Linked clone autostarts by itself

[dryang]

I have created 5 linked clones for testing. One of them constantly powers on by itself.

All I have in event log is:

Task: Power On virtual machine

Initiated by: vmware-user

Any suggestion what is causing it?

My config: VC5, View5

P.S. I had this problem with one of virtual machines long ago in different environment, and the only way to stop autostart was to delete it and create new one.

[mittim12 · Accepted solution]

You can look under pool settings and provisioning settings.  There is an option for Number of spare (powered on) desktops.  You can try selecting that to 0 and see if a VM continues to power on. 

[dryang]

Yeah, it was it. I can't set it to 0, it gives me "Server Error: unknown". But now I know the reason of it. Thanks

[mittim12]

No problem at all. You may be able to disable the pool to keep it from starting.   That would work if you were trying to do maintenance. 

[dryang]

Nope, the VM keep starting up. In addition whenever I try to save any changes to my test pool I receive "Server Error: Unknown".

[mittim12]

What changes are you making?   Does those changes work for any pool?

[dryang]

Anything from changing the poll name to number of spare (powered on) desktops.

Error happens only to test pool.

[mittim12]

very strange.  I've seen weird errors before when a pool was assigned a template that is no longer available but other than that I have no idea.