For some reason last night my Windows XP image in VMWare fusion locked up during a update to the Microsoft Security stuff. I tried doing the “Virtual Machine -> Shutdown” which looked like it was going to work. However Windows just set for ever on the “Shutting Down Windows” screen. Well if you hold down the Option key when you click on the “Virtual Machine” menu item, the word “Force” shows up in front of all the options. This is the equivalent of pressing the power button when you click “Force Shutdown”. With out that, VMWare is trying to do a “nice” shutdown. So I forced a “reset” and everything came up fine… Hope this helps some one else who is “hung”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For some reason last night my Windows XP image in VMWare fusion locked up during a update to the Microsoft Security stuff. I tried doing the “Virtual Machine -> Shutdown” which looked like it was going to work. However Windows just set for ever on the “Shutting Down Windows” screen. Well if you hold down … <\/p>\n