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I am setting up some raspberry pis. I want to use <hostname>.local to access them. This works reliably when  Fusion is NOT running. When Fusion is running, even with no open VMs, the bridge interface bridge101 appears. Then pretty soon, I get incomplete arp cache reported routes like: ``` petermirror.fios-router.home (192.168.1.220) at b8:27:eb:23:d4:b3 on en0 ifscope [ethernet] petermirror.fios-router.home (192.168.1.220) at (incomplete) on bridge101 ifscope [bridge] ``` The Pi (petermirror) has the local IP as shown but if the incomplete line appears when I run arp -a then the ,local address will not resolve. ssh to petermirror just hangs. Any ideas? Jim

I see tools iso files for Windows and Darwin, but not for Linux. I was running Fusion Professional 6.0.3 and I just upgraded to 6.0.4 thinking this step would get me the Linux iso but it didn't. I have an ubuntu VM that I want to upgrade the tools for but the upgrade option is greyed out. Any ideas? Jim

My company is offering a BYOC solution based on Moka5. I currently run Fusion 6 and have a lot of VMs that I use occasionally. If I install the Moka5 player, can I still run Fusion on my old VMs when I want to? I am willing to shut down the Moka5 player to to do that but I don't want the installation of Moka5 to break how I use Fusion currently. Thanks for any experience in this area. Jim

I know this has to be an odd question. I am running CentOS 5.8 64 bit specifically to play around with Apache hadoop. I am using the Hortonworks 1.0 distribution to install the hadoop ecosystem. On my Mac (iMac, with 16GBs running Lion, Fusion 4.1.3) I find that during the setup process for the software, the CentOS cpu (as observed in Gnome System monitor) will go into a reduced priority state -- instead if chugging along doing all of the startup tasks, it throttles down to like 10% CPU utilization (the VM is a 2 core VM with 4GBs allocated) for any where from 30 seconds to up to several minutes and very little progress is made in the install process. Most of the CentOS processes are reported as sleeping when this happens. I have observed in OS X activity monitor that the vmware-vmx CPU utilization is under 50% during these slow-downs. When the CentOS CPU is performing as expected the vmware-vmx process spikes to over 100% utilization. I want to encourage this behavior so that the Hortonworks startup tasks finish as quickly as possible. I am running the same CentOS config using VMware Player (the latest) on a Dell PC, Windows 7 Enterprise, also with 16GB of RAM. These CPU slowdowns are almost non-existent on the PC and as a result, installation is much faster. Can anyone explain this behavior and suggest some tweaks so that my CentOS VM is performing better? I went looking for some .vmx file tweaks and found: priority.grabbed = "high" priority.ungrabbed = "high" as suggestions. I added these to my Fusion config file and they did not help matters. Am I barking up the wrong tree? Is there any hope of getting better VM performance on this iMac? Thanks Jim

I have the latest Samurai iso: 0.9.9. It is based on Ubuntu 9.04. Apparently this is supposed to be used as a Live CD, but Fusion seems to want to use the .iso as an install image. I start the process, it gets all the way through, and then on required re-boot it seems like it wants to go through the process all over again and now it finds problems with the partitions that were laid down. There are confusing (to me) messages about what to do to correct them. If I push on regardless, eventually I do see the Samurai desktop. It is not clear if I was meant to ignore all the warnings, or what the second round of initialization is for. I specify my name and password on the first pass and then in the error-filled second pass, I am asked for this information all over again. Any ideas? I successfully installed Backtrack 5 from the live CD -- based on ubuntu 10 -- and I did not have these sorts of problems. Still using Fusion 3 -- I guess I can try with Fusion 4 -- was meaning to upgrade anyway. At this point I would like to know if I am hitting ubuntu issues, Samurai issues, Fusion issues or what. I did some googling and did not turn up any direct leads. What is the preferred way to use a live CD inside of Fusion? Jim

I can use the Fusion Menu to send Ctrl-Alt-Delete but that is intercepted by the VM itself and I get the Windows 7 set of options for my local VM. I am running an IE session that leads me to a VMware console running inside IE where I want to access a remote Windows machine (a Juniper VPN client is involved but I don't think that matters). That console shows me the remote VM desktop where I have to enter Ctrl-Alt-Delete to get the login screen for the remote VM. How can I manage to send a Ctrl-Alt-Delete so that it gets to the VM console inside of IE? Seems like there should be a way to do this. Jim

I originally created a CentOS 5.5 VM using Fusion 2.06 with 2 GBs. The SWAP partition was sized to 4GB as a result. This can works as expected. I have updated the RAM setting within Fusion to 4GBs but not all of the memory seems to be available to CentOS. When I use the System Monitor tool to examine the system resources, I see User Memory shown as 3.0 GiB inside the VM. Shouldn't I see 4.0 GiB there? I then shutdown the VM, made the RAM setting 5GB and restarted. I still see only 3.0 GiB reported. This is a 32 bit instance of 5.5 in case that makes a difference. I expected the added RAM to show up in the VM and unless I am mistaken, this is not the case. Any ideas appreciated. Jim