO image is occupying the virtual CD/DVD
    drive, if you insert a CD/DVD on your Mac the CD/DVD will not be
    mounted in the virtual machine, even if you have set the CD/DVD drive
    to be attached to the virtual machine. To work around this, go to Virtual Machine > CD/DVD > Use Physical Drive to force mount the disc.

Somehow this seems to fixed itself, subsequent restarts did not bring up the installer again.

You can Upgrade however FWIW I never use Upgrade when going from Beta's Versions to Release Versions. I always completely uninstall including a manual clean up of anything that was left by the uninstaller and then reboot my system and fresh install and reboot after before running and Virtual Machines. Not saying you have to do it that way, it's just how I do it.

It is not so much VMware Fusion that is taking up the space as it is the Virtual Machine that you are running with Fusion. The easiest solution is to copy the Virtual Machine to an external disk and just run it from there. Once you successfully copy the VM to another drive you can delete it from the internal drive of your MBP.

If moving to an external drive is not an option, you might consider compressing the VM when not in use, but this does mean it will take some extra time to uncompress each time you want to use it.

Fusion supports sparsely populated drives that only take up as much space on the Mac as they actually need in the guest. Sometimes you can reclaim space within these VMs by running defrag within the guest and then running the VMware Tools Shrink Disk. If those steps do not result in reclaimed disk space, and If you don't have access to an external drive, or don't want to pursue getting one, then you need to figure out what you want to delete.

In my opinion, it is worthwhile running all my virtual machines from an external disk. The amount of disk space available in a notebook is always going to be tight compared to a desktop, and it is easier to deal with the VMs when they are not on the boot disk.

First you have to locate the Virtual Machine in Finder. With Fusion 2.0, you can do this using the Virtual Machine Library. With Fusion as the active application on your mac but the virtual machine not running (either suspended or shut down), in the Window menu select the Virtual Machine Library item. It may take some time for this window to refresh when it opens (can't do anything while the ball is spinning). Next Right click, if you have a multi-button mouse attached, or ctrl+click if you are using the trackpad or an Apple mouse then select the Show in Finder command. The icon that is highlighted in the newly opened finder window will be a vmware virtual machine package if you created the virtual machine with fusion, or it may be a file within a folder if you created it with a vmware converter. NOTE: From your posts so far I am assuming you have not used Apple's bootcamp to create your windows machine on your mac, that is a totally different discussion than this and don't try this on a bootcamp partition.

Assuming you have created this virtual machine with fusion, you simply drag the .vmwarevm package to a suitable location on your external drive (I would create a folder called VMs, or Virtual-Machines or something so you can exclude it from TM backups easily). Depending on the size of your VM this copy could take some time (I see about 1 Gig per minute copying disk to disk so set expectations accordingly). Once the copy is complete, double click on the icon that is now on the external drive. You will be prompted as to whether you copied the VM, or moved it. In your case you want to indicate that you have moved it. Once the VM is up and running, and you are satisfied that everything is OK with it then it is OK to delete the original VM from its' original location. In general I would come up with some backup plan for your VM. I shut mine down at least once a week and copy them to another drive for backup.

If you created your vm with a converter and when you did Show in finder it was highlighting a .vmx file with the same name as your VM, inside a folder with a similar name then you just want to copy that whole folder, and when testing the new copy you double click on the .vmx file. (This is probably not your situation, but trying to cover all bases).

In either case, once you have launched the newly copied VM the first time it will show up in the Virtual Machine Library, or in the Open Recent list of Fusion's File menu. Once you have deleted the old copy from your external drive that entry should become unavailable or go away.

This movement of the VM should not affect your licensing at all, but it is key that you respond that you have moved the VM when prompted by Fusion when first opening the copied VM. I have 2 VMs that I sometimes move between external drives and run them on a Windows host, and as long as I indicate that I have moved them (which is what I have done) Microsoft licensing does not come into the picture.

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You probably also want to take a look at this document, it gives you a lot of good information about Virtual machines http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-1110

Does it really matter what he meant when you know it the one on the internal drive you need to delete since it's the internal drive that your trying to free up space on!

Just shutdown the VM and close Fusion and then copy the Virtual Machine Package to the external drive. The double-click the Virtual Machine Package on the external drive and run it to make sure it okay and when prompted say you move it (do not say you copied it) and if all is okay then delete the Virtual Machine Package on the internal drive.