Re: VPC Compatibility with Tiger

This is more of a community announcement than anything else...


On 2005-10-06 03:17:59 +1000, "Unseelie" <unseelie@xxxxxxxxx> said:

Yes, with caveats... Some users are reporting kernel panics under
10.4.x with VPC 7.0.2. Due to the nature of the kernel panics and some
rumors, I suspect this may be addressed by Apple... hopefully soon.



I hope it is very soon... I just spent a day fixing my busted
system... twice... due to that pretty nasty kernel panic which left
fsck in a fit.

And HFS Journaling doesn't help when the panic occurs... it
crashes at a very dangerous spot where HFS no longer functions
and playing back the journal leaves very broken HFS filesystems.

If you can, I strongly suggest you run 7.0.2 on Mac OS X 10.3.9
(have a dual-boot system, for example) until Apple and Microsoft
get their act together.

If you can't do that, then try not to run Virtual PC whilst you
have other Mac applications running... the kernel failure seems
to correlate with the virtual memory system in some form.  The idea
is to prevent Virtual PC running in amidst of a page fault.

One last request... when Tiger asks whether to send a bug report
to Apple concerning the kernel panic... do it, because that tells
Apple engineers that they (still) have a stupid kernel bug on
their hands that needs a workaround at the least.  The more Apple
see reports of this kind, the more likely Apple will do something
about it, even it means contacting 3rd party developers about the
issue.

Thanks.


--
-- tonza.

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