Yellow Bricks

by Duncan Epping

os x

Warning: Latest OS X updates causes issues with Fusion 5.0.x!

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On the VMware VMTN Forums it is reported that VMware Fusion 5.0.x in combination with the latest OS X updates (MacBook Air and MacBook Pro Update 2.0) causes virtual machines to crash. This is reported in the following threads:

The error encountered is:

VMware Fusion has encountered an error and has shut down the virtual machine.

You can simply solve this as mentioned by Darius:

In the meantime, please try this: With your VM powered off, go into the Virtual Machine > Settings, then choose Display, and turn off the Accelerate 3D Graphics option.  Then close the Settings window and try to power on your VM.

Enable TRIM on OS X 10.6.7

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Thanks to Jason Nash’s article I managed to finally get TRIM enabled for my SSD on my MAC. The procedure works great, however when you have a dual SSD setup like I have (booting on a 120GB Intel and running my VMs on a 256GB Kingston) it doesn’t work as replacing the identifier leaves you with 1 SSD without TRIM support. I googled around for a bit and found this article by Oskar Groth. Oskar made a nice GUI tool that enables TRIM for you on all SSDs that your Mac contains! Be aware that this is a hack and there is no support whatsoever for this. So why would you add it? Well look at the test that Jason did, and I also did some testing and the preliminary findings are that it vastly improves your performance!