Biggle78 wrote: I still have an issue where the Suspend | Restart | Shutdown options are showing as "Force" but atleast now I have copy, paste and time sync to my guest.
If anyone discovers the reason for having the "Force" this would completely resolve my issues with this guest.
I know the OP of this thread is a bit old, almost a year, and I don't know why I originally missed it to begin with however since you just referenced this thread in your reply, Re: vmtoolsd.exe Will Not Start In USER Process, I though I'd answer the second issue of this OP... It sounds like the Virtual Machine was not originally created in VMware Fusion and as an example if I copy a Virtual Machine from one of my Windows systems to my Mac it displays the "Force ..." commands by default. In other words, pressing the Option Key is backwards of what its supposed to be. This is because the following options are missing from the Virtual Machine's .vmx configuration file.
powerType.powerOff = "soft" powerType.powerOn = "soft" powerType.suspend = "soft" powerType.reset = "soft"
By default, VMware Fusion creates these options in the Virtual Machine's .vmx configuration file while VMware Player/Workstation does not. So, add the above options to the Virtual Machine's .vmx configuration file and the "Force ..." commands will then exhibit VMware Fusion normal behavior. Meaning in order to access the "Force ..." commands one will need to press the Option Key.
Have a look at: Editing the .vmx file for your Fusion virtual machine (1014782)
Message was edited by: WoodyZ - Another scenario, and not the only other, for this to occur is a P2V/V2V using VMware vCenter Converter to create the Virtual Machine as if I recall correctly it omits these options as well.