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dpoole
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‎03-05-2007 10:10 AM

blue screen then immediate reboot ; can I stop the reboot?

I'm pretty new to VMWare. I do print driver development. I have a development driver causing my VM to bluescreen. The failure doesn't happen on native hardware (same OS).

Unfortunately, the VM immediately reboots so I can't get any info on the cause of the BSOD.

Is there any way to disable the reboot? Or is the reboot not supposed to occur in the first place and the fact that I'm rebooting an indication of a deeper problem?

I enabled VMWare debugging (still fails). Should there be something in vmware.log showing the BSOD?

Thanks.

Host: Linux Fedora Core 6 x64 edition

Guest: WinXP SP2 (32-bit edition)

Hardware: AMD X2 5200 w/ 4G RAM

VMware Workstation: 5.5.3 build-34685

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RDPetruska
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‎03-05-2007 10:27 AM

Hit F8 on startup to get into XP's boot menu. Select "Disable Automatic Reboot" from the menu.

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KevinG
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‎03-05-2007 10:27 AM

In the Windows Startup/Recovery option you can disable the automatic reboot option so you can capture the BSOS information

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dpoole
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‎03-05-2007 10:40 AM

Obviously I haven't been doing Windows driver development all that long, either.

Disabling auto-reboot in the Windows startup worked perfectly. Many thanks for helping out a newbie.

-dave

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KevinG
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‎03-05-2007 10:46 AM

Hi Dave,

Glad we could help Smiley Happy

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