I'm pretty new to Microsoft Visual Studio and got into it at a PC running Windows 7 natively and I wanted to continue working on my project at home too. So I installed Visual Studio 2010 at my iMac at home - in a VMware Fusion 5 virtual machine running Windows 7 64x.
Everything works smoothly... I can open projects, make new ones, edit code - but whenever I try to debug the project I'm working on, it crashes. A popup appears at the top of my screen as everything freezes, saying "VMware Fusion has encountered a problem, and had to shut down". Not sure whether if that's the wording, but it's very close. The annoying thing is that sometimes when I try to debug it, it works. And sometimes it don't. About 50% risk for it crash.
After hours of headaches, I decided to uninstall Visual Studio, along with XNA 4.0 used to create games, and then reinstall both again, clean install, in C:/Program Files. Still. Same. Issue.
I decided to click the report button when Windows crashed, and I'm adding it now. I cannot make much out of it, however this seems interesting in the server.log file:
Apr 3 19:22:30 Nescience.local CVMServer[78]: Check-in to the service com.apple.cvmsCompAgent_x86_64 failed. This is likely because you have either unloaded the job or the MachService has the ResetAtClose attribute specified in the launchd.plist. If present, this attribute should be removed.
Apr 3 19:22:32 Nescience.local ReportCrash[19287]: DebugSymbols was unable to start a spotlight query: spotlight is not responding or disabled.
Apr 3 19:22:35 Nescience.local ReportCrash[19287]: failed looking up LS service ( scCreateSystemService returned MACH_PORT_NULL, called from SetupCoreApplicationServicesCommunicationPort, so using client-side NULL calls.
Apr 3 19:22:35 Nescience.local ReportCrash[19287]: LaunchServices/5123589: Unable to lookup coreservices session port for session 0x186a0 uid=0 euid=0
Apr 3 19:22:35 Nescience.local ReportCrash[19287]: failed looking up LS service ( scCreateSystemService returned MACH_PORT_NULL, called from SetupCoreApplicationServicesCommunicationPort, so using client-side NULL calls.
Apr 3 19:22:35 Nescience.local ReportCrash[19287]: LaunchServices/5123589: Unable to lookup coreservices session port for session 0x186a0 uid=0 euid=0
Apr 3 19:22:35 Nescience.local ReportCrash[19287]: failed looking up LS service ( scCreateSystemService returned MACH_PORT_NULL, called from SetupCoreApplicationServicesCommunicationPort, so using client-side NULL calls.
Apr 3 19:22:35 Nescience.local ReportCrash[19287]: LaunchServices/5123589: Unable to lookup coreservices session port for session 0x186a0 uid=0 euid=0
Apr 3 19:22:35 Nescience.local ReportCrash[19287]: failed looking up LS service ( scCreateSystemService returned MACH_PORT_NULL, called from SetupCoreApplicationServicesCommunicationPort, so using client-side NULL calls.
Apr 3 19:22:35 Nescience.local ReportCrash[19287]: LaunchServices/5123589: Unable to lookup coreservices session port for session 0x186a0 uid=0 euid=0
Apr 3 19:22:35 Nescience.local ReportCrash[19287]: failed looking up LS service ( scCreateSystemService returned MACH_PORT_NULL, called from SetupCoreApplicationServicesCommunicationPort, so using client-side NULL calls.
Apr 3 19:22:35 Nescience.local ReportCrash[19287]: LaunchServices/5123589: Unable to lookup coreservices session port for session 0x186a0 uid=0 euid=0
Apr 3 19:22:38 Nescience.local ReportCrash[19287]: Saved crash report for vmware-vmx[19283] version 5.0.3 (0104.03.86) to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/vmware-vmx_2013-04-03-192238_Nescience.crash
I could add that I'm using VMware Fusion 5.0.3, Visual Studio 2010 Express, XNA 4.0. This happens on my iMac (latest), 8 GB RAM, 2.9 GHz Intel Core i5, and it's running OSX 10.8.2 (Mountain Lion).
I really appreciate any help, I've searched on the net for hours without any progress.