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Norgan42
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‎08-11-2009 10:43 AM

VM in VMware Player 2.5.x freezes

Good evening,

I use some VMs for testing in defined environments.

i just tried to move from VMware Server 2.0.1 to VMwareplayer 2.5.2 in the hope of saving some RAM. Unfortunately, my Tester-VM will freeze, when I start my testenvironment. The VM is running fine, until I start my testing stack. A disk defrag, for instance, ran perfectly for over an hour. The second I try to start testing and switching to Full screen, the screen freezes. Here are the details.

Host : WinXP Prof SP3, 2GB ram

VMWare Player 2.5.1 & 2.5.2

Guest : Win Xp Prof SP3 with IE8, Cisco VPN 5.2.1, JRE 1.6.0_14

Way to reproduce my failure :

  • start VM

  • change to Fullscreen

  • start IE and Cisco VPN (any sequence)

  • start Java Webstart Application

      • BANG - the VMware player switches from Fullscreen to Window-Mode.

      • I can continue working until I try to resize to Fullscreen. Some seconds (2-5) after I switch to Fullscreen, the apps stop reacting, Mouse and VMWare Player Menu still react.

I tried both 2.5.2 and 2.5.1 and am moving back to Server 2.0.1 again - so at least I can work there. Any ideas, though ?

Norgan

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