I have Avast 4.8 running on a couple of home Window XP machines just fine. I’m trying to migrate to running Windows XP on a Mac under VMware Fusion but having no luck. Here is my setup:
Mac Mini Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz, 3GB RAM Snow Leopard with latest patches
VMWare Fusion 2.0 or Fusion 3.0 (running 3.0 now but 2.0 does exactly the same thing below)
Guest OS: Clean Windows XP SP3 with latest patches and nothing else.
I install Avast via the full install file from the download site. The last attempt was with build 4.8.1356.0.
The install appears to run fine, but after the OS reboot I get the dreaded: ashDisp.exe (The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005). I’ve searched all over and found this error in numerous threads but not much advice that has helped me. I’ve tried installing multiple times over the original install, uninstall from safe-mode using the removal tool and then re-installing, and rolling back my VM state to just the virgin Windows XP SP w/ patches state. None of this works. I’m attaching the setup log for Avast. The only Windows system errors that I see are ones showing that the Avast services did not startup before the timeout.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.