sungmj Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 I was using Snow Leo on Core2Quad machine, and moved the same image onto the sandy bridge machine.. and Snow won't boot what so ever.... Error was.. "The CPU has been disabled by the guest operating system. You will need to power off or reset the virtual machine at this point." google'd bing'd for 2 days.. couldn't find solution.. but today I got my answer here! cpuid.1.eax = "0000:0000:0000:0001:0000:0110:1010:0101" This was the magic line in the vmx file... added, did the magic for me!! Yeay!! This forum rocks! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justinlu Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 After you update your OS X to 10.6.5 or 10.6.6, you don't need that line anymore. You need that only when you are in 10.6.3 and have an i3/i5/i7 CPU. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirJohn2024 Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 I had the same problem and it was driving me mad... My vmware image was already a 10.6.6 but freezed on boot. Adding the cpuid to the vmx file correct the problem. Thank you all very much for the tip.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyD Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 I had the same problem and it was driving me mad... My vmware image was already a 10.6.6 but freezed on boot.Adding the cpuid to the vmx file correct the problem. Thank you all very much for the tip.... Even with 10.6.6 this solved this for me as well even after doing all of the other fixes. Dell stock XPS 8300 with i7 2600. Did it as a final thing even though it was not supposed to be necessary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrgels Posted March 25, 2011 Share Posted March 25, 2011 I was using Snow Leo on Core2Quad machine, and moved the same image onto the sandy bridge machine..and Snow won't boot what so ever.... Error was.. "The CPU has been disabled by the guest operating system. You will need to power off or reset the virtual machine at this point." google'd bing'd for 2 days.. couldn't find solution.. but today I got my answer here! cpuid.1.eax = "0000:0000:0000:0001:0000:0110:1010:0101" This was the magic line in the vmx file... added, did the magic for me!! Yeay!! This forum rocks! Hi, I just upgraded from a Core2Duo to sandy bridge machine too. I'm having the same error code and everything. I'm very new to this and have never edited a .vmx file before. My question is, where do I put that code in the .vmx file? Can I just use wordpad? And, should it be exactly how you typed it or sans the quotes? Posting an image would very helpful! Thanks for your time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathq Posted March 25, 2011 Share Posted March 25, 2011 You need to write it as he wrote it (with the quotes and everything) and edit it with Notepad or TextEdit on OSX. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrgels Posted March 25, 2011 Share Posted March 25, 2011 Thanks for the fast reply. I've added cpuid.1.eax = "0000:0000:0000:0001:0000:0110:1010:0101" to the .vml file with notepad and I'm still getting the "The CPU has been disabled by the guest operating system. You will need to power off or reset the virtual machine at this point." message. I'm going to keep trying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freaki4u Posted April 14, 2011 Share Posted April 14, 2011 Install Bridgehelper helps :-) I was installing OS X on my VMware Wks 7.1.4, installing an Combo Update to 10.6.7 (no restart) + Bridgehelper und then make a restart. It boot successfully. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
recluse Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 I was using Snow Leo on Core2Quad machine, and moved the same image onto the sandy bridge machine..and Snow won't boot what so ever.... Error was.. "The CPU has been disabled by the guest operating system. You will need to power off or reset the virtual machine at this point." google'd bing'd for 2 days.. couldn't find solution.. but today I got my answer here! cpuid.1.eax = "0000:0000:0000:0001:0000:0110:1010:0101" This was the magic line in the vmx file... added, did the magic for me!! Yeay!! This forum rocks! Thanks a lot, i suffer this problem for a week already. I am trying to setup a new VM. Also thanks google for getting me here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zYx Posted May 14, 2011 Share Posted May 14, 2011 Hey! Thanks for this line, it allowed me to finally run Mac OS X 10.6.7 on my Virtual Machine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac_win_user Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 I was using Snow Leo on Core2Quad machine, and moved the same image onto the sandy bridge machine..and Snow won't boot what so ever.... Error was.. "The CPU has been disabled by the guest operating system. You will need to power off or reset the virtual machine at this point." google'd bing'd for 2 days.. couldn't find solution.. but today I got my answer here! cpuid.1.eax = "0000:0000:0000:0001:0000:0110:1010:0101" This was the magic line in the vmx file... added, did the magic for me!! Yeay!! This forum rocks! This line worked on my core i7 2600 as well, running vmware 7.1.3 build-324285. I updated from a clean dvd install of OS X 10.6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7oost Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Hi there, im running Vmware V7.1.2. on a Sandy bridge 2600. I can install Mac OSX but when its in completed the error returns "The CPU has been disabled by the guest operating system. You will need to power off or reset the virtual machine at this point." I already inserted the CPUID line in the VMX file, but without succes. does it matter where its placed in the file or? I hope you guys can help me out? Sorry for missing additional information.... Let me know... Greetz 7oost Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7oost Posted June 14, 2011 Share Posted June 14, 2011 Hi there, im running Vmware V7.1.2. on a Sandy bridge 2600. I can install Mac OSX but when its in completed the error returns "The CPU has been disabled by the guest operating system. You will need to power off or reset the virtual machine at this point." I already inserted the CPUID line in the VMX file, but without succes. does it matter where its placed in the file or? I hope you guys can help me out? Sorry for missing additional information.... Let me know... Greetz 7oost Got is working You have to be sure that you run the right VMWare version, announced earlier this topic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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