rxmd Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 I'm having trouble getting either 10.4.5 (from the "Universal" DVD) or 10.4.3 (from the JaS 8f1111a DVD) to boot in VMWare Server beta. Booting from the DVD or from my existing OS X partition gives the same results. I can boot to the gray screen, then VMWare bails out with a virtual machine error message saying: *** VMWare Server internal monitor error *** vcpu-0:ASSERT vmcore/vmm/vpu/segment.h:444 bugNr=19580 There is a problem in this version of VMWare Server. [...] I'm using build 22874 of VMWare Server, the virtual machine is set up to use one partition from my HD as Independent Persistent, CDROM is imported from Daemon Tools, no LAN, no sound, 1 processor, 256 MB RAM. PAEVM=TRUE makes no difference. The host CPU is a Core Duo (IBM Thinkpad), the host OS is Windows XP. Has anybody gotten OS X to boot in VMWare Server? If so, what build of VMWare Server are you using, and could you post your configuration settings? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15407-booting-1045-in-vmware-server-beta/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
rxmd Posted April 18, 2006 Author Share Posted April 18, 2006 Updates: - Disabling acceleration in VMWare makes no difference. - Neither CD image boots in Parallels 2.1 either... Disabling acceleration and/or Intel VT extensions makes no difference Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15407-booting-1045-in-vmware-server-beta/#findComment-98870 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rxmd Posted April 18, 2006 Author Share Posted April 18, 2006 Another update: I just tried booting in VMWare Workstation 5.5 (the good old version everybody else seems to be using) and I get the same thing when the gray screen appears: "Virtual machine kernel stack fault (hardware reset)" Apparently there's something rotten in the state of Denmark. Is this a known problem with all VMWare versions or am I just being stupid? I'd appreciate any good kick in the right direction... Update: - Tried running Windows in PAE mode by adding the /PAE switch to the boot.ini entry, no change. - Tried again paevm=true both in /PAE and /NOPAE modes, no change. - Tried booting "mach_kernel.nonx", I can't get to boot this kernel at all with either image, it immediately falls back to the Mach boot loader. - I'm out of ideas. Is there something blatantly obvious that I'm unaware of? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15407-booting-1045-in-vmware-server-beta/#findComment-98900 Share on other sites More sharing options...
r0ss Posted April 19, 2006 Share Posted April 19, 2006 Parallels 2.1 for some strange reason will not read DVD's atleast thats what i read on thier forums. So unless someone knows away to break a OSX install disc into muliple CD's you wont be able to even try it. I installed OSX on VMWare 5.5 without any problems at all, I'm pretty sure the key is to create a FreeBSD Machine and to make the Virtual Hard Drive A fixed size and not a growing drive. Hope this helps. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15407-booting-1045-in-vmware-server-beta/#findComment-99121 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rxmd Posted April 19, 2006 Author Share Posted April 19, 2006 I installed OSX on VMWare 5.5 without any problems at all, I'm pretty sure the key is to create a FreeBSD Machine and to make the Virtual Hard Drive A fixed size and not a growing drive.I'm assigning a physical partition. However, I just tried using a fixed size disk image and it makes no difference, still getting a stack fault. The choice of guest OS in the machine configuration makes no difference either. Any other suggestions? I'm suspecting that there's an incompatibility with VMWare under OS X and the Core Duo CPU. I'm definitely out of ideas now. I'll try booting the Deadmoo image once it's finished downloading, maybe that one works as it has lower CPU requirements. It would be kind of absurd, though, to be forced to run a SSE2 kernel on a SSE3 CPU. Could someone who has OS X running under VMWare post their virtual machine configuration files here (not the disk file, obviously, but the rest)? That way I could go on looking systematically where the problem is, it would be very much appreciated. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15407-booting-1045-in-vmware-server-beta/#findComment-99156 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rxmd Posted April 19, 2006 Author Share Posted April 19, 2006 The IBM Thinkpads have an embedded TPM chip for performing various security functions such as local hard disk encryption and fingerprint scanning. It could be that the Apple bootloader chokes on this TPM chip. Another option could be that the boot loader on the installation CDs is still checking or relying on some Apple hardware. Could this be the case? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15407-booting-1045-in-vmware-server-beta/#findComment-99347 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLVR6 Posted April 19, 2006 Share Posted April 19, 2006 The IBM Thinkpads have an embedded TPM chip for performing various security functions such as local hard disk encryption and fingerprint scanning. It could be that the Apple bootloader chokes on this TPM chip. Another option could be that the boot loader on the installation CDs is still checking or relying on some Apple hardware. Could this be the case? I have been trying to get a VMWare install (VM Server Beta and VM Workstation 5.5) to work for a while now on my Thinkpad T42 and have had no luck. Most Thinkpads do not have that chip and the fingerprint scanner. I have installed native on a T40 and everything works fine (no wifi), but there is something wierd going on with winXP and VMWare. I have also tried all the options with /PAE, /NOPAE, and the paevm="true". No luck. Odd that all the suggeated fixes on VMWare's website do not fix anything! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15407-booting-1045-in-vmware-server-beta/#findComment-99429 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLVR6 Posted April 19, 2006 Share Posted April 19, 2006 I have been trying to get a VMWare install (VM Server Beta and VM Workstation 5.5) to work for a while now on my Thinkpad T42 and have had no luck. Most Thinkpads do not have that chip and the fingerprint scanner. I have installed native on a T40 and everything works fine (no wifi), but there is something wierd going on with winXP and VMWare. I have also tried all the options with /PAE, /NOPAE, and the paevm="true". No luck. Odd that all the suggeated fixes on VMWare's website do not fix anything! just tried /noexecute=alwaysoff /pae in my boot.ini with paevm="true" in my *.vmx and it still will not work!!!!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15407-booting-1045-in-vmware-server-beta/#findComment-99460 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rxmd Posted April 20, 2006 Author Share Posted April 20, 2006 I have been trying to get a VMWare install (VM Server Beta and VM Workstation 5.5) to work for a while now on my Thinkpad T42 and have had no luck.Well, if the Thinkpad is the problem, then I'm out of luck, too, I guess. I'll try to reproduce the problem with a piece of slightly less illegal software and ask around on the VMWare forums, there haven't been any conclusive answers there so far. If there's anything new, I'll post here. Native 10.4.6 is working perfectly on the X60s - if I could only get VMWare to work!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15407-booting-1045-in-vmware-server-beta/#findComment-100024 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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