VMware Fusion Woes

I really like VMware Fusion and use it daily for development and testing.   The following is a list of issues that I've had and what the resolution was:

1:  Black Screen.   

 I have an old MacPro 1.1 and while Apple think that it's at the end of it's life for OS upgrades (Lion is the last).   It appears that either 10.7.5 or Fusion 5.0.0 broke something and now I get black screens where I should have a vm screen.

I tracked it down here:  http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2036012

The solution was to add this:

 mks.gl.use32core = TRUE

To the .vmx file.

This seems to work with the non-encrypted images but the vmx in an encrypted image is also encrypted and I'm having a heck of a time decrypting it.


Update:  It appears that once you 'encrypt' a VM you can't 'unencrypt' it.   I keep getting errors when I try to turn off the encryption.

This prevents me from adding the patch above since VmWare (rightly so) encrypts the .vmx file contents.

So on my Mac Pro I need to roll back to VMware 4.x and figure out a way to decrypt my windows 7 VM.

I'll probably just clone it to a non-encrypted VM,  I'll update this page once I figure out how.