Well, I figured it would be nice to post positive feedback in the forum, since most of the posts are problem related. I took some advice from within the forums and I now have an almost flawless install of Windows XP Pro x64 running in Fusion on my new 20" 2.4Ghz C2D iMac with 2GB RAM.
Congratulations VMWare Fusion team, the product is phenomenal, even at a 1.0 release. I just did an easy install of Windows XP Pro x64 and gave it 768MB of RAM, and everything works great, usb devices and printing works fine. I installed a variety of applications, Office 2003, Photoshop, Illustrator and had no real problems.
Unity still needs some work, but other than that performance is more than adequate. I avoided boot camp completely, since I'm not a gamer and I like snapshot functionality. I think the key with my success is running a 64bit guest OS as well as using the default SCSI disks and avoiding a BootCamp install.
I look forward to fixes in the 1.1 release, which I would anticipate would be out within the next couple months, probably shortly after Leopard. 
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I am logged in as the "Administrator" and there are no other "Users" yet established. (Just as I set up the other 32 bit machine which does work for printing. ) Can you give me any clue as to what additional access that Error message might be expecting in order to complete the task?
No idea - I don't think it's our error message, but it's not clear where it's coming from. I would think it's Bonjour throwing the error.
No, I haven't had it installed on a real hardware machine. My wife's Toshiba is the only windows machine in the house and I would be shot, figuratively, if I were to destroy her thousands of sewing and embroidery files before we have everything moved over to the new 15" MBP I just bought for her. We are proceeding well with that using a 32 bit OS with Fusion 1.1, of course.
Yeah, I understand the perils of testing I didn't think it was likely you had a spare Windows machine lying around, but thought I'd ask anyway.
Both the Win XP Pro OSs, one the 32 bit and the other the 64 bit ... are brand new never used before OEM operating system disks that I bought in the last couple of weeks. The 32 bit OS is working fine; the 64 bit machine is also working with applications but not with printing via the Airport/Airport Extreme. So I am assuming it to be a Fusion problem though something could be wrong with Microsoft's work... hmmm, maybe that is more probable.
It could also be a problem with Bonjour. If you uninstall VMware Tools and still get this error, this suggests it's either a strange low-level bug in Fusion or (more likely) a problem in the guest that we're faithfully replicating. Without tools, we only interact at the guest at a very low level (e.g. CPU, network, disk), and almost certainly not at the level of permissions.
Dumb question: you're using the 64-bit variant of Bonjour (it's not the same as the 32-bit version) with XP x64, right?
Fusion does not currently handle expresscard devices.
Just noticed this line. Is this true even for eSATA expresscards? I would like to use an eSATA expresscard in a MacBook Pro with an external drive. If I do this I can run my VMs from there at optimum speeds - well, MUCH faster than an internal laptop drive that is for sure. Comments on if this configuration is supported? I know it works fine in Workstation 6, but I'm still waiting for Workstation 6 for Mac 
