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Workstation 8 Unity option gray

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Workstation 8 Unity option turns gray.
1.  If you do not turn Unity on right away after launching the VM, and run some programs, it will become grayed out and you will NOT be able to turn it on.
2.  If you do turn Unity on right away after launching the VM, and run some programs, it  will become grayed out and you will NOT be able to turn it offf.

3.  While this is going on, if you simply launch VMWare worstation and highlight a VM, it will say, "This virtual machine appears to be in use." and then there are the two buttons Take Ownership and Cancel.
4.  When that happens, your only options under power are Power Off and Suspend.  That does make it sound like Workstation can no longer communicate with VMWare tools, but the VM mouse and everything else work fine, so they HAVE to be working.

 

I see lots of threads of people chasing rabbits such as R&R VMware tools etc., but I haven't seen anything from other than short-lived excitement by people who have tried that.


Other:

Host:  Windows Pro 7 64 patched to latest, Dell M6600, 2720QM, 8GB RAM, latest M8900 drivers from Dell site.

VM:  XP Pro 32 SP3, 2 CPU, 3.3 GB virtual memory, 380 GB virtual drive.

Workstation 8:  Shows no pending updates

 

So far I'm not real impressed with Workstation.  I played with XP Mode, and it seemed a lot smoother, had more consistent behavior, and was faster.  However, this is a P2V of an XP machine, so it isn't really apples-to-apples.


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