VMware Fusion Known Issues

The sections below detail known issues with using VMware discovered by the IS&T Vmware release team during testing.   Additional known issues provided by VMware can be found in the Release Notes for each product.  For details, see the VMware Workstation 6.0.x Release Notes and Vmware Fusion Release Notes.

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Choosing Take Ownership does nothing but pop up the alert again.
You must choose Cancel and hand-delete the lock file directory from your copy.

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• Time Machine, Mac OS X 10.5's built-in backup solution, will duplicate any virtual machine that has been run since the last backup.  As virtual machines tend to be large, they might take up a considerable amount of space on your backup drive.  For more information see the release announcement from the Fusion Blog.
• Full screen mode interfers with opening the spotlight search dialog and Spaces.  These bugs have been reported to Apple.
• For additional known issues, see the VMware Fusion Release Notes.