Hi,
I use VMWare Player to run build VMs within my build environment. I created several build VMs over a year ago and they have been working fine. Each one of these build VMs has been manually set to non-persistent so that nothing is saved when the build shut down the OS and the next build will be done in a clean state the next time the VM is powered up.
Well now one of the VMs is not starting up. It goes through the initial boot up, gets to the usual 'Windows XP Starting' screen, this goes away and I get to the desktop but nothing shows up on the screen. No icons, no Start bar. Nothing...
The VMWare task bar that shows the disk, CD, Floppy icons, shows the disk having little to no activity (i.e. the green dot is not flashing)
If I try doing a Power-Reset, the OS may fully start, but usually does not.
Of course this would have to be the more complex of the build VMs containing a whole bunch of different development tools installed, so I'd really like to be able to save/fix this one instead of having to rebuild it from scratch.
I was hoping that being non-persistent these images would never run into problems like this as they always get reset on shutdown. Is there anything I can do to fix this? Has anyone else ever experience issue like this.
The VMs were created with Version 3. I just upgraded to Version 4 yesterday to see if that would help, but it did not.
Cheers,
-Shawn
