ESX 3.5 on VM Workstation 6.04

[summer999]

I have installed ESX 3.5 (2 processors - 2 GB RAM) as a VM in Workstation 6.04 (its all running on my Vista SP1 laptop with 4 GB of RAM) and it works fine

I want to install one guest on my ESX 3.5 host- (XP prof 128 MB RAM and 1 virtual processor) - don't wanna push y luck too far...

Anyway when I power up the XP Prof the ESX host crashes with the following error wrriten to the log file

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Aug 29 09:57:10.960: vcpu-1| Writing monitor corefile "E:\VM2008 x 2\ESX 3.5\vmware-core0.gz"

Aug 29 09:57:10.991: vcpu-1| Beginning monitor coredump

Aug 29 09:57:11.226: vcpu-1| End monitor coredump

Aug 29 09:57:11.226: vcpu-1| Beginning extended monitor coredump

Aug 29 09:57:11.226: vcpu-1| Writing anonymous pages at pos: 401000

Aug 29 09:57:12.828: vcpu-1| Writing monitor corefile "E:\VM2008 x 2\ESX 3.5\vmware-core1.gz"

Aug 29 09:57:12.858: vcpu-1| Beginning monitor coredump

Aug 29 09:57:13.015: vcpu-1| End monitor coredump

Aug 29 09:57:13.015: vcpu-1| Beginning extended monitor coredump

Aug 29 09:57:13.015: vcpu-1| Writing anonymous pages at pos: 401000

Aug 29 09:57:14.628: vcpu-1| Msg_Post: Error

Aug 29 09:57:14.628: vcpu-1| http://msg.log.monpanic *** VMware Workstation internal monitor error ***

Aug 29 09:57:14.628: vcpu-1| vcpu-1:ASSERT vmcore/private/physMem_shared.h:38 bugNr=131897

Aug 29 09:57:14.628: vcpu-1| http://msg.log.monpanic.report Please report this problem by selecting menu item Help > VMware on the Web > Request Support, or by going to the Web page "[http://www.vmware.com/info?id=8&logFile=E%3a%5cVM2008%20x%202%5cESX%203%2e5%5cvmware%2elog&coreLocation=E%3a%5cVM2008%20x%202%5cESX%203%2e5%5cvmware%2dcore%5b0%2d1%5d%2egz]". Please provide us with the log file (E:\VM2008 x 2\ESX 3.5\vmware.log) and the core file (E:\VM2008 x 2\ESX 3.5\vmware-core[0-1].gz).

Aug 29 09:57:14.628: vcpu-1| http://msg.log.monpanic.win32debug If the problem is repeatable, please select 'Run with debugging information' in the Options panel of Virtual Machine Settings. Then reproduce the incident and file it according to the instructions.

Aug 29 09:57:14.628: vcpu-1| http://msg.log.monpanic.vmSupport.windowsOrLinux To collect data to submit to VMware support, select Help > About and click "Collect Support Data". You can also run the "vm-support" script in the Workstation folder directly.

Aug 29 09:57:14.628: vcpu-1| http://msg.log.monpanic.entitlement We will respond on the basis of your support entitlement.

Aug 29 09:57:14.628: vcpu-1| http://msg.log.monpanic.finish We appreciate your feedback,

Aug 29 09:57:14.628: vcpu-1| -- the VMware Workstation team.

Aug 29 09:57:14.628: vcpu-1| -

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[vmroyale]

This is a known issue. Search around the communities, and you will find lots of information on this topic.

[oreeh]

To run ESX 3.5 as a VM you need at least WS 6.5 beta build 99530

[TomHowarth]

ESX 3.5 uses certain CPU instructions that Workstation 6.0.x does not understand, therefore you received the panic. if you and to run ESX 3.5 Guests and run nested guests you will need to upgrade to Workstation 6.5 beta. (it has to be the latest. you can download the latest vesion from the Beta forum found here

If you do not want to used Beta Software on your machine then unfortunately you will have to wait until 6.4 goes GA.

Tom Howarth

VMware Communities User Moderator