There I was.. working with a few VMs and while in a Windows 8.1 VM answering some questions here the screen turned black and stayed black.
* Suspend/resume did not help.
* Selecting unity would throw up an error "ResolutionSetTopology failed"
* Shut down Fusion .. restart Fusion .. still the same problem
Finally decided to select "Shut down" from the VM menu and that cleanly shut down my VM.
Worked fine on a restart.
Have never seen this before.
vmware-fusion.log has this snippet around that time:
2015-01-09T22:54:41.712+01:00| VMware Fusion| I120: IsTopologySupported: Guest screen size limit: 5120x3200, 2 displays max, bounding box memory limit: 134217728 bytes.
2015-01-09T22:54:42.008+01:00| VMware Fusion| I120: __59-[PLSession updateViewMode:forVMController:withRetryCount:]_block_invoke, failed to update view mode from 1 to 2. error: Error Domain=VMDBErrorDomain Code=-20 "An internal reconfiguration was in progress." UserInfo=0x7fc2415ba980 {NSLocalizedDescription=An internal reconfiguration was in progress., NSLocalizedRecoverySuggestion=}
This is on 2012 MBP with an external screen hooked up, resolution is set to 1024x768
OS X 10.8.5
If there's a VMware employee that wants the logs (vmware.log/vmware-fusion.log) then ping me.
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Wil