Hi all folks,
I try to use Screen Capture or Grab to get a screenshot from a Mac OS X 10.6 Server guest running on Fusion 5.0.2, but I can't.
Any idea what's going wrong.
VMware Knowledge Base
"Sending print screen commands to virtual machines running in Fusion (1005335)",
doesn't work with Mac OS X 10.6. With Mac OS X 10.7 everything works well.
Thanks for any help, any suggestion,
Lutz
Hi
Welcome to the communities.
Have you tried Option+P to Alt+Print Scrn.
please let us know if non of them worked.
Worst case, you can always use cmd+shift+4 to screen capture part of the screen from OSX. Did the last comment fix this for you?
Hi Jayden56,
no, I try command+shift+3 or command+shift+4 and the Grab App.
I'm running a Mac OS X 10.6 Server guest, with a Mac OS X 10.7 guest every thing works well, I get a screenshot.
An old Mac OS X 10.5 Server guest, running on Fusion 3.1.4, works well too.
I can't take a screenshot from my Mac OS X 10.6 Server guest only.
Sorry,
Lutz
p.s.
The VMware Tools are up-to-date.
Hi mjbrender,
in general, cmd+shift+4 take a screenshot,
but with Mac OS X 10.6 it does not work in a vmware fusion guest.
Sorry, Lutz
Hi all folks,
it seems to be a vmware tools problem.
I find an alternate/community vmsvga driver, see http://sourceforge.net/projects/vmsvga2/.
The driver based on the general available VMware vmsvga2 sources.
After installing the VMsvga2 package (VMsvga2_v1.2.5_OS_10.6-10.8.pkg) I can take a screenshot on Mac OS X 10.6 too.
The source code is available too.
Nice to see someone called zenith432 fix the problem in Oct 2009, this is 3 years ago.
An audio driver is available too. VMware does not support any audio for Mac OS X guests at the time (Mar 2013).
Thanks for any suggestions,
Lutz
p.s.
VMware have a look to the source how to fix your vmware tools youreself.
I'm so sorry.
It worked for me by mapping a key combination in the VMware preferences:
In Windows 7, I am able to use the following key combination to take a screenshot of the current window:
cmd - alt - ctrl - shift - P
(You can however choose other keys.)
Hi sncopper,
yes, to take a screenshot in a Windows Guest work well.
The Problem is, to take a screenshot in a Mac OS X 10.6 Server Guest only, it doesn't work.
With regards, Lutz
Hi Lutz,
VMware does not support any audio for Mac OS X guests at the time (Mar 2013).
We've supported HD Audio for Mac OS X guests for a while now. (I don't remember which release it was added.) If audio isn't working, your VM might have an old (non-HDAudio) sound device, in which case removing it from VM Settings and re-adding it should give you a new HD Audio sound device, and that should get sound working.
It seems you have found a workaround to get screen capture working, but just for interest's sake, here's what I usually do: Move the mouse cursor out of the Mac OS 10.6 guest window, press Cmd+Shift+4 (so we're using the host's rectangular-region-capture functionality), then drag to select the region of the guest's window to capture.
Cheers,
--
Darius
Thanks Darius,
sorry, my guests are created with Fusion 3.1 (or 3.0) and I start migrating to 5.0 yet.
We've supported HD Audio for Mac OS X guests for a while now. (I don't remember which release it was added.) If audio isn't working, your VM might have an old (non-HDAudio) sound device, in which case removing it from VM Settings and re-adding it should give you a new HD Audio sound device, and that should get sound working.
After installing the new VMware Tools I get no Sound support.
I'm able to switch to "On" in "Sound Card", but in the guest system, I can't select any sound device in "Sound", "Output", there is no one.
Thanks for your help,
I start reading the new Fusion 5 Manuals ...
With regards,
Lutz
Hi Darius,
sorry, sound doesn't work. I use a Mac OS X 10.7 guest running in Fusion 5.
In the vmware.log I find an AppleHDAEngineOutput device and the sound card is available (see below).
But in System Preference "Sound", tap "Output", I find "No output device found" only.
My Mac OS X 10.7 guest is running on a MacMini. This is a Fusion 5 guest, not migrated from a previous Fusion.
The VMware "Sound Card" is "On".
But I can't get any "Sound Effect" runing.
With regards, Lutz
p.s.
In general this is not a problem, indeed.
But the startup chime is helpful, sometimes.
vmware.log:
2013-03-23T16:26:07.287+01:00| vmx| I120: DICT sound.present = TRUE
2013-03-23T16:26:07.287+01:00| vmx| I120: DICT sound.fileName = -1
2013-03-23T16:26:07.287+01:00| vmx| I120: DICT sound.autodetect = TRUE
:
2013-03-23T16:26:07.566+01:00| vmx| I120: [7FFF8546B000-7FFF854CC000): /System/Library/Frameworks/IOKit.framework/Versions/A/IOKit
2013-03-23T16:26:07.566+01:00| vmx| I120: [7FFF82952000-7FFF829D2000): /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreAudio.framework/Versions/A/CoreAudio
2013-03-23T16:26:07.566+01:00| vmx| I120: [7FFF80441000-7FFF80577000): /System/Library/Frameworks/AudioToolbox.framework/Versions/A/AudioToolbox
2013-03-23T16:26:07.566+01:00| vmx| I120: [7FFF828E5000-7FFF828E7000): /System/Library/Frameworks/AudioUnit.framework/Versions/A/AudioUnit
2013-03-23T16:26:07.566+01:00| vmx| I120: [7FFF81C32000-7FFF81C33000): /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/CoreServices
:
2013-03-23T16:26:07.648+01:00| vmx| I120: OvhdMem OvhdUser_SVGAFB : 4000 4000 | 0 0 0
2013-03-23T16:26:07.648+01:00| vmx| I120: OvhdMem OvhdUser_SVGAMEM : 512 512 | 0 0 0
2013-03-23T16:26:07.648+01:00| vmx| I120: OvhdMem OvhdUser_HDAudioReg : 3 3 | 0 0 0
2013-03-23T16:26:07.648+01:00| vmx| I120: OvhdMem OvhdUser_EHCIRegister : 1 1 | 1 1 0
:
2013-03-23T16:26:07.710+01:00| vcpu-0| I120: USB: Connecting device 0x4000000105ac020b
2013-03-23T16:26:07.710+01:00| vcpu-0| I120: SoundUtilMacos_ExtractAudioDeviceStr: Sound output device: AppleHDAEngineOutput:8,0,1,2:0.
2013-03-23T16:26:07.739+01:00| vcpu-0| I120: VNET: MACVNetConnectToNetwork Ethernet1: notify available
2013-03-23T16:26:07.740+01:00| vcpu-0| I120: VNET: ethernet0 enable link state propagation, lsp.state = 5
Hi Darius.
From VMware Preferences "Compatibility"
Compatible with VMware Fusion 5 or higher
This option uses the newest version of the virtual hardware and should provide
the best performance and newest features. (Hardware version 😎
Compatible with VMware Fusion 4 or higher
This virtual machine is also compatible with VMware Workstation 8 or higher and
VMware ESX 5 or higher. (Hardware version 😎
Compatible with VMware Fusion 2 and 3 or higher
This will disable some features including HD Audio and reduce 3D performance.
This viirtual machine is also compatible with WMware Workstation 6.5 or higher
and VMware ESX 4 or higher. (Hardware version 7)
Audio became available with VMware Fusion 4.0 for Mac OS X guests, I think.
Installing Mac OS X 10.7 again on the Mac Mini (the third time), "System Informations", "Hardware", "Audio" show "Intel High Definition Audio" is available. Audio is available in my guest now.
Sorry I don't know what's going wrong in the past, but every thing works well now.
But I can't get Audio working on an old guest by removeing/adding the Sound Card (see below).
Nice to see,
Lutz
p.s.
All the time I remove and add the Sound Card I got something like this:
sound.present = "TRUE"
sound.fileName = "-1"
sound.autodetect = "TRUE"
sound.startConnected = "TRUE"
sound.pciSlotNumber = "34"
But for a new (Mac OS X 10.7) guest the Sound Card looks like this:
sound.present = "TRUE"
sound.virtualDev = "hdaudio"
sound.fileName = "-1"
sound.autodetect = "TRUE"
sound.pciSlotNumber = "34"
I add
sound.virtualDev = "hdaudio"
to my .vmx files and sound became available to the old (Mac OS X 10.7) guests too.
But doesn't work with my very old guests are running Mac OS X 10.5 or Mac OS X 10.6.