Hi,
since Apple started delivering drivers for current nVidia graphic cards in OS X 10.8.1 and nVidia itself posting OS X drivers on their website, a lot of people started installing nVidia GTX6xx (current gen) cards in their Mac Pros. Works beautifully. Except for when you start a virtual machine that has 3D acceleration enabled in Fusion (5.0.2). Fusion stops with a very generic error message. "Fusion has encountered an error and shut down [virtual machine name]".
It doesn't matter what OS you are running on the guest, as long as 3D acceleration is enabled, it will crash sooner or later. Windows seems to be more robust and runs for 5-6 minutes, while Ubuntu immediately crashes after logging into the Unity desktop.
It's reproducible. Turning 3D acceleration off fixes it, but that's of course not an option.
My guess is that it must be related to the nVidia card/drivers. Removing the card and replacing it by the stock AMD card that came with the Mac Pro fixes the problem.
Can aynone here confirm this? Is VMware aware of this?
Thanks
Sascha