Until I installed Mavericks a couple of days ago, my MacBook Pro had OS X 10.6.8 and was quite happy running Fusion 3.x.x with a Windows 7 Professional guest.
After installing Mavericks, I downloaded and installed Fusion 6.01. It "upgraded" my existing guest.
Since then, it's repeatedly thrown the error message "VMware Tools Core Service has stopped working".
I've uninstalled and re-installed the VMware tools multiple times. I've checked the "prevent app nap" box. I've restored the old VM guest from a backup and opened it up again.
I can restart the service (using the Windows 7 services manager) but it runs for a while then throws the same error.
I've included screen grabs of the information box -- it names MSVCR90.dll as the module that faults. Out of interest, I looked at the Control Panel / Uninstall Programs screen and saw that on the day I installed Fusion 6.01, an instance of the C++ 2008 Runtime Redistributable x64 was installed (there are several other flavors of the VC++ redistributable installed too: 2005/2008/2010, some x86 and some x64.)
Thanks for any and all advice on how I can fix this problem.
Duncan
