djphat2000
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Fusion 8.5 nMac Pro 2013 and 10.12 Sierra

I'm noticing issues that seem to happen fairly frequently now.  Beachball of death "only" in my fusion VM's.  I have a Windows 7 VM and Windows 8.1.  Both will exhibit the same issue randomly during the day. 

My keyboard will lockup, and no mouse either.  Just the beach ball.  If I catch it quick enough I can move my mouse off that screen (I keep my VM's on there own screen of which I have 4 screens).  If I get the mouse out of the screen in time.  I can still use it on my main Mac Display (Showing Mac OS desktop, etc).  When I move the mouse back over the VM's, it shows a beach ball.  It lasts maybe 10 or so seconds before getting back to normal and being usable again.  I may get another few minutes before it happens again.  Or maybe an hour at times.  Again, pretty random. 

I have had few issues with Fusion over the years on my many Macs.  I this one is definitely an issue that needs to be fixed soon, as I can't work like that. 

I am about to reboot (everything), and reinstall the VM tools just in case that helps.  But, if anyone else has had this issue, and a fix.  Please share Smiley Happy

nMac Pro 2013

intel Xeon 6 Core

32GB RAM

512GB PCI-e HD

ATi D500

Mac OS X Sierra 10.12

Fusion 8.5