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Triple-clicking in Win7 doesn't highlight line

I've notice that triple-clicking in Win7 on Fusion 4.1.4 doesn't highlight the line, it just highlights the word. Is it possible to make it highlight the line? How? When I'm in Quickbooks, I often need...

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Unable to update software from within virtual machine?

I'm running VMware Fusion 5.02 on an iMac running OS X 10.8.2. I have installed windows 7 to run in a virtual machine and up until I updated from Fusion 4 to 5 I was able to update software programs...

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USB in Fusion 5

Is there a way to see in the .VMX file if a device is locked into hooking up to the MAC side. All my USB devices ask me when I plugged them in except a URC MX900 remote. I am assuming that the remote...

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Installing Adobe Reader and Flash - need help

I am a new user -- non programmer -- just need Windows on my Mac for a job. I have been unsuccessful in installing Adobe Reader or Flash (for java). McAfee is turned off. I tried installing both once,...

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iMac 27-inch late 2012 + Fusioin 5.0.2 + Win 8 -- Need help!

I have installed Windows 8 (x64bit) Pro., Windows XP, and  CentOS 6.0 with vmware fusion 5.0.2 over my brand new iMac '27 late  2012, but neither one can connect to the Internet. However, there was no...

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Fusion 5 crashing after installing nVidia card in Mac Pro

Hi, since Apple started delivering drivers for current nVidia graphic cards in OS X 10.8.1 and nVidia itself posting OS X drivers on their website, a lot of people started installing nVidia GTX6xx...

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Fusion support for Logitech t650 touchpad?

Are there any plans to add support for the Logitech t650 touch/trackpad within the Windows 8 vm? Right now, it only supports 1 or 2 gestures, and unfortunately they're two of the least useful (3-finger...

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How to connect network between host (MAC OSX 10.8.2) and Win8 Pro?

I'm not able to connect any network units from the VM running Win8 Pro like I used to do with WinXP. In fact I can't launch any installer downloaded by the host. I also can't install VMWare Tools...

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Unable to reclaim hd space after deleting large snapshot

I tried deleting a snapshot that was the same size as my XP image size (150gb).  After it deleted it, it failed during cleaning up and now the snapshot IS gone but the space is not.  My .vmware is...

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VMWare Fusion crashes bootcamp partition every time

I have this weird problem, which is quite easy to describe. Every single time I open my bootcamp partition using VMWare Fusion, OS X mountain lion starts indexing my hard drive, rendering my computer...

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Chat Messenger Hangs Windows 7 After VMware Tools Installation???

I had a VM running Windows 7 along with Outlook and Qchat, a Cisco/AT&T Message client, and after installing VMware Tools, everything is great except that bringing up Qchat, the messenger software,...

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Error starting after moving from iMac to Mac mini

Just copied a osx guest from an imac (osx 10.7.5, core i5, 12G ram)  to a new mac mini (osx 10.8.2, core i7, 16G ram). Running Fusion v 5.0.2 on both. Trying to start the guest on the new machine, I'm...

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Fusion 5 VMWare Tools - How do I set up a resume script?

Hi,All the info I've found so far talks about double clicking the VMWare Tools Icon (Windows 7) and then using the UI. VMWare tools shows only an 'About' window when clicked. Where do I go to define a...

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Error page_fault_in_nonpaged_area when attempting to upgrade to Win 8

I've tried multiple times, but whenever I try to upgrade Windows 7 to Windows 8, it chugs a long just fine for quite a long time, but eventually I get an error reading "page_fault_in_nonpaged_area" and...

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Win 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...

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Fusion 5.0.2 crashes in Snow Leopard

I have Fusion 5.0.2 on my MacBook Pro using Snow Leopard.  When I open Windows, after a while it crashes and I get this message: "The operation on file "/Users/name/Documents/Virtual...

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Close to the Virtual Machine Library on VM Shutdown

I'm using Fusion 5.0.2 on a MBPr with Windows 7 and XP VMs. When I shut down either VM, the window (or full screen window) with the big play button stays open instead of collapsing to the Virtual...

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Single Window as Default View

Greetings Fusion friends, I have a lab at a university running VMWare Fusion 4 with shared access to a Windows 7 virtual machine. This lab is used by computer science students who need to develop...

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Fusion 5.0.2 on MBP Retina W8 guest not saving Preferences

OK, this is really driving me crazy and, just to say, I haven't been on this forum for a while so I apologize if this has been answered already. The problem is that Fusion is not remembering when I set...

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Use both uefi and bios mode

Hi Community, in the config file I can setup either efi or bios as firmware used by a virtual machine. Now we want to test a system which can use both modes to install two operating systems in a dual...

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