Hi banackm,

Thanks for your response.  In my case, I cannot get photoshop to launch (it just sits there thinking about it) same as the OP.  Also, I am starting to see more and more games fail, when I have others from the same era that work fine.  The 800 lb gorilla in the room here is "Alien: Isolation," and my Windows 7 VM is more than up to the system requirements, except for the dedicated video memory (the minimum specs call for 1 GB; I have specified 2GB under "settings", and yet it only shows 128MB).  When I try and launch it, it just goes to a black screen for a couple of seconds, then tells me that "AI.exe has stopped working."  Based on my Google research, that either results from an out-of-date video driver (my VM tools are current), or it has a problem with the video hardware itself.  Granted, it's only one application (game), and I can use both it and photoshop on my bare-metal Windows 7 box for the time being, but I fear that this will only become more prevalent.