I believe the newest version of VMware station has a bug with Video...

[blackbriar]

I tried the newest version of the VMware station on my Windows Vista Ultimate machine. If I put the Virtual Machine (Windows XP) on C drive, it slows lilke crawl. If I put it on an external hard drive, it gives me a message that my video card does not support ActiveX 9c. or something like that. But it works better than I put the Virtual machine on C drive. The problem is, I could not play any movies on the Virtual Windows no matter I put it on C drive or External one. The virtual windows just freezes up or the screen starts shaking when I play something (Movie or video). This never happened even on "Version: 6.0.5 | 8/28/08 | Build: 109488". It happened immediately after we installed "6.5 | 9/23/2008 | Build: 118166 ". Anyone has same problem? Any suggestion or help? Thanks a million in advance!

[blackbriar]

I really tired of this, can anyone do me a favor and help me restore the VMware tool to the earlier version? I restored the VMware Program to earlier version but the VMware tool could not be restored. I believe the Tool has problem with Video too. Thanks,

[magic-man]

Inside the VM, add/remove programs, remove tools. Reboot the VM, install tools from prior version.

[josephluo]

Thank you so much! I uninstalled it, but how and where can I find the older version of VMware tools?

[magic-man]

Reinstall tools in the version of workstation you are running to match the version you run.

[josephluo]

Thank you so much! I have one more question. I followed the steps what you told me. Now, after I installed my older version of VMware, I could not open any one of my VM OSes, it told me they are ACE versions. I only purchased regular version, where does this ACE come from? Is it b/c I opened it on newest VMware? How can I change them back? I cannot afford lose all the data I saved on those VM OSes'.

Thanks again!

[magic-man · Accepted solution]

Looks like when you were in 6.5 you clicked the button "enable ace features in this VM". If you did not change any of the ace features, you can do the following to change the VM back:

In the VM directory, delete the following files (and directory):

ace.dat

acemaster.dat

*.vmpl

Ace Resources (directory)

Remove the lines in the VMX (using notepad):

policy.vm.mvmtid

policy.vm.managedVMTemplate

policy.vm.managedVM

If this does not clear it up, reinstall 6.5, go to that VM, click "turn off ace features for this VM", then reinstall the older version of VMWare.

[blackbriar]

It worked. Thank you so........so much!