Issue with deploying Windows 2008 R2 from a customized template

[dchmax]

I'm having an issue with deploying a W2K8 R2 server from a customized template. I start out by building a W2K8 R2 VM from scratch, install tools, and install patches. Once the VM was shutdown I converted it to a template. When deploying without customizations I have no issues. When I use customization I get the following message.....

"autochk program not found - skipping AUTOCHECK"

....then BSOD

"STOP: C000021a Fatal System Error

The Session Manager Initialization system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xc000003a"

and the process repeats. Any direction at this point would be wondering. Thanks in advance.

David

[ebaisa]

Thanks so much for posting this. I had this issue, and this totally resolved it. (After a 24 hour clone, this saved some time).

[EAIabach]

I had this issue recently.  The issue was that the clone operations was running against a VM that was powered on.  If your VM is not powered on, check that it is registered correctly.  There is a current bug/KB where if vCenter service is restarted the templates registration can become defunt (noted by the property collector error if you try to convert the template to/from vm or edit settings etc).

[HarryR76]

Hi,

encountered the same problem - creating the template from the powered off VM did not help. Solution was in clearing the volume attribute as gjacknow suggested.

Thanks a lot

Harry

[gjacknow]

Glad people are finding this useful.

[drussell10]

I don't know how someone figured this out, but your post saved my butt.   I appreciate it.

[knudhove]

How to fix the issue, see KB

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=200450...

Jesper

[keiooz]

Thanks for sharing your recent experience on this problem. This resolution works for me.