Bill, I have the same setup as you, win7-64 in fusion on a MBA. First, do you have windows power management set to hibernate or go to sleep after a certain time, like after an hour? I have mine set to never sleep. second, when I'm finished with windows I suspend it from Fusion toolbar. that prevents windows power management from doing anything like shutting down, or goingg to sleep etc. or, if I'm finished with the computer for a while, I'll just shift away from fusion back to the desktop and close the lid of the MBA which does the same thing as suspending the VM.
On rare occasions when things get a little screwed up and I can't get the VM to respond, I first make sure I'm not interacted with the fusion toolbar, then I VO right arrow all the way to the right and hit tab a few times and Jaws usually comes up talking. If worst comes to worst and I can't get the VM to respond, I use the control command F keystroke to switch screen modes, either from full to single or vice versa - it doesn't matter, and that shakes things up and the VM responds. Those are the unusual conditions though. I have found that some preventive maintenance keeps things working well. That maintenance being what I described first, suspending the VM when not in use to side-step windows power management and/or switching away from the VM back to the Mac desktop and closing the lid effectively suspending the vm. I only suspend the vm when I'm not going to be using windows but I am going to be working on the Mac side. This keeps the vm from draining valuable battery life which it can do at an alarming rate - just watch things in Activity monitor if you want to know the impact of an active VM verses a suspended VM. On Apr 2, 2014, at 9:15 AM, Bill Holton <bill32...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi. > Using Windows 7 64 bit in a VM Fusion virtual machine, whenever I walk away > from it for more than an hour or so, I have a devil of a time getting back > into the VM. I have both the VM and my Mac Mini set to never go to sleep, > and yet when I return the only thing I can get to is the Mac Fusion window. > I almost always have to restart the VM to get it up and running. Any tips or > suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > Bill > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
