While running OpenSolaris from within VMWare Fusion with Firefox 3 and the new Java Plug-In it was discovered that attempting to drag applets out of the web browser failed with the following NullPointerException:

Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-2" java.lang.NullPointerException
at sun.plugin2.applet.DragHelper$PerAppletInfo.setupWindow(Unknown Source)
at sun.plugin2.applet.DragHelper$PerAppletInfo.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at sun.plugin2.applet.DragHelper$PerAppletInfo.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at sun.plugin2.applet.DragHelper.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at sun.plugin2.applet.DragHelper.access$500(Unknown Source)
at sun.plugin2.applet.DragHelper$1$1.eventDispatched(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Toolkit$SelectiveAWTEventListener.eventDispatched(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Toolkit.notifyAWTEventListeners(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)

This is apparently occurring because the returned DisplayMode is null while attempting to determine the screen's size for the fix for 6702679. It's likely this is occurring because the X server doesn't have the required X extensions while running in a VM.