I have a newly installed ESXi 5 Environment with three Host servers. After some recent Host issues, I have one Guest (Windows 2008 R2) that blue-screens when I start it.
This is a VM Version 8 Guest, and is not a P2V guest. When it starts, it gives the normal “Microsoft Corporation” logo while it loads windows, but then very rapidly flashes a Blue-Screen dump. It only displays it for a split second before then quickly going to a Vmware logo, and then to the Windows Error Recovery screen.
I’m looking for any documentation or recommendations on how..
1) 1) Pause the Blue-Screen message long enough for me get the error codes
Or
2) 2) The recommended method for building a new Guest and recovering the old guest OS/Data.
SKIRK505 wrote:
I have a newly installed ESXi 5 Environment with three Host servers. After some recent Host issues, I have one Guest (Windows 2008 R2) that blue-screens when I start it.
This is a VM Version 8 Guest, and is not a P2V guest. When it starts, it gives the normal “Microsoft Corporation” logo while it loads windows, but then very rapidly flashes a Blue-Screen dump. It only displays it for a split second before then quickly going to a Vmware logo, and then to the Windows Error Recovery screen.
I’m looking for any documentation or recommendations on how..
1) 1) Pause the Blue-Screen message long enough for me get the error codes
Or
2) 2) The recommended method for building a new Guest and recovering the old guest OS/Data.
1 is easy. Press F8 immediately following power on / reboot, and I do mean IMMEDIATE. You should get a prompt, there is an option to start the log and DON'T restart on blue screen / error. That will keep the screen up so you can see the error message.
2 is equally as easy, install new GUEST in another VM, attach the original VM disk as a 2nd drive.
so you're saying is a clean installation that has never worked?
did you try reinstalling again? did you select LSI SAS for Win 2008?
have you tried pressing F8 to inter in safe mode?
regards
For option 1.) you could boot the VM from the Windows 2008 R2 DVD (ISO) into Repair Mode, open a Command Prompt and run Regedit to set/edit the following key (I'm not 100% sure whether this is still available in Windows 2008 R2):
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CrashControl]
"AutoReboot"=dword:00000000
André
SKIRK505 wrote:
I have a newly installed ESXi 5 Environment with three Host servers. After some recent Host issues, I have one Guest (Windows 2008 R2) that blue-screens when I start it.
This is a VM Version 8 Guest, and is not a P2V guest. When it starts, it gives the normal “Microsoft Corporation” logo while it loads windows, but then very rapidly flashes a Blue-Screen dump. It only displays it for a split second before then quickly going to a Vmware logo, and then to the Windows Error Recovery screen.
I’m looking for any documentation or recommendations on how..
1) 1) Pause the Blue-Screen message long enough for me get the error codes
Or
2) 2) The recommended method for building a new Guest and recovering the old guest OS/Data.
1 is easy. Press F8 immediately following power on / reboot, and I do mean IMMEDIATE. You should get a prompt, there is an option to start the log and DON'T restart on blue screen / error. That will keep the screen up so you can see the error message.
2 is equally as easy, install new GUEST in another VM, attach the original VM disk as a 2nd drive.
Outstanding.. I was able to get into the Safe Mode options by rapidly hitting F8 while it was going through its normal recovery cycle. It took a few tries, but I finaly got it through before it Blue-Sceened, and was able to successfully get the VM back up using the boot from last known good config. I've since then rebooted it a few times and it looks good.
Thanks guys