Re: Mountain Lion guest hanging
Hi Darius,I set the script going last night with the Crash/Hang debug setting and it is still running 10 hours later. I'm feeling a little guilty because I also set the number of cores to 2 and this...
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VMWare Fusion Taking up Too Much Space on My MacBook Pro?
Hi everyone. I do not know much about Macintosh computers or VMWare fusion, so I am seeing if anyone knows the answer to my question. My work gave me a new MacBook Pro which cannot run several PC...
View ArticleRe: VMWare Fusion Taking up Too Much Space on My MacBook Pro?
To help figure out what is what, the best way to provide comprehensive diagnostic information is to use the "Collect Support Information" command from the VMware Fusion (menu bar)> Help > Collect...
View ArticleRe: VMWare Fusion Taking up Too Much Space on My MacBook Pro?
Here is the support information File:
View ArticleRe: no route to host
With VMware Fusion 5 Professional there is a Virtual Network Editor in VMware Fusion's Preferences. So between that and the Virtual Machine's Network Adapter Settings GUI the same should have been...
View ArticleRe: VMWare Fusion Taking up Too Much Space on My MacBook Pro?
Okay the Virtual Machine has no Snapshots and according to the ls.txt output for the Virtual Machine Package it should only be occupying ~13 GB of space on the Host. I'd suggest using something like...
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Re: no route to host
I was not at a system I could check and that is why I said "should" not "could" when I said "...the same should have..." believing because the Virtual Network Editor in VMware Workstation does allow...
View Articlerunning vm in a window at a higher resolution
I was wondering if it is possible to run a vm in a window at a higher resolution than the window size actually permits (ie make everything in the window smaller) Every now and again when the...
View ArticleRe: Mountain Lion guest hanging
I left a Gentoo Prefix build running overnight and it completed with no problems. This was on a MacPro5,1 (2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon) with 2 vCPUs assigned to the VM, and without VMware Tools...
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Increase RAM for Fusion on OS X?
I am running VMWare Fusion Professional 5.0.1 on a Mac Mini OS X 10.6.8 with 4 GB of RAM. Fusion is using 512 MB of RAM. However, I have just upgraded Quicken to the 2013 version, and that requires 1...
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Hi John, and welcome to the VMware Communities! Shut down the Windows guest operating system, and then try adjusting the VM's memory size while it's powered off. Cheers,--Darius
View ArticleRe: Increase RAM for Fusion on OS X?
Thank you, Darius. "Shut down the Windows guest operating system, and then try adjusting the VM's memory size while it's powered off." If this means to make the Preferences adjustment to Fusion with...
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You understood correctly. Interesting... If Fusion wants to hot-add memory, it means that it thinks the VM is powered on. (While the VM is powered off, we do a "cold add" which is much easier.) If it...
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AHA! Your fuller explaination gave me a clue as to what I was doing wrong. While I thought Ihad VM powered off, I had only closed Windows. When I actually shut everything down, the Preferences...
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Re: Increase RAM for Fusion on OS X?
Glad I could help you work it out! I still think Fusion was doing something odd (or just plain wrong) though... It sounds like the error you got should never have been able to occur, and it is not a...
View ArticleRe: 5.0.2 - VMware has encountered an error an has shutdown Windows
Here is a current update on this situation.The new version (947875) solves the primary issue with the Windows 8 3D graphic crash.Fusion works in all modes unity, single, full windows.There are still...
View ArticleRe: Identity of Optical Drive incorrect in VMWare Fusion 5.0
Guys,Tech Support found the solution to my problem.I had to edit the VMWare Log to add what they refer to as a "Quirk"I can't explain what a Quirk is....but they gave me an additional line of code to...
View ArticleRe: Identity of Optical Drive incorrect in VMWare Fusion 5.0
They probably had you do what is covered in: Troubleshooting USB devices using USB quirks in Fusion (1025256)
View ArticleTriple-clicking in Win7 doesn't highlight line
I've notice that triple-clicking in Win7 on Fusion 4.1.4 doesn't highlight the line, it just highlights the word. Is it possible to make it highlight the line? How? When I'm in Quickbooks, I often need...
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