VMware Fusion has encountered an error and has shut down Windows

[PeaceFreak]

I recently upgraded to Version 4 from 3. Yesterday I installed version 4.0.2 when the auto software update announced a new version was available. Now every time I start up I get this message:

Vmware Fusion has encountered an error and has shut down Windows

I get a choice of "Click to Restart Windows" or "Ignore" but regardless, the problem persists.

I manually downloaded a new copy of version 4.0.2 and installed it but the same problem occurs.

Would appreciate any suggestions on how I can resolve this...

[BerndWiegmann]

I had the same problem. Using 4.0.1 did solve this problem for me. As I learned, the older versions are also available at the download page. There is a box where you can select the old versions.

[xvrbx]

Can you please try to go to the VM Settings and disable the 3D acceleration in the Display pane?

Kind regards,

Xavier

[xvrbx]

By the way, VMware folks, I'm experiencing a similar problem.

vmWare version: 4.0.2

host OS: MacOS X "Lion" 10.7.2

guest OS: Windows 7 x64

Prior to the upgrade to Lion, eveything was working.

I can provide the TGZ to the vmware support folks if they want.

[PeaceFreak]

Thank you so much. Luckily I did not need to use Windows urgently! Turning off 3D acceleration did the trick for me!

[dk91]

I just tried that - hope it works - this is the third serious problem I get on Lion with Win 7 x64 - VMware, please do better testing for that! thanks

[ColoradoMarmot]

You didn't, by chance, ignore the warning about GFXStatus, or use some similar application that let's you override the autoswitching of the graphics chips, did you?

[dk91]

turning off the graphics accelerator has helped, so far no further crashes! Not usre, what GFX warnings you refer to,  I did not see any warnings, so I could not have ignored them....also, I have no other graphic app runing on this MAC.

One sidenote: I had on the original problem (dock eats memory and CPU) one more occurence, until I rebooted all machines at the same time after adding the line suggested by Steve Goddard. I never experienced the memory problem, but as mentioned earlier, I have 16GB RAM.

[dk91]

well, it just happened again, no idea what to do next - (grafix acceleration is off on all 3 VMs)

VMware, any help??