Izibizi
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‎09-30-2023 03:25 AM

One guest vm is not auto starting

Workstation 17 host on windows machine, and 3 windows guest vm. 

All 3 VMs are marked to auto start. The service is enabled with correct user.

Only 2 of the 3 VMs are started after boot.

The third VM is windows server 2012 r2. It starts with no issue manually. It also starts by executing vmrum.exe.

I need it to auto start but can’t figure out why it is not.

thanks.

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CarltonR
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‎10-01-2023 02:54 AM

It would be useful if you could provided more information on what investigation, diagnostics, and research you have undertaken.

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Izibizi
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‎10-01-2023 04:09 AM

I looked at event viewer and found nothing that could indicate vmware autostart error.

I looked for logs in the VM guest folder, but no log is created after boot until I start it manually.

I have no idea where to check the autostart process.

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Izibizi
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‎10-01-2023 08:01 AM

One more information:

All VMs I moved from the old box running workstation 12.5 to the new box running workstation 17.0.2 are having the same issue. 

HELP

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Izibizi
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‎10-01-2023 10:50 AM

OK I found the problem.

The vmx file moved from the old box had its first line:

.encoding = "windows-1255"

I changed it to 

.encoding = "windows-1252"

and all starts automatically.

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