Hi,
I have purchased AMD Phenom X4 955 3.2GHZ processor with supporting gigabyte GA-MA785GM-US2H mother board / 6GB DDR2 RAM / 500GB SATA drive for learning Vmware ESX 3.5 product.
In the above configuration, I have installed windows xp 64 bit operating systems and continue to installed vmware workstation 6.5.
From the VM workstation, I can able to install ESX3.5 update2, but I unable to start properly, please refer the below mention error.
“Mounting root failed. Dropping into basic maintenance shell.
To collect logs for VMware, connect a USB storage device and
run 'bin/vm-support '.
Machine will be rebooted when you exit from this shell.”
The same was tested in the windows 2003 Enterprise Edition server / windows 7 32bit / windows 7 64bit also, Please help me to resolve the issue.
Hi,
So if I understand you correctly then the "ESX in a box" setup now works for you, except you are seeing that one NUMA error?
I'm not convinced that NUMA is supposed to work in this environment, but I have no hardware here to test and verify your findings.
NUMA support requires specific BIOS and hardware features on the mainboard.
Here's some more documentation on it.
Ensuring your hardware is functioning correctly
VMware ESX Server Internal Monitor Error *** vcpu-0:ASSERT bugNr=17332
The second document has notes on how-to disable the error if it bothers you.
You might also want to try increasing memory on the ESX guest and see if that helps.
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Wil
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VI-Toolkit & scripts wiki at http://www.vi-toolkit.com
Below is an excellent guide/link from xtravirt for installing ESX 3.5 successfully into VMware Workstation 6.5.
Hi,
Please attach the vmware.log file from the ESX guest so we can see why it is not working.
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Wil
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VI-Toolkit & scripts wiki at http://www.vi-toolkit.com
Thanks every one,
Now I can install ESX4.0 update1 in VMware Workstation 7 and able to access through Vsphere client. Later the ESX & VI shown some error.
Please refer the attached error and help me to resolve the issue.
desktop OS: Windows 7 32-bit home premium edition.
Hardware:
AMD Phenom X4 955 3.2GHZ processor
gigabyte GA-MA785GM-US2H mother board
6GB DDR2 RAM
500GB SATA drive
please suggest suitable windows OS as per the above mention Hardware spec.
Hi,
The windows host OS is not relevant, it should work the same on all. VMware workstation is the container that gives you the abstraction from the host OS.
I see you switched to VMware workstation 7, which makes sense as it supports ESX as a guest in contrary to Workstation 6.5.
Umm it's hard to say what is biting you as the screenshots don't help much... please attach a vmware.log file found in the folder of your virtual ESX VM as requested before as it has the nitty gritty on what might be wrong.
I'm not sure if NUMA is supported in a virtual ESX, so that error might be expected. You should however be able to connect using the VI client and start up some guests, which you seem not to be able to do.
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Wil
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VI-Toolkit & scripts wiki at http://www.vi-toolkit.com
did you try
monitor.virtual_mmu = "hardware"
in the vmx-file ?
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Yes. But again same error.
Hi,
So if I understand you correctly then the "ESX in a box" setup now works for you, except you are seeing that one NUMA error?
I'm not convinced that NUMA is supposed to work in this environment, but I have no hardware here to test and verify your findings.
NUMA support requires specific BIOS and hardware features on the mainboard.
Here's some more documentation on it.
Ensuring your hardware is functioning correctly
VMware ESX Server Internal Monitor Error *** vcpu-0:ASSERT bugNr=17332
The second document has notes on how-to disable the error if it bothers you.
You might also want to try increasing memory on the ESX guest and see if that helps.
--
Wil
_____________________________________________________
VI-Toolkit & scripts wiki at http://www.vi-toolkit.com
Thanks.
After upgrade the Motherboard BIOS, ESX 3.5 update 2 & ESX 4 update 1 is working.
Now the 4 Core processor also looks good.
Thanks everyone............. I really happy to the valid answer.