Comments on: VMWare Fusion, Windows Vista and the Black Screen of Death http://www.hiwhy.com/2009/03/09/vmware-fusion-windows-vista-and-the-black-screen-of-death/ Focuses on Education, Business, Law and Other Topics Relevant to Chinese Americans Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:24:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Speed Racer http://www.hiwhy.com/2009/03/09/vmware-fusion-windows-vista-and-the-black-screen-of-death/comment-page-1/#comment-21833 Speed Racer Thu, 01 Sep 2011 21:47:00 +0000 http://www.hiwhy.com/?p=792#comment-21833 Believe it or not, this fixed my problem. I found it Googling In some cases, the virtual machine window can become black if you disable 3D acceleration. If you have high resolution set in your Windows Vista or Windows 7 guest operating system (1600x1200 and above), the virtual machine window can become black if you turn off 3D. To work around this problem, set your virtual machine's VRAM to at least 32MB when 3D is turned off. You set the VRAM in the virtual machine's configuration file (.vmx). Navigate to the Mac folder where the virtual machine is located. The default is your Home folder > Documents > Virtual Machines. Right click on the Vista or Windows 7 virtual machine package and select Show Package Contents. In a text editor open the file named .vmx, and add the following line to the file: svga.vramSize = "33554432" Save the file. Power up the virtual machine again. Believe it or not, this fixed my problem. I found it Googling

In some cases, the virtual machine window can become black if you disable 3D acceleration.
If you have high resolution set in your Windows Vista or Windows 7 guest operating system (1600×1200 and above), the virtual machine window can become black if you turn off 3D. To work around this problem, set your virtual machine’s VRAM to at least 32MB when 3D is turned off. You set the VRAM in the virtual machine’s configuration file (.vmx).
Navigate to the Mac folder where the virtual machine is located. The default is your Home folder > Documents > Virtual Machines.
Right click on the Vista or Windows 7 virtual machine package and select Show Package Contents.
In a text editor open the file named .vmx, and add the following line to the file:
svga.vramSize = “33554432″
Save the file.
Power up the virtual machine again.

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