VMware Fusion 6 - errors on Mavericks

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VMware Fusion 6 - errors on Mavericks

With the upgrade to Mavericks my previously perfectly fine and stable Windows7 virtual machine in VMware started to crash occasionally.

It happens after returning Mavericks from sleep: the virtual machine "encoutered an error" and I need to reboot it.

Observing this over time and for months now, I suspect this correlates with the widely known issue of Mavericks to resize windows when returning from sleep.

I have no hard evidence for this though - and it doesn't change the situation anyways.

Reason opening this thread here:

VMware makes it virtually impossible to get any support although I purchased a full and latest and greatest Fusion 6 license - only in hope it will fix the issue.

Also I seem to be the only one encountering these kinds of errors.

Am I really the only one in this universe with this problem???

It's not a disasterous problem but a crashing Windows7 in Fusion is always a potential data loss of unsaved stuff... I want to have this fixed...

thx

josef

many MACs

Posted on Apr 2, 2014 6:31 PM

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Answer 1

C F McBlob

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Apr 2, 2014 6:42 PM in response to JosefKx

I know it doesn't help, but crashes were the main reason I switched to Parallels. I ran both Fusion and Parallels for a while, but the latter won out for reliability.

I have three OSX VMs and five Windows VMs (XP thru 8.1) and I run my VM full screen on one monitor while running Mavericks on the other. Mac is on 24/7 and I reboot about once every two weeks. ALso, I run my VMs from an external HD, which Fusion gave me trouble with.

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Answer 2

Apr 2, 2014 8:03 PM in response to JosefKx

I can only offer the fact that VMware Fusion 6 has been rock solid for me with Mavericks. I, however, have Windows XP in the VM.

Is Windows crashing or the whole VM crashing?

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JosefKx Author

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Apr 2, 2014 8:11 PM in response to William Lloyd

Hi William,

thx for the reply.

In my configuration it is the Win7-client crashing; Fusion itself is fine; no issues with.

Do you also observe the Mavericks-resizing-windows-effect?

This is an effect that also many see - some don't...

-j.

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JosefKx Author

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Apr 2, 2014 8:12 PM in response to William Lloyd

Hi William,

thanks for the reply; it's at least good to know about an alternative - but I've been with Fusion for 4 years and it was really perfectly good, absolutely no issues.

The trouble right now is not yet severe enough to undertake a migration; I'm still hoping that a Mavericks and/or Fusion update will solve it.

thx-

josef

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Answer 5

Apr 2, 2014 8:35 PM in response to JosefKx

Hi josef, I also have fusion 6 and run vista & ubuntu vms but I never sleep the mac.

However... Vms can have odd issues depending upon how they are slept, restarted or shut down. The recommended way to do any of these is to do it in the VM before doing it to the host (that's how I do my shutdowns). i.e. do the sleep in Win7, then sleep the mac and the reverse when coming back... you may already be doing this but I wanted to check 🙂

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