qurgh Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Yesterday I installed iBooks Author on my 10.7.2 VMWare install, but when I run it I get a blank panel where the editable area is supposed to be. The cursor even changes when I move over areas, but I can't see any of the text/images on a page. I have it running with 1.5GB of RAM and I've installed the latest VMWare Tools from the darwin.iso in the unlock-all package. I've included a screenshot to show what's happening. Has anyone else tried iBook Author in a VM? Anyone have any ideas what might be causing this? PS: I'm new to this forum and If this is the wrong place for this post, I humbly ask a mod to move it to the right one. Edit: The same thing appears to be happening in iPhoto. It shows the photo previews, but when I click a photo the photo area just goes to the grey background without displaying the image. I tried installing the VMsvga2 driver, but that didn't help either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NameIsDavid Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 I am experiencing the same issue and have tried similar solutions, including toggling the 3D Acceleration support (no effect). If I toggle the orientation toolbar button from landscape to portrait and back, I can see the template briefly during the transition before the window becomes blank again. My guess is a video driver incompatibility. I found another report of this on a Dutch site for Lion running in VMWare Fusion, so it appears to be common to both the Windows and OS X host platforms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danimal611 Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Having the exact same problem! Any update? Help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donk Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Probably needs QE/CI and there are no video drivers that support it for VMware's video adapter. So I think you are stuck with it not working. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sebus Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 Good to know, but a pity sebus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis Stout Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 I'm suffering this exact issue too. I've tried everything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donk Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 Won't work as needs QE/CI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TH3L4UGH1NGM4N Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 Donk is correct QE/CI needs to be working for the majority of the apps that Apple makes so it serves no real purpose to use OS X virtualized if you intend on using those apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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