Running Mavericks 10.9 DP3 on a 2012 MacBook Pro 15" with Retina Display and the Fusion TP2013 causes the following issue:
None of my VMs created in Fusion 5.0.3 will start. I have Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 8 x64. I have also tried creating a new Windows 8 x64 VM with all the default settings under the Tech Preview, and the same issue occurs right after the BIOS screen clears and before any expected Windows 8 installer would load (do not see press any key to start from DVD, etc).
VMware Fusion has encountered an error and has shut down Windows.
Click Restart Windows to start Windows again. Click Report to collect data and to request support from VMware.
[ Ignore ] [ Report ... ] [ Restart Windows ]
Ignore just shuts the system down
I have reports from Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 8 x64 existing VMs and also the test VM.
Windows 8 x64 gives this error in a black translucent dialog box appears when starting any Windows 8 x64 VM, new (before setup) or not:
No 3D support is available from the host.
The 3D features of the virtual machine will be disabled.
Windows Server 2008 R2 VM will show the EFI boot screen, then if you press F8 and choose Recovery it will start to load the recovery files but when it gets to the point where the graphical Windows loading screen with the Windows logo would be (after "Windows is loading files" textual screen with the bar across the bottom but before the GUI), you never see that graphical screen and it crashes
Closing the Tech Preview and opening Fusion 5.0.3, the VMs will load without issue; no boot time errors whatsoever.
Seems to have something to do with graphics, but again - no similar issues with 5.0.3