I have VMware Workstation 8.02 installed on a Fedora 14 box. This also happened w/ 7.x as well on the same box. My guest is win7 x86. vmware tools always match the version of workstation running. happens w/ 3d graphics enabled or disabled. i will fire up a GUI program on the VM, like sqldeveloper, or a java based application and the gui in the 'console' or vmware workstation window will freeze. i can move the mouse around and click but i don't see anything happening.
so i enable the VNC console and fire up vnc from my host. from VNC everything works normally. i can see the apps i'm running, etc. i can launch new apps and use the guest as normal. what is weird is that if i mouse over to the workstation window (away from my VNC) i can actually see the mouse interacting w/ the guest OS and doing things even though the guest os through the workstation window shows no change in the open windows and such.
i will close down an app or maximize and minimize a few windows and the display in the workstation window will start working again.
has anyone seen this before ? i'm not sure what level this could be at or what to even start looking at.