Hey,
I recently purchased vmware workstation 8 and now i got a pretty nasty problem.
Im using Win7 x64 as my host as well as Win7 x64 systems as my guests. All guests are running medium hardware consuming D3D applications.
So now i can run 2 or 3 guests from my SSD without any problems, but when i go up to 4 or 5 the host keeps on crashing with a BSOD.
If i let the applications run on my host i can easily start 10 applications at the same time without a crash, also i already stress tested my graphics card to death no crashes and when crashes in vmware appear, the vga card is at like 20% load and 50°C.
i have all latest drivers and vmware tools installed.
I have tryed several fixes suggested by internet users.
- Installing about 10 different ati drivers
- Installing ati drivers without CCC
- Using MSI Afterburner to reduce the clocks of my gfx card - resulted in instant crash
- Reinstalling win7 from scrath, just adding drivers and starting vmware
- Reinstalling my guests from scratch
I think this error must have to do something with how vmware is passing over the direct3d devices but im not experienced in vmware.
So heres my host setup:
- Intel® Core™ i7-3770K CPU @ 3.50GHz
- Ram: 32 GB Kingston ValueRam 1333Mhz
- Asus AMD Radeon HD 6950 Direct CU II 2048MB
- Crucial M4 SSD 128 GB
- Asrock Z77 Extreme4 Board
For the guests i uses the following setup (tryed different setups with same result anyway):
- Ram: 2GB
- HDD: 40GB
- Lan: Bridge
- CPU-Cores: 2
I also disabled all non used stuff on the guests, disabled: USB, Floppy, CDROM, Printer, etc. basicly it just has land, gfx, hdd and cpu
When running multiple VMs cpu is not stressed at all it goes to 30% or so.
Any help would be highly appreciated,
Thanks in advance,
Lukas
p.s. here are some crashdumps:
Probably caused by : atikmpag.sys ( atikmpag+9250 )
Followup: MachineOwner
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6: kd> !analyze -v
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* Bugcheck Analysis *
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VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE (116)
Attempt to reset the display driver and recover from timeout failed.
Arguments:
Arg1: fffffa801e2874e0, Optional pointer to internal TDR recovery context (TDR_RECOVERY_CONTEXT).
Arg2: fffff88007809250, The pointer into responsible device driver module (e.g. owner tag).
Arg3: 0000000000000000, Optional error code (NTSTATUS) of the last failed operation.
Arg4: 000000000000000c, Optional internal context dependent data.
Debugging Details:
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ADDITIONAL_DEBUG_TEXT:
You can run '.symfix; .reload' to try to fix the symbol path and load symbols.
FAULTING_MODULE: fffff80002c00000 nt
DEBUG_FLR_IMAGE_TIMESTAMP: 4fd61c26
FAULTING_IP:
atikmpag+9250
fffff880`07809250 4055 push rbp
DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: GRAPHICS_DRIVER_TDR_FAULT
CUSTOMER_CRASH_COUNT: 1
BUGCHECK_STR: 0x116
CURRENT_IRQL: 0
STACK_TEXT:
fffff880`0270fff8 fffff880`0ba85000 : 00000000`00000116 fffffa80`1e2874e0 fffff880`07809250 00000000`00000000 : nt+0x7f1c0
fffff880`02710000 00000000`00000116 : fffffa80`1e2874e0 fffff880`07809250 00000000`00000000 00000000`0000000c : dxgkrnl+0x5d000
fffff880`02710008 fffffa80`1e2874e0 : fffff880`07809250 00000000`00000000 00000000`0000000c 00000000`00000000 : 0x116
fffff880`02710010 fffff880`07809250 : 00000000`00000000 00000000`0000000c 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : 0xfffffa80`1e2874e0
fffff880`02710018 00000000`00000000 : 00000000`0000000c 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 fffff880`0ba84c7c : atikmpag+0x9250
STACK_COMMAND: kb
FOLLOWUP_IP:
atikmpag+9250
fffff880`07809250 4055 push rbp
SYMBOL_STACK_INDEX: 4
SYMBOL_NAME: atikmpag+9250
FOLLOWUP_NAME: MachineOwner
MODULE_NAME: atikmpag
IMAGE_NAME: atikmpag.sys
BUCKET_ID: WRONG_SYMBOLS
Followup: MachineOwner
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Probably caused by : atikmpag.sys ( atikmpag+9250 )
Followup: MachineOwner
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7: kd> !analyze -v
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* *
* Bugcheck Analysis *
* *
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VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE (116)
Attempt to reset the display driver and recover from timeout failed.
Arguments:
Arg1: fffffa801e06b4e0, Optional pointer to internal TDR recovery context (TDR_RECOVERY_CONTEXT).
Arg2: fffff8800795e250, The pointer into responsible device driver module (e.g. owner tag).
Arg3: 0000000000000000, Optional error code (NTSTATUS) of the last failed operation.
Arg4: 000000000000000c, Optional internal context dependent data.
Debugging Details:
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Followup: MachineOwner
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ADDITIONAL_DEBUG_TEXT:
You can run '.symfix; .reload' to try to fix the symbol path and load symbols.
FAULTING_MODULE: fffff80002c1a000 nt
DEBUG_FLR_IMAGE_TIMESTAMP: 4fd61c26
FAULTING_IP:
atikmpag+9250
fffff880`0795e250 4055 push rbp
DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: GRAPHICS_DRIVER_TDR_FAULT
CUSTOMER_CRASH_COUNT: 1
BUGCHECK_STR: 0x116
CURRENT_IRQL: 0
STACK_TEXT:
fffff880`0270cff8 fffff880`09137000 : 00000000`00000116 fffffa80`1e06b4e0 fffff880`0795e250 00000000`00000000 : nt+0x7f1c0
fffff880`0270d000 00000000`00000116 : fffffa80`1e06b4e0 fffff880`0795e250 00000000`00000000 00000000`0000000c : dxgkrnl+0x5d000
fffff880`0270d008 fffffa80`1e06b4e0 : fffff880`0795e250 00000000`00000000 00000000`0000000c 00000000`00000000 : 0x116
fffff880`0270d010 fffff880`0795e250 : 00000000`00000000 00000000`0000000c 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : 0xfffffa80`1e06b4e0
fffff880`0270d018 00000000`00000000 : 00000000`0000000c 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 fffff880`09136c7c : atikmpag+0x9250
STACK_COMMAND: kb
FOLLOWUP_IP:
atikmpag+9250
fffff880`0795e250 4055 push rbp
SYMBOL_STACK_INDEX: 4
SYMBOL_NAME: atikmpag+9250
FOLLOWUP_NAME: MachineOwner
MODULE_NAME: atikmpag
IMAGE_NAME: atikmpag.sys
BUCKET_ID: WRONG_SYMBOLS
Followup: MachineOwner
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