Crash of 10.8.5 and 10.9.5 on Vmware fusion 7 pro, not sure what causes this!

[stchr]

Hi

I use Vmware with jenkins/Sikuli to automate alot of testing for our platform.

I get spontane Reboots of the 10.8 and 10.9 os running in Vmware.

Never seen on physical testservers.

logs attached.

Anybody see any culprits?

[dariusd · Accepted solution]

Hi stchr,

The crash reported in 109_crash.rtf is almost certainly caused by a defect in the nl.bjaelectronics.driver.PL2303 driver.

There are many reasons why such a crash could happen more often within a virtual machine than on a physical Mac... for instance, timing differences in a virtual machine can exacerbate race conditions that would otherwise be latent within the driver on a physical Mac.

You should contact your USB-to-serial controller hardware vendor and ask for updated drivers to address the issue.

Cheers,

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Darius