Running Fusion 4.02 on OS 10.7.2 on an 2011 21.5 core i5 iMac with 12 gig RAM, 2 TB disk.
Tonight I was having trouble with a Windows 7 image running very slowly - pegging a single core with 100% CPU from a vmware-vmx process. I thought it was something going on with Windows, but then I tried an Ubuntu image, and finally I found that even creating a brand new VM and booting it without an operating system resulted in the same behavior - any VM running at all results in a vmware-vmx process running at 100% CPU under activity monitor.
I tried rebooting. I tried repair permissions on my disk. I tried downloading and reinstalling Fusion 4.02.
I'm not clear that anything has changed. I wasn't seeing this behavior either last night or the day before. I've done no OS upgrades this week, nor got anything else from software update. I haven't installed any new apps in the last day or two.
I am seeing a couple of messages in my console logs. Samples:
Oct 25 21:40:00 imac [0x0-0x4e04e].com.vmware.fusion[842]: 2011-10-25 21:40:00.645 vmware-vmx[957:1907] Cannot find function pointer NewPlugIn for factory C5A4CE5B-0BB8-11D8-9D75-0003939615B6 in CFBundle/CFPlugIn 0x10155b190 </Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/DVCPROHDAudio.plugin> (bundle, not loaded)
Oct 25 21:44:09 imac [0x0-0x4e04e].com.vmware.fusion[842]: Tue Oct 25 21:44:09 2011 VMware Fusion[842] (FileSync.framework) _SFSendMessage: gServerMessagePortName = 'com.apple.FileSyncAgent.iDisk'
Oct 25 21:44:17 imac [0x0-0x4e04e].com.vmware.fusion[842]: 2011-10-25T21:44:17.027|
Oct 25 21:44:17 imac [0x0-0x4e04e].com.vmware.fusion[842]: ServiceImpl_Opener: PID 1386
Oct 25 21:44:18 imac [0x0-0x4e04e].com.vmware.fusion[842]: 2011-10-25 21:44:18.437 vmware-vmx[1378:5703] Error loading /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/DVCPROHDAudio.plugin/Contents/MacOS/DVCPROHDAudio: dlopen(/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/DVCPROHDAudio.plugin/Contents/MacOS/DVCPROHDAudio, 262): no suitable image found. Did find:
Oct 25 21:44:18 imac [0x0-0x4e04e].com.vmware.fusion[842]: /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/DVCPROHDAudio.plugin/Contents/MacOS/DVCPROHDAudio: no matching architecture in universal wrapper
Oct 25 21:44:18 imac [0x0-0x4e04e].com.vmware.fusion[842]: 2011-10-25 21:44:18.438 vmware-vmx[1378:5703] Cannot find function pointer NewPlugIn for factory C5A4CE5B-0BB8-11D8-9D75-0003939615B6 in CFBundle/CFPlugIn 0x103228620 </Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/DVCPROHDAudio.plugin> (bundle, not loaded)
I see those messages in the last 24 hours or so, but not in system.logs more than about 1 day ago.
Any suggestions?
-- Paul