I loaded up VMWare 6.5 workstation and lost the the ability to automatically open files when a CD/DVD or USB drive was opened. I also found out the hard way that VMW 6.5 corrupted my backups made in XP (not a VM) when used with Paragon Drive Backup 8.51. When I restored a backup from both the restore partition I created with drive backup on the local HD and also the remote backup on a USB drive I would either be unable to make Outlook function, loose my wireless, or else be unable to get the OS to recognize my cellphone, Also my printer would function erratically. These occurred across three seperate BK ups made after bare metal installations to test for VM issues.
The machine this occurred on is an HP DV9225US, has 4 gigs of ram (while 1 gig over what XP will recognize and two over what HP says the machine maxes at, it is there to allow symmetric dual channel functionality), The OS is XP SP3 with all current updates at the time that VMW 6.5 was installed. There is no problem with the ram, it is recognized by the bios and 3 gigs are recognized by XP (expected) plus a little for the discrete graphics.
I checked the VMW forums and could find no reference to the issues. This did not occur with VMW Workstation ACE 6.05. I could not locate the registry keys to check for misconfigurations.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
