Unable to install mac usin vmware 5.5.3

[coolquasar]

am usin winxp n vmware 5.5.3

 

my sys config:

 

processor: intel 2.6 HT (SSE 2)

motherboard :intel genuine 865gbf

ram: 1263MB DDR

hard disk: 250GB SATA Seagate

 

i recently downloaded d "JaS 10.4.8 AMD Intel SSE2 SSE3.Defiant diskutil fix.iso" from rapidshare.

 

when i try to install mac usin vmware the installation crashes

 

it asks to select a lang then it shows "preparing installation" then a black screen comes off indicating "unhandled exception"

n d vm stops without any prompt.

 

am postin d vmx config file here pls help me guys....

config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "4"
scsi0.present = "TRUE"
memsize = "512"
ide0:0.present = "TRUE"
ide0:0.fileName = "Mac OS X Tiger.vmdk"
ide0:0.mode = "persistent"
ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.fileName = "Q:"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw"
floppy0.present = "FALSE"
ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
ethernet0.connectionType = "nat"
sound.present = "TRUE"
sound.virtualDev = "es1371"
sound.fileName = "-1"
sound.autodetect = "TRUE"
displayName = "Mac OS X Tiger"
guestOS = "other"
nvram = "Mac OS X Tiger.nvram"
paevm = "TRUE"

ide0:0.redo = ""
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
uuid.location = "56 4d 93 23 5d 97 84 75-97 08 ae d0 6b a0 3f f2"
uuid.bios = "56 4d 93 23 5d 97 84 75-97 08 ae d0 6b a0 3f f2"
ide1:0.autodetect = "FALSE"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:a0:3f:f2"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"

ide0:0.deviceType = "rawDisk"
workingDir = "."

 

 

Thanx in advance

[wmarsh]

Try installing to a virtual disk. You can always dd to your real partition.

[Friar]

Same issue here, but installing to a virtual drive in VMWare Server 1.0.2 build-39867. I'm using an iso of JaS 10.4.8 that's advertised to have PPF1 and PPF2, with MD5 sum 073eb015d77bbf5e4a97d0d37ceb3855 (I'd be more explicit as to how it was obtained, but I'm not sure if that would be considered as "indirect links to warez" by the mods here). Tried various guest OS types in VMWare, varying arrangements of drives, etc., all to no avail.

 

The installer seems to be fine up through the point where you select your installer language and it says "Preparing Installation". Once past that, it always crashes within about 60 seconds, which is just about long enough for the installer window to pop up or (when I'm lucky) for me to almost get into Disk Utility. I was going to post screenshots here of the installation log, but this most recent time booting, Installation Log *itself* crashed. In other words, this crashing doesn't appear to be happening in a consistent location, it just seems like it's completely unstable. The exception was something to the effect of "EXC_BAD_ADDRESS", if that helps anyone.

 

I'm going to try obtaining a different iso and see if I have the same headaches. Will post back if that solves the problem.

(EDIT: Turns out the other ISO I was going to download wasn't a different ISO after all, the poster just listed the wrong MD5 for it. Anyone have any ideas?)

[Friar]

Finally managed to grab a screencap of the beginning of the errors (attached). This is the first error, but after this there's a cascade of failures that eventually leads to system halt. If this means anything to anybody, or if I should post more of the errors further on down the line, please reply.

[Friar]

For comparison, I acquired the version of the iso with only PPF1 applied, and still get the same problem. So it's probably not the disk itself.

 

I uninstalled VMWare Server and installed VMWare Workstation instead thinking there might be something particular to Server. Still no dice. Something with the host system maybe? I'm running Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) and am running an XP install just fine under VMWare. Anybody got any ideas what I could check next?