kaziorvb Posted February 19, 2006 Share Posted February 19, 2006 Hi. My friend's got Mac OS X 10.4.3 Tiger for x86 - Install DVD (iso file), and I've got VMWare 5. So I've decided to try install Mac OS X on my PC (but for begin - under VMWare). I've set up a new Virtual Machine on VMWare - system: Other, version: Other......, but I think it is not important now. I've attached ISO image of Mac OS X Install DVD as a CD/DVD drive in VMWare. Then powered on - what I see is VMWare Loading... then a message - Press any key to install Mac OS X (9,8,7...) - so I've pressed enter (I know - stupid explanation ^^ and I think useless, but for sure). Next that I've seen was "Darwin x86 Loading". I took few seconds, then I've seen a screen when Mac OS X boots - gray image with Apple logo in center. It took few seconds too, and then I've seen few messages: panic(cpu 0 caller 0xC0197160): commpage no match on last routine Debugger called: <panic> Frame 0xc73d3ee4: PC 0xc01287d2 args 0xc03ac900 0xc73d3f08 0xc0130784 0x00000000 _panic + 0x0000017e Frame 0xc73d3f24: PC 0xc0197160 args 0xc03b1754 0xc73d3f80 0x00013000 0x00000000 _commpage_populate +0x00000064 Frame 0xc73d3fb4: PC 0xc0135af9 args 0x00000001 0x00000007 0x00000000 0x00000000 _kernel_bootstrap + 0x000001a5 Frame 0xc73d3fd4: PC 0xc01913e1 args 0x00000000 0xffffffff 0xc041f294 0xc03ac900 _call_continuation + 0x00000019 invalid frame pointer 0xc73d3fd4 ethernet MAC address: 00:00:00:00:00:00 ip address: 0.0.0.0 Waiting for remote debugger connection. kdp_poll: no debugger device In the center was written that I need to restart my computer - blah blah blah (in 4 languages). I've tried to run it many times, but the same appeared. What am I doing wrong? Have I got to do something else? Please help me ;p BTW: Under VMWare can I increase the VRAM or use my native graphic card? It could be useful when I run multimedia applications under it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R. Bear Helms Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 I dunno VMware that well, but that error tends to happen when the install DVD is corrupted - bad burn, or the MD5 checksum did not match somewhere during the transition from dmg to iso to patched iso to burned DVD. Some people do the ISO conversion with a "demo" utility not knowing that it only translates the first 300k of the image. JaS 4.2b patch has a readme file with all the MD5 checksum codes in it, as well as the MD5 application that generated them. So the first thing to check is to see if the sums of what you burned the DVD from match what this file says. Commpage problems also can be SSE3 instruction set related. If you don't have the SSE3 emulator installed, that also can lead to errors like that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYCWall Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 in .vmx use svga.vramSize = "210326592" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaziorvb Posted February 20, 2006 Author Share Posted February 20, 2006 never mind - found it ;p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janosch Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 Hi, never mind - found it ;p How did you fix it? I have the same problem! best regards janosch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaziorvb Posted February 21, 2006 Author Share Posted February 21, 2006 just go to directory where you've got your virtual machine and edit the YourVirtualMachineName.vmx file and just add a line: svga.vramSize = "VRAM size in bytes" save, boot and have fun to check it - go to Display control panel -> settings tab -> advanced -> card tab, and you will see the amount of VRAM. but still its VMWare SVGA card :S - is there any solution to use another SVGA card? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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