VMware Mac OS X Guest Package for ESX, Workstation, Player, Server and Fusion

[zumtest]

I seem to be having a problem getting the booting process working using ESX 4.1 and my Snow Leopard retail DVD (physically in the DVD-ROM drive - or with an ISO). It boots up to:

Darwin/x86 boot v5.0.132 - Chameleon for VMware v2.0-RC4-VMware r10.6.4

Build date: 2010-07-20 08:47:14

4095MB memory

VESA v2.0 4MB (V M ware, Inc. VBE support 2.0)

Press Enter to start up Darwin/x86 with no options, or you can:

Press F5 after you swapped the media. The drive will be rescanned.

Type -v and press Enter to start up with diagnostic messages

The ? and press Enter to learn about advanced startup options

 

boot: -x -v -f

 

When I hit return, it just flashes and redraws the same thing. It's as though it doesn't seem to see my DVD. My VMX file is attached. I am connecting to ESX rather than vCenter.

 

-Nate

i would say

guestOS = "darwin10-64" should be guestOS = "darwin-64"

monitor.virtual_mmu="software" should be monitor.virtual_mmu = "hardware"

 

and i wouldnt use a SCSI HDD, recommend is IDE.

[Natedev]

i would say

guestOS = "darwin10-64" should be guestOS = "darwin-64"

monitor.virtual_mmu="software" should be monitor.virtual_mmu = "hardware"

 

and i wouldnt use a SCSI HDD, recommend is IDE.

 

Thanks a lot for the reply. I did alter the two values in my vmx file at your suggestion and reloaded it. It seems to still be encountering the same issue where it never sees either the Snow Leopard DVD in my ESX Server's drive or the ISO of it that I made. I also tried hand editing the VMX to add an IDE drive in since you can't do it with the vSphere 4.1 client. Since it didn't change anything, I reverted back to SCSI.

 

I've attached my updated vmx and log file.

snow_leopard.vmx.txt

vmware.log.txt

[MSoK]

Thanks a lot for the reply. I did alter the two values in my vmx file at your suggestion and reloaded it. It seems to still be encountering the same issue where it never sees either the Snow Leopard DVD in my ESX Server's drive or the ISO of it that I made. I'm not able to use IDE on VMware ESX 4.1. I think that might only be available for some of the other VMware platforms like Workstation.

 

I've attached my updated vmx and log file.

This is not going to help, but for information Donk's manual has the following:

 

monitor.virtual_exec = "hardware"

monitor.virtual_mmu = "software"

 

And since the introduction of ESXi 4.1 the guestOS = "darwin10-64" or "darwin10" is fully supported, if you are still running ESXi 4.0 then Zum's guestOS = "darwin-64" or "darwin" are valid.

 

You should be able to create an IDE HD under ESXi 4.1, although I am sure both IDE and SCSI HD's should work.

[Natedev]

Is this ESX 4.1?

 

Yep - attached is my latest VMX file that uses an IDE drive.

snow_leopard.vmx.txt

[vegaslaptop]

Hi everyone,

 

I have been trying to add SL to my ESXi for a few days now and I always end up with just getting to the boot screen but with no options just "boot:" Please see the attached screenshot. I have attached my VMX file too. I managed to destroy my whole datastore the first time I tried... So I am starting everything new but I want to install SL first if possible.

 

Thanks for your help!

Mac_OS_X.vmx.txt

[hippoth]

Hi everyone,

 

I have been trying to add SL to my ESXi for a few days now and I always end up with just getting to the boot screen but with no options just "boot:" Please see the attached screenshot. I have attached my VMX file too. I managed to destroy my whole datastore the first time I tried... So I am starting everything new but I want to install SL first if possible.

 

Thanks for your help!

Press F8 during the first boot to come to the prompt, than F10 or F5 and you will see your attached install dvd and then enter "rd(0,1)/legacy_kernel -v" to boot up from the ISO.

 

Your vmx looks good, with ESXi you can also use SCSI harddrives.

[Natedev]

Press F8 during the first boot to come to the prompt, than F10 or F5 and you will see your attached install dvd and then enter "rd(0,1)/legacy_kernel -v" to boot up from the ISO.

 

Your vmx looks good, with ESXi you can also use SCSI harddrives.

 

When I do this (on ESX 4.1), I get:

panic(cpu 0 caller 0x55c25d): "Unable to find driver for this platform: \"ACPI\".\n"@/Users/nawcom/Builds/xnu-1504.7.4/iokit/Kernel/IOPlatformExpert.cpp:1393

Debugger called: <panic>

Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)

then a stack trace.

[vegaslaptop]

Press F8 during the first boot to come to the prompt, than F10 or F5 and you will see your attached install dvd and then enter "rd(0,1)/legacy_kernel -v" to boot up from the ISO.

 

Your vmx looks good, with ESXi you can also use SCSI harddrives.

 

Thank you very much hippoth. It's usually the simplest things that evade us... or at least me. Installed Mac OS SL, did all updates fine and it's working great. I installed logmein and it seems to be a little faster logging in that way. The refresh rate through logmein is a little slow and you see the mouse arrow from the last click. Thanks again to everyone for making this possible. Amazing!

 

Oh, I forgot to install the VM Tools, so now it's really amazing:)

[vegaslaptop]

What could cause MAC OS X to "freeze" after a while in ESXi? It seems like after a few hours the Mac VM is frozen. I am able to open the vSphere console but neither my mouse nor my keyboard are working and Logmein has the accout as offline. After I reset it everything is working ok again. Has anybody had any similar issues?

 

I am changing the power setting to never sleep for hdd and never for display to see if this will resolve this issue. I will report the result but in the meantime if anyone has had a similar problem I would greatly appreciate any direction.

[MSoK]

What could cause MAC OS X to "freeze" after a while in ESXi? It seems like after a few hours the Mac VM is frozen. I am able to open the vSphere console but neither my mouse nor my keyboard are working and Logmein has the accout as offline. After I reset it everything is working ok again. Has anybody had any similar issues?

 

I am changing the power setting to never sleep for hdd and never for display to see if this will resolve this issue. I will report the result but in the meantime if anyone has had a similar problem I would greatly appreciate any direction.

This problem has been noted before in this topic, so either do as you have done, change the sleep options, alternatively Caffeine for Mac resolves the issue.

[vegaslaptop]

This problem has been noted before in this topic, so either do as you have done, change the sleep options, alternatively Caffeine for Mac resolves the issue.

 

Thank you! everything is working great!

[pjg61]

I'm new to this forum (and OS X) so bear with the possibly stupid questions.

 

I have 10.6.4 installed on VMware WorkStation 7.1.1 all working well. I downloaded "Darwin/x86 boot v5.0.132 - Chameleon for VMware v2.0-RC4-VMware r10.6.4" and installed the VMware Tools and other drivers.

 

1) Is there a web site that shows what the latest build of Darwin/x86 boot that is available? I only seem to find this info by combing this web site and topic... I would like to ensure I have the latest boot cd available...

 

2) I installed the VMware Tools first (before any other extra driver). The video worked fine and the client OS resized automatically with VMware's "Fit Guest Automatically" feature. Once I installed the VMware SVGA driver (1.2.2), the Fit Guest Automatically no longer works, BUT the screen saver now works and doesn't hang the system. So, if I want auto resizing, I have to turn off the screen saver, but if I want the better display, I lose the auto-resizing. Is this correct and is there a way around this?

 

Other than that, all seems to be working well. I've assigned 2 processors to the vm along with 2 GB memory. I running on an i7 M620 on a ThinkPad T510...

 

All comments/suggestions are greatly appreciated!

 

Pierre

[SnapperNZ]

I get "cp: cannot stat '/usr/lib/vmware/isoimages/*.pub': No such file or directory" when running setup.sh on an ESX 4.0 host.

 

I'm running this as root.

 

And this is a fresh install of 4.0.

 

Snapper

[MSoK]

I get "cp: cannot stat '/usr/lib/vmware/isoimages/*.pub': No such file or directory" when running setup.sh on an ESX 4.0 host.

 

I'm running this as root.

 

And this is a fresh install of 4.0.

 

Snapper

Snapper, Not aware of any issues, although I would run ESXi 4.1, as it offers much better support for OS X especially SL, and Donk's latest darwin iso 310, then you can use guestOS = "darwin10-64" or "darwin10".

 

Also have you followed the original manual with "chmod +x setup.sh" and then run "./setup.sh --install".

[Donk]

Snapper, Not aware of any issues, although I would run ESXi 4.1, as it offers much better support for OS X especially SL, and Donk's latest darwin iso 310, then you can use guestOS = "darwin10-64" or "darwin10".

 

Also have you followed the original manual with "chmod +x setup.sh" and then run "./setup.sh --install".

 

I saw this a couple of times. You must upload to the datastore or you run out of space on the hypervisor partitions and then get the stat error.

[SnapperNZ]

Thanks guys for both responses. I have uploaded to the datastore and I have heaps of space, 500GB+.

 

And yes I ran chmod +x on the setup script.

 

I had tried this on a 4.1 ESX host before creating a new 4.0 host and getting the same error.

 

One thing I noticed, the path seems to be wrong for the datastore - in the manual it says /volume/vmfs/volumes/.... Yet vmfs root of the drive, so it's just /vmfs/volumes/datastore/..... Does this make sense and is that right? I'm able to get to the datastore and the vmware-darwin-200 directory fine and obviously I'm getting the error, so the setup.sh script is running.

 

I'll keep plugging away then, as it sounds like something simple must be wrong. I have 2 datastores so will try the other one.

 

Where can I get the 310 ISO?

 

Just to update - tried the other datastore - same message. Dam it.

 

Again, thanks for your responses.

 

Snapper

[SnapperNZ]

One more update - if I try and change directory to the usr/lib/vmware/isoimages directory it tells me it can't cd to isoimages. I can get to usr/lib/vmware and ls shows the isoimages directory.

 

Is it perhaps a permissions issue - ls -l shows isoimages permissions for root as only L.

 

If I need to chmod that directory - can you confirm what I need to do? I've read somewhere chmod 777.

 

I've got a ESX 4.0 VM running on my 4.1 host - so I might go and test on the VM before affecting my running 4.1 host.

 

Snapper

 

Should I add all my comments to one post, rather than spam on here?!

 

I just re-tried on the 4.0 VM and it's worked fine - i.e. setup.sh --install ran without a problem. Notably I can also access the usr/lib/vmware/isoimages directory on that VM.

 

So I think the issue with my main 4.1 host is the permissions. From usr/lib/vmware I try and cd to isoimages and get -ash: cd: can't cd to isoimages

 

Sorry about this!

 

Snapper

[MSoK]

Thanks guys for both responses. I have uploaded to the datastore and I have heaps of space, 500GB+.

 

And yes I ran chmod +x on the setup script.

 

I had tried this on a 4.1 ESX host before creating a new 4.0 host and getting the same error.

 

One thing I noticed, the path seems to be wrong for the datastore - in the manual it says /volume/vmfs/volumes/.... Yet vmfs root of the drive, so it's just /vmfs/volumes/datastore/..... Does this make sense and is that right? I'm able to get to the datastore and the vmware-darwin-200 directory fine and obviously I'm getting the error, so the setup.sh script is running.

 

I'll keep plugging away then, as it sounds like something simple must be wrong. I have 2 datastores so will try the other one.

 

Where can I get the 310 ISO?

 

Just to update - tried the other datastore - same message. Dam it.

 

Again, thanks for your responses.

 

Snapper

Yes, the location in the manual is not correct for ESXi 4/4.1, was written before they were released so your snooping around found the datastore.

 

Please find below the link to Donk's 310 darwin iso:

 

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...t&p=1523890

[SnapperNZ]

Thanks MSoK.

 

So I found that it looks like my symbolic links are broken, somehow, so I've found the iso's and run the script manually. Copying in the darwin.iso and running the

 

for A in *.iso

do

echo SHA-1 digest for "$A"

openssl dgst -sha1 -sign tools-key.pem < "$A" > "$A".sig 2> /dev/null

done

 

Which worked fine.

 

Next up, it says no operating system found - so no doubt a basic issue - hopefully not as complex as the broken symbolic links issue!

 

I'm waiting on a new server to arrive - once that's here I'll do a fresh install of 4.1 on this current machine - as it can't be too good if the symbolic links are broken. It would explain why I couldn't update my VMTools - as they are of course also in the same isoimages folder linked on the server.

 

Anyway, I'll report back soon - fingers crossed I can crack it! Thanks for your help/responses - I really appreciate it.

 

So I've read that running setup.sh twice can result in the darwin is unsupported guest OS message.

 

I only ran it once, manually. I'm not sure if it's related.

 

I think I'm stuffed at this stage, I'll have to wait for a new host to test on. Darn.

[MSoK]

Thanks MSoK.

 

So I found that it looks like my symbolic links are broken, somehow, so I've found the iso's and run the script manually. Copying in the darwin.iso and running the

 

for A in *.iso

do

echo SHA-1 digest for "$A"

openssl dgst -sha1 -sign tools-key.pem < "$A" > "$A".sig 2> /dev/null

done

 

Which worked fine.

 

Next up, it says no operating system found - so no doubt a basic issue - hopefully not as complex as the broken symbolic links issue!

 

I'm waiting on a new server to arrive - once that's here I'll do a fresh install of 4.1 on this current machine - as it can't be too good if the symbolic links are broken. It would explain why I couldn't update my VMTools - as they are of course also in the same isoimages folder linked on the server.

 

Anyway, I'll report back soon - fingers crossed I can crack it! Thanks for your help/responses - I really appreciate it.

 

So I've read that running setup.sh twice can result in the darwin is unsupported guest OS message.

 

I only ran it once, manually. I'm not sure if it's related.

 

I think I'm stuffed at this stage, I'll have to wait for a new host to test on. Darn.

I am now lost as too where you are up to, it maybe as you say better to wait until you can re-build the Server with ESXi 4.1, as in all honesty the issues in ESXi are normally once you try to boot the OS X Retail DVD, not in getting the setup.sh script to run, other than NOT putting the install files in the datastore.

 

If in any doubt unintall the darwin iso, using ./setup.sh --uninstall from the file location on the datastore, that is if it will work bearing in mind your history, then re-install with ./setup.sh --install.

 

The no operating system is usually the guestOS setting in the VMX file, i.e. for ESXi 4.0 guestOS = "darwin-64" or "darwin" and for ESXi 4.1 guestOS = "darwin10-64" or "darwin10", assuming you are trying to install OS X 10.6. But if they are correct it would imply the darwin iso has not installed correctly in ESXi, so is not doing the pre-boot loading required for OS X.

[smedberg]

Hi!

 

I am trying to get OSX running on my ESXi 4.1 but I'm stuck at 'Still waiting for root device'

 

Tried both SCSI and IDE using darwin-310 and OSX 10.6 ISO without any luck.

Using Intel® Core2 Quad CPU Q9400 @ 2.66GHz and the config below.

 

Anyone got some ideas on how to troubleshoot?

Mac_OSX.txt

[MSoK]

Hi!

 

I am trying to get OSX running on my ESXi 4.1 but I'm stuck at 'Still waiting for root device'

 

Tried both SCSI and IDE using darwin-310 and OSX 10.6 ISO without any luck.

Using Intel® Core2 Quad CPU Q9400 @ 2.66GHz and the config below.

 

Anyone got some ideas on how to troubleshoot?

Not sure what the issue is, VMX looks OK at first glance, do you have a Retail DVD to try rather than the ISO, have seen issues with the ISO!

[smedberg]

Thanks for your response

 

I got a bit further with the voodoo file but the installation hangs right after the verbose text output when the graphic installer starts.

 

I managed to install it with this file http://rapidshare.com/files/381712876/darw...legacy.zip.html

I cant set the HD to bootdevice so I always need to use the loader, is this normal?

 

I'm going to try with a dvd tomorow.

[Mikail-]

Hi,

 

I have tried to transfer a Fusion Snow Leopard Server to ESX4.1, and got it to boot up with the darwin10-64 setting. But now, as in older versions of ESX I don't get the GUI to start up.

 

system.log shows this:

Loaded @ 0x20ffcb71: Info 0x20fff180 Name com.vmware.kext.VMwareGfx Version 1.0.0 KEXT_BUNDLE_VERSION at May  8 2010 22:56:09
...
svga: Start: CAP_TRACES=0x00200000 failed
gfx: start: svgaDev.Start failed.
ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin::pushCPU_CSTData - _CST evaluation failed
Warning - kext com.vmware.kext.vmmemctl has immediate dependencies on both com.apple.kernel* and com.apple.kpi.* components; use only one style.

 

and repeatedly the following:

Sep  5 21:30:07 servername com.apple.ReportCrash.Root[5266]: 	__TEXT [0x100000000 - 0x100078000) __eh_frame [0x100068ec8 - 0x100078000) /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow
Sep  5 21:30:07 servername com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.loginwindow[5274]): Job appears to have crashed: Segmentation fault
Sep  5 21:30:07 servername com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.loginwindow): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
Sep  5 21:30:07 servername com.apple.ReportCrash.Root[5266]: 2010-09-05 21:30:07.964 ReportCrash[5266:3493] Saved crash report for loginwindow[5274] version ??? (???) to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/loginwindow_2010-09-05-213007_localhost.crash
Sep  5 21:30:12 servername com.apple.ReportCrash.Root[5266]: CoreSymbolication warning: Unable to locate CIE at 0x6c6a48a5 = 0x003548c0 - (0x93cb0017 + 4)
Sep  5 21:30:12 servername com.apple.ReportCrash.Root[5266]: CoreSymbolication warning: error parsing FDE at 0x1000aecc0 in:
Sep  5 21:30:12 servername com.apple.ReportCrash.Root[5266]: 	__TEXT [0x100000000 - 0x1000cd000) __eh_frame [0x1000aecb8 - 0x1000ccff8) /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/Metadata.framework/Support/mds
Sep  5 21:30:12 servername com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.metadata.mds[5275]): Job appears to have crashed: Illegal instruction
Sep  5 21:30:12 servername com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.metadata.mds): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
Sep  5 21:30:12 servername com.apple.ReportCrash.Root[5266]: 2010-09-05 21:30:12.511 ReportCrash[5266:192f] Saved crash report for mds[5275] version ??? (???) to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/mds_2010-09-05-213012_localhost.crash
Sep  5 21:30:17 servername com.apple.ReportCrash.Root[5266]: CoreSymbolication warning: Unable to locate CIE at 0x7810977b = 0x002e37f0 - (0x881da071 + 4)
Sep  5 21:30:17 servername com.apple.ReportCrash.Root[5266]: CoreSymbolication warning: error parsing FDE at 0x100003fc0 in:
Sep  5 21:30:17 servername com.apple.ReportCrash.Root[5266]: 	__TEXT [0x100000000 - 0x100004000) __eh_frame [0x100003fb8 - 0x100004000) /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/ATS.framework/Support/fontd
Sep  5 21:30:17 servername com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.fontd[5276]): Job appears to have crashed: Segmentation fault
Sep  5 21:30:17 servername com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.fontd): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
Sep  5 21:30:17 servername com.apple.ReportCrash.Root[5266]: 2010-09-05 21:30:17.360 ReportCrash[5266:313b] Saved crash report for fontd[5276] version ??? (???) to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/fontd_2010-09-05-213017_localhost.crash
Sep  5 21:30:18 servername com.apple.ReportCrash.Root[5266]: CoreSymbolication warning: Unable to locate CIE at 0x705adce0 = 0x009ccbc0 - (0x9041eedc + 4)
Sep  5 21:30:18 servername com.apple.ReportCrash.Root[5266]: CoreSymbolication warning: error parsing FDE at 0x100068ed0 in:
Sep  5 21:30:18 servername com.apple.ReportCrash.Root[5266]: 	__TEXT [0x100000000 - 0x100078000) __eh_frame [0x100068ec8 - 0x100078000) /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow

 

My configfile (vmx) looks like this:

#!/usr/bin/vmware
.encoding = "UTF-8"
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "7"
scsi0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic"
memsize = "1024"
scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0:0.fileName = "servername.vmdk"
ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
ethernet0.connectionType = "bridged"
ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"
ethernet0.wakeOnPcktRcv = "TRUE"
ethernet0.addressType = "vpx"
ethernet0.linkStatePropagation.enable = "FALSE"
usb.present = "TRUE"
ehci.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge0.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge4.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge4.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge4.functions = "8"
pciBridge5.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge5.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge5.functions = "8"
pciBridge6.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge6.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge6.functions = "8"
pciBridge7.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge7.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge7.functions = "8"
vmci0.present = "TRUE"
ich7m.present = "TRUE"
firmware = "efi"
roamingVM.exitBehavior = "go"
tools.syncTime = "TRUE"
displayName = "servername"
guestOS = "darwin10"
nvram = "servername.nvram"
virtualHW.productCompatibility = "hosted"
keyboardAndMouseProfile = "macProfile"
proxyApps.publishToHost = "FALSE"
tools.upgrade.policy = "upgradeAtPowerCycle"
powerType.powerOff = "soft"
powerType.powerOn = "soft"
powerType.suspend = "soft"
powerType.reset = "soft"
extendedConfigFile = "servername.vmxf"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:50:56:ad:00:01"
uuid.location = "56 4d 08 2f 9b d5 da 0a-c3 fb 22 8a 73 b2 58 d2"
uuid.bios = "56 4d 3d 83 c1 08 c1 6f-48 8c 21 c5 d5 dd 80 9f"
cleanShutdown = "FALSE"
replay.supported = "FALSE"
replay.filename = ""
scsi0:0.redo = ""

monitor.virtual_exec = "hardware"
monitor.virtual_mmu = "hardware"


pciBridge0.pciSlotNumber = "17"
pciBridge4.pciSlotNumber = "21"
pciBridge5.pciSlotNumber = "22"
pciBridge6.pciSlotNumber = "23"
pciBridge7.pciSlotNumber = "24"
scsi0.pciSlotNumber = "16"
usb.pciSlotNumber = "33"
ethernet0.pciSlotNumber = "34"
ehci.pciSlotNumber = "35"
vmci0.pciSlotNumber = "36"
vmotion.checkpointFBSize = "4194304"
usb:0.present = "TRUE"
usb:1.present = "TRUE"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"
vmci0.id = "-706903905"
usb:1.deviceType = "hub"
usb:0.deviceType = "mouse"
scsi0:0.deviceType = "scsi-hardDisk"
vc.uuid = "50 2d 8b b1 46 a9 e2 24-62 5d 33 01 a5 99 e3 13"
sched.cpu.min = "0"
sched.cpu.units = "mhz"
sched.cpu.shares = "normal"
sched.mem.minsize = "0"
sched.mem.max = "1024"
sched.mem.shares = "normal"
sched.swap.derivedName = "/vmfs/volumes/4a586921-7abb6423-689d-0022157a02ed/servername/servername-d9ebc167.vswp"
hostCPUID.0 = "0000000a756e65476c65746e49656e69"
hostCPUID.1 = "000006fb000408000000e3bdbfebfbff"
hostCPUID.80000001 = "00000000000000000000000120100800"
guestCPUID.0 = "0000000a756e65476c65746e49656e69"
guestCPUID.1 = "000006fb00010800800022090febfbff"
guestCPUID.80000001 = "00000000000000000000000120100800"
userCPUID.0 = "0000000a756e65476c65746e49656e69"
userCPUID.1 = "000006fb000408000000e3bdbfebfbff"
userCPUID.80000001 = "00000000000000000000000120100800"
evcCompatibilityMode = "FALSE"
ethernet0.dvs.switchId = "87 06 2d 50 57 24 bf 34-84 eb 8b 2d e4 6a a0 f0"
ethernet0.dvs.portId = "166"
ethernet0.dvs.portgroupId = "dvportgroup-3117"
ethernet0.dvs.connectionId = "867373672"
smc.present = "FALSE"
scsi1.present = "FALSE"
scsi1:0.present = "FALSE"
floppy0.present = "FALSE"

 

Is this a known error, a configmistake of mine, wrong drivers, or other? Any pointers are very welcome!

 

Mike

[MSoK]

Hi,

 

I have tried to transfer a Fusion Snow Leopard Server to ESX4.1, and got it to boot up with the darwin10-64 setting. But now, as in older versions of ESX I don't get the GUI to start up.

 

Is this a known error, a configmistake of mine, wrong drivers, or other? Any pointers are very welcome!

 

Mike

Mike,

I am not sure if you can move a fusion VM guestOS without using the converter currently at v4.3 for Windows only. However a couple if things in your VMX may be contributing, you mention using guestOS = "darwin10-64" but it is currently set to "darwin10"

 

Also firmware = "efi" maybe an issue and monitor.virtual_mmu = "hardware" should be "software".

 

Have you created a clean OS X guestOS under ESXi 4.1 using Donk's 310 darwin iso, if you can may be worth a try as that would prove you have an ESXi configuration that will work with OS X as a guestOS, as you may be trying to troubleshoot a guestOS problem that is a HostOS problem.