I'm having an issue with deploying a W2K8 R2 server from a customized template. I start out by building a W2K8 R2 VM from scratch, install tools, and install patches. Once the VM was shutdown I converted it to a template. When deploying without customizations I have no issues. When I use customization I get the following message.....
"autochk program not found - skipping AUTOCHECK"
....then BSOD
"STOP: C000021a Fatal System Error
The Session Manager Initialization system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xc000003a"
and the process repeats. Any direction at this point would be wondering. Thanks in advance.
David
Thanks so much for posting this. I had this issue, and this totally resolved it. (After a 24 hour clone, this saved some time).
I had this issue recently. The issue was that the clone operations was running against a VM that was powered on. If your VM is not powered on, check that it is registered correctly. There is a current bug/KB where if vCenter service is restarted the templates registration can become defunt (noted by the property collector error if you try to convert the template to/from vm or edit settings etc).
Hi,
encountered the same problem - creating the template from the powered off VM did not help. Solution was in clearing the volume attribute as gjacknow suggested.
Thanks a lot
Harry
Glad people are finding this useful.
I don't know how someone figured this out, but your post saved my butt. I appreciate it.
How to fix the issue, see KB
Jesper
Thanks for sharing your recent experience on this problem. This resolution works for me.