Comments on: “Failed to Start Monitoring Changes” Error in VMWare Fusion http://www.alterzone.net/blog/2007/12/07/failed-to-start-monitoring-changes-error-in-vmware-fusion/ Where the Future Never Looks the Same Way Twice Tue, 11 Jan 2011 21:53:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Joel http://www.alterzone.net/blog/2007/12/07/failed-to-start-monitoring-changes-error-in-vmware-fusion/comment-page-1/#comment-4050 Joel Tue, 11 Jan 2011 21:53:38 +0000 http://www.alterzone.net/blog/2007/12/07/failed-to-start-monitoring-changes-error-in-vmware-fusion/#comment-4050 <p>Can anyone re-post the information? alextafoya.com appears to no longer be accessible.</p> Can anyone re-post the information? alextafoya.com appears to no longer be accessible.

]]> By: Samuel http://www.alterzone.net/blog/2007/12/07/failed-to-start-monitoring-changes-error-in-vmware-fusion/comment-page-1/#comment-4047 Samuel Thu, 20 May 2010 08:26:31 +0000 http://www.alterzone.net/blog/2007/12/07/failed-to-start-monitoring-changes-error-in-vmware-fusion/#comment-4047 <p>If you have skimmed down this far go back and check post number 9 by Dave Yankowiak | December 21, 2009 at 3:43 pm</p> <p>If you follow all the steps it fixes the VMWare Fusion problem on Mac with Visual Studio 2008.</p> <p>Although, beware it slows down the loading of your web projects a lot. However, to me the performance hit is worth the other benefits.</p> <p>Good find Dave Y. thanks!</p> <p>And a specail thanks to who m ever posted the fix on Alextafoya.com (you are a wizard!)</p> If you have skimmed down this far go back and check post number 9 by Dave Yankowiak | December 21, 2009 at 3:43 pm

If you follow all the steps it fixes the VMWare Fusion problem on Mac with Visual Studio 2008.

Although, beware it slows down the loading of your web projects a lot. However, to me the performance hit is worth the other benefits.

Good find Dave Y. thanks!

And a specail thanks to who m ever posted the fix on Alextafoya.com (you are a wizard!)

]]> By: Michael http://www.alterzone.net/blog/2007/12/07/failed-to-start-monitoring-changes-error-in-vmware-fusion/comment-page-1/#comment-4045 Michael Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:28:54 +0000 http://www.alterzone.net/blog/2007/12/07/failed-to-start-monitoring-changes-error-in-vmware-fusion/#comment-4045 <p>This was indeed a very frustrating problem. I'm running vm fusion 3.0 and windows seven. After two days of fighting with this issue, I came upon this page. After reading the all the post, i releaized that the solution was was simple. Open visual studio (2010 RC in my case) select tool | options Next select the Projects and Solutions > General I then changed all the paths to point to the local drive e.g. Projects Location -> C:\Users\MICHAEL\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects Project Templates -> C:\Users\MICHAEL MONTGOMERY\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Templates\ProjectTemplates etc.</p> <p>Noweverything works perfectly...</p> This was indeed a very frustrating problem. I’m running vm fusion 3.0 and windows seven. After two days of fighting with this issue, I came upon this page. After reading the all the post, i releaized that the solution was was simple. Open visual studio (2010 RC in my case) select tool | options Next select the Projects and Solutions > General I then changed all the paths to point to the local drive e.g. Projects Location -> C:\Users\MICHAEL\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects Project Templates -> C:\Users\MICHAEL MONTGOMERY\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Templates\ProjectTemplates etc.

Noweverything works perfectly…

]]> By: Robb http://www.alterzone.net/blog/2007/12/07/failed-to-start-monitoring-changes-error-in-vmware-fusion/comment-page-1/#comment-4044 Robb Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:12:26 +0000 http://www.alterzone.net/blog/2007/12/07/failed-to-start-monitoring-changes-error-in-vmware-fusion/#comment-4044 <p>I just ran into this same issue using VMWare Fusion 3.0, Windows 7, and Visual Studio 2008. To Murray's point above, I think this article I accidentally found answers that: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/810886. Unfortunately it wouldn't help me as the registry structure is different in Windows 7. I'm going to try Murray's solution as I don't want the extra overhead of syncing files.</p> I just ran into this same issue using VMWare Fusion 3.0, Windows 7, and Visual Studio 2008. To Murray’s point above, I think this article I accidentally found answers that: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/810886. Unfortunately it wouldn’t help me as the registry structure is different in Windows 7. I’m going to try Murray’s solution as I don’t want the extra overhead of syncing files.

]]> By: Dave Yankowiak http://www.alterzone.net/blog/2007/12/07/failed-to-start-monitoring-changes-error-in-vmware-fusion/comment-page-1/#comment-4043 Dave Yankowiak Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:43:44 +0000 http://www.alterzone.net/blog/2007/12/07/failed-to-start-monitoring-changes-error-in-vmware-fusion/#comment-4043 <p>If any of you are still having problems with the "Failed to start monitoring changes" warning on folders shared between Mac and your windows VM, this totally fixed the problem for me: http://alextafoya.com/post/2009/08/19/Make-Visual-Studio-work-with-VMWare-Fusion-shares.aspx</p> <p>And I looked for a lonnnggggggggg time. :)</p> If any of you are still having problems with the “Failed to start monitoring changes” warning on folders shared between Mac and your windows VM, this totally fixed the problem for me: http://alextafoya.com/post/2009/08/19/Make-Visual-Studio-work-with-VMWare-Fusion-shares.aspx

And I looked for a lonnnggggggggg time. :)

]]> By: Orlando Gomez http://www.alterzone.net/blog/2007/12/07/failed-to-start-monitoring-changes-error-in-vmware-fusion/comment-page-1/#comment-4034 Orlando Gomez Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:44:54 +0000 http://www.alterzone.net/blog/2007/12/07/failed-to-start-monitoring-changes-error-in-vmware-fusion/#comment-4034 <p>I had the same problem because i choosed a mac shared folder as my documents root. The explanation is the following: You need to have (and be able to control) the permissions over some files (like web.config). That's not possible if you're using a network mapped unit (like vmware's shared folders). What I'm doing is having a copy of webprojects inside the Virtual Machine filesystem and using a sync tool (like rsync) to make backups inside the mac file system.</p> I had the same problem because i choosed a mac shared folder as my documents root. The explanation is the following: You need to have (and be able to control) the permissions over some files (like web.config). That’s not possible if you’re using a network mapped unit (like vmware’s shared folders). What I’m doing is having a copy of webprojects inside the Virtual Machine filesystem and using a sync tool (like rsync) to make backups inside the mac file system.

]]> By: Murray http://www.alterzone.net/blog/2007/12/07/failed-to-start-monitoring-changes-error-in-vmware-fusion/comment-page-1/#comment-4033 Murray Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:47:27 +0000 http://www.alterzone.net/blog/2007/12/07/failed-to-start-monitoring-changes-error-in-vmware-fusion/#comment-4033 <p>I've had the same frustration, and here's what I did. Rather than using VM Fusion shared folders, I shared out my project folder from my mac using SMB. In my Windows VM, I then mapped a network drive to this folder, and set it as a trusted location. That way, my VM contains no project files whatsoever; my mac has everything. And the Visual Studio Development Server seems to be fine with that setup.</p> <p>It seems to be specifically Shared Folders (i.e. the hgfs) that causes the problem. When using Performance Monitor, I noticed a "Fast IO Disallowed" message kept popping up every time the webdev process tried to access /Device/hgfs/.host/etc..... So maybe whatever protocol is being used by shared folders doesn't allow Fast IO access?</p> <p>Anyone have any ideas about this?</p> I’ve had the same frustration, and here’s what I did. Rather than using VM Fusion shared folders, I shared out my project folder from my mac using SMB. In my Windows VM, I then mapped a network drive to this folder, and set it as a trusted location. That way, my VM contains no project files whatsoever; my mac has everything. And the Visual Studio Development Server seems to be fine with that setup.

It seems to be specifically Shared Folders (i.e. the hgfs) that causes the problem. When using Performance Monitor, I noticed a “Fast IO Disallowed” message kept popping up every time the webdev process tried to access /Device/hgfs/.host/etc….. So maybe whatever protocol is being used by shared folders doesn’t allow Fast IO access?

Anyone have any ideas about this?

]]> By: Oliver http://www.alterzone.net/blog/2007/12/07/failed-to-start-monitoring-changes-error-in-vmware-fusion/comment-page-1/#comment-4031 Oliver Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:47:33 +0000 http://www.alterzone.net/blog/2007/12/07/failed-to-start-monitoring-changes-error-in-vmware-fusion/#comment-4031 <p>Yep I am experiencing the same problem with VS 2008 on Windows XP and VMWare Fusion. Pulling my hair out on this one.</p> <p>@Johnny - didn't know you could do that so will look into that.</p> Yep I am experiencing the same problem with VS 2008 on Windows XP and VMWare Fusion. Pulling my hair out on this one.

@Johnny – didn’t know you could do that so will look into that.

]]> By: Johnny http://www.alterzone.net/blog/2007/12/07/failed-to-start-monitoring-changes-error-in-vmware-fusion/comment-page-1/#comment-4015 Johnny Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:54:43 +0000 http://www.alterzone.net/blog/2007/12/07/failed-to-start-monitoring-changes-error-in-vmware-fusion/#comment-4015 <p>Since it's the ASP.net user that is trying to get access to your vmware shared folder, It's the vmware machine that would need to be fixed. Since the UI does not provide advanced setup the simple solution is to reverse the share.</p> <p>Sharing a folder from your windows machine then accessing it with SMB from your mac got things working for me.</p> Since it’s the ASP.net user that is trying to get access to your vmware shared folder, It’s the vmware machine that would need to be fixed. Since the UI does not provide advanced setup the simple solution is to reverse the share.

Sharing a folder from your windows machine then accessing it with SMB from your mac got things working for me.

]]> By: Graham http://www.alterzone.net/blog/2007/12/07/failed-to-start-monitoring-changes-error-in-vmware-fusion/comment-page-1/#comment-3989 Graham Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:56:10 +0000 http://www.alterzone.net/blog/2007/12/07/failed-to-start-monitoring-changes-error-in-vmware-fusion/#comment-3989 <p>Try right click on the page and say "View Source" (believe it or not!) ... there was an exception thrown unexpectedly from the ASMX code that displayed in a commented out block in the page source!</p> <p>Good luck.</p> Try right click on the page and say “View Source” (believe it or not!) … there was an exception thrown unexpectedly from the ASMX code that displayed in a commented out block in the page source!

Good luck.

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