We just started deploying Windows 10 VMs in our environment and we are having a really weird issue with them. Every 24 hours, from last boot, the VM will crash. Even weirder is that the time increases 15 minutes each time. So a VM crashes at 10:00am, the next day it would crash right around 10:15am, continually increasing by about 15 minutes. Windows Event Viewer only shows the following event.
Tried updating to the most recent version of ESXi and updated the tools and it is still happening. I also turned off the auto restart on system failure in Windows in hopes of catching a BSOD but it still just crashes and boots back up. Google has yielded basically nothing for this. Any insight into this would be amazing.
Versions:
vCenter 5.5.0-3252642
ESXi 5.5.0-3116895 and 5.5.0-3343343
Turns out this was happening because of some sort of bug with windows 10 using a sata device for the cd drive. Changing the cd drive to use IDE resolved it.
I believe this might be of help.
Windows 10 instance crashes 24 hours after reverting from a snapshot
Hi ,
Did you check the windows licences among those VM's?
It could be like windows license key expired .
BR
Turns out this was happening because of some sort of bug with windows 10 using a sata device for the cd drive. Changing the cd drive to use IDE resolved it.