VMWare Fusion and OS x86

Don’t, under any circumstances, even try to install VMWare Fusion if you are running OS x86. That is, on a non-Apple machine. I think it happened with the last beta too, but this one causes a Kernel Panic on installation, after it has managed to install the files that cause the panic. Which means a reboot also causes a panic. If you find this happens to you, boot in Single User mode (-s), and, after running fsck and mounting the root partition as readable, move or delete one or both of the following things:

  • /Library/Application Support/VMWare Fusion/
  • /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.vmware.launchd.vmware.plist

Then, reboot, and run the Uninstaller.

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