If you're unlucky, you'll get a screen full of text going on about "fs0:", "blk0:" etc, and then we get to figure out what went wrong. If you're lucky and things are going to simply work, you'll then see the Apple logo and Mac OS should start. If you've successfully made the change, you should see a VMware logo on a light-gray background (instead of the usual black background). (or, if you already have a line saying firmware = "bios", change it to "efi" instead).Ĭlose the editor, start Fusion and power-on your VM. To make the change, shut down your VM, close Fusion, find the ".vmx" file for the VM (right-click on the VM and choose Show Package Contents) and add the line Make sure you have a good backup of the VM before doing this. You can try simply moving your VM to the new way of doing things, and see if it works. does that seem right to you? Those early versions of Fusion used a specialized bootloader to launch Mac OS in a virtual machine, we no longer support that method, and that is the only way I can imagine that you'd get the "No operating system found" message. My guess is that this VM has been imported all the way from Fusion 2.x (or a prerelease version of Fusion 3.0). tgz file it created on your Desktop to a reply post. To help figure out what is what the best way to provide comprehensive diagnostic information is to use the "Collect Support Information" command from the VMware Fusion (menu bar) > Help > Collect Support Information and then attach the. I'd rather not install another SL VM from scratch as there are user accounts etc on the current SL vm Also before upgrading the Virtual Hardware in a Virtual Machine make proper manual backups of the Virtual Machine Packages and Time Machine does not count as it is a known fact that it is not 100% reliable under all conditions in backing up/restoring Virtual Machines. In this particular case all one would needs to do is download the latest VMware Fusion installer (4.1.1 at the present time) and start with that. When upgrading to the next major release one does not need to first install the X.0.0 release and install each additional point release to get to the latest. I then decided to upgrade to 4.0 and through to 4.1.1. If everyting was just fine then why upgrade!? There's an old saying. Everything was just fine when Fusion was 3.x.
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