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Any error messages, log in event viewer, also compare hardware config with other vm.
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Any error messages, log in event viewer, also compare hardware config with other vm.

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We have &nbsp;Vmware server 2 on a host running 2008 R2 Std x64. &nbsp;With a newly created VM in the lab (running 2008 R2 SP1 Std x64) &nbsp;the display randomnly locks ups i.e. all of sudden you can't select anything and sending Ctrl-Alt_Del to the VM does nothing. &nbsp; The VM seems to still be runing fine as from another VM i can ping the problem VM and Run to it's C: drive. &nbsp;If we disconnect and exit from problem VM and reconnect it just takes you back to a screenshot of where it locked up.<br />
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Any ideas?<br />
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Cheers
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We have  Vmware server 2 on a host running 2008 R2 Std x64.  With a newly created VM in the lab (running 2008 R2 SP1 Std x64)  the display randomnly locks ups i.e. all of sudden you can't select anything and sending Ctrl-Alt_Del to the VM does nothing.   The VM seems to still be runing fine as from another VM i can ping the problem VM and Run to it's C: drive.  If we disconnect and exit from problem VM and reconnect it just takes you back to a screenshot of where it locked up.

Any ideas?

Cheers

Vmware Server 2 and Guest VM display locking up.

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.