Windows 2008 R2 "Time machine"

[Syrius80]

Dear everybody,

I'm faced to the following problem: (first of all I'm not sure is this a esx issue)

I have a Windows 2008 R2 server on a ESXi 5.1

a few days ago I need to restart this server. The shutdown process was successfully accomplished. But when the operating system was booted I got an error screen:

If I choose the Repair I could do anything in command line, but it's not interesting.

If i Choose the Start normally in this case the windows is boot up normally I have desktop and I could do everything. I can install or uninstall application, or really everything.

But if i restart the server it's boot up again with the error screen, and after when i choose the normally start and the OS is booted up, all of my previously made changes lost. If i previously uninstall or delete an application now this deleted file available and the uninstalled application are still installed. If i installed an application or made a directory now this isn't available.All of the log files are missing between the first failed boot and the last boot

All of the log files re missing between.

Does anybody have idea what could happen?

[a_p_]

Welcome to the Community,

with the VM powered off, open it's settings and check whether you configured its virtual disk as "Independent - Non-Persistent", which would explain the behaviour.

André

[Syrius80]

Dear André

Thank you the quick reply.

I examined the setting which you mentioned. It wasn't set. I tried to turn on the Independent mode, and set it persistent.

But when booted up the server and I made some changes after the restart the changes again lost. So it isn't solve the problem.

I left the Independent mode on, and set to persistent.

[a_p_]

Unless you need/want an independent virtual disk (which is excluded from snapshots), remove the check mark again.

Please use the advanced editor to attach the virtual machine's .vmx file as well as its latest vmware.log to see whether they contain any hints.

André

[Syrius80]

Turned off the independent mode.

attached the vmx file

and a question do you mean vmkernel.log when you wrote vmware.log file?

[ScreamingSilenc]

vmware.log can be found in the VM directory and its different from vmkernel.log

[Syrius80]

and here is the latest vmware.log

[a_p_]

I can't see anything wrong in the log file!? Can you please try to create a couple of files (text files, doc files, ...) within the VM. E.g. some files in your user's documents  folder and maybe a new folder in the VM's c:\ root folder to see whether they are lost with the reboot too? This is to check whether this could be a Windows issue, where it - for whatever reason - reverts to the last known good configuration when rebooting.

André

[Syrius80]

So,

I made a "testfolder" in the C:\, i also made a lot of file as you asked,

for the fun there is a picture from the log see the dates:

after that i restarted the os and everything is disappeared

the log:

as you can see all of the 20:00 post are disappeared.

also i attached the last vmware.log

[a_p_]

Ok, this should rule out guest OS issues. Anyway, I also don't see anything wrong in the log file (other than the connected CDROM and Floppy drive which are causing errors)!? Sorry, but I'm currently out of ideas.

André

[Syrius80]

Thank you the answers, i made a MS technet thread also so i hope somebody could help to me

[julienvarela]

Hi,

Can you go in you system property. Right Click on computer --> Property --> Advanced --> Startup And Repair And unselect boot delay for repair and OS choice.

Sorry it is in french for me

Regards,

Julien.

[Syrius80]

Hello Julien,

I tried what you wrote:

I checked out the "Time to display list of operating system" checkbox.

After the restart the checkbox is checked again, this setting is also reverted the previous state.

[julienvarela]

Ok,

So try this : bcdedit /set bootstatuspolicy ignoreallfailures

regards,

Julien.

[Syrius80]

I found an log entry in the vmkernel.log

Since this machine has the problem in the vmkernel.log contains the following entries every time when reboot this VM:

13-07-22T16:45:30.430Z cpu0:1078744)World: vm 1078747: 1421: Starting world vmm1:Management with flags 8

2013-07-22T16:45:30.431Z cpu0:1078744)World: vm 1078748: 1421: Starting world vmm2:Management with flags 8

2013-07-22T16:45:30.431Z cpu0:1078744)World: vm 1078749: 1421: Starting world vmm3:Management with flags 8

Can somebody tell to me what this means Flags 8 ?

2013-07-22T16:44:56.357Z cpu5:1078248)VSCSI: 6340: handle 8600(vscsi0:0):Destroying Device for world 1078249 (pendCom 0)

2013-07-22T16:44:56.357Z cpu5:1078248)VSCSI: 6340: handle 8601(vscsi0:1):Destroying Device for world 1078249 (pendCom 0)

2013-07-22T16:45:29.598Z cpu2:9212)Config: 347: "SIOControlFlag2" = 1, Old Value: 0, (Status: 0x0)

2013-07-22T16:45:29.711Z cpu0:1078744)MemSched: vm 1078744: 7756: extended swap to 8192 pgs

2013-07-22T16:45:30.239Z cpu0:1078744)World: vm 1078745: 1421: Starting world vmm0:Management with flags 8

2013-07-22T16:45:30.239Z cpu0:1078744)Sched: vm 1078745: 6416: Adding world 'vmm0:Management', group 'host/user', cpu: shares=-3 min=0 minLimit=-1 max=-1, mem: shares=-3 min=0 minLimit=-1 max=-1

2013-07-22T16:45:30.239Z cpu0:1078744)Sched: vm 1078745: 6431: renamed group 1536690 to vm.1078744

2013-07-22T16:45:30.239Z cpu0:1078744)Sched: vm 1078745: 6448: group 1536690 is located under group 4

2013-07-22T16:45:30.241Z cpu0:1078744)MemSched: vm 1078744: 7756: extended swap to 28113 pgs

2013-07-22T16:45:30.430Z cpu0:1078744)World: vm 1078747: 1421: Starting world vmm1:Management with flags 8

2013-07-22T16:45:30.431Z cpu0:1078744)World: vm 1078748: 1421: Starting world vmm2:Management with flags 8

2013-07-22T16:45:30.431Z cpu0:1078744)World: vm 1078749: 1421: Starting world vmm3:Management with flags 8

2013-07-22T16:45:30.519Z cpu0:1078744)VSCSI: 3780: handle 8602(vscsi0:0):Creating Virtual Device for world 1078745 (FSS handle 23071444)

2013-07-22T16:45:30.520Z cpu0:1078744)VSCSI: 3780: handle 8603(vscsi0:1):Creating Virtual Device for world 1078745 (FSS handle 10226387)

2013-07-22T16:45:30.660Z cpu3:1078745)VMMVMKCall: 208: Received INIT from world 1078745

2013-07-22T16:45:30.667Z cpu1:1078745)LSI: 1986: LSI: Initialized rings for scsi0 async=1, record=0 replay=0

2013-07-22T16:45:30.668Z cpu1:1078754)Net: 1858: connected Management eth0 to VM Network, portID 0x2000015

2013-07-22T16:45:30.668Z cpu1:1078754)NetPort: 1380: enabled port 0x2000015 with mac 00:00:00:00:00:00

2013-07-22T16:45:30.736Z cpu3:1078747)VMMVMKCall: 208: Received INIT from world 1078747

2013-07-22T16:45:30.737Z cpu3:1078748)VMMVMKCall: 208: Received INIT from world 1078748

2013-07-22T16:45:30.738Z cpu6:1078749)VMMVMKCall: 208: Received INIT from world 1078749

2013-07-22T16:45:30.774Z cpu4:11508)Config: 347: "SIOControlFlag2" = 0, Old Value: 1, (Status: 0x0)

[Syrius80]

thanks the tip Julien, i tried but it wasn't worked

but i found a log entry in the vmkernel log see in the previously post

[julienvarela]

You can check this KB which explain world vmm VMware KB: Mapping a virtual machine world number to a virtual machine name

Regards,

Julien