VMWare Fusion crashes my Mac Pro

[Mike_O_Brien]

I've discovered that hitting the "Suspend" button on my FreeBSD virtual machine reliably crashes my Mac Pro. I'm running a 2 x 3 GHz Dual-Core Xeon Mac Pro with 4GB of memory, OS version 10.4.9 up to the latest patches. Fusion is v. 1.0b3 (43733).

The symptoms are that the progress bar for saving the state of virtual memory gets about 2/3 of the way along, then flickers and disappears. The Fusion application goes into spinning-beach-ball mode for about ten seconds, then the Mac panics.

I'm going to avoid doing that again, I think.

P.S. The crash fatally corrupted the VM file. It's garbage now.

Message was edited by:

Mike O'Brien

Message was edited by:

Mike O'Brien

[admin]

Please post the contents of panic.log. I think there have been similar reports before, and having the panic.log will help verify if this is the case.

[Mike_O_Brien]

Fri Jun 1 13:33:24 2007

panic(cpu 1 caller 0x788A10BB): vmmon: ASSERT bora/modules/vmmon/macos/pageHiddenMap.cpp:754

Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)

0x4885ba18 : 0x128d08 (0x3cb134 0x4885ba3c 0x131de5 0x0)

0x4885ba58 : 0x788a10bb (0x788ac538 0x788ac518 0x4885ba80 0x4885ba80)

0x4885bb98 : 0x788a10dc (0x4e20 0xf4240 0x4885bbb8 0x788a14e3)

0x4885bbb8 : 0x788a4cba (0x788ac578 0x788acdb4 0x2f2 0x0)

0x4885bc08 : 0x788a3b81 (0x4d17a 0x4d17a 0x9 0x52f6702c)

0x4885bc38 : 0x788a3c7c (0x715d004 0x4d17a 0x0 0x788a1433)

0x4885bc88 : 0x788a552f (0x715d004 0x0 0x7792e00 0x7e59894)

0x4885bca8 : 0x788a61cf (0x7792e00 0x1 0x300 0x6)

0x4885bcf8 : 0x788a124b (0x715d004 0x0 0x48 0x1)

0x4885bd18 : 0x788a1a35 (0x16 0x15 0x71fd610 0x0)

0x4885bd68 : 0x1f05d7 (0x9000001 0x20005602 0x4885beb8 0x3)

0x4885bda8 : 0x1e7411 (0x4885bdd0 0x297 0x4885be08 0x7b0cbb8)

0x4885be08 : 0x1df212 (0x8a1b420 0x20005602 0x4885beb8 0x3)

0x4885be58 : 0x331c4c (0x7b258c0 0x20005602 0x4885beb8 0x7b0cbb8)

0x4885be88 : 0x34ffa8 (0x7b258c0 0x20005602 0x4885beb8 0x7b0cbb8)

0x4885bf58 : 0x379e23 (0x7b0cbb8 0x7c8a000 0x7c8a044 0x0) Backtrace continues...

Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):

com.vmware.kext.vmmon(1.0.0d1)@0x788a0000

Kernel version:

Darwin Kernel Version 8.9.1: Thu Feb 22 20:55:00 PST 2007; root:xnu-792.18.15~1/RELEASE_I386

[admin]

Yes, this has been reported before[/url]. Please file a support request[/url] including this panic.log and the results of

grep 'Page_Ungrab' /var/log/system.log[/code]