Guest OS Hangs or Fusion 5 Crashes
I've used Fusion 4 without any problem and recently upgraded to fusion 5. I'm regretting jumping the gun to Fusion 5. I'm running lion and mountain lion guest OSs with fusion and it has been nothing...
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Installing Windows 8 Pro
Hello guys, I 've tried to install windows 8 pro over XP and up, and after installation is finished Windows hangs, nothing works even magic mouse has problems and seems to jump time to time. Because I...
View ArticleWindows 8 isn't recognizing extra space in resized hard drive
I was out of room on the virtual drive of Windows 8 in VMWare Fusion 5.02. I increased the disk size in the settings, but when I launch Windows, it doesn't see the extra space. Evidently, I must be...
View ArticleCan't get dual monitors to work
I'm runnimg Windows 7 Home Pro (Installed on a Bootcamp partition) in Fusion 4.1.4 under the latest version of Moutain Lion. I have a dual external monitor setup (Mac Pro) and I prefer to be able to...
View ArticleFusion 5 hangs after some time of inactivity
Hi, I run Fusion 5.0.1 on OSX 10.8.1 on a Mac Pro 2x3 GHz with 16 GB RAM. After some time of only Mac activity (click on the Windows VM), I cannot coninue using the VM:After clicking on the VM window I...
View ArticleShared Printer always changes to :1
I am running the latest version of Fusion and Mac OS 10.8.2. I have one printer connected wirelessly to my Mac called "Epson Artisan 837". I share the printer on the Mac (System Preferences - Sharing...
View Articlehow to reclaim unused space from a win7 vmdk in mac osx
Stuck with a huge VMDK of your old Win7 choking up your precious MacBook SSD diskspace?Frustrated from not finding any simple how-to-shrink-vmdk-and-reclaim-hidden-space guide? Read ahead, then. I...
View Articlevmware-vmx at 20% while Windows is idling
Is it normal that the vmware-vmx process in OS X is running at 20% while Windows is idling (task manager is around 0-3%)? Running Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 on VMWare Fusion 5.0.2.MacBook Pro i7 2.2GHz...
View ArticleProblems with pc migration
I have downloaded and installed the free trial of VMware Fusion 5.02 on my mac mini (mountain lion os x 10.8.2). I am trying to migrate my pc (windows xp pro sp3, not oem, fully updated) to my mac. I...
View ArticleScreen Flicker in 5.0.2
We just upgraded all our computers in the office to ML 8.2 and Fusion 5.0.2. They all have a VM with Windows 7. I have now noticed that a lot of them have issues when they have more than 1 monitor...
View ArticleEthernet to external device with static IP
I'm trying to connect my development station (Visual Studio in Windows XP/Fusion on my Mac) to an external Windows CE-device through a crossover ethernet cable for debugging of the CE-device.This...
View ArticleNetwork Bridged Mode in VMware Fusion 5 running on Mountain Lion Server
Network bridged mode in VMware Fusion 5 is not working when I am running on Mountain Lion Server my virtual machine is CentOS 6.3 configure with a static ip address but it is not visible to the network...
View ArticleCan I rename "Shared Folders"
I have a program that only works if it can access a network drive without spaces in its name but the way that the shared folders are named in vmware fusion (using version 4) as \\vmware-host\Shared...
View ArticleWindows XP suddenly demands non-existent password
As of the past week, when I try to open Windows XP in Fusion 3, it asks for a password. Since I have never had one, I am only able to get into my Windows functions by resorting to a snapshot, which...
View ArticleRunning Fusion as a network user
Hi, I cannot run Fusion as a non local account. I can run it all day long as any local user but as soon as I try to launch it via a network user meaning some one who is logged in and is not defined...
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VMware Fusion Windows 7 The operation on file failed
Hi all, After I accidentally pull the power cable from my external drive where my (VMware Fushion 5) Windows 7 is located, I cannot restart my Virtual Windows 7. I get the message; The operation on...
View ArticleSome old VMs can't use the MACbook mouse
Some of my old VMs (Oracle Linux 4 & Solaris 10) were used under VMware Fusion 4 before but left unused for a long time. Now, I upgraded to the OS X Mountain Lion with VMware Fusion 5 and just...
View ArticleFusion 5 wont launch
Afternoon all, Lemme just get some details out of the way:MacbookAir5,2OS: 10.7.5Bootcamp: Window 7 64bit (runs fine if booted directly)Fusion: 5.0.1-825449 So I downloaded (and paid for) Fusion 5...
View ArticleHow to get Star Wars: The Old Republic (SWTOR) To work in Vmware Fusion 5!
Alright, so i finally found a fix to this problem. Alot of people have been reporting recently that they cannot run the game in VmWare Fusion 5. For me, it works flawlessly on VmWare. When i checked...
View ArticleFusion 5.0.2 - Network keeps disappearing
Running VMWare Fusion 5.0.2. All of my client machines use bridged networking set to the use the physical ethernet port (not autodetect). Randomly, networking stops working across all VM's...
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