Wednesday
Jul272011
Lion and VMWare Version 2
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 8:33PM I had a little oops today when I tried to launch VMWare from my new Lion installation. I probably should have read the Lion notes beforehand, but...
Upon launching VMWare Version 2, I received this message:
" 64-bit Kernel incompatibility. The version of VMware Fusion does not work with the 64 bit kernel of Mac OS X you are currently running. To use VMware Fusion, you need to restart your computer using the 32-bit kernel of Mac OS X. Quit VMware Fusion. "
However, the message doesn't say how to launch lion in 32-bit mode. It turns out that if you restart Lion and hold down the "3" and "2" keys while it is restarting, you are then in 32-bit mode, and VMWare Fusion launches just fine.
Reader Comments (1)
man your article is a life saver! seriously! i am at work with a WinTel environment and was just terrified of this since there is allot of “office” work depends on windows! this was something simple that VM guys should have told us about! thanks again Brad