Vmware’s legacy SVGA driver that comes as part of the VMware Tools typical installation with is causing Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 virtual machines to lock up.

The frozen VM will still perform most of it’s functions but video output over vSphere console / Remote Desktop just doesn’t work.

According to VMware Update 1 for vSphere 4 has a new driver that fixes the issue.

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