Archive for September 21st, 2008

September
21

“ACPI.SYS is Corrupt” Using VMWare Fusion

I was doing an install of Windows XP on my new MacBook Pro when I encountered the famous “Blue Screen” with an error: APCI.SYS is Corrupt.

All the forums about the subject have a ton of conflicting advice. Let me share with you what fixed it for me.

The error occurs when you set your Virtual Machine in VMWare Fusion as Read/Write. You have to create a new Virtual Machine and set it to Read Only. Windows will then install on Leopard without incident.