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How much cores do the host have and how much vCPU's are assigned to the guest?

Was the guest created from scratch or was it migrated?

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VCP 3 & 4

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I am experiencing the same problem with a host with one double-core CPU and one vCPU assigned to the guest.  The guest 2008 Server R2 x64 was installed from scratch.

This happened with my guest with and without vmware tools installed.  I talked to one person that said he encountered a similar problem with 2008 x64 R2 and real metal it was supposed to be compatible with.  He blamed incompatibilities with I/O (disk) drivers.

Hi,

found the same Problem here. Here It is easy to reproduce!

I use VMware Server 2.0.2 running on a Quad Core Windows 2003 Server x86 with PAE 16GB Main Mem.

Guest is a Windows 2008 R2x64 Server with VMware Tools installed. # of vCPUs doesn't matter ...

Just start the Guest System, log in , start Taskmanager , go to Performamce Tab and resize the TM Window to the bottom of the screen - voila - it freezes!

hope someone find a solution to this problem ....

regards

Chris

I am having the same problem, host machine is 2008 x64 R2 with VM Server 2.0.2. I think this is a bigger issue? I will try in install ESXi 4 on my server and see if that helps. Has anyone contacted VMware support about this issue?

Yeah, me too!  Glad I'm not  organically  clueless.

I'm running Windows 7 x64 on AMD Athlon QuadCore 9850 with 12 GB RAM (on Host) and multiple hard drives (to distribute system i/o) and my Guest OS is Windows Server 2008 R2 (which is x64 only) and I routinely have Guest lockups.  The VMWare menu bar at the top of each Guest/VM allows me to select  Power off and Exit and that's how I am able to reboot the Guests.  All Guest VMs were created from scratch using the 'free' .iso download from Microsoft's web site.

And when things do work they are pretty sluggish.  I have VMWareTools installed on every VM.

I guess I should add this:

I have 4 VMs, all 4 have a single vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 40 GB of disk space, a bridged network adapter and other setup defaults.  All 4 can be loaded simultaneously, but clicking in menus or installing roles or features or adjusting window divisions randomly cause lockups.  Some activities very reliably cause lockups.

I'm not doing any "real" work -- I'm just preparing for a M$ cert exam in Svr 2008.  Things are going slowly.....

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Hi folks!

As mentioned here http://www.marktastic.com/2010/01/windows-server-2008-r2-random-lockups-on-vmware-esx/comment-page-1/#comment-7889

this is well known bug. After I’ve disabled SVGA driver on my VMs everything goes well now.

VMware fixed this begavior in vSphere Update 1 http://www.vmware.:com/support/vsphere4/doc/vsp_esx40_u1_rel_notes.html

Virtual machines sometimes fail with a blue screen when hardware acceleration is enabled fully

Virtual machine fails displaying a blue screen when you run certain applications with the hardware acceleration enabled fully in Windows guest operating system.

This is an issue with the SVGA driver, which is resolved in this release.