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@licensedtoquill wrote:

13.5 seems very stable although it does still start up with a plethora of really arcane error messages.  eg:

"you are running this vm with side panels mitigations enabled" serial0:

Parameter "serial0.fileType" has an invalid value "thinprint".

 

 

However, the windows start button still doesn't work (it just makes the windows logo in the lower left corner of the screen disappear)  so I cant actually shut down windows from within the  VM,      and neither does the keyboard when I try, for example, to type in to the white window just to the right of that start button.

But sharing (which didn't work in this VM before upgrading to 13.5) seems enabled on far too much, - so much so that I cant actually run windows explorer on the drive any more. Every instance I try to run gives me only the files on the host! In fact even the VM's desktop shows the files on the host's desktop! I have never seen this before??

So I tried installing Photoshop Elements for windows in the VM: which is quite a large program, (at around 1.5GB compresssed0

Install then tells me it is going to extract its installation files to some temporary subdirectory it will make (obviously) on the host, and then fails immediately with the error message that there is not enough space in the VM to extract!

There are around 10 GB of space on the host as well as 17GB of space in the VM! 

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What version of Windows are you running in the VM?

Let's take these one-by-one

The "side channel mitigations enabled message" has been a staple of the last few Fusion releases, and it's related to Spectre and other types of Intel CPU flaws that potentially can compromise security. By visiting the VM's Settings > Advanced there's a checkbox to disable side channel mitigations. Your choice as to whether you want to turn these off, but I would think that most people would want the improved performance over the remote chance that their VMs would be compromises.

The thinprint messages are due to Fusion 13.5 dropping support for virtual printers. You get rid of those messages by shutting down Fusion, then editing the .vmx file and removing 3 lines referencing serial0 and thinprint.

For the "windows explorer only showing the files on the host's desktop" issue, do you have Mirrored Folders enabled in the Fusion settings?  I'm wondering if that's related to the "Start" button issue.

Thank you for that but I wasn't asking about those error messages because they are causing the problems. They dont seem to be even potential reasons why neither the keyboard nor the start button issue arise

And they don't arise in my XP VM on the same host. They only arise in this Windows 10 VM

There's something definitely strange about that Windows 10 VM.  I have a Windows 10 x64 VM running on Fusion 13.5 and am not seeing this.

Could you post the vmware.log file for that Windows 10 VM?

Did you upgrade the virtual hardware version and/or VMware Tools in the VM when you upgraded to Fusion 13.5??

Did you download or copy the Photoshop Elements installer to the VM's hard disk or are you trying to extract it from a VMware shared folder?

I wonder why I can't find OPTIONS in Settings to locate the log file? Neither from the VM menu, from settings in Fusion, from the settings from that VM when it is selected nor from settings when I run that VM??

I don't remember upgrading the virtual hardware version, although I did upgrade tools numerous times after the upgrade.

I was trying to extract the installer from an .iso I had created from the Elements install DVD and put in the VMware shared folder.  Actually

(I wasnt sure whether  should be installing from the iso or extracting what was in the .iso to a usb drive but I figured I'd find out sooner or later!)

The "current" log file can be viewed by right clicking on the VM in the Virtual Machine Library window, the holding down the Command key. The "Show in Finder" option will turn into "Open latest log file". However this is not ideal if you want to post a copy of the log file. You want access to the log file so you can zip it up and post it. 

The easy way to find the log file if you want to post it is to go to the Finder, locate the VM "bundle", right click on it, and select "Show Package Contents". 

Can you see what is going on/wrong with this file please?

THANKS AGAIN!  That is  what I'll do as soon as i get that VM working properly again. I had forgotten that I could configure the VM  to 'see' the iso as if it wee installing (eg) tools

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But sharing (which didn't work in this VM before upgrading to 13.5) seems enabled on far too much, - so much so that I cant actually run windows explorer on the drive any more. Every instance I try to run gives me only the files on the host! In fact even the VM's desktop shows the files on the host's desktop! I have never seen this before??

Have you tried turning off sharing in the VM's properties then turning, disabling all shares, and then turning them on again one-by-one?