I run a windows server 2003 VM and a windows 7 vm using VMWare. My host is Windows 7. When sharing out my desktop/host (with no VM running) windows live meeting runs fine. When sharing out my desktop with Windows 2003 VM running, windows live meeting runs fine. When sharing out my desktop with Windows 7 using Microsoft Live Meeting, Live Meeting was crashing at random after a minute or two.
Looking in my host event log, I found this error:
Log Name: Application
Source: Application Error
Date: 6/18/2012 4:39:22 PM
Event ID: 1000
Task Category: (100)
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: mycomputername
Description:
Faulting application name: PWConsole.exe, version: 8.0.6362.201, time stamp: 0x4d4cb4ba
Faulting module name: AppShare.dll, version: 8.0.6362.232, time stamp: 0x4cd2ed09
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000d7e8b
Faulting process id: 0x1bb0
Faulting application start time: 0x01cd4d9094d208a0
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Live Meeting 8\Console\PWConsole.exe
Faulting module path: C:\PROGRA~2\MICROS~1\LIVEME~1\Console\AppShare.dll
It turns out the problem is that Live Meeting is incompatible with certain windows 7 color schemes. It will automatically change the color scheme of your host but can not do so for your VM. Once I changed the theme of my Windows 7 VM to windows XP classic, Live Meeting no longer crashes. Im sure other themes will work as well, as long as it uses a basic color scheme.
Let me know if this helped you by posting in the comments. I couldnt find someplace to simply post a solution (rather then a question/problem, as I didnt find this solution by searching google) so if you know some place to do that, let me know as well. Otherwise, I will continue to blog things like this if at least one person tells me they found it helpful!
