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bgertzfield
Commander
Commander

VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta is out!

Hi folks,

Just wanted to make our faithful forum readers be the first to know that VMware Fusion 1.1 beta is now available!

Your existing serial numbers still work with VMware Fusion 1.1 beta, but if you haven't yet purchased 1.0, you can use the temporary serial number on the download page.

Here's the release notes with everything that's new in the 1.1 beta:

We worked really hard on this release, so please let us know about any feedback you have, constructive criticism, or issues you run into!

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NOTE FROM PAT

The goal of this post and initial thread was to let people know about

VMware Fusion 1.1 Beta. We are getting great reports from people in

this thread, but it is hard to track them all hidden in this thread.

So, we are going to lock this thread and request that users who have

issues create a new thread and mention the version number and refer to

Eric Tung's post [[d-1070]|d-1070] for guidance in giving us a much information as possible to help track down any potential issues.

Thanks,

Pat

Message was edited by: Pat Lee

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rcardona2k
Immortal
Immortal

Thanks Ben! Just in time for my return to the forums!

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adamsimpson
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Enthusiast

Awesome, can't wait to try it out.

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HPReg
VMware Employee
VMware Employee

Welcome back, Richard! We missed you! (seriously)

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archieleach
Contributor
Contributor

Neither my serial number (paid) or the beta number works..recent build of Leopard:

The serial number you provided is not valid, or has expired.

Any ideas how to fix?

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Bob_Zimmerman
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Expert

I think this dialog might need a little updating. Smiley Wink Still says DirectX 8.1.

Admittedly, I'm running on a MacBook, but I would have expected it to say something like "there is experimental support for DirectX 9.0c except for shaders", but better.

Edit: Forgot to say that I like the addition to that and other Settings dialogs. That little message should help a lot with the number of people who are confused about why they can't make hardware changes.

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bgertzfield
Commander
Commander

Neither my serial number (paid) or the beta number works..recent build of Leopard:

The serial number you provided is not valid, or has expired.

Sorry about the inconvenience. Can you post the contents of the file:

/var/log/install.log

so we can see what the internal error is?

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TheAngryPenguin
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Enthusiast

Initial Observations:

0) Nice Jive Forums redesign!

1) Debug is enabled by default, even if it wasn't post-upgrade. This was somewhat annoying as the VMtools install took much longer than it could/should have. But nonetheless, it's survivable. Please make sure that the next GA honors the user's previous preference!

2) Hiding the Staus Bar is nice. There was a slight delay until its usefulness became apparent as I had to wait until the new VMtools finished loading to appreciate it. For MacBook users and those otherwise screen real estate envious, this is definitely welcome!

3) Thanks for fixing the busting out of full screen mode issue. Running VMware with VirtualDesktops is finally on par with that other virtualization product beginning with the letter "p".

4) The bridged-mode networking issue seems to be resovled. The device list in my WRT54G (w/ Tomato) is no loger displaying duplicate IP and MAC addresses.

Edit: I have to renig on #4 -- they eventually showed up.

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nesmex
Contributor
Contributor

Hi, I downloaded and installed Fusion beta 1.1. I still have wireless bridged issues. When I first installed the upgrade I had network connectivty (local and internet), but after upgrading the VM tools and rebooting, I lost internet connectivity. I had to reboot once more to gain connectivity again. Same issue as reported in the thread posted by Pat

I'll keep playing around to see if there is any improvement on this

Cheers,

Nestor

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archieleach
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Contributor

Sep 25 22:06:56 MacBookPro /System/Library/CoreServices/Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Installer[207]: vm_protect: 0

Sep 25 22:06:56 MacBookPro Installer[207]: @(#)PROGRAM:Install PROJECT:Install-356

Sep 25 22:06:56 MacBookPro Installer[207]: @(#)PROGRAM:Installer PROJECT:Installer-274

Sep 25 22:06:56 MacBookPro Installer[207]: Hardware: MacBookPro2,1 @ 2.33 GHz (x 2), 2048 MB RAM

Sep 25 22:06:56 MacBookPro Installer[207]: Running OS Build: Mac OS X 10.5 (9A558)

Sep 25 22:06:56 MacBookPro Installer[207]: Env: PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

Sep 25 22:06:56 MacBookPro Installer[207]: Env: TMPDIR=/var/folders/7K/7KIxKtnWFeaO-M1aW66g+++TI/-Tmp-/

Sep 25 22:06:56 MacBookPro Installer[207]: Env: SHELL=/bin/bash

Sep 25 22:06:56 MacBookPro Installer[207]: Env: HOME=/Users/xxxx

Sep 25 22:06:56 MacBookPro Installer[207]: Env: USER=xxxx

Sep 25 22:06:56 MacBookPro Installer[207]: Env: LOGNAME=xxxx

Sep 25 22:06:56 MacBookPro Installer[207]: Env: DISPLAY=/tmp/launch-7VQvgg/:0

Sep 25 22:06:56 MacBookPro Installer[207]: Env: SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/501/nl.uu.phil.SSHAgent.socket

Sep 25 22:06:56 MacBookPro Installer[207]: Env: Apple_PubSub_Socket_Render=/tmp/launch-oLh5Ak/Render

Sep 25 22:06:56 MacBookPro Installer[207]: Env: __CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING=0x1F5:0:0

Sep 25 22:06:56 MacBookPro Installer[207]: Env: SECURITYSESSIONID=9b0720

Sep 25 22:06:56 MacBookPro Installer[207]: Env: COMMAND_MODE=unix2003

Sep 25 22:06:56 MacBookPro Installer[207]: VMware Fusion Installation Log

Sep 25 22:06:56 MacBookPro Installer[207]: Opened from: /Volumes/VMware Fusion/Install VMware Fusion.pkg

Sep 25 22:07:02 MacBookPro Installer[207]: fileURLForURL = x-disc://VMware%20Fusion/Install%20VMware%20Fusion.pkg

Sep 25 22:07:02 MacBookPro Installer[207]: fileURLForURL = file://localhost/Volumes/VMware%20Fusion/Install%20VMware%20Fusion.pkg

Sep 25 22:07:02 MacBookPro installdb[210]: started (uid 96)

Sep 25 22:07:02 MacBookPro installdb[210]: Opened receipt database on '/' with schema 17.

Sep 25 22:07:08 MacBookPro installdb[210]: done. (0.008u + 0.008s)

Sep 25 22:07:22 MacBookPro runner[218]: Administrator authorization granted.

Sep 25 22:07:22 MacBookPro Installer[207]: ================================================================================

Sep 25 22:07:22 MacBookPro Installer[207]: User picked Standard Install

Sep 25 22:07:22 MacBookPro Installer[207]: Choices selected for installation:

Sep 25 22:07:22 MacBookPro Installer[207]: Upgrade: "VMware Fusion"

Sep 25 22:07:22 MacBookPro Installer[207]: Install VMware Fusion.pkg : com.vmware.vmware.application : 1.1.0.1.1

Sep 25 22:07:22 MacBookPro Installer[207]: ================================================================================

Sep 25 22:07:22 MacBookPro Installer[207]: It took 0.00 seconds to summarize the package selections.

Sep 25 22:07:22 MacBookPro Installer[207]: -[IFPKGDerivedDocument sortedPackageLocations]: result = (\n file://localhost\n)

Sep 25 22:07:22 MacBookPro Installer[207]: -[IFDInstallController(Private) _buildInstallPlan]: location = file://localhost

Sep 25 22:07:22 MacBookPro Installer[207]: -[IFDInstallController(Private) _buildInstallPlan]: file://localhost/Volumes/VMware%20Fusion/Install%20VMware%20Fusion.pkg

Sep 25 22:07:22 MacBookPro Installer[207]: _installNextPackage of 1

Sep 25 22:07:22 MacBookPro installdb[221]: started (uid 96)

Sep 25 22:07:22 MacBookPro installdb[221]: Opened receipt database on '/' with schema 17.

Sep 25 22:07:22 MacBookPro Installer[207]: Starting installation:

Sep 25 22:07:22 MacBookPro Installer[207]: Preparing volume "Macintosh HD" for installation

Sep 25 22:07:22 MacBookPro Installer[207]: Configuring volume "Macintosh HD"

Sep 25 22:07:23 MacBookPro Installer[207]: Preparing disk for local booted install.

Sep 25 22:07:23 MacBookPro Installer[207]: Free space on "Macintosh HD": 37.2 GB (39985729536 bytes).

Sep 25 22:07:23 MacBookPro Installer[207]: Create temporary directory "/private/tmp/Install VMware Fusion.pkg.207g6z8tz"

Sep 25 22:07:23 MacBookPro Installer[207]: run preflight script for VMware Fusion

Sep 25 22:07:23 MacBookPro runner[218]: preflight[222]: + export PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin

Sep 25 22:07:23 MacBookPro runner[218]: preflight[222]: + PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin

Sep 25 22:07:23 MacBookPro runner[218]: preflight[222]: + LIBDIR='/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion'

Sep 25 22:07:23 MacBookPro runner[218]: preflight[222]: + '[http://' -x '/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/boot.sh' '|http://' -x '/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/boot.sh' ']'

Sep 25 22:07:23 MacBookPro runner[218]: preflight[222]: + '/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/boot.sh' --stop

Sep 25 22:07:23 MacBookPro runner[218]: preflight[222]:

Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro runner[218]: preflight[222]: VMware Fusion 51348: Shutting down VMware Fusion:

Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro runner[218]: preflight[222]:

Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro runner[218]: preflight[222]: No matching processes were found

Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro runner[218]: preflight[222]:

Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro runner[218]: preflight[222]: No matching processes were found

Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro runner[218]: preflight[222]:

Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro runner[218]: preflight[222]: No matching processes were found

Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro runner[218]: preflight[222]:

Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro runner[218]: preflight[222]: No matching processes were found

Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro runner[218]: preflight[222]:

Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro runner[218]: preflight[222]: kextunload: unload id com.vmware.kext.vmcrosstalk failed (result code 0xe00002c2)

Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro runner[218]: preflight[222]:

Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro runner[218]: preflight[222]: kextunload: unload kext /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/kexts/vmmon.kext failed

Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro runner[218]: preflight[222]:

Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro runner[218]: preflight[222]: kextunload: unload kext /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/kexts/vmci.kext failed

Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro runner[218]: preflight[222]:

Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro runner[218]: preflight[222]: kextunload: unload kext /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/kexts/vmioplug.kext failed

Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro runner[218]: preflight[222]:

Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro runner[218]: preflight[222]: kextunload: unload kext /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/kexts/vmnet.kext failed

Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro runner[218]: preflight[222]:

Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro runner[218]: preflight[222]:

Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro runner[218]: preflight[222]:

Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro Installer[207]: Processing VMware Fusion:

Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro Installer[207]: Determining files to install

Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro Installer[207]: It took 0.13 seconds to create the install plan for Install VMware Fusion.

Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro Installer[207]: Configuring deferred files

Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro Installer[207]: Determining obsolete files

Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro Installer[207]: An exception was thrown from the install queue while running IFInstallElement. NSRangeException. *** -[NSCFArray objectAtIndex:]: index (1) beyond bounds (1).

Sep 25 22:07:24 MacBookPro Installer[207]: Install failed: The Installer encountered an unknown error that failed the install. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance.

Sep 25 22:07:28 MacBookPro installdb[221]: done. (0.004u + 0.003s)

Sep 25 22:07:32 MacBookPro Installer[207]: IFDInstallController 75EC10 state = 7

Sep 25 22:07:32 MacBookPro Installer[207]: Displaying 'Install Failed' UI.

Sep 25 22:07:32 MacBookPro Installer[207]: 'Install Failed' UI displayed message:'The Installer encountered an unknown error that failed the install. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance.'.

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c_montoya
Contributor
Contributor

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Virtual machines stored on drives formatted with FAT32 may crash in VMware Fusion.

This problem is accompanied by the error message: Argument list too long.

Testing suggests that this problem may indicate a corrupted disk.

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Hi - Will this be fixed? I'm used to run my VMs from external hardrives (FAT) but since I started using Fusion I need to copy my VMS constantly in stead of using them directly from my FAT external HD.

Thanks

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modular747
Enthusiast
Enthusiast

A quick run shows a couple of persisting problems with Unity and Win XP. Certain apps such as Firefox 2.0 don't show in the Dock when open. Closing all guest windows leaves the taskbar nonfunctioning. On the plus side, the taskbar can be moved to the top or sides without causing distortion of open guest windows. I would still like to see an exclude the Dock area option for Unity.

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Rzn8tor
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Enthusiast

Installed the update, booted XP guest, installed Tools, and restarted guest.

Selected Show Taskbar in Unity Mode and got a black bar, where the taskbar was in single window mode. Switched to single window mode the black bar remained; switched to full screen and the black bar remained.

Shut down the guest and it stayed on Saving your settings... for 10 minutes or so; vmx continued to use 8-9% CPU. After forcing Power Off, quitting and restarting Fusion, XP guest loaded without errors and taskbar was back. Switched to Unity Mode and Show Taskbar... now works.

R8

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kshree
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Enthusiast

"Logitech Control Center Caps Lock notification no longer displays when moving in and out of virtual machine windows"

Even with the latest beta, I still see this in the single window or full window mode.

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Stefsun
Contributor
Contributor

It's even slower than 1.0, if that's possible.

Graphics are dead compared to Parallels 5160, it takes 6-7 bounces to just open the main program, and yes the debugging checks are disabled.

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dale_kilborn
Contributor
Contributor

Just installed Fusion 1.1 and it feels snappier than 1.0 and unity is smoother as well, of out curiousity tried to install Vista Ultimate and Aero is stil disabled, what version of Direct3D is needed for Aero to function?

Dale

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coopermj
Contributor
Contributor

Okay, maybe I'm clueless here, but the beta link took me to what looked like the Fusion main page and clicking on any of the evaluate links took me to the 1.0 download. Did I miss something?

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kshree
Enthusiast
Enthusiast

Did you click this link?

http://www.vmware.com/beta/fusion/

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coopermj
Contributor
Contributor

Well, now, that's embarassing. Checked it 5 times, but finally did an option-refresh to clear the cache and a WHOLE NEW PAGE loaded.

Stupid browser caches.

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admin
Immortal
Immortal

Hi - Will this be fixed? I'm used to run my VMs from external hardrives (FAT) but since I started using Fusion I need to copy my VMS constantly in stead of using them directly from my FAT external HD.

A workaround is to use 2GB split disks instead of the default monolithic - a slightly more verbose explanation is . If you have enough space, you can convert existing disks with vmware-vdiskmanager or my GUI wrapper,

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