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Issues with VMware Fusion after installing Sophos Anti Virus for Mac

MPB

Hello first of all I want to thank you for offering this anti virus :)

The problem could be unrelated but after I installed Sophos AV on my macbook pro VMware Fusion had issues starting up windows, and than it froze. Any ideas? 

Thank you.

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    Hi MPB. Welcome to the forums.

    Personally, I have had no issues starting up Windoze on my MBP in VMWare Fusion version 3.1.1. (Win7 and Win XP SP2)

    I have set the On-access Scanning exclusion for my VMs. (On my computer, it's located at ~/Library/Application Support/VMWare Fusion/Virtual Machines; the location of the VMs on your machine may differ - it could be in the Documents folder). I guess setting the exclusions should help speed things up.

    If setting the VMs in the Excluded Items still freezes your Windoze VM, try disabling the on-access scanner altogether when booting the VM.

    (Note: I have not set an exclusion for the Bootcamp partition, even though I boot into my Bootcamp partition, and it still runs fine in VMWare Fusion.)

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    YES !!! works like a charm now.

    Thank you :)

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    I just loaded SAV 9.0.7 on OSX 10.9.2.  When I have the on-access scanner turned on, my Windows VM (VMWare Fusion 6) hangs then shuts down.  When I turn off on-access scanner then the VM runs just fine.  I excluded the vm directory from the scan but still the same issue.

    Is there an alternate solution to this besides turning off on-access scanner?

    Thanks.

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