Why does VMware crash during startup from ntfs-3g?

VMware tries to use shared writable mmap for paging files from version 5.0 but it can't detect that it's not yet supported.

Workaround: Set "mainMem.useNamedFile=FALSE" in the .vmx file. It will disable paging files and VMware will work fine, often with much better performance.

Status: This has been worked one in the kernel and FUSE for three years. The solutions is complex and several experimental patches are available. VMware has also fixed their virtual machine recently.