VMware Fusion with Vista

[diamondapple]

Hi, thanks for visiting. I've searched online about this problem but I couldn't seem to find much help.

I am running OS 10.5.7 on a 2.8 GHz Pro. When I partitioned my drive and allotted 80GB to be used by Boot Camp for Windows Vista 64-bit. Whenever I run Boot Camp, Vista works fine with no problems.

However, when I installed the latest VMware Fusion software, I constantly receive error messages and the blue screen followed by a black screen asking if I want to start Windows in Safe Mode, etc.

It won't go away. I don't get why. This took so long to configure and now its not even working.

I attached a screen capture of the BSOD.

Could someone please tell me what I can do to fix this problem? Thanks a million.

 

[jdechko]

So Vista(BC) is completely shut down, right? Not sleeping or hibernating or anything that might cause some errors?

If it's not, I would try uninstalling Fusion, deleting the VM and start over from scratch with it.

 

[diamondapple]

Yes when I was on Boot Camp - Vista, I selected restart with Mac on the Boot Camp icon down near the system tray. So I am assuming that system is off, and now I am on my Mac. Should I reinstall VMware? Would this really solve the problem? Thanks again.

 

[jdechko]

I think reinstalling VMWare is the best option at this point. One common cause of BSOD is hardware issues. Since you're in a VM, and this only happens within the VM we know that it could not be physical hardware, so that leaves the virtualized hardware. I hate asking this, and please don't take this the wrong way, but did you follow the instructions from VMWare when setting up your VM?

 

[MacDawg]

Yeah, sounds like something is corrupted

I would agree that reinstalling and setting up your VM fresh is probably the best answer at this point

Woof, Woof - Dawg