I am running a Win2003 virtual machine on an ESX 3.5 server along with about 10 other virtual machines. VMware Tools on the Windows 2003 server will randomly stop running and I have to manually start it again. It will eventually stop again and I have to start it again. I don't have this issue with any other vm's. Does anyone know why this might be happening or how to fix it?
sounds to me like you have some issues with that guest. I have not experienced the issue you see, but maybe the bottom of this thread may help, even if it is quite old.
you're welcome. Just one more point. Ensure the tools are not newer than the ESX Host in which it's running on. Meaning if you have a mixed environment run your tools at the lowest version ESX Host until all ESX versions are the same.
have you checked your event logs? There may be something in there that can point you to the cause of the tools service stopping. So you have antivirus software running on the guest?
I actually am getting errors about the anti-virus definitions not getting loaded. I've also got a ton of "Windows couldn't log the RSOP session status errors". I may have some other underlying issues. Have you ever seen the RSOP issues on vm's. I read that might have something to do with a cloned machine.
sounds to me like you have some issues with that guest. I have not experienced the issue you see, but maybe the bottom of this thread may help, even if it is quite old.
You're amazing. I've been looking forever for a fix that actually worked. This cleared up all my WMI errors.
My VMware Tools is still shutting down, but I've also got some issues with Symantec anti-virus. I'm going to troubleshoot those and hopefully that will solve my problem.
