Hi,
I recently upgraded from VMware Fusion 4 to 5, and have noticed a strange issue. One of the main Windows applications I run is Eudora (the last version, before they stopped developing it). Switching to an alternate mail package would require countless hours (days? Weeks?) work, due to several hundred filters that would most likely have to be added to a new package manually. ![]()
Eudora is running on a Windows 7 VM, and on Fusion 3 and 4, all ran well, other than some weird focus issues (which actually happen on a real machine, so I'm not calling that one a Fusion bug!). However, under Fusion 5, Eudora sometimes quits, or more correctly, gets a signal to quit, as though I tried to close it. Most of the time, it is doing something in the background, so the signal causes a dialog saying "You have tasks running, do you want to quit?" (in which case, I say "no"). However, occasionally, it catches that signal when it's doing nothing, so Eudora simply quits as it should. However, I'm at a loss as to where this quit signal is coming from, because it's as though I attempted to close the program, but I was doing nothing of the sort at the time - either waiting or working in another application on the Mac side.
Any ideas?
As I said, switching mail software isn't feasible, because of the extensive configuration that's happened over a period of almost 10 years.
I suggest you googling for a bit. There're many guides on migrating from this Eudora to more up-to-date email clients. I'm sure you're exaggerate the problem.
Another data point, I had Unity mode die the other day. Haven't bothered starting VMware Fusion or the VM itself, just running Windows in a maximised window. Getting much better performance in the VM and the quit problem has disappeared, so seems something to do with Unity. VM performance in Unity seemed sluggish as well, but it's very fast without Unity active.
