Black screen on all virtual machines after software update
I'm running 3.1.2 Fusion on a Mac Pro, which is running 10.6.7 and after a recent update all my virtual machines reach black screens when they run. If I suspend, I can see the screen, and it seems that everything works normally, but when I take the screen becomes black. I don't think that it is really a display problem: I can not ping the VM when it runs.
The same thing happens when I create a new virtual machine, Windows or Ubuntu. Looking at the VM Ubuntu after that I created a new and he suspended definitely seemed to be running: frozen screen was part of the Ubuntu installation, so he had certainly run pending. The update of software in question was not an update of the OS from memory, I think I kept the machine more up-to-date than that, but I can't be sure.
Any help is very appreciated, that completely prevent me from using VMware.
Thank you very much!
Heath
Have you tried to uninstall/reinstall VMware Fusion to try to see which solves the problem?
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