Yesterday, for the first time ever, my MBA battery went to 10% before the end of the day. Usually I finish the day with 60 - 70% remaining. Turns out, VM Fusion is listed in the battery menu as using significant amounts of energy. Using activity monitor I see that it is using average energy of .19 and above - way above any other apps. I thought the drain might be something going on in windows7, but the drain occurs with the windows VM powered off or on, in fact, just opening VMWare Fusion from the app folder puts it in the "using significant amounts of energy" listing of the battery menu. I'm running fusion V5.3 and haven't upgraded since upgrading to Maverichs a week or so ago. This drain is happening on my iMac as well. At least, the activity monitor reports the same energy usage of fusion V5.3 running on Mavericks. I don't know what the usage was in Mountain Lion as I never had a problem there.
Any thoughts? Any help? BTW: one other thing, two days before the problem first occurred, I changed the fusion settings from 1 cpu to 2 cpu's and re-authorized JAWS for that new hardware config. I can't believe that is causing a problem, but who knows? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
