about 3 or four time a week, my virtual machine crashes.
The keyboard is locked and a little windows message appears for few seconds on the lower bottom of the screen:
- nvidia driver failed. They have been successfully recovered,
After that, one of two different things could happen:
1) SIMPLE CASE: the system still works. If I go into the VM, the screen is all black. When I move the cursor over invisible icons, they resume. The windows control icons (iconize, maximize and close) never appears, even on newly opened windows.
I can open the tray icon on the host machine and suspend the running virtual machine then I can restart the system and resume the virtual machine.
2) WORST CASE: the mouse is no more responding. any times I click, the arrow move at the edge of the windows. I cannot open the tray, I cannot access the vmware console, I can do anything but alt-ctrl-del and close the system. The running Virtual machines are then killed. There is no way to safely close or recover them.
After the machine restarts (both host and virtual) there is no trace of the event on the windows event log.
The problem occurs randomly.
I'm running a Dell precision workstation with 16GB ram (nearly 8GB used) and dual 500 GB HD mirrored plus an sSS 64GB drive.
Quad core intel I7
Windows 7 professional x64 as the host system
NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M driver 8.16.11.8921, dated feb 19, 2010
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Virtual machine is a 4GB Windows 7 with 40GB hard disk (60% free)
Anyone experiment a similar crash and has a suggestion?
Thanks in advance
Paolo
