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I moved a Windows XP Professional VM from one MacBook to another. Everything seems to work just fine except I get the following error message when I log in and also when I try to navigate to any...
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Hello VMWare community! I would like to ask, if there is a way i can use my mac drivers on Vmware ?? My CPU is good in Vmware, but i would like to use my AMD Radeon instead of the Vmware SVGA graphics....
View ArticleAlfa awus036nh not detected by VMware fusion
Hello, I am having an issue with my USB wireless card. My system is:- Host OS: MAC OSX 10.7 Lion- Guest OS: Backtrack 5 r2 KDE 64 bits- Virtual Machine: VMware Fusion 4.1.3- USB Wireless Card: Alfa...
View Articlemultiple (dual) monitors in windows 7 in VMware 4 Fusion
Hello, A while ago I was able to have both of my monitors detected and working using windows 7 through WMware Fusion3. There were still some issues, but it worked:I had to 'reset' (change back and...
View ArticleFusion and QNX 6.5.0
Hi, I'm trying to install QNX using Fusion 5. QNX provides an ISO for such purposes http://www.qnx.com/download/feature.html?programid=21182 and claim it runs fine in VMWare. However, during the...
View ArticleBought license at 3rd party reseller and already registered.
I bought a serial key for VMWARE Fusion 5 at "Fox Cheap Software". The key activated properly but I couldn't register it as the VMWARE site said that it was already registered. I sent an email to the...
View ArticleOS X - edit .vmx to auto accept / connect USB HID device?
Hi everyone, I'm on VMware Fusion 4.1.3.Using Apple's USB Prober one can get usb device info & ID numbers.Like this: Feb 9 14:31:59.007 [1] [0xffffff8029d95800] USB HID Interface #0 of device...
View ArticleSlow Performance with Shared Folders with 1.1
Anyone else seeing this problem? I am running Fusion with MacBook Pro - 4GB Ram with 1GB dedicated to an XP Pro VM. I have two shared folders created - one to my home directory and another to a...
View ArticleCannot activate Windows 8 on Fusion 5 - installed from scratch
I installed Windows 8 on Fusion 5, which I have on my fairly new Macbook Pro - clean install, from a disc, not an upgrade, no boot camp. I get a screen saying activate windows and a button saying go to...
View ArticleHow to share a virtual machine across multiple users in Fusion 5
I have an iMac where I want to share a Windows 7 VM with another user..in fact she'll use it way more than I will. Problem is I get messages telling me that she has insufficient priviledges. I found a...
View ArticleiMac hard drive died, restore from a drag & drop recovery file
I just had the hard drive on my iMac replaced since it had died. Before they removed the bad one they were able to recover files and used a drag & drop method to copy them to an external hard...
View ArticleCan you auto-exit full screen after VM shutdown?
I switched from Parallels 8 to VMware Fusion 5.02 so I could exchange VMs with my colleagues using the Windows based Workstation and Player. So far I find that VMWare and Parallels both work well. I...
View ArticleUpgrade to Fusion 5.02 caused Windows 8 VM crashes
I upgraded to Fusion 5.02 this afternoon and started experiencing Windows 8 VM crashes when I run Chrome in it. I didn't have a single issue with 5.01. Please see attached diagnostics file. Thanks,...
View ArticleCan't print in Windows
I am using VMware Fusion and Windows XP on my Mac (10.8.2). Just recently, I can no longer print in Windows. I have uninstalledd and reinstalled the printer; I have downloaded the latest print...
View ArticleRe: .vmx is not a valid virtual machine configuration file
Hi, recently my mac hard disk failed and I have recovered th data from the disk. When I try to open my virtual machines I am getting an error "Documents/Virtual Machines.localized/Windows Server 2008...
View ArticleWindows Explorer (explorer.exe) Not Resonding
I just upgraded to Fusion 5 from ver 4. I had an Windows XP VM that was working fine with version 4. I chose to upgrade this VM when prompted to in Fusion 5. Now when I open up this VM and click on...
View ArticleFusion 5.0.2 reinstallation failure
I recently had a sleeping MacBook Pro running OS X 10.7.5 get reset on a cold boot, and since then, I have been having issues trying to get my VM's to start - they keep erroring out with the "cannot...
View ArticleNot able to Install Win XP on VMWare 5 in OSX 10.7.5
I'm trying to install Windows XP onto a Mac Pro running OSX 10.7.5. I'm using VMWare 5.0.2 and I'm getting the following BSOD: Windows XP Home Edition Setup========================= Setup cannot find...
View ArticleIf it possible that Fusion can access a remote workstation by pcoip protocol...
I'am a .NET developer who is working on a Mac OS X stack. I love all the stuff of my Apple products so I don't switch back to Windows environment. As I am a .NET developer, I always play with Visual...
View ArticleWarning to java developers: don't upgrade to VMWare Fusion 5!
I'm a Java developer using Java IDEs like IntelliJ IDEA, eclipse and NetBeans. They all use "Ctrl+Space" to bring up context help in the editor. A function that is used quite often. I just upgraded to...
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