VMWare Fusion, Windows 7, and Display Resolution

When I am running Windows 7 in VMWare Fusion I cannot chose any of my Apple hardware. I do not see the 27" Cinema Display or the trackpad.
I installed the latest drivers fo Book Campt, but I cannot open the BC control panel in Windows. I get an error:
"An error occured when tring to access the Startup disk settings"
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

ExpressCard isn't supported in the BIOS as bootable, no.
Can you even boot Mac OS X off ExpressCard?
You could pull the internal SSD and upgrade to another model.

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I've got the Time Capsule w/ time machine working on the Mac side of my laptop, and yet am avoiding a second attempt to load / install the same on my XP side due to the first time I tried, it didn't work and I had to go back and re-install it on the Mac side.
I'm assuming that the currently working 'Time Machine' is only able to see and back-up, via the Time Capsule, the Mac side of the hard drive? Although, if it sees the whole drive, both XP and OSX sides, then all is good, and my windows based data is being backed-up.
Maybe the Time Capsule can only work with windows as an external drive,
and yet hoping it can also work as a semi automatic back-up disk.
Appreciate any insight, advise and/or references to material that would help.
Thanks

I asked this very question on another forum, as I had received differing answers previously. Here is the link to my question and to the answers I received, which seem pretty dispositive. http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=5305380#post5305380
As you will see, the short answer is that the Win side is not being backed up, but how you should configure your TM backups of your Mac side depend on whether or not you first partitioned with Boot Camp and then installed VM Fusion, or whether you installed Fusion without Boot Camp. (I now use Windows Live OneCare to back up the Win side to the TC, although configuring it to work with TC was a nightmare I care not to have ever to repeat.)

Vmware fusion/windows 7 for windows programming

I need to use a Mac and a Windows machine for teaching introductory CS classes - programming in java, web development, programming in visual basic and c#, etc.
I have a 17" MBP running vmwareand windows 7.
So far it runs the following perfectly: ms office applications, dr. java, webuilder (web editor), etc. As far as I have tested it so far it is running Visual Basic flawlessly but I've only run a couple of programs.
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MS Visual Basic
NetBeans
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I was wondering if anyone has the answer to this problem, Im currently using the 3d design programme Rhino 4 on my macbook pro and many of rhinos commands use the F-keys however they cant be used as the react to the macs keyboard commands such as F5 and the keyboard backlights,
any suggestions would be great,

Hi yaddle2go;
I am unable to tell you for sure because I refuse to run anything from Microsoft on my Mac.
I have been told that since BootCamp run Windows directly rather then emulation like Fusion that the function keys are suppose to work properly.
Maybe if you repost your question over in the BootCamp forum you might be able to find someone that runs Microsoft software on their Mac that can give you a better answer.
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Display Questions with Retina and VMware Fusion (Windows 7/8)

Looking to buy my first MacBook Pro and looking to make sure I get the specs I need and have a couple of questions.
I would like to be able to run (simultaenously)
During the day for work:
Windows 7 x64 - 30GB HD - 1 Core - 1GB Ram - Purpose: Has a VPN client that allows me to VPN and RDP only
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After work:
Guess it doesn't matter really - i'd like to play games (bootcamp fine) if possible too. Nothing crazy so barely worth mentioning.
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Display: Iris Pro or nVidia - Can the base 15 inch GPU/CPU handle the two VMs at the same time plus the host OS (OSX) without hiccups?
Display: How does VMware Fusion recognize the discrete GPU - will the system be smooth/quiet without activating it?
Battery life: Virtualization is pretty heavy battery wise. Does anyone know what happens to the battery when you're running a couple VMs?
Display: How is running Windows 7/8 on a MacBook with a specifically retina display? Do the Windows PCs look really ugly/blurry due to such a high resolution?
What is the minimum hardware required for these VMs to run fast and responsive? (CPU/GPU/RAM only)
Thanks!!

Sorry - we're users here, just like you, and some questions just get lost sometimes.
The fastest hardware you can buy, the easier you'll be able to run Windows. If you use Boot Camp to run Windows (7, 8 or 8.1) the machine will run at it's best. If you want to run Windows alongside the Mac OS, you'll need to use a VM application (I use Parallels - I've tried VMwareFusion but like Parallels better and it just works best for me).
So, to your questions:
The Retina machine with the NVIDIA GPU will be the fastest - it's a faster processor and has more VRAM.
Any VM is going to use resources - how much RAM, for example, is up to you. I have 16 GB of RAM and 8GB dedicated to Parallels/Windows 7 Pro.
I wouldn't (and you really can't) run a VM for very long on battery. If you're using VM's, that's the time to plug into mains. Running a 'couple' of VM would put further heavy use on your GPU, CPU and shorten your battery life.
I would make sure to get a good, fast quad-core i7 processor, the 2GB of VRAM NVIDIA GPU and the maximum amount of RAM (16GB).
Good luck,
Clinton

Vmware Fusion 3.0 and OSX 10.7.4

Vmware Fusion 3.0 was working fine until I upgraded to 10.7.4. After that it has stopped working and gives two or three errors about kernel space, etc and refuses to start.
A Windows 7 virtual machine was in a suspended state when I upgraded the OS. Was this a mistake and should I have completely quit Windows before updating? If so what is the way out now? Will it start working again if I delete the virtual machine and install Windows again?
Thanks in advance

Thanks for your quick response, PAHU. However, I tried out your suggestion and, first of all, it wouldn't let me import the Virtual Machine which I had copied out to an external drive. The name of the file was just grayed out and it wouldn't let me click on it. Then I tried to create another Win 7 virtual machine and it came up with the same error messages as before. These messages, in sequence, are as follows:
"Unable to retrieve kernel zone sizes"
"Failed to initialize monitor device"
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The same messages appeared when I tried to create a Win XP Professional virtual machine.
As I said in my previous message, this has only started happening after I upgraded Mac OSX to 10.7.4. It was working fine up to 10.7.3.

2 Boot Camp Issues: Time clock and Display resolution

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I'm trying to use Orb to stream audio files (podcasts downloaded daily within iTunes to be exact) to a Blackberry. Orb is currently only Win compatible (meaning the streaming can only be done from a Win computer), so I've got VMWare Fusion loaded on the Mac running Windows XP via a Boot Camp partition (I think I've described this properly). In order to enable the XP side to access the podcast files, I've set up shared folders within VMWare Fusion, and then targeted those shared folders within Orb to be streamed.
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Yes, you need to make some changes, for some reason VMware still claims non or limited support for 64-bit but you can edit a file and work around the problem. When creating a fresh new Fusion environment for Vista.
http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/desktop/fusion

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Thanks, KLB

I am running v3.1.3. I did see that VMWARE recommends only allocated 1 virtual processor. I have changed that to see if it improves the random freezes. What memory and processor settings are you using for VMWARE on your MBA?

VMWare Fusion, Linksys CIT200 and a stubborn OSX

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"Unable to retrieve kernel zone sizes"
"Failed to initialize monitor device"
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The same messages appeared when I tried to create a Win XP Professional virtual machine.
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Ah, so you got it at Fry's eh? Are you by chance located in a western state with water on one side, Nevada on the other, and a few other states piled on top?
Also, are you using any kind of FW or PCIe-based video card with that?
Yes, CA.
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"ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT:
Chipset Model: ATI Radeon HD 2600
Type: GPU
Bus: PCIe
Slot: Slot-1
PCIe Lane Width: x16
VRAM (Total): 256 MB
Vendor: ATI (0x1002)
Device ID: 0x9588
Revision ID: 0x0000
ROM Revision: 113-B1480A-252
EFI Driver Version: 01.00.252
Displays:
SAMSUNG:
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 @ 60 Hz
Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Rotation: Supported
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Folks,
I recently purchased a new Macbook Pro laptop computer to use for demos and testing with Oracle RAC. I am using VMWare Fusion for Mac OS X to setup new VM machines with Oracle 11g.
Thus far, I can setup single instance Oracle 11g database fine with OEL 5 (32 bit OS) as the guest OS. The problem that I keep running into due to the limitation with VMWare Fusion product is that I am not able to edit the VMWare network settings to allow multiple VM machines to communicate with each other. The second main issue that I currently face is that VMWare Fusion does not allow you to setup shared disks which are a requirement to install and configure an Oracle RAC environment. I came to the realization that after searching forums online that
one must setup a third VM machine to act as an NFS or iSCSI filer system to present to the other VM hosts for the shared storage requirement for RAC. Has anyone been able to do all
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Hi,
I'm facing the same issue.. If your issue is fixed..could you please let me know?
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While I am a software database developer, I know VERY little about HTML/CSS coding.
After updating to Firefox v18 yesterday, the font text rendering seriously degraded! The resolution now is very poor and fuzzy! IE9's resolution is "perfect."
Both browsers are running on a fresh new custom install of Win7-64 where NO special global display config settings have been made.
Since this problem occurred after the FF v18 upgrade and did NOT exist in IE9, it seems as if this problem is specific to Firefox.
After searching Google for several hours now without finding any intuitive-sounding solution nor knowing what to look for, I have posted this request for help in hopes someone will please kindly reply back with a fix.
PS: Sorry for the duplicate post... Had problems with the first submission due to the Email Registration process.

Try to set the gfx.content.azure.enabled pref to false or if this didn't help disable Direct2D by setting the gfx.direct2d.disabled pref to true on the about:config page and leave hardware acceleration otherwise enabled.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/about:config
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*http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2670838
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes

Open a Finder window in full display resolution

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I want to open a Finder window so that it's display will take full screen whatever the screen resolution is.
like this :
set MAXx to ?????
set MAXy to ?????
tell application "Finder"
open folder "Macintosh HD"
tell Finder window NomDossierDateParution
set current view to list view
set toolbar visible to false
set bounds of it to {1, 1, MAXx, MAXy}
end tell
end tell
Any idea ?
Regards,
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-- Obtain width and height of main screen.
set tWidth to word 3 of (do shell script "defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver | grep -w Width") as number
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set tOrientation to do shell script "defaults read com.apple.dock orientation"
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if (tOrientation is "top") then
set bounds to {2, (44 + tDifferential + 13), tWidth, tHeight}
else if (tOrientation is "right") then
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else if (tOrientation is "bottom") then
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