VM capable of crashing hosts

[skinnieh]

Hello,

We are running vSphere 5.1 build 799733 hosts and i managed to create a VM (Windows 2008 R2 OS) that completely crashes hosts (purple screen) during shutdown of the VM or during vMotion (possibly other actions as well). It isn't normal behaviour of course, but i just wanted to double check here if this is a major or minor concern for VMware. I mean a VM coming through the hypervisor to crash any host it is running on... it does sound major to me.

[a_nut_in]

Interesting.... would you be able to share the vm-support bundle for this host please? Just upload it as an attachment

[a_nut_in]

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/653

[Sreec]

Hi,

    It's too early to comment PSOD is caused by 1 VM.Normal host logs wont help ,we need to go through the PSOD dump and analyse the same.

Please do regenrate the core dumps as per http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1002769

[Sreejesh_D]

Do you have screenshot of PSOD? we can find the reason if its a known issue from the error stack.

[skinnieh]

Here you go. I will try to follow the KB article as soon as i can.

[dariusd]

Hi skinnieh,

That particular PSOD is a known issue in ESXi 5.1, and is described in VMware Knowledge Base article 2038306.  The issue is resolved in ESXi 5.1 P01 (build 914609).

Thanks,

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Darius

[skinnieh]

Alright. Easy enough! thanks. I'll deploy the patches soon. No need to do the KB article thing then.