VMware fusion

Anyone else had troubloe ith this? it gets near the end when running install script and i get a kernel panic and i have to reboot, it seem to install correctly but clearly hasnt finished as it wont work.... help?

 

I just tried installing VMWare Fusion Version 2.0.0 on my iATKOS 4i 10.5.4 install and it panicked.

Afterwards, the machine would just die on the blue screen during startup - it was a panic, but no grey panic window would come up.

I had to start up in verbose mode to find out where VMWare was causing the problem.

To recover, I started up in verbose single-user mode (-v -s), ran the disk check, mounted the root partition and moved the following file:

/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.vmware.launchd.vmware.plist

to another directory:

/OLD/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.vmware.launchd.vmware.plist

("OLD" is where I keep all my files when I move them out of the way ... that way it is trivial to recover).

The machine rebooted fine and I was able to uninstall VMWare.

 

thanks for your reply, i found another way to get rid was to go in wit -x switch and just uninstall it. I just wondered if you now how to install it successfully or what causes the prob? i have iunistalled it currently but really neeedt o know how to install?

 

I'm not sure that VMWare will work. That kernel module needs to be installed for VMWare to run and it causes a panic when it is installed.

I'm just finishing a WinXP install under Parallels and it seems to be working correctly.
Now I'm moving on to Vista.

 

Hmmm i have tried on 2x kernals as well - the vanilla and voodoo surely something must cause it to break...?

 

I got VMware fusion working perfectly.
Just download the latest voodoo kernal and it has automatic support for it.
And you can get official apple updates now aswel!
Plus hyperthreading and a %20 speed boost!
Go Try It!!

Benjamin