Hi;
I'm having a problem where every once in a while it appears that VMware Workstation 8.0.2 User Interface (running on a Win-7 64-Bit host) will appear to 'lockup' when running a Guest, usually while doing something that changes focus to or from the guest.
This is usually happens when I'm running a Guest that's not using the VMware tools at that moment. This morning it happened when I was working on a Fedora-13 32-bit Guest that wasn't running the tools, and was in Full-screen mode at the time. I was working in the Guest in full-screen mode, and then had minimized Workstation to do something on the Host desktop. The lockup occurred when I was trying to go back into the Guests full-screen mode.
The symptom is that the Guest display will change color to a washed-out white (like looking through a white haze at the display underneath), and Win-7 will complain that vmware-exe has stopped responding. If I choose to 'wait', then nothing seems to improve. If I choose to 'end the program', it doesn't usually actually end until I try it for a while, and many times. While the problem is happening, I can C-A-D to get to the Windows Task manager, but I can't start new application in Windows.
After vmware-exe finally ends, I can restart VMware Workstation, go to the Guest I was using, and it's still there and running. I can pick up where I left off.
Looking into the Windows-7 Host event viewer, I can see an event
Log Name: Application
Source: Application Hang
Date: 3/2/2012 9:00:12 AM
Event ID: 1002
Task Category: (101)
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: R3F
Description:
The program vmware.exe version 8.0.2.28060 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Action Center control panel.
Process ID: 1a94
Start Time: 01ccf7f010c1ced6
Termination Time: 60000
Application Path: C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation\vmware.exe
Report Id: d1662284-646f-11e1-befb-20cf304ff1c6
I'll attach an excerpt from the vmware-log in case that's helpful.
I don't usually have this problem with any application other than VMware Workstation.
Does anyone else see this problem?
Thanks;