Re: Attempting to run VMs located on an external USB 3.0 HD crashes OS X.
Two things: 1) Upgrade to 10.8.3, it had a HUGE number of bugfixes. 2) The issue is highly likely to be the NTFS format on the external drive. OSX doesn't support it, and third-party drives are...
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exFAT is prone to corruption (only a single copy of the FAT). Are you sure the disk isn't corrupt?
View Articledrag/drop support with mountain lion VM
Hi All, I recently got a new macbook pro (with retina display and 16GB and of course SSD - very sweet). I created a windows 7 vm for my windows apps and I also wanted a seperate VM for developing on...
View ArticleRe: drag/drop support with mountain lion VM
Hey Jeff, Yes this is a limitation having Mac OS X as guest OS. There are few other limitations as well likeSVGA only. No accelerated 2D or 3D graphics. No Unity. No multimon support in full screen....
View ArticleRe: drag/drop support with mountain lion VM
Thanks for the quick reply. I did request this. Hopefully, others will request it as well and we'll see the support. I think it's funny that a product written for the mac (Fusion) doesn't has more...
View ArticleRe: Attempting to run VMs located on an external USB 3.0 HD crashes OS X.
dlhotka, thanks for the response. I upgraded to 10.8.3 and still get the same error. It does look like it's one of the components I installed to get RW working with NTFS (fuse4x). I guess that I'll use...
View ArticleRe: I can't get Team Fortress 2 to work in Fusion
Try installing Version 7 of Workstation. They did something to break the graphics engine after version 7 which prevented you to obtain proper video output while using Team Fortress.. Another thing to...
View ArticleRe: Trouble running Team Fortress 2 (TF2) on win 7 boot camp 2.02
http://communities.vmware.com/message/2247572#2247572Workstation 7 graphics works with team fortress, but not newer versions.
View ArticleRe: Fusion 4.1.4 Causes Rainbow Wheel and Takes Forever to Load
Hi Michael, I've found roughly where the problem is, but I don't yet have a good explanation of why it's happening on your system. There's something unusual about the way your virtual machine's bundle...
View ArticleRe: VMware image too large, need to shrink!
you may be able to shrink images by using a third party software. do an image converting c# or scale , resize images to a size fit for the vmware.
View ArticleRe: Fusion 4.1.4 Causes Rainbow Wheel and Takes Forever to Load
Hi Darius, as per your request, I'm uploading the support information. The system hasn't shown the freeze in a couple of days, so not sure if it has everything you need. I know how to cause the error...
View ArticleRe: Running a VM Headless (no GUI) and Controlling Shutdown/Suspend with Mac...
I know I am dragging up an old thread but I have an issue with the behavior of the VM once running. I am using Lion and a StartupItem script with Fusion 4. The behavior is the same if I use launchd....
View ArticleRe: Running a VM Headless (no GUI) and Controlling Shutdown/Suspend with Mac...
Yes, this is an old thread and what was presented here is not officially supported either. Additionally I'm not in a position at the moment to work with the older version of VMware Fusion or Mac OS X...
View ArticleRe: When can we expect a proper retina display implementation
I'm in the same boat. Waiting for a proper solution. If I follow xmnboy's steps then I'm left with small icons, text and menus on my Mac and only slightly better looking Windows 8 VM. I'm not...
View ArticleRe: Unable to open VMware Fusion
which version of Fusion are you using ?try manually uninstalling fusion as described in this articleonce its done, restart mac and install fusion.For detailed instructions refer fusion startup issues
View ArticleRe: When can we expect a proper retina display implementation
Good to hear that others think alike... I would suggest that just everybody who feels the same drops a message to vmware support. Like that it helps to get a higher prio on the implementation roadmap....
View ArticleRe: I extended VM virtual machine disk but its only half showing...
This has probably no doubt been tried, but I had a similar issue, and finally resolved by opening disk management on guest and noticed an unpartitioned space in addition to 'c'. Extended the 'c'...
View ArticleRe: Running a VM Headless (no GUI) and Controlling Shutdown/Suspend with Mac...
FWIW, this is the reason for my issues: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#technotes/tn2083/_index.html However, this isn't the case (r. 5544764) . This message is really telling you is that...
View ArticleRe: Fusion 5.0.3 and Ubuntu 13.04
See this thread for more details about getting everything working: VMtools installation problem on Ubuntu 13.04
View ArticleRe: Fusion 4.1.4 Causes Rainbow Wheel and Takes Forever to Load
Thanks Michael! The information bundle seems to have all the information we need for now. It looks like the application publishing feature of Fusion has gone crazy and published a large number of...
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