Version 4 and 4.1 under Lion - Guest unresponsive after resume, high CPU

[haralds]

I have been having a problem with all iterations of 4.n under Lion on my Mac Pro under 10.7.0, 10.7.1, and 10.7.2

A Windowx XP Pro guest periodically becomes unresponsive on resume. It runs a few things (DropBox updates, network configures, but it stops responding to clicks. CPU utilization for VMWare is 100%, for the guest 40%-60%.

This does not resolve until I quit both processes.

I have resinstalled the application, tools etc. multiple times.

This looks like a bug. Any other ideas?

This is very annoying. Both Lion and Fusion 4 seem to have lost reliability in the transition...

-- Harald

[s1xth · Accepted solution]

Just a first troubleshooting step, the latest version of VMware Tools is installed in all guests correct?

Jonathan

[haralds]

Installed and reinstalled.

As I pointed out, I reinstalled the Lion OS, VMware, tools MULTIPLE times.

[ColoradoMarmot]

this looks like the old issue with antivirus software.  Do you have any installed in the VM?  if so, uninstall it, and see if the issue goes away.

[haralds]

It's Microsoft Security Essentials, and I have never had any trouble with it on previous versions or on my laptop.