Vmware Fusion/Parallels 8 issue with 10.8.2 - Specs inside

[danwork85]

Hi guys,

I just finished a hackintosh with a i7 2700k @ 4.6ghz, GA-Z68XP-UD3, intel nic, onboard sound, Nvidia GTX 570, USB 3.0 Caldigit Drivers, Crucial m4 ssd (trim enabled).

Set as imac 12,2 with custom SSDT to work with the overclock.

I am having issues working with Vms in both fusion and paralells and I am wondering if anyone else is having the same issues and/or has a fix?

Problem: Setting up a new Windows 7 x64 VM results in various CRC or .sys missing boot up errors, even BSODs sometimes.

If i get to a windows screen, some programs fail to install over a network share, and others simply cannot complete becuase it says files are missing (even though the installer is complete and there).

It points to a harddrive issue - but it is virtual. I have tried both complete storage size and growing as more space is added (up to 64GBS) and i believe the controller is lsi-scsi.

I have done hardware scans on memory, SMART among other things on my actual hardware, but all come up good. I have had NO issues with installing programs on OSX itself.

The other part is, I imported a VM created with my MBA of win7 x64 and it worked fine .. until i had to install a big program of some sort.

Anyway, any feedback will help. I am thinking of doing a fresh install to see if it persists.

Thanks for reading!

 

[mike5065]

odd issue. some random thoughts....

i assume setting the Intel virtualization (vt-d, vt-x) is a prerequisite for running VMWare Fusion. if it's not set in the BIOS, you might want that set.

have you tried different fusion compatibility setting, i.e. fusion 5 versus fusion 4 versus...?

have you tried different advanced fusion settings, for virtualization (i.e. vt-x, vt-x with EPT, auto, etc)?

have you looked at the vmware forums? this is probably not exclusively a hackintosh issue.

 

[danwork85]

I think I will try using different version of fusion after a clean install. Maybe that would narrow it down. Thanks for the suggestion.

Virtualization in bios is set and working.

Here goes another night.. lol

 

[danwork85]

I think i found the issue.

The problem stems from choosing 1 core for the VM over 2 or more. So if i create a VM, I have to create it with 1 core otherwise I will run into CRC errors and corruption. This happens in both parallels and fusion for me.

Now to fix that..

 

[email2011]

Through the years I have had these CRC trouble two times on my hackintosh's. Both times they were a bad RAM module (Even passed the linux memtest). But again both times were fixed by installing a different set of RAM chips. My suggestion is to RMA your RAM and see if that works!

Kevin

 

[danwork85]

This was with VMs or just overall?

NM you just said it passed memtest..

this is odd. if it is the ram it would explain a lot.

 

[danwork85]

Replaced the motherboard and did a clean install.

Upgraded to a z77x-uD5H since my board had other problems with it.

Everything seems to be working great now. Guess my old board wasn't cutting it anymore. Thanks for the help!