DB2 Installation hangs - MacBook Pro Late 2013/Fusion/Windows

Jul 10, 2014- ibm ibm-connections installation

I’m building a new IBM Connections 5 test installation on my new MacBook Pro.

During the installation of the pre-requirements unfortunately IBM DB2 ESE 10.1 hung during installation (of course without logging an error message). Never had any issues with DB2 before so I started googling.

I found out that there is an issue if you use VMWare Fusion on a late 2013 MacBook Pro and Windows as OS for the virtual image. Solution is easy, just add following two lines to the .vmx file of your image:

monitor_control.enable_fullcpuid = TRUEcpuid.4.4.eax = “0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000”

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