10.5.7 update VMWare FAIL

[GnatGoSplat]

I used the ComboUpdate to update my VMWare 10.5.6 to 10.5.7. When it rebooted, after the kextload it goes to a blank black screen of the proper resolution and never does anything. Fortunately, I backed up the 9.6.0 kernel and if I run that kernel, everything boots fine. I don't know if there's any problems with running an older kernel on a newer OS X, but I'd rather run the proper kernel if possible. I have everything vanilla running on an Intel machine.

 

Anyone manage to get past this problem?

[Donk]

I used the ComboUpdate to update my VMWare 10.5.6 to 10.5.7. When it rebooted, after the kextload it goes to a blank black screen of the proper resolution and never does anything. Fortunately, I backed up the 9.6.0 kernel and if I run that kernel, everything boots fine. I don't know if there's any problems with running an older kernel on a newer OS X, but I'd rather run the proper kernel if possible. I have everything vanilla running on an Intel machine.

 

Anyone manage to get past this problem?

 

First boot after install -v -f -x

[c0rk007hck]

Try it

But 10.5.7 applications won't run with an older kernel

[GnatGoSplat]

First boot after install -v -f -x

 

Didn't work. Is this dependent on it being the very first boot (i.e. I need to reinstall the ComboUpdate)?

[Donk]

Didn't work. Is this dependent on it being the very first boot (i.e. I need to reinstall the ComboUpdate)?

 

No should be OK at any time. Fixed it for me. What method have you used to run on VMware? Distro or Vanilla? CPU? Verison of VMware? Host OS?

[naeemanaeem]

No should be OK at any time. Fixed it for me. What method have you used to run on VMware? Distro or Vanilla? CPU? Verison of VMware? Host OS?

 

Can somebody help me figure out to fix the hang I m getting?

 

Thanks a lot

[GnatGoSplat]

No should be OK at any time. Fixed it for me. What method have you used to run on VMware? Distro or Vanilla? CPU? Verison of VMware? Host OS?

 

I started with the pcwiz image, but I changed GuestOS to "darwin-64", disk to SCSI LSILogic and several other things in the VMX. I also updated to the latest PCEFI, changed to a GUID partition, added a bunch of kexts, etc. I then upgraded to vanilla 10.5.6 using the ComboUpdate and all was well.

CPU is C2D E6400. VMware is Player 2.5.2 build-156735. Host OS is WinXP SP3.

 

I do NOT have a DSDT.aml, don't know if it's needed, but I saw reference to it in another 10.5.7 thread.

[VooD]

I started with the pcwiz image, but I changed GuestOS to "darwin-64", disk to SCSI LSILogic and several other things in the VMX. I also updated to the latest PCEFI, changed to a GUID partition, added a bunch of kexts, etc. I then upgraded to vanilla 10.5.6 using the ComboUpdate and all was well.

CPU is C2D E6400. VMware is Player 2.5.2 build-156735. Host OS is WinXP SP3.

 

I do NOT have a DSDT.aml, don't know if it's needed, but I saw reference to it in another 10.5.7 thread.

 

Anyway Os X under VmWare will never run as good as in a real installation. You won't know how Os X really runs unless you make a native install.

 

Unless you really need VmWare for making some cross platform development or something like that, there is no point in running the MacOs in a virtual machine (except a liking for troubles and bad perfomance )

[Donk]

Anyway Os X under VmWare will never run as good as in a real installation. You won't know how Os X really runs unless you make a native install.

 

Unless you really need VmWare for making some cross platform development or something like that, there is no point in running the MacOs in a virtual machine (except a liking for troubles and bad perfomance )

 

And that helped in what way?

 

I started with the pcwiz image, but I changed GuestOS to "darwin-64", disk to SCSI LSILogic and several other things in the VMX. I also updated to the latest PCEFI, changed to a GUID partition, added a bunch of kexts, etc. I then upgraded to vanilla 10.5.6 using the ComboUpdate and all was well.

CPU is C2D E6400. VMware is Player 2.5.2 build-156735. Host OS is WinXP SP3.

 

I do NOT have a DSDT.aml, don't know if it's needed, but I saw reference to it in another 10.5.7 thread.

 

Well that is well away from what I have been using, which is basically a retail installation with little hacking. Could be all sorts of different dependencies. Do you need anything in this guest or would you consider building one from scratch using a retail DVD? What kexts have you used and how are they loaded? Munky EFI or /Extra?

[VooD]

And that helped in what way?

It would help making him to notice running a native installation would probably solve most of his problems in addition to improve the system performance.

[GnatGoSplat]

Anyway Os X under VmWare will never run as good as in a real installation. You won't know how Os X really runs unless you make a native install.

 

Unless you really need VmWare for making some cross platform development or something like that, there is no point in running the MacOs in a virtual machine (except a liking for troubles and bad perfomance )

 

Actually, I do have OS X running native on my home machine. Yes, I am aware a VM is never as good as a native install. This is true for any OS. Common sense I thought?

I don't agree with the bad performance, the performance is actually quite good for a VM. It's no worse than my Windows VMs, performance-wise. I haven't had any troubles up until now.

 

And that helped in what way?

Well that is well away from what I have been using, which is basically a retail installation with little hacking. Could be all sorts of different dependencies. Do you need anything in this guest or would you consider building one from scratch using a retail DVD? What kexts have you used and how are they loaded? Munky EFI or /Extra?

 

I could build one from scratch, but I don't have a retail DVD. I could download one, but it would take awhile being 7GB and my connection isn't that fast.

The only non-vanilla kexts I'm using (that I'm aware of) are:

MaxxussAC97AudioES137x.kext - for sound

VMwareIOFramebuffer.kext - Installed by VMWare Tools

dsmos.kext - for decryption

 

Using PCEFI and nothing in /Extra.

[Donk]

I could build one from scratch, but I don't have a retail DVD. I could download one, but it would take awhile being 7GB and my connection isn't that fast.

The only non-vanilla kexts I'm using (that I'm aware of) are:

MaxxussAC97AudioES137x.kext - for sound

VMwareIOFramebuffer.kext - Installed by VMWare Tools

dsmos.kext - for decryption

 

Using PCEFI and nothing in /Extra.

 

Those extensions should be fine, so must be something else. Wonder if there are other non-standard extensions in PCWiz image. How about checking kextstat output for anything else that looks non-standard. I could try downloading a copy of PCwiz, but will take some time. If you need help on retail check out my other thread http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=139178.

[GnatGoSplat]

Those extensions should be fine, so must be something else. Wonder if there are other non-standard extensions in PCWiz image. How about checking kextstat output for anything else that looks non-standard. I could try downloading a copy of PCwiz, but will take some time. If you need help on retail check out my other thread http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=139178.

 

It's a possibility. Just to make sure there are no modified/patched kexts, I extracted the Extensions folder from the ComboUpdate using Pacifist and installed all the extensions in it on top of my existing extensions using OSX86Tools. That didn't seem to help, and was probably a dumb thing to do because now I probably have a lot of kexts that aren't being used taking up space in my Extensions folder.

 

I did find Natit.kext that I didn't see earlier. No reason for it, so I removed it. Now I can boot kernel 9.7.0 with the -f flag! However, I get the same problem as before if I omit -f. Strange why I need -f every time, but I seem to be making some progress. It seems something extra in the kexts folder is probably the cause.

[VooD]

Actually, I do have OS X running native on my home machine. Yes, I am aware a VM is never as good as a native install. This is true for any OS. Common sense I thought?

I don't agree with the bad performance, the performance is actually quite good for a VM. It's no worse than my Windows VMs, performance-wise. I haven't had any troubles up until now.

 

With VMWare you lose QE&CI...that hurts graphics perfomance a lot. And also some programs won't run at all without that.

[zxed]

Actually, I do have OS X running native on my home machine. Yes, I am aware a VM is never as good as a native install. This is true for any OS. Common sense I thought?

I don't agree with the bad performance, the performance is actually quite good for a VM. It's no worse than my Windows VMs, performance-wise. I haven't had any troubles up until now.

 

 

 

I could build one from scratch, but I don't have a retail DVD. I could download one, but it would take awhile being 7GB and my connection isn't that fast.

The only non-vanilla kexts I'm using (that I'm aware of) are:

MaxxussAC97AudioES137x.kext - for sound

VMwareIOFramebuffer.kext - Installed by VMWare Tools

dsmos.kext - for decryption

 

Using PCEFI and nothing in /Extra.

 

Any luck getting it to work?

 

 

 

i have 2 vmware images

 

10.5.5 from Xelabo i believe?

 

and a 10.5.6 from... not sure... its a modification of xelabo's 10.5.6

 

both fail to update

 

id love to get it working and dont mind torrenting the working image., i have a t2 internet connection

[GnatGoSplat]

Any luck getting it to work?

 

No, I never had any luck. I was able to get it intermittently working with kernel 9.7.0, but not reliably. I just stuck with kernel 9.6.0. Everything else is 10.5.7 except the kernel. It seems to work fine that way.

 

My native Hackintosh has no probs with 10.5.7 and its 9.7.0 kernel so I guess there's just something weird about my VM.

[davewolfs]

Mine is broken too. I really don't have any desire to do a native install, is there anyway to get this back up and running or do I have to re-install 10.5.6?

[johnny901]

I have a Xelabo 10.5.7. If you can seed, please PM me.

-J