Migrate from Parallels
After a bad update to my Parallels V8 that froze my MAC, etc. I'm trying to decide whether or not to jump ship and buy Fusion 6. My primary is a 2012 MAC mini w/16 GB memory and running Mavericks as...
View ArticleVMware Fusion 4 and Mavericks
Is VMware Fusion 4.x expected to be compatible with Mavericks? Parallels Desktop have just declared in an email to customers that Parallels Desktop 7 will _not_ be compatible with Mavericks, so I...
View ArticleWindows 8 constant lag and slow performance
Hi Have been using fusion 5 for sometime. Have a Windows 8 vm which has been working flawlessly for months.As soon as i updated to fusion 6 and upgraded my VM this is when the issue started to occur. I...
View ArticleVery Slow Disk R/W on New MBPr/10.9 w/ Win7 x64 VM (Fusion 6.02)
I recently migrated from a 2011 MBA running Fusion 5 to a new Haswell-based MBPr and Fusion 6. In both cases, I was using my Win7 VM primarily for Outlook 2010. On my older setup, attaching files to...
View ArticleVirtual Machine Bigger than Allocation?
Hi everyone, I'm having some problems with the size of my virtual machine and wonder if anyone can help. Basically when I created the VM I allocated 120GB to it. When I go in Windows and look at my C...
View ArticleInstalling DB2 10.1 Windows 7 64bit 'hangs' at DAS
Hi all, This is going to be a strange one, but please be assured this is no Holloween joke! I have two MacBook Pro's. They both have Mavericks 10.9, Fusion 6.0.1, and 16G of RAM. The first MacBook Pro...
View ArticleProblem with MVware Fusion and Windows Media Center (Video Issue)
First, in case it matters at all, I have a 2011 Mac Mini (2.3GHz I5, 16GB DDR3, SSD, Intel HD Graphics 3000 512 MB, OS X 10.8.5) and I'm running VMware Fusion v4.1.4 with a Windows 7 VM.I recently got...
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USB 3.0 Device can't be correctly recognized by VM10/9
Hi All One question is highlighted by our laptop test team. According to the test result, the USB 3.0 key can't be detected correctly if we set VM10 USB compatibility to USB2.0when we try to set...
View ArticleIf I update VM Fusion 5 to 6, will I need to re-install Windows?
If I update VM Fusion 5 to 6, will I need to re-install Windows? Thanks in advance.
View ArticleMavericks Guest OS Resolution resets on restart
I run a virtualized automation lab via VMWare Fusion. This lab is used to QA test Mac software. I have dozens of VMs running on a variety of Mac hardware using VMWare Fusion 6.0.2. The problem I am...
View ArticleRemoving apple apps from virtual machine ? Can I ?
Hi I have a windows 7 virtual machine which was originally a bootcamp partition that I imported to VM. It works fine. Can I now delete the "boot camp services" and "apple software update" applications...
View Articlehow to reinstall vmware tools? Win 7 OSX Mavericks
In this thread Windows 7 problem with external USB drives, the solution was to reinstall vmware tools. I can't figure out how to do this. Should I be installing vmware tools 5.5? Where are instructions...
View ArticleHow to enable wifi web access in Mountain Lion VM
Hello! I have a Mountain Lion VM in Fusion 6.0.2 running under Mavericks. The WiFi menubar icon shows "WiFi: no hardware installed." I have shut down the VM after unchecking the option to reopen...
View Article100% CPU usage OS X 10.9, VMware Fusion 6.02, Win7 Pro
I'm having a massive issue with CPU usage running VMWare 6.02 on OS X Mavericks 10.9. This is an 3.2 GHz Intel Core i3 with 16Gb of RAM. I've been running a Win7Pro instance on VMWare with very few...
View Article3D acceleration in an OS X guest ?
I know that this topic has been around for a while in the forums and is also addressed in the Fusion 6.0 release notes.And I also know that Fusion 5.x didn't offer 3D acceleration for OS X guests (no...
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Can anyone PLEASE help me restore my VMware fusion 1.1?
Hi There, I was hoping that someone would be help me restore my early version of VMware fusion 1.1? I have an old Mac OS X version 10.6.8, and recently transferred everything to a new hard drive. I...
View ArticleJava 7 applications work very badly with Accelerated 3D graphics (10.8 /...
I am running a Windows 7 guest under OSX 10.8 (VMware Fusion 5), with Java 7 Update 45 installed under Windows. If "Accelerate 3D graphics" is ON, then when I run the "Configure Java" (Java Control...
View ArticleProblems with sharing folders
Hi; I'm running VMware Fusion 5, and am having the following problem with sharing folders (if Fusion 6 addresses this, I'm happy to try it, but don't see buying the full version just to find out the...
View ArticleProblems starting VMWare Fusion
I have continued to receive the following message when attempting to start VMWare Fusion after numerous re-installs and even on a new computer. Any Clues?Unable to open file...
View ArticleLinux file sharing hangs in multi-thread with Fusion 6.0.2
In a clean new Ubuntu 13.10 virtual machine, trying to use a multi-threaded "make" (i.e. with '-j 4' option for instance) in a shared directory makes the vmware-vmx process take 400% of the CPU and...
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