OS X Lion (10.7) VMware, Bootcamp

After installing OS X Lion, I tried to run Windows Bootcamp through VMware (3.1.3) and got this error:

Cannot open the disk ‘…Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/Virtual Machines/Boot Camp/Boot Camp.vmwarevm/Boot Camp.vmdk’ or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.
Reason: The partition table on the physical disk has changed since the disk was created. Remove the physical disk from the virtual machine, then add it again.

This can sound misleading. Delete Boot Camp from your Virtual Library, but Keep File.
Shift+Cmd+L

Select Boot Camp, hit Delete (or fn+Backspace or fn+Delete). Keep File.

Then, click on “Run Windows from your Boot Camp partition.”
VMware will then prepare your Boot Camp file again.

After this, you should be all set. Don’t disturb it while it’s doing this… it should go right into your VM.

 

[BUG] Segmentation fault ruby 1.8.7 (2011-06-30 patchlevel 352) [i686-darwin11.0.0]

RVM
OS X Lion (10.7)


:; gem update --system
Updating RubyGems
~/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-head/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:60: [BUG] Segmentation fault ruby 1.8.7 (2011-06-30 patchlevel 352) [i686-darwin11.0.0]


The problem here is that ruby doesn’t like the new llvm-gcc-4.2 compiler.


:; ll /usr/bin/gcc*
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 12 Jul 25 12:14 /usr/bin/gcc -> llvm-gcc-4.2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 113024 May 15 23:37 /usr/bin/gcc-4.2


So, uninstall this ruby and recompile using the old gcc-4.2 compiler.


rvm uninstall 1.8.7 && CC=/usr/bin/gcc-4.2 rvm install 1.8.7


Since llvm is the default compiler, you’re going to see some grumblings in the ruby community, and as someone told me, in installing Ruby Enterprise Edition.

 

Xcode 4.1 for Lion developer install didn’t finish?

I downloaded Xcode 4.1 for lion (xcode_4.1_for_lion.dmg) from the Apple Developer site instead of installing it through the App Store. (because we want to download it once, burn it, and install from disk instead of killing our network bandwidth).

Problem: It appeared to run correctly, but then nothing was available. If I tried to re-run it, it wouldn’t let me pick a drive because it said it was already installed. Looking at it from the app store, it would not recognize the install.

Solution: Go into your Applications folder and look for “Install Xcode.” Why in the world would it just install the installer and not tell you to go run it is beyond me. It hasn’t been done like this before… why assume people would know what to do next after the install would say it’s done.