I am using vmware Workstation 10 on a Gentoo linux laptop with kernel 3.14 and KDE-4.13. Guest is Windows 7 Professional 64bit.
Unity mode has always been working perfectly well and smooth, no matter whether I start the Workstation using the integrated Intel HD
chip (no 3D acceleration) or on the nvidia card (using primusrun enabling 3D acceleration).
The Microsoft Performance Index is 5.7.
However, while Visual Studio 2010 worked perfectly well, VS 2013 causes a full freeze. The window appears as 5(!!) windows in KDE
with four being just "Border" bars. Whenever I try to move the main window, the top bar gets moved instead and freezes after a few pixels
movement. The whole desktop does no longer respond then.
However, conky reports vmware-vmx to be at around ~5% cpu, not changing much up or down.
I have to switch to a root console and suspend the machine using vmrun to get out of this situation again.
It does not seem to matter whether Aero is turned on or off, or whether I start Windows with or without 3D acceleration or use KDE with
XRender, OpenGL 2.0 or OpenGL 3.1.
I first suspected the ugly new UI design of Microsoft applications, but MS Office 2013 works just perfect in unity mode. It is *only*
Visual Studio 2013 that is misbehaving.
Attached is a screenshot *before* the freeze, obviously I can't make one during the freeze.
Has anybody ever experienced this and/or can suggest anything that can fix this?
Thanks in advance
Yamakuzure
Message was edited by: Yamakuzure Changed screenshots, accidently uploaded a wrong one.