A fault has occurred causing a virtual CPU to enter the shutdown state.

[mhan001]

Hi,

After I open a vm via vmplayer, I keep on getting this error.

A fault has occurred causing a virtual CPU to enter the shutdown state. If this fault had occurred outside of a virtual machine, it would have caused the physical machine to restart. The shutdown state can be reached by incorrectly configuring the virtual machine, a bug in the guest operation system, or a problem in VMware Player.

I have attached the logs and vmx. Thank you

[wila]

Hi,

Curious, did you install the VM yourself or downloaded it somewhere of the internet?

I'm asking this as there's something really weird in the logs just before it faults.

2015-12-28T15:32:42.926+08:00| vcpu-1| I120: CPU reset: soft (mode 2)
2015-12-28T15:32:42.926+08:00| vcpu-1| I120: E1000: attempt to write to flash when not allowed
2015-12-28T15:32:42.941+08:00| vcpu-0| I120: BIOS-UUID is 62 6c 37 32 33 33 00 00-ee 00 ac 19 7e 0f aa 40
2015-12-28T15:32:43.120+08:00| vcpu-0| I120: Triple fault.
2015-12-28T15:32:43.121+08:00| vcpu-0| I120: MsgHint: msg.monitorEvent.tripleFault
2015-12-28T15:32:43.121+08:00| vcpu-0| I120+ A fault has occurred causing a virtual CPU to enter the shutdown state. If this fault had occurred outside of a virtual machine, it would have caused the physical machine to restart. The shutdown state can be reached by incorrectly configuring the virtual machine, a bug in the guest operating system, or a problem in VMware Player.---------------------------------------
2015-12-28T15:32:44.553+08:00| vcpu-0| I120: CPU reset: hard (mode 2)
2015-12-28T15:32:44.553+08:00| vcpu-1| I120: CPU reset: hard (mode 2)
2015-12-28T15:32:44.619+08:00| vcpu-0| I120: SVGA: Unregistering IOSpace

From there on the CPU fault repeats itself many many times.

The weird thing is in red,.. (but that doesn't show after I save thanks to the fine forum software, it is the line with "E1000")

Why on earth would your VM try to flash the network card unless it is trying to do something fishy?

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Wil

[mhan001]

Hi,

This vmplayer was installed by our lab owner.

And we trided to install the latest version of vmplayer this morning, still cannot work with the same error

[AdarshGowda]

Hi,

If you facing this issue with all the virtual machine you create, reset the physical host and check Virtual VT/Hyper threading feature is activated or not in the BIOS configurations of Physical host.

if NO- Activate it and problem will be solved.

Regards,

Adarsh.

[mhan001]

Hi,

Only this VM cannot be opened, I think it's not releated to Virtual VT/Hyper threading feature

[wila]

Hi,

I wasn't asking about vmware player, but about the virtual machine itself.

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Wil

[mhan001]

Hi

The VM is provided by other guy, I tried the guestOS red-hat 6 without any problem, but red-hat 7 failed.

My host OS is red-hat 6.4, is it possible my host OS is incompatible with guest OS?

[wila]

Hi,

No even while Red Hat 6.4 is old, it should work and if it worked with a RH6 guest then it normally would also work with a RH7 guest.

Both are 64 bits?

Can you try and install a fresh Red Hat 7 VM?

Like I said, it seems like the VM that "the other guy" provided is doing something strange.

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Wil