I was hesitant to go to Fusion 4 because I'd had problems with the initial install of Fusion 3 and a VMWare tech had to remote to my machine and poke around for awhile, making various changes, to get it to run Win 7 successfully. Then one of the 3.something upgrades caused problems that I eventually got fixed, again with help from VMWare tech support. Now with the upgrade to 4, I've got more problems. I'm going back to a Windows laptop for my next machine.
The updgrade from 3.x to 4.0.2 seemed to go smoothly, but the first time I suspended/shutdown (can't remember which one) the Win7 VM, Fusion seemed to hang. I got the pinwheel of death. After a very long wait, I was able to get Fusion to quit and then I had the same problem shutting down iTunes. It finally shut down after another long wait. Then I tried to shut down OSX and it never did. I let it sit for 2 hours. Finally I had to power it off.
I figured that may have been a one-time glitch, but when I suspended the VM today, I had the same problem. Pinwheel of death, nothing would respond, had to power off. NEVER had this problem until and immediately upon upgrading to Fusion 4.
Has anyone seen this? I was hoping for better, of course, but Fusion seems to be letting me down again. Any help would be appreciated.
Just now reading this old post, but thanks for the tips. I had similar problems years ago with an early copy of Fusion. Today I have a new Mac (happily running Bootcamp for 2 years now). While in a Mac store, I made an impulse purchase of Fusion 4. I think I'll leave it in the box at least until someone posts a note that F4 installs and works as well as their video.
Fusion 4.1.3 installed this week on 17" MacBook Pro (late 2007 w/Dual Core Intel) running 10.6.8 Snow Leopard and Windows XP Professional — preparatory to installing Mountain Lion — it is fantastic — runs as smooth as the Mac side — seems equally fast. I had been running Fusion 3.x latest — worked well but was slow — wish I'd upgraded to 4.x long ago.
Fusion 4.1.3 installed this week on 17" MacBook Pro (late 2007 w/Dual Core Intel) running 10.6.8 Snow Leopard and Windows XP Professional — preparatory to installing Mountain Lion — it is fantastic — runs as smooth as the Mac side — seems equally fast. I had been running Fusion 3.x latest — worked well but was slow — wish I'd upgraded to 4.x long ago.
When you go to ML, try the technical preview: http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/beta/fusiontp2012