VMWare 2.0.2 for windows shows stuck at 95% but running VMs fine
VMware (latest, greatest, free windows version) 2.0.2 I believe.
Windows 7-64, 4 gigs ram
No antivirus, no access/security issues, only change in 2 months is windows update
Everything worked fine a month ago, I rebooted after an update and now all machines show as powering on and stuck at 95%. I can remote into the machines (virtual desktop, ssh, etc) and they are running fine and dandy, just the console refuses to acknowledge that they are running. This leads to me not being able to use the console (so I can't install anything new)
There have been no changes that I know of other than windows update changes. The VMs operate fine. I am moving them elsewhere as soon as a machine gets in that I can put esxi on, but that is a good month off.
The only reason I've been running these on a Win-7 system is because our servers are too bogged down lately and i needed to free up some processor and disk juice (ie an install of mailcleaner backlogged 800 messages because another vm was going wild).
Anyway, if anyone has any tips, I would appreciate them. I've read thread after thread where people just give up, so if there's a solution thread out there please point me to it.
Windows 7-64, 4 gigs ram
No antivirus, no access/security issues, only change in 2 months is windows update
Everything worked fine a month ago, I rebooted after an update and now all machines show as powering on and stuck at 95%. I can remote into the machines (virtual desktop, ssh, etc) and they are running fine and dandy, just the console refuses to acknowledge that they are running. This leads to me not being able to use the console (so I can't install anything new)
There have been no changes that I know of other than windows update changes. The VMs operate fine. I am moving them elsewhere as soon as a machine gets in that I can put esxi on, but that is a good month off.
The only reason I've been running these on a Win-7 system is because our servers are too bogged down lately and i needed to free up some processor and disk juice (ie an install of mailcleaner backlogged 800 messages because another vm was going wild).
Anyway, if anyone has any tips, I would appreciate them. I've read thread after thread where people just give up, so if there's a solution thread out there please point me to it.
here is a thread that offers several other solutions... http://communities.vmware.com/thread/196911;jsessionid=65A3F28EBA8EF0909180132CBF0AE50E?start=15&tstart=15 Perhaps one of the responses there might point you in the right direction.
Note that Windows 7 isn't a supported host OS for VMware Server - lots of strange issues seem to crop up for people that try it. Likewise for XP or Vista, but I have had good luck with Both XP x64 and Vista X64 for VMware server - haven't personally tried Windows 7 as a host OS yet.
Good Luck
Note that Windows 7 isn't a supported host OS for VMware Server - lots of strange issues seem to crop up for people that try it. Likewise for XP or Vista, but I have had good luck with Both XP x64 and Vista X64 for VMware server - haven't personally tried Windows 7 as a host OS yet.
Good Luck
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bgoering: no questions, if it had a question it won't power on a unit, it'll just sit there. All these units are running, just not viable as running on the console.
Sadly none of those things mentioned on the link seem to pertain to my issue
Sadly none of those things mentioned on the link seem to pertain to my issue
Do you install drivers as part of Windows Update?
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not that I know of, I will check and see if there're any new drivers (such as the disk ones)
also network and video - I would suspect one of those before disk
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disk drivers are old ones
video drivers are 4 months old (kinda possibly changed, but I think that's when I installed Win 7) NVidia geforce 8400 gs
network drivers are the old ones
video drivers are 4 months old (kinda possibly changed, but I think that's when I installed Win 7) NVidia geforce 8400 gs
network drivers are the old ones
I would probably try different versions of video and network drivers - possibly even back level them. Should be available from the Nvidea site
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May I know whether UAC enabled on Windows 7 Host ?
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ok, so I found the issue, or at least I did something that somehow fixed it.
I uninstalled a program called Speedbit Video Accelerator - reboot, everything runs normally now. That, and the windowsupdates, were the only thing in the past 2 months that had been installed.
I can't say for sure it was Speedbit, but that's the only thing that's gone...
I uninstalled a program called Speedbit Video Accelerator - reboot, everything runs normally now. That, and the windowsupdates, were the only thing in the past 2 months that had been installed.
I can't say for sure it was Speedbit, but that's the only thing that's gone...
Glad you got it going. I bet the Speedbit does something to the video driver that V<ware didn't like.
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I went ahead and reported it to Speedbit...they can investigate if they want to. My bet is it's a fairly limited number of people who're using both vmware and speedbit on the same machine (I know i wouldn't be if my servershad been handling a load properly)
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Speedbit was at fault, it's a video accelerator. Other comments lead me to look in the general video vicinity.
Good Luck