Does VMWare fusion work on hacks now. Last time I used it on Tiger I had a kernel panic.

Will it work on a P4 Leo4All setup with 9.20 sleep kernel?

Thanks.

I use it all the time on my Core2Duo with EFI
It also worked for me on a Pentium D on Tiger (Asus Mobo). Tiger 10.4.6.

So yes it does work on a Hack, Also I used it before on Leopard with the Sleep kernel by Netkas and it works on that too.

Thanks ill give it a go. Fingers crossed, cant be arsed with another kernel panic!


EDIT:
Installed but get an error when I try to install XP

I'm running into the same thing, using Kalyway 10.5.2 on a Dell Optiplex 755. Everything else works for me, just cant get Fusion to run. Anyone have any fixes for this?

Absolutely. VMWare Fusion runs with no problem whatsoever. I have p35 mobo with a vanilla kernel.

Couldn't get it fixed decided to use Parallels and am very happy with it. The coherence mode is amazing too.
It is running XP sp3 not far of native speed.

What was the problem?

Vmware FUsion running flawless here and unity mode is great also. Dual core support in Fusion made XP considerably faster over Parallels for me.

I get the following error when trying to boot my XP VM.



I even tried the version 2 beta but still get the same error. Could it be my P4 631

I don't know why, VMWare fusion has always worked for me (Pentium 630).

VMWare Fusion 1.1.2 works great and very fast on my M(H)ac. Windows XP Professional works very fast and stable.

I ran VMWare fuzion on my hackintosh Dell 1505 without issue. Oddly, it was only installed because I couldn't get Parallels to do anything but lock up the system. On the flip side, I did have trouble with a real mac using Fuzion yet loved Parallels. And then vica versa on a macbook.

Seems its nothing specific, it just either works or doesn't. Haven't tried it on my AMD Hackintosh (A real test of "will it work on a hack") as its currently in random parts. I keep turning up with bad sata drives falling into clicks of death (Not all bought at the same time, not all used on the same machine. *shrugs* Bought from same place, however...)

If VMware fails, try Parallels. If Parallels fails, dual boot. If you can't multiboot... get an extra cheap PC or find Mac alternatives to requested software.

how does it working on an AMD determine it being a 'real' hackintoshe? sometimes i wish it was like the older days where you had to have some sort of common apple hardware to avoid all the random distros and patches for AMD and non-SSE3 systems.

It does work fine on my AMD Leopard. Parallels works also, but you have to change a .plist to "AuthenticAMD" from "GenuineIntel."

What's the point of Fusion on a Hack? Your emulating BIOS on an emulated EFI on a BIOS. C'mon now.

The point is you can run windows applications at the same time as OS X.

I know what Fusion is for. I use it every so often on my MacBook. But I just don't see the point in having Fusion on a hack. I mean it's not like you can't boot into Windows easily. It's like setting up Boot Camp on a hack. Why? It just makes no sense to me.

So you can run windows applications at the same time as mac ones without the need to reboot.

I see what your saying, but to me it just doesn't make much sense. But whatever.

Why reboot into Windows when you don't have to, that doesn't make sense to me.

There are tasks when you need both OSes running.

I trade with my Hack. I use order entry tools under OS X in Java and charting under Windows via Fusion 2.0b1. It does make sense.

Microsoft Office 2007 for PC is 100 times better than the Mac version. There's another reason to have windows running in the background of your OSX system.

There are tons more. Seeing that VMware with XP SP3 only burns about 4% processor on my machine (in Unity Mode, which kicks butt on a dual monitor rig,) I see no reason NOT to have it running fulltime alongside OS X

that's probably because you're an idiot. rebooting and having to close all your open documents/applications is lame. you're argument is also very lame, you get that there is Fusion for 'real' intel macs but not hacks because hacks can just reboot into windows. well guess whats, real macs can boot into windows also?

LOL sg

Works freaking great on my hack pro, actually I'm not sure why Fusion is running so smooth on my setup. I installed it and without a single tweak or changing a goddamn setting it booted my XP SP3 which was installed on a separate hard drive. All I had to do was to open the fusion application and click on boot camp, that;s all. It's fast and responsive like a real fresh version of windows, maybe it's because it has 2 cores and 2GB of ram to use. Can't wait for Fusion 2.

It works even on AMDs

Running very well on my System and it is a P4 ^^

XP SP3 running good here with VMWare Fusion 2 (beta)

I use it mainly for converting Xvids with ConvertXtoDVD. 1GB and 2 cores dedicated to Fusion.

The point being is so people dont have the hassle off rebooting but can enjoy the benefits off windows
like me i like and much prefer msn and the apple version shouldnt be allowed its pathetic so i use msn for windows in fusion and i love winamp which i also use in xp under fusion in coherence mode and is great

I would only boot again into native windows (if I had it installed) for playing games. When you have OSX and a decent system (2 cores 2 gig) you don't need a native Windows install for office work.

That is the first thing I thought when I started reading this topic. Why the hell would you put one of those programs on a hackintosh! Seriously.. if you wanted a PC.. then run a PC. I understand putting it on my REAL mac.. I need windows for a couple of things for work... but whatever you can do on PC you can pretty much do on mac. So whats the point.

Running like a charm on C2D 10.5.3.
I have NeXTSTEP on it.

what's better Parallels or VMWare?

The point is that you use a lot of Mac program and maybe one Windows program, in my case HotConference is not available for Mac, I don't want to use the whole Windows crappy programs.

Sometimes I need to check a USB memory Stick for viruses, I the Virtual Disk is infected I can throw it, even I can have snapshots of it.

Another example is that you maybe need to use a specific browser for certain sites, even that Safari or FireFox can act disguised as other with User Agent they don't work, One of my banks can't function with Safari or FireFox, and running the PC Windows just for it no thanks, I can boot fusion fater than my native windows tho.


Is a matter of choice, I prefer Fusion over Parallels even that Parallels are faster on Windows XP (on Vista Fusion is the Winner), but Fusion Behave better than Parallels, eve so there are few things when I use Parallels instead of Fusion, but every day choice is Fusion.

You can visit the Virtualization Sub-forum (not the virtualisation one which is VMware for Windows/Linux), there are several discussion about Fusion vs Parallels and even benchmarks.

I’m running vmware fusion on my hackintosh, installed windows xp sp2, what’s the point? I hate reboot to start another OS, of course I don’t like windows, the only reason I have it...I’m using Rosetta Stone 3, and no patch for mac yet

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Hey, I run a virtualized windows XP for some stuff, but i see that in my vmware window there is also a boot camp option listed. That's weird because last I checked hacks don't have bootcamp. What does this bootcamp thing do? Im scared to click it

it lets you boot your normal windows partition inside VMware. i probably wouldnt do it unless you don't boot into your 'real' windows install.

Is hardware acceleration as bad as if u installed a VM the normal way? I wouldn't boot into windows at all if i didnt wanna play games

If you dual boot do not click boot camp option...vmware "Hardware" will be different with your actual hardware...Windows sees it as "a lot of changes" to your hardware and requires re-activation...

I had the same problem, then I decided to investigate why the word "Quartz" appeared, which led me to the conclusion it had something to do with QE/CI (Quart Extreme) being disabled, so I dug through on how to enable it on my card using NVInject, and voila... I now was able to install windows XP under Fusion...

Hope this helps

I've always had problems with Fusion on any but a vanilla mac kernel.

The other reason for running an XP virtual machine under VMWare on OSX is copy and paste between apps in the VM and OSX. For me this is a biggy for SonyEricsson based apps like Handysafe that only have desktop connectors that run under XP, but where I need the info in for example a safari browser session running under OSX.

Also sharing files - easily possible between a VM XP instance and your OSX instance.

Lots of reasons you might want to run something like VMWare or Parallels on your Hackintosh or real Mac. VM's are so much less hassle than a full install, especially the snapshotting feature that lets you roll back to previous states of your XP VM - great for recovering from crappy software installs.

VMWare Fusion on my Mac is a mixed bag.

If I use the VM only and don't touch any mac apps it "seems" okay. But if I try to do some work on my mac apps while the VM is running my system will either Kernel Panic, or the system will hang.

It would be great if I could get VMWare Fusion to be more stable.

Anyone have any ideas on how to trouble shoot this?

A good start would be telling us about your hardware, what version of vmware fusion you are running, what OS you are running in the virtual machine, and what settings you have used for your virtual machine.

Or we could just guess.

Heh, I was just about to make a thread about this.


Any on a 10.5.1 Kalyway on a P35 with a quad core, would it be best to go with Parallels or VMware? (reliability being more important then speed)

My install is a JaS 10.5.4.
Asus P5K SE/EPU
Intel Q6600
4*1 GB OCZ 1000

I'm running version 1.1.3 of Fusion.
The guest OS is Win2k3.
The settings:
2 virtual processors
1024 MB memory
no 3d acceleration
bridged network

I've tried both Parallels (build 5600) and VMware Fusion (1.1.3-94249) and I think VMware is more comfortable and quicker. Actually I hadn't have any problems either with Parallels or VMware on my hack, both were stable.

i've been using fusion for teaching myself how to network different OS's and playing with active directory. i can't really justify buying 5 machines to install different OS's on and play around with but with fusion i've had 4 machines open at the same time without even breaking a sweat. then, if i configure something incorrectly all i have to do is return to a previous snapshot. plus linux seems pretty picky about booting on my motherboard too so it gives me a chance to have a play around with that. maybe it's not for everyone though.

I have tried both Parallels, and VMware, and i get a hard Crash every so often, Im not sure what is going on,

anyone else have this issue.

I have a question. I installed a dual boot with ms server 2008 (basically vista) on part1 and osx on part2. It detects my server08 install as a boot camp partition, but when I try to boot it, it just shows a black screen with

b0 error

any ideas how to fix this?

I tried unmounting the server os. no luck
tried flagging the server os for boot in terminal, (but didn't reboot b'c that would take away my osx boot). No luck.

any ideas?

A new version of VMware has been realeased (2.0) see my spec. :-)

Does VMWare Fusion v2.0 run with hacked kernels or needs a vmmon.kext patch ?