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Running Visual Studio 2010 beta under VMWare Workstation 6.x

by Miha Markič 19. May 2009 11:23

There are some graphical problems, probably due to new Visual Studio’s WPF UI, when running shinny new Visual Studio 2010 beta under VMWare Workstation: things like menus disappearing, strange artifacts appearing, etc.

Luckily the solution to this is very simple:

make sure the virtual machine is turned off
open virtual machine settings, go to Hardware tab and select Display
Turn off Accelerate 3D graphics (DirectX 9.0c) option and that’s it.

Picture quality might be a bit lower but at least everything will work. Btw I’ve installed Visual Studio 2010 in both Windows XP x86 and Windows 7 x64 virtual machines and it works just fine when graphics acceleration is turned off.

Update 9.12.2009: Workstation 7 supports WPF/Aero with hardware acceleration.

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Comments

5/21/2009 12:46:23 AM #

Hi.

Thanks for the info. I'll test it in Virtual PC tomorrow.

Miha

Miha Jakovac | Reply

6/1/2009 12:39:13 AM #

Great! I suspected that accelerated graphics was to source of the problem. Now running VS 2010 Beta on Windows 7.

Peter | Reply

9/24/2009 12:47:45 AM #

I have problems installing vmware on windows 7 x32bit, says the software is disabled for my own protection. any tips?

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12/9/2009 8:27:09 PM #

What a life-saver! Not sure how you figured this out but I'm so happy I don't have to install VS2010 on my main machine. Things didn't work inside VS until I found out about this checkbox. Thanks!

Francois Vanderseypen | Reply

12/9/2009 8:29:18 PM #

Hi guys,

I think that it is worth saying that Workstation supports Windows 7/WPF/Aero without resorting to software workarounds like I posted.

Miha Markic | Reply

1/6/2010 8:39:10 AM #

solved my problem, thanks!

Virtualish | Reply

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