printer stopped being able to print normal size
A month ago I purchased a new printer and installed the printer driver on my Mac running Lion. The printer worked perfectly printing from both Mac and Window virtual machine. I use Windows XP. I am not...
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Fusion 5.0.1, Snow Leopard, Spaces and Full Screen issue
Running the latest Snow Leopard (10.6.8), I run 12 desktop spaces, with a Full Screen'ed Win7 in Space #7 and Full Screen'ed WinXP in Space #9. I moved each of these from Space #12, where the Virtual...
View ArticleNeeding to get my VM running 1024x768 for PowerPoint recording
I need to run my VM at 1024x768 so I can record with camtasia at the resolution. If I was good enough with my mouse and dragging, I could align it by hand by dragging the bottom right hand corner to...
View ArticleDo Mac OS X upgrades work with my VMWare Fusion?
I have an iMac, OS 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) VMWare Fusion 2.08 Windows XP I would like to upgrade the Apple OS to 10.8.3 (Lion).But can I still use VMWare Fusion 2.08?If not I would have...
View ArticleVmware Fusion 5.0.2 > 5.0.3 upgrade corrupted Vmware
I started the upgrade of Vmware 5.0.2 from the Vmware menu yesterday on my MacBook Pro. The upgrade started with a message about "upgrading Fusion Core". This was taking a while, and I received a...
View ArticleGuest 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...
View ArticleExternal USB DVD Question
Quick question. Currently using Parallels with a Win7 virtual machine. I connect my external dvd drive via USB to and all is well, except it shows up in my Win7 virtual machine as a network drive with...
View ArticleInstall of Snow Leopard Guest system
I have the snow leopard disk that came with my imac and I want to install it as a guest system. I have vmware fusion 5 with the latest update running on Mountain Lion. During virtual machine setup I am...
View ArticleFusion v1 with Mac OSX 10.4.11 .vmdk failed - cannot sync with disk
Can anyone tell me how to fix this? The hard drive on my Mac got full while Fusion was running Windows XP. I removed some files to free up some disk space, but Windows crashed. When I start up...
View ArticleStart Fusion 5.0.3 in Full Screen Mode
How do I automatically start VMWare Fusion 5.0.3 in Full Screen Mode?
View ArticleDock icon for WIndows program/datafile?
Is there a way to place an icon on the dock that will open Quicken in Windows using VMWare Fusion 5? I know I can righ click my way through options to get there but I'm trying to find an easier way...
View ArticleUpdate from mac OS.X 10.5.8 to mac OS.X 10.6 with VMware fusion 2.0.2
Hi, I would like to update my mac to snow leopard. I am currently running vmware fusion 2.0.2 on my OS.X 10.5.8, it works great.I am afraid to upgrade my mac and lose any applications running on VMware...
View ArticleUsing SCSI drives in Windows 7
Hello, I attempted to copy two SCSI hard drives from a Windows XP 32-bit VM to a Windows 7 64-bit VM and they do not show up in Windows 7. They are clearly on the Windows 7 VM as devices. But I don't...
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Windows 7 Guest, No USB3 Support?
Hello, This is a new one for me. I built a WIndows 7 Professional VM (latest verson of Fusion 5.0.3). When I tried to connect a Silicon Power external drive, I received a little surprise and was unable...
View ArticleWacom Intuos 4 no tap to click or drag
I just installed vmware fusion 5 on my imac running and now running Win 8. My wacom pen works in either the mac os or win 8 but not both. I read about changing the vmx file but am unsure how to do it....
View ArticleUsing Windows devices successfully on a Mac via VM-Fusion
Hi,I read somewhere that in VM Fusion 5 you can connect a PC windows Device (I imagine this means a Mac device driver wasnt written) and via VM Fusion you can use the device perfectly on the Mac, is...
View ArticleVMware Fusion Virtual Machine shows Host applications INSTEAD of virtualized...
Hi, This is driving me nuts! VMware Fusion Virtual Machine shows Host applications INSTEAD of virtualized ones!!! I have setup a VMware Fusion Virtual Machine of Mac OS X Server 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard...
View ArticleCan Fusion boot from USB Drives?
I was wondering if there is a workaroud to boot from external drives? I do computer repair, and it would be great to work on an OS (ie Windows) by just plugging it in directly to my Macbook and having...
View Articleauto-hide taskbar problem
I'm running a Win 7 VM in Snow Leopard in Unity mode. In Fusion, I set View->Show Task Bar in Unity. In the Win7 VM, I check Control Panel->Taskbar and Start Menu Properties->Auto-hide the...
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...
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