My thoughts are upgrade to Leopard and then install 1.1RC?

That sounds good. There's nothing really to document - back up your virtual machines (just like any other data) if you're going to do a clean install, upgrade to Leopard, install Fusion, restore virtual machines (and other data) if you did a clean install.

MWunder wrote:

So following that procedure my exsisting installing of Fusion shall remain intact while the 1.1RC will give me better Leopard compatibility?

It's not quite clear what you meant by this - a bunch of people are confusing Fusion, the app, and their virtual machines, the data. Installing Leopard requires reinstalling Fusion, whether your current version or the release candidate, because Fusion needs low-level hooks that get disrupted when you install Leopard (this also applies if you try to copy Fusion from one Mac to another or back it up and restore). However, your virtual machines will be fine (assuming you backed them up if you did a clean install).

My experience is that VMware and Leopard do not play well together. Time Machine will cause your VMs to freeze solid and corrupt them. You must disable it. This applies to 1.0 and 1.1rc, 1.1rc didn't improve or change anything.

I upgraded to Leopard without making any specific arrangement. I didn't reinstall VMware Fusion inbetween. It's working just fine and I also have Time Machine up and running.

How did you get it corrupted? You backed up while Fusion was running? I think I've done this too and nothing wrong so far.. except that graphics performance seems quite slow on Leopard.

I did nothing special. I was running 1.0 and it seemed fine running the CentOS5 VM I was running under Tiger. I was compiling the latest PHP and it froze with a spinning beach ball. I hard reset the machine and tried to launch the VM again and fsck found all sorts of problems and when it booted it said some of the RPC libraries were toast starting NFS.

From there I decided to start again. I created a new RHEL5 VM and started the install. These are all text installs, no graphics, about 2/3rd of the way through install it froze again, same thing, beach ball, VM menus locked up, when I switched apps and then back the VMware menu didn't come up. No CPU usage, just stuck. Force Quit didnot work, couldn't shut down, had to hard reset.

I upgraded to 1.1RC, got the install done, turned away from it and it was frozen when I got back with a kernel panic related to scsi. I noticed that is coincided with TM activating so I turned it off and hard reset again. Tried to boot, seemed to go ok except now there was a problem loading the network drivers.

That is pretty much how my day has gone.

In order to keep this topic on track, let's continue discussion of cthree's problem in Fusion hung on Leopard.

Edit: Changed target thread because the new one has more posts. --etung 2007.10.28 03:57

If I upgrade to Leopard, Then reinstall Fusion do ithen need to reinstall XP and all my windows apps?

sawday wrote:

If I upgrade to Leopard, Then reinstall Fusion do ithen need to reinstall XP and all my windows apps?

As long as you upgrade properly to retain existing files you should not have to recreate the Virtual Machines and install applications in them however as a general rule one should never preform and upgrade or reinstall without first backing up data and verifying the backups are valid.

Woodyz - Thanks for this.  I've also just bought a Freecom Pro for that very purpose!

Sorry I forgot to mention that I have read a few people did have to reinstall Fusion after the upgrade so you may have to reinstall Fusion after the upgrade however that is separate and apart from the Virtual Machine's as they are not touched by that.