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VMWare Workstation 8.0.1 & cold boots


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Hello all,

 

I've dabbed with "Mahmood"'s bittorrent of Lion 10.7.2 & workstation 8, using the VMW patch (but not the cracked serial!).

 

Since updating to 8.0.1 (hoping the graphics performance/thumbnails glitch would go) I've been unable to cold-boot any of my VMs and their snapshots. Reboot yes, but just a grey Apple from "Powered Off".

 

Is anyone having the same experience by chance?

 

Cheers

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Basically he ripped off our work and made a bit of a mess of it!

 

True enough, although his intentions seem to be from the right place, for the benefit of the curious. It seems the graphics slow-down (when rebooting or re-sizing the VM) and the "see-thru hole" problem that afflicted my Chrome+Flash experience are gone.

 

Thanks for making this possible.

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Basically he ripped off our work and made a bit of a mess of it!

 

Now, that should teach me a lesson. I have upgraded to VM Workstation 8.0.1 (from 8) looking for video improvements etc, but the SL VM will no longer start. Got the grey Apple logo and that was it.

 

So, I have download and run the latest unlocker... as it was suggested it is needed after each upgrade. It make a difference in that I no longer get the Apple page.

 

VMware Workstation unrecoverable error: (vmx)
Exception 0xc0000005 (access violation) has occurred.
A log file is available in "D:\OSx\vmware.log".  A core file is available in "D:\OSx\vmware-vmx-7768.dmp".  You can request support and include the contents of the log file and the core file.  
To collect data to submit to VMware support, choose "Collect Support Data" from the Help menu.
You can also run the "vm-support" script in the Workstation folder directly.
We will respond on the basis of your support entitlement.

 

... and after I dismiss that:

Cannot find a valid peer process to connect to.

 

And I am kinda stuck now... should I downgrade back to VM 8.0.0?

 

Any help will be appreciated.

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QUOTE (Donk @ Nov 20 2011, 02:23 PM)

Basically he ripped off our work and made a bit of a mess of it!

 

 

Now, that should teach me a lesson. I have upgraded to VM Workstation 8.0.1 (from 8) looking for video improvements etc, but the SL VM will no longer start. Got the grey Apple logo and that was it.

 

So, I have download and run the latest unlocker... as it was suggested it is needed after each upgrade. It make a difference in that I no longer get the Apple page.

 

 

CODE

VMware Workstation unrecoverable error: (vmx)

Exception 0xc0000005 (access violation) has occurred.

A log file is available in "D:OSxvmware.log". A core file is available in "D:OSxvmware-vmx-7768.dmp". You can request support and include the contents of the log file and the core file.

To collect data to submit to VMware support, choose "Collect Support Data" from the Help menu.

You can also run the "vm-support" script in the Workstation folder directly.

We will respond on the basis of your support entitlement.

 

... and after I dismiss that:

 

CODE

Cannot find a valid peer process to connect to.

 

And I am kinda stuck now... should I downgrade back to VM 8.0.0?

 

Any help will be appreciated.

 

Same problem...

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Has this been fixed. I reimaged my windows 7 computer clean of vmware 8.0.1 and installed it. Then I ran the Vmware 8 unlocker 1.01 also tried 1.00. When I run the vmx I choose 1 CPU 2 core 3GB memory then I get the same exact error as above. I also tried on two different 10.7.2 vmdk and same error. Are the unlocker's not working or do we have incompatible vdmk's. Not sure yet what else to do.

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I tried 1.02 and I still could not get it to bring up the vmware screen without getting the error I had above when I had 8.01. I must of tried 2 or 3 different vmdk's. I uninstalled 8.01 and went back to 8 and it works. If there is a way I can vmware 8 to vmware 8.01 without getting the error that would be great.

 

Ideally, am I supposed to lauch the 8.01 installer, let it uninstall 8, install 8.01. If I remember right 8.01 asks to restart. Then am I supposed to run 1.02 then restart again? Then run the vmx? Maybe I was missing something that was giving me the error. I spent quite some hours on the weekend trying to figure it out.

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