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bolhejl
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‎11-15-2009 12:21 PM

XP desktop unresponsive until vmwareuser.exe is killed

Lately xp professional has been increesingly unresponsive as a guest system and very slow to start up (5-10 minutes). I cannot select an icon nor double click it. Thus I cannot opens any files, but I can open apps from the task bar. According to the task manager, vmwareuser.exe uses 0% of the ressources. However, when I kill vmwareuser.exe, the system becomes responsive again. I have reinstalled vmware tools and the vmware application to no avail. I have no ill effects not running vmwareuser.exe, except I'm not able any more to copy and paste between systems (SL and XP), nor can I drag and drop files. Has anybody similar experiences - workarounds?

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wila
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‎11-15-2009 05:38 PM

Hi,

Welcome to the VMware community forums.

It sounds somehow that your VMware tools didn't get installed properly.

Try reinstalling, see here for notes on how to do that:

Hope this helps,



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bolhejl
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‎11-15-2009 11:55 PM

Thank you for your prompt assistance. I had already tried that exactly as stated a couple of times. However, for now the problem seems to have gone away. It is a periodic problem, however. I cross my fingers.

Related to this: I have to restart my MacBook Pro, if I intend to open Fusion again after having used it for at period. If I do not restart the mac, the Fusion is slow as molasses. I cannot see anything that explains it in the acitivity monitor nor the task manager.

MacBook Pro summer 2009, 4GB, 1024 Kb to Fusion, 2 CPUs.

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wila
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‎11-16-2009 01:43 AM 

Related to this: I have to restart my MacBook Pro, if I intend to open Fusion again after having used it for at period. If I do not restart the mac, the Fusion is slow as molasses. I cannot see anything that explains it in the acitivity monitor nor the task manager. 
There have been a number of reports that using suspend causes the virtual machine to be slow on resuming and that a clean shutdown of the guest OS prevents this. In a way that shutting down and restarting the guest OS is quicker as a suspend and resume.
MacBook Pro summer 2009, 4GB, 1024 Kb to Fusion, 2 CPUs.
From this I understand that you have given your guest 2 CPUs? It is usually better to give the guest only one CPU as your host also needs to have a CPU free for OS X. If you don't do that, then there are times when things get slow because both OS's are "fighting" for the CPU resources as a macbook Pro only has 2 CPU's available.


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I am having a similar problem.
Fusion 2.0.6 worked fine - no problems.
Upgraded to Fusion 3.0, upgraded vmware tools and now XP-SP3 destop keeps becoming unresponsive.  I've tried re-install the vmtools twice and it still does it.  If you kill vmwareuser.exe it then becomes responsive immediately again.  From the forums it looks like this is a continuing problem across most vmware workstation type products - PLEASE can you (vmware) look try and replicate and sort the problem rather than just giving us the boiler plate answer of 're-install vmware tools' because that doesn't work.
 

					
				
			
			
				
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
		

		
		
	

	
	


	
				
		
			
		
			
		
			
					
			
		
				
		
			
					
		
	
				
		
			
					
		
	
				
		
			
					
		
	
				
		
			
					
		
	
				
		
			
					
		
	
				
		
	
	


		

	

		

			

	
		
			
					
				
		
			
		
			
					
		
		
	
				
		
			
					
				
		
			
					

	
			

				
		
			
		
			
				

					
						
	
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