VMWare 6 on Mavericks now has MODAL full screen - how to use non-modal?
I've just succumbed and paid VMWare for the update to VMWare 6.02 and discover that full screen operation is utterly useless as it's fully modal on multiple monitors. This means that I switch a VM to...
View Articleyubikey not working when a VM is running
My Yubikey works fine when I have only MacOSX running, but if I start up a VM (in my case, Ubuntu desktop) it will rapidly flash green, continuously. According to the manual this means:3.5.3 Device...
View ArticleFusion 6 extremely slow on Mavericks
I am running Fusion 5 on 10.8 and it works great. Now I want to upgrade my 2010 Mac Pro to Mavericks and Fusion 6. However, a friend of mine is running Fusion 6 with a Win XP VM on Mavericks and he...
View ArticleFuison 6 won't shut down
Hi, here's my problem: I'm running Fusion 6.0.2 / Win 7 Prof SP1 64 bit on a brandnew MBPr 15" (i7).The vm runs smoothly an insofar without any glitches.But if I quit my vm and try to shut sown fusion...
View ArticleFusion 6 - Unity control+drag doesn't copy within Windows
When copying files from one explorer window to another (IN THE SAME VM), one uses control+drag. This works in full screen. This works in single window.This doesn't work in Unity - it simply moves the...
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Connect USB using Command Line
Howdy. Does anyone know if it is possible to connect / disconnect a USB device from a VM instance using command-line tools such as vmrun (except vmrun doesn't seem to allow this). Cheers.a
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VMware Fusion Pro. v6.0.2 on a Mac Mini with its OS X 10.7.5?
Hello. Is anyone else using VMware Fusion Pro v6.0.2 with Mac OS X guests VMs on a Mac (Mini from mid-2011) with 4 GB of RAM (split in half for host and guest)? Is it too slow? Thank you in advance.
View ArticleFusion 6 clipboard problem
With both Fusion 6 and 6.01 I've lost the ability to copy and paste from the OS X (10.8.5) clipboard to Windows 7. So far I've repaired the VMware tools and disabled, then re-enabled the options under...
View ArticleAssassin's Creed IV Black Flag in Fusion 6.0.2
I installed the game Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag in Fusion 6.0.2 running Windows 7 SP1, on Mac OS 10.9. It would not run. I went to the website http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/ and ran an app...
View Articleping DUP!
I am experiencing duplicate pings with virtual machines when connected to my network via wireless. I am running Mac OS 10.5.5 with all the updates available up to today (including, rather ominously,...
View ArticleFusion 6, VMware Tools Core Service faults and exits
I just upgraded from 4. For all intents and purposes, VMware fusion works, but when I log into my virtual machine (running XP SP3), I get the following dialog popup: VMware Tools Core Service VMware...
View ArticleHas anyone found Fusion 6 to be better than Fusion 5?
I've been using Fusion 6.02 for a few days now and am going to have to give up due to the number of bugs and "features". Bugs with full screen, Unity, intermittent problems with VMs, odd...
View ArticleFusion on OSX Mavericks Mouse Problems
Our office has 3 Macs running Mavericks and Windows 7 through Fusion 5. We upgraded to Mavericks from Mountain Lion last week. Since the upgrade we have been having trouble with erratic mouse...
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Strange message when trying to install Mcaffee antivirus... I don't get it.
Hi there, when I try to install McAffee, I get this message: Beside the obvious bad spelling (instills no confidence, even though I am crap at spelling as well), I don't know what this means. I am...
View ArticleJust upgraded from Fusion 5.0.3 to 5.0.4 and now my Windows XP VMs don't work
I upgraded from Fusion 5.0.3 to 5.0.4 this morning, and now all my Windows XP VMs don't work. When I try to start one, I get the following errors:Unable to set driver parameters.Failed to initialize...
View ArticleFusion 6.0.2 XP Windows crash report
Shutdown XP WindowsWindow: Preparing to copy Clicked on X to cancelCrash report Attach the crash report
View ArticleWorkflow for running Live CD/DVDs sub-optimal
I was looking at the workflow for downloading an ISO and running a Live CD/DVD. It's somewhat cumbersome... 1. The "New Virtual Machine" button presumes an OS will be installed when I just may want to...
View ArticleWin 8 upgrade from XP: "Standard PC" isn't compatible
I'm running Fusion 5.0.2 under 10.8.2. on a Retina MBProI have an XP SP3 VM that I'm trying to update to Windows 8.The VM has a 32GB IDE HD, 2 GB of RAM, with 4 processors allocated (also tried 2 and 1...
View ArticleUnable to login in Windows 7 (Kind of desperate in here...)
Hi everyone. I'm having a major issue, searched all over the net, and these discussion forum are my last resource. I was running VMWare Fusion 4.1.1 on my MacBook Pro where I have Windows 7 installed....
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