Hi all folks,
it seems to be a vmware tools problem.
I find an alternate/community vmsvga driver, see http://sourceforge.net/projects/vmsvga2/.
The driver based on the general available VMware vmsvga2 sources.
After installing the VMsvga2 package (VMsvga2_v1.2.5_OS_10.6-10.8.pkg) I can take a screenshot on Mac OS X 10.6 too.
The source code is available too.
Changelog from 1.1.1 to 1.2.0
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1) Added four more display modes
- 1920x1080, 1280x960, 1280x768, 1280x720
2) VMsvga2 now supports the Screen Capture (snapshot) feature on OS 10.6.
3) Added support for the new Screen Objects feature of Workstation 7/Fusion 3.
Nice to see someone called zenith432 fix the problem in Oct 2009, this is 3 years ago.
An audio driver is available too. VMware does not support any audio for Mac OS X guests at the time (Mar 2013).
Thanks for any suggestions,
Lutz
p.s.
VMware have a look to the source how to fix your vmware tools youreself.
I'm so sorry.