With my VM, right now when I switch to Unity nothing is being shown anymore on my displays. In the Vm Library I can see that it is supposed to show some windows, and my taskbar as I have it set to always show, but I do not see anything.
Yesterday I was at work, where I have 3 monitors but at smaller resolution since 2 of my monitors are smaller (17") compared to what I have at home. I had the VM in Unity mode. Suspended the VM for when I left to go home.
This morning, at home, I resumed the VM and it is not showing anything. I can switch it to window and it looks fine and working. I switch back to Unity and still same issue. At home I also have 3 monitors, but 2 of them are bigger (23"). Not sure if this all matters, but I did see the following entries in the vmware-vmfusion.log file:
2013-08-09T08:53:38.709-07:00| VMware Fusion| I120: UpdateUnityState setting unity state to: off
2013-08-09T08:53:38.761-07:00| VMware Fusion| I120: IsPowerOffNeededForTopology: Guest topology limit: (5280 x 3200), 3 display(s).
2013-08-09T08:53:56.920-07:00| VMware Fusion| I120: UpdateUnityState setting unity state to: on
2013-08-09T08:53:57.082-07:00| VMware Fusion| I120: IsPowerOffNeededForTopology: Guest topology limit: (5280 x 3200), 3 display(s).
2013-08-09T08:53:57.083-07:00| VMware Fusion| I120: On: This VM is already in unity, bailing out
2013-08-09T08:53:57.084-07:00| VMware Fusion| I120: DUI: Suspending display, hiding current dialog (0).
2013-08-09T08:53:57.822-07:00| VMware Fusion| I120: IsPowerOffNeededForTopology: Guest topology limit: (5280 x 3200), 3 display(s).
2013-08-09T08:54:01.920-07:00| VMware Fusion| I120: On: This VM is already in unity, bailing out
After restart of the VM itself (Windows Vista 32-bit SP2), Unity was functioning again. I also checked the Windows Event log and in there I could see in there around the same time:
Log Name: Application
Source: Desktop Window Manager
Date: 8/9/2013 8:28:57 AM
Event ID: 9020
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: USBO886572VM.am.corp.amgen.com
Description:
The Desktop Window Manager has encountered a fatal error (0x88980406)
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Desktop Window Manager" />
<EventID Qualifiers="49152">9020</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2013-08-09T14:28:57.000Z" />
<EventRecordID>46954</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>USBO886572VM.am.corp.amgen.com</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>0x88980406</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
I've attached the vmware-vmfusion.log file.