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adrianm
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Mavericks VM wont Start - Mavericks GM

Hi,

I just went to restart my Mavericks GM VM Guest and when I click start it looks like it startring up fine and then it shuts down straight away.  I have opened up the VM Image and removed lock files and vmem file in case there were locks or suspend data sitting around.  I would like to boot the recovery partition but am not sure how to do that from a VM.

I am now creating a copy of the hard disk into a new VM to see if that fixes things.

Logs and things are attached.

Any Suggestions?

Adrian

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dariusd
VMware Employee
VMware Employee

Hi Adrian,

Hmmm... Interesting.  I haven't seen any similar problem in my testing here.  I'd be most interested to hear if you figure out what is going on in that VM.  Can you tell us more about the history of the VM?  Was it installed directly from Mavericks GM, or has it been upgraded from an earlier seed?

A few folks have asked about the Recovery Environment lately,  so I've prepared a document describing how to launch it and use it in a VM: Using the Recovery Environment (Recovery HD) in an OS X Virtual Machine

Hope that helps!

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Darius

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WoodyZ
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Just an FYI... When doing a clean install from the Developer Mavericks GM the Recovery HD is not created when done in a Virtual Machine.

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dariusd
VMware Employee
VMware Employee

I don't yet know if that's a change in Mavericks that's leaving us without a Recovery HD, or perhaps there's something that we need to tweak to make it work properly, but we're investigating...

Thanks,

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Darius

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adrianm
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Having done some further investigation the VM does seem to be initialising OK.  I am getting as far as the apple menu and was able to initiate a safe boot by holding down the <shift> key.  I have just tried apple-R and am sitting at a recovery screen trying to run some disk utilities - thanks for that.  It looks like the Macintosh HD volume is corrupt and wont mount - I am repairing now.  Ok its failed time for a rebuild.

The machine was running DP8 and I then upgraded to GM - I dont recall exactly which approach I used.

Adrian

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HPReg
VMware Employee
VMware Employee

We have investigated and we can confirm the problem comes from Fusion, not Mavericks. We are working on a fix.

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