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21 Replies Last post: Oct 18, 2008 11:50 PM by WoodyZ

Bluescreen trying to run Fusion 1.1.2 from Boot Camp partition on MacBook Air

Apr 29, 2008 7:36 PM

VirtualWolf 4 posts since
Apr 29, 2008

I bought a MacBook Air and have installed Windows on it on it (XP SP2), all the Boot Camp drivers are updated to the 2.1 version that came out a few days ago. Boot Camp itself is working beautifully, I've installed Fusion 1.1.2, tried to start it from the Boot Camp partition and it bluescreens. This is all completely freshly installed, too. I've deleted the ~/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/Virtual Machines folder and Fusion hasn't given any errors during the "Preparing the partition" phase.

Any thoughts? This is the exact same Windows disc that I used on my MacBook Pro about a year ago, and had no problems at all. Thanks!

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Reply Re: Bluescreen trying to run Fusion 1.1.2 from Boot Camp partition on MacBook Air Apr 29, 2008 9:00 PM

MandarMS 731 posts since
Nov 12, 2007 VMware

Try editing the Boot Camp virtual machine .vmx file

To find the .vmx file for the Boot Camp virtual machine, go to the virtual machine's package at <your home folder>/Library/Application Support/VMwareFusion/Virtual Machines/Boot Camp/<disk identifier>/Boot Camp partition.vmwarevm. Right-click on the package, choose "Show Package Contents", and open the .vmx file in Text edit make the following changes in .vmx file

scsi0.present = "TRUE"

To

scsi0.present = "FALSE"

Reply Re: Bluescreen trying to run Fusion 1.1.2 from Boot Camp partition on MacBook Air Apr 29, 2008 9:08 PM

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VirtualWolf 4 posts since
Apr 29, 2008

Same error, I'm afraid.

Reply Re: Bluescreen trying to run Fusion 1.1.2 from Boot Camp partition on MacBook Air Apr 29, 2008 10:54 PM

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rcardona2k 5,121 posts since
Oct 20, 2005

You can try the steps outlined in a Microsoft KB article in this thread: Re: Fusion fails on Boot Camp Win XP

Reply Re: Bluescreen trying to run Fusion 1.1.2 from Boot Camp partition on MacBook Air Apr 30, 2008 1:09 AM

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VirtualWolf 4 posts since
Apr 29, 2008

Aye, I've tried following that. I've looked through the various threads linked from that one you mentioned, and I noticed that the sp2.cab file that's meant to be in the Driver Cache\i386 folder isn't there. I ran through the registry additions in You receive a Stop 0x0000007B error after you move the Windows XP system disk to another computer, that didn't do anything either.

Reply Re: Bluescreen trying to run Fusion 1.1.2 from Boot Camp partition on MacBook Air Apr 30, 2008 4:01 PM

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jim.gill 245 posts since
Jan 6, 2005 VMware

The Stop 7B bluescreen is always caused by a missing intelide.sys driver. The most common reason for this is that the "preparation" stage cannot find room in the registry to insert the keys that turn this driver on. Less commonly, the driver might not be found in the driver.cab/sp2.cab files.

Wolf, what do you have in your c:\windows\Driver Cache\i386 folder? We have to do two things:

1) Get intelide.sys (and for mouse/keyboard, i8042prt.sys) into the c:\windows\system32\drivers folder. These files are part of Windows, so we need to get them from your own system--I cannot legally mail them to you.

2) Set the registry keys that instruct these drivers to be loaded when booting up.

I'm sorry you ran into trouble, but this issue can be worked around.

Reply Re: Bluescreen trying to run Fusion 1.1.2 from Boot Camp partition on MacBook Air Apr 30, 2008 5:59 PM

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VirtualWolf 4 posts since
Apr 29, 2008

Excellent! i8042prt was already there, but the intelide wasn't. Copied that in, and it's all working fine. Thanks!

Reply Re: Bluescreen trying to run Fusion 1.1.2 from Boot Camp partition on MacBook Air May 14, 2008 8:57 AM

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HastaLaVista 5 posts since
May 14, 2008

Jim, very helpful. I had the same problem with my MBP & XP SP3. . .

Copying the two drivers you mentioned did the trick! (I'd already applied the reg settings from the Microsoft KB article)

Reply Re: Bluescreen trying to run Fusion 1.1.2 from Boot Camp partition on MacBook Air Jun 24, 2008 9:31 PM

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mirateck 7 posts since
Jun 23, 2008

jim.gill wrote:
The Stop 7B bluescreen is always caused by a missing intelide.sys driver. The most common reason for this is that the "preparation" stage cannot find room in the registry to insert the keys that turn this driver on. Less commonly, the driver might not be found in the driver.cab/sp2.cab files.

Wolf, what do you have in your c:\windows\Driver Cache\i386 folder? We have to do two things:

2) Set the registry keys that instruct these drivers to be loaded when booting up.

I'm sorry you ran into trouble, but this issue can be worked around.

thanks for this. the combination of the registry edits and the two missing files seemed to do the trick.

its a SHAME that this problem has been around so long without being addressed by VMWare. i'm definitely thinking twice before considering another one of their products in the future.

Reply Re: Bluescreen trying to run Fusion 1.1.2 from Boot Camp partition on MacBook Air Sep 12, 2008 10:02 PM

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superandymac 4 posts since
Sep 8, 2008

im sorry , but im a new to windows, super-newb!

i would really like to know where i can go abouts finding the " intelide.sys" file...

and then how do i change a registry key?

ive done some googling... but windows lingo is greek to me!

thanks for any help !

Reply Re: Bluescreen trying to run Fusion 1.1.2 from Boot Camp partition on MacBook Air Sep 13, 2008 6:56 AM

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HastaLaVista 5 posts since
May 14, 2008

Are you kidding?

If you are not, I'd suggest to forgo Google & read this thread that you just posted your question in as the answer is right above your question.

Reply Re: Bluescreen trying to run Fusion 1.1.2 from Boot Camp partition on MacBook Air Sep 13, 2008 7:30 AM

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rcardona2k 5,121 posts since
Oct 20, 2005

superandymac wrote:

im sorry , but im a new to windows, super-newb!
i would really like to know where i can go abouts finding the "intelide.sys" file... and then how do i change a registry key?

You need to boot back into Boot Camp and in Windows Explorer the file will be in C:\windows\Driver Cache\i386 folder. You can also click on the Windows folder, choose Start > Search > For Files and Folders, then type intelide.sys.

As for the registry, you would open Start > Run > regedit. In regedit, there's an icon for My Computer with items that look like folders, these are called Hives. You navigate the hives like file system folders. The subfolders are called keys and you typically start with the HKEY_Local_Machine hive. Be very careful not to delete any keys. To add new keys right-click to create the new key and right click to add values. The values you add must be of the correct type like DWord, String, etc. and the values entered must be copied verbatim. Making a mistake in the registry may cause you to re-install Windows so this is not usually for "supernewbs".

The Microsoft KB articles above have instructions for making ".reg" file additions to the registry. This is where you copy/paste text from the browser into a notepad file, rename that file to a .reg extension, then double-click the .reg file to import it into the registry. IMO, this is a safer way of editing the registry than manually in regedit.

Reply Re: Bluescreen trying to run Fusion 1.1.2 from Boot Camp partition on MacBook Air Sep 16, 2008 7:47 AM

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WoodyZ 9,999 posts since
Apr 22, 2004

superandymac wrote:

im sorry , but im a new to windows, super-newb!
i would really like to know where i can go abouts finding the " intelide.sys" file...
and then how do i change a registry key?
ive done some googling... but windows lingo is greek to me!

Well I can't make it any easier for you then this...

The attached file, Boot_Camp_partition_Virtual_Machine_BSOD_STOP_0x7B_Fix.zip contains three files:

ReadMe1st.txt
Expand_i8042prt.sys_and_intelide.sys_Drivers.cmd
Boot_Camp_Virtual_Machine_i8042prt.sys_and_intelide.sys_Driver_Entries.reg

The files contained in this .zip archive are to be executed while running Windows XP under Boot Camp with the intension of then running the Boot Camp partition as a Virtual Machine.

The .cmd Script was written and tested for Windows XP Only!

This Script expands the intelide.sys and i8042prt.sys files from the appropriate cabinet file to the necessary location.

Note: While Windows XP SP2 is the lowest supported version of XP this Script checks for SP3 and if neither SP3 nor SP2 is found it will expand the files from the Drivers Cabinet.

While running Windows XP under a normal native Boot Camp boot execute (double-click) the .cmd and .reg files and then reboot to OS X and run the Boot Camp partition Virtual Machine.

Message was edited by: WoodyZ

File removed until I can add version checking and or code a backup routine.

Reply Re: Bluescreen trying to run Fusion 1.1.2 from Boot Camp partition on MacBook Air Sep 13, 2008 7:46 PM

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superandymac 4 posts since
Sep 8, 2008

wow ! WOODY ! THANKS !

really cant get any easier than that...

im all up and running now, thank you so much!!!

I hope some other people benefit from your response also.

-andy

Reply Re: Bluescreen trying to run Fusion 1.1.2 from Boot Camp partition on MacBook Air Sep 15, 2008 7:28 AM

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nacho210 8 posts since
Sep 11, 2008

This is driving me nuts......

I´m running an Imac with mac Os X. I have windows XP sp2 and VMware fusion 1.1.3.

I have followed all instructions given here. Changed "TRUE" to "FALSE", on the Mac. Run the two applications on wndows. When I try to mount the bootcamp partition to run as a virtual machine it says "Boot Camp partition preprocessing failed you may no be able to boot your Boot Camp partition as a virtual machine

-ty ty-

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