Problem with Strange VMWare behaviour when shutting down guest.
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Published on 2010-03-17T11:03:56Z
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Hi,
I've been having a problem for a while now with VMWare Workstaion. (Originally with 6.5, but now with 7.0 and 7.0.1 too).
The problem occurs when I choose to shut down a guest. VMWare itself seems to hang.
If I choose to shut down a guest that's opened full screen, and during the process I minimise the screen to work on other applications in the host, often (not all the time) when I return to the guest I have a 'greyed out' screen and the system becomes unresponsive.
The host O/S still seems to be working, but I am unable to switch to other applications. (I can bring up the taskbar on the host and 'see' other applications and even switch to them, but VMWare still stays 'on top' being unresponsive).
I can not terminate VMWare even when windows says that the application has become unresponsive and gives me the option to terminate.
VMWare stays on top, and I'm forced to either shutdown, or log off and log back on in order to regain control of my computer.
This happens with both Windows 7 and Windows Vista guest operating systems (32 bit), and I have had it happen on multiple host machines, and multiple guest machines too.
Current Host: Windows 7 64 bit, 8GB Ram, 500GB HDD, i7 Processor.
I have been searching for more than 6 months for a solution but have found none, so finally decided to post here. Does anyone know what might be causing the problem (+or even how to minimize the VM so I can at least access any other applications and save work before forcing a logoff / reboot+) would be extrememly handly.
If I know the correct keystrokes to save and close in an application on the host I can do this by task-switching to the desired app to save and close successfully, but I can't see what I'm doing because VMWare Workstation is still on-top 'greyed' out.
Cheers
Adam.
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