How do I recover from a failed drive?
Hi anyone, I recently had a spinning wheel of death on my iMac and had to buy a new drive and restore from a time machine. Problem is my TM drive was small so so I would delete it and restart is...
View ArticlePixEdit not working under Fusion
I'm using a program called PixEdit. It's a very intensive graphics application for cleaning up scanned images. I just installed it on my Windows 7 64-bit machine under Fusion on my iMac. The software...
View ArticleRe: Vmware Fusion 4.1.4 with Win XP Pro - Freezes the Windows side with...
Upon further testing, I don't think it's the WinXP installation. I just clicked on the Settings option from the Mac-side VMWare Menu bar and it froze (or rainbow wheel). My WinXP is not running...
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Re: How do I recover from a failed drive?
Other then installing VMware Fusion itself then that's all you need to install if you're able to successfully copy, and if they where not previously corrupted, the Virtual Machine Package off the old...
View ArticleUnable to find the system volume - But it's there!
I'm getting the dreaded 98% failure when the configuration starts. I've read every forum and KB article I can find and I think I have done everything I can in addition to setting the world record for...
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Re: Unable to find the system volume - But it's there!
Dell OEM versions of Windows XP live and die on the original system installed and are not transferable in any way shape or form by its EULA and therefore helping you to violate the EULA is not allowed...
View ArticleMicro-movements in MS Office Powerpoint
One of the users in my company is used to a PC, so we set him up with VMware Fusion to make presentations on Powerpoint. On a PC, he says, selecting an object and holding down control with an arrow...
View ArticleRe: Fusion 5 + Windows 8 - Need Help!
Thanks WoodyZ - I added that line to the .vmx file and restarted VMWARE and Win8 - worked great - got Internet access! Still can't see my shared Mac files, but I'll open a new thread for that issue. Jim
View ArticleFusion 5 / Win 8 - Shared Folders
I upgraded from Fusion 2 to 5 on a MacBook Pro that had Win XP SP3. Downloaded and installed the Win 8 upgrade package. Changed the OS to Windows 8 but was unable to get to the Internet. Thanks to a...
View ArticleRe: Fusion 5 / Win 8 - Shared Folders
Have a look at: .host Shared Folder alias in My Network Places inaccessible or unavailable (1014036) & Troubleshooting access to shared and mirrored folders in Fusion and Workstation (1027646)
View ArticleRe: Fusion 5 / Win 8 - Shared Folders
You are the GUY! Followed the info in that post - got it. Removing and re-adding the files didn't fix it, but installing VMware Tools did. I had "assumed" that they were installed when we installed V5,...
View ArticleRe: Fusion 4 SCSI>IDE issue
Guys, The system that I am migrating is a corporate system, so there's no "rootkit" business going on. Just want to get the image on to my mac so it runs a little faster. If you are saying that the...
View ArticleRe: [HELP REQD] iTunes on a Mac VM - on a Mac
Yeah, with your setup, wi-fi sync will be challenging at best. USB sync is probably the only real workaround. I'll bet the next release of iTunes requires Win7 or greater. You'll have challenges...
View ArticleRe: Fusion 4 SCSI>IDE issue
Symantec endpoint encryption is like a rootkit. PGP has the same characteristics. Trying to migrate that and hoping to end up with a stable system is highly unlikely to happen. Since you'll need to...
View ArticleRe: Micro-movements in MS Office Powerpoint
The arrow keys shouldn't be mapped like that - something strange is going on (it works just fine for me with PPT 2007).
View ArticleRe: Vmware Fusion 4.1.4 with Win XP Pro - Freezes the Windows side with...
This can also happen with some antivirus software (try temporarily disabling it), and system restore can also cause issues (disable it in control panel).
View ArticleChange disk size on VMWare Fusion image (after bootcamp conversion)
Hi, I recently imported my Bootcamp image into a VMWare Fusion image. Now I have a file that is huge. I'd like to reduce the disk size allocated to the VMWare Fusion disk image. Any suggestions on how...
View ArticleRe: Change disk size on VMWare Fusion image (after bootcamp conversion)
Resizing a virtual hard disk downward (smaller) is not possible once it has been partitioned/formatted however the size of the virtual partition can be reduced thus not allowing a sparse disk to grow...
View ArticleRe: VMWare Fusion 4.14 Not Responding after upgrade to OS X Mountain Lion
Whats the memory on your host mac ?how much have you assigned to windows 7 in vm settings ? Please send us the log ( vmware.log ) file present in following location for better understanding...
View ArticleRe: Convert Boot Camp to VM
Importing the Bootcamp partition to Fusion only allows you to mount and boot that existing partition inside of Fusion, it does not actually move the data to a new virtual disk inside Fusion. I don't...
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