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**Craig321** · 20-04-2008, 12:21 PM

Hi,

I'm wanting to get a Windows Server 2003 x64 virtual machine running.

I tried in Virtual PC 2007 today, but that horrible thing only supports 32-bit. I'm not using it out choice, VMWare won't work for me.

I've been trying to get VMWare 2 Beta going, but whenever I setup a virtual machine and click run it gets stuck at 95%.

I'm on Vista Ultimate x64 SP1

Craig.

**madman045** · 20-04-2008, 01:16 PM

when you installed vmware beta, im assuming you installed it with elevated admin and i dont think it has an approved driver, so assuming you allowed it to install all its own drivers, reboot your pc, hit f8 and start the machine with allowing unsigned drivers and see if that fixes it.

**Craig321** · 20-04-2008, 01:17 PM

VMWare 2 beta 2 has signed drivers, but I will try that anyway

Splash · 20-04-2008, 02:35 PM

Are you allocating hard disk space fully for the virtual machine? That can take some time if you have allocated a lot of disk space.

Interestingly I can't get server 2008 x64 to run in it, but x86 is fine

**Craig321** · 20-04-2008, 05:49 PM

Originally Posted by Splash

Are you allocating hard disk space fully for the virtual machine? That can take some time if you have allocated a lot of disk space.

Interestingly I can't get server 2008 x64 to run in it, but x86 is fine

Nah, I don't allocate the disk space.

No disk activity when it's trying to load either

Splash · 20-04-2008, 05:54 PM

Hmm... what OS are you running as the host? Anything written to the event log?

EDIT - I see you're running Vista x64, so ignore that. I'm running Server 03 x64, so can't compare really but I'd be looking at the event log to be honest, as well as the VMWare Server logs.

**madman045** · 20-04-2008, 05:59 PM

As your using Vista, try this.

Move your virtual machines folder away from the root and put it with in you profile c:\users\%username%\virtual machines and then try and start it.

**Craig321** · 20-04-2008, 06:00 PM

Host is Vista x64 Ultimate SP1

I have tried CentOS, Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 Server as guest operating systems. All fail to start at 95%

Last few lines of the log file when trying to install Windows 2000 from CD

Code:

Apr 18 16:52:14.242: vcpu-1| CPU reset: soft
Apr 18 16:52:14.242: vcpu-1| WRMSR: unknown MSR[0x8b]:=c600000001 (sinking): rip=0x3158 count=4
Apr 18 16:52:14.242: vcpu-1| WRMSR: unknown MSR[0x404]:=0 (sinking): rip=0x1865 count=1
Apr 18 16:52:14.242: vcpu-1| WRMSR: unknown MSR[0x408]:=0 (sinking): rip=0x1865 count=1
Apr 18 16:52:14.242: vcpu-1| WRMSR: unknown MSR[0x40c]:=0 (sinking): rip=0x1865 count=1
Apr 18 16:52:14.242: vcpu-1| WRMSR: unknown MSR[0x410]:=0 (sinking): rip=0x1865 count=1
Apr 18 16:52:14.258: vcpu-1| RDMSR: MSR[0x11e] (read as 708101): rip=0x18fb
Apr 18 16:52:14.258: vcpu-1| RDMSR: unknown MSR[0x2a] (read as zero): rip=0x4bb7 count=1
Apr 18 16:52:14.258: vcpu-1| RDMSR: MSR[0x11e] (read as 708101): rip=0x4bd3
Apr 18 16:52:14.289: vcpu-0| BIOS-UUID is 56 4d 9b cb 1b 8d a2 88-f0 1d 71 de ca f1 5f 01
Apr 18 16:52:14.289: vcpu-0| RDMSR: MSR[0x11e] (read as 708101): rip=0xba22
Apr 18 16:52:14.648: vcpu-0| DISKUTIL: scsi0:0 : toolsVersion = 0
Apr 18 16:52:14.648: vcpu-0| DISKUTIL: Offline toolsVersion = 0
Apr 18 16:52:14.679: vcpu-0| RDMSR: MSR[0x11e] (read as 708101): rip=0x4747
Apr 18 16:52:14.679: vcpu-0| WRMSR: unknown MSR[0x11e]:=708001 (sinking): rip=0x474c count=27
Apr 18 16:52:14.679: vcpu-0| RDMSR: MSR[0x11e] (read as 708101): rip=0x4747
Apr 18 16:52:14.679: vcpu-0| WRMSR: unknown MSR[0x11e]:=708001 (sinking): rip=0x474c count=28
Apr 18 16:52:14.726: vcpu-0| IOSpace: User REP OUTS opSize: 1, repCount: 19, port: 0x1081
Apr 18 16:52:18.969: vmx| DISK: DISK/CDROM timeout of 3.161 seconds on ide0:0 (ok)
Apr 18 16:52:20.716: vcpu-0| Unknown int 10h func 0x2000
Apr 18 16:52:20.732: vcpu-0| BUSLOGIC: Store HAL[16] = 0x047f
Apr 18 16:52:20.732: vcpu-0| BUSLOGIC: Store HAL[18] = 0xfe01
Apr 18 16:52:20.794: vcpu-0| maxStackDepth(1) = 3228
Apr 18 16:52:21.481: vcpu-0| BUSLOGIC: Store HAL[20] = 0x003f
Apr 18 16:52:21.481: vcpu-0| BUSLOGIC: Store HAL[22] = 0xfac5
Apr 18 16:52:21.481: vcpu-0| BUSLOGIC: Store HAL[16] = 0x047f
Apr 18 16:52:21.481: vcpu-0| BUSLOGIC: Store HAL[18] = 0xfe01
Apr 18 16:52:21.496: vcpu-0| maxStackDepth(0) = 3340
Apr 18 16:52:27.456: vcpu-0| maxStackDepth(0) = 3432
Apr 18 16:53:32.944: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:33.631: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:34.504: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:34.520: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:34.536: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:34.567: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:34.582: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:34.598: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:34.629: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:34.645: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:34.660: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:34.692: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:34.707: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:34.723: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:34.754: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:34.770: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:34.801: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:34.816: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:34.832: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:34.863: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:34.879: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:34.894: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:34.926: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:34.941: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:34.972: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:34.988: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:35.004: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:35.035: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:35.050: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:35.066: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:35.097: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:35.113: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:35.128: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:35.160: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:35.175: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:35.206: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:35.222: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:35.238: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:35.269: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:35.284: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:35.300: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:35.331: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:35.347: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:35.362: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:35.394: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:35.409: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:35.440: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:35.456: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:35.472: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:35.503: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:35.518: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:35.534: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:35.565: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:35.581: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:35.596: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:35.628: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:35.643: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:35.674: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:35.690: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:35.706: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:35.737: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:35.752: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:35.768: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:35.799: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:35.815: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:35.830: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:35.862: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:35.877: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:35.908: vmx| CDROM-WIN: ReadFile() failed with error code: 0x15
Apr 18 16:53:46.048: vmx| DISK: DISK/CDROM timeout of 9.592 seconds on ide0:0 (ok)
Apr 18 16:53:50.042: vcpu-0| maxStackDepth(0) = 3508
Apr 18 16:53:51.867: vmx| vmdbPipe_Streams: Couldn't read
Apr 18 16:55:23.520: vmx| VMMEM 0 1 11074 777945 786137 1014784 818431 50
Apr 18 16:55:23.520: vmx| VMMEM locked 11073 target 287856 balloon 0 0 0 swapped 7 1 0 allocd 0 455 state 0 100
Apr 18 16:55:23.520: vmx| VMMEM states: 0 181 : 1 0 : 2 0 : 3 0
Apr 18 16:55:23.520: vmx| VMMEM checked 48 bad 0 badKey 0 badMPN 0 badCOW 0
Apr 18 16:55:23.520: vmx| COWStats: numHints 73 unique 1 shared 52 totalUnique 1 totalBreaks 2
Apr 18 16:55:23.520: vmx| COWStats Hot Page: U     hash 0x0 count 0
Apr 18 16:55:23.520: vmx| COWStats Hot Page: U     hash 0x0 count 0
Apr 18 16:55:23.520: vmx| COWStats Hot Page: U     hash 0x0 count 0
Apr 18 16:55:23.520: vmx| COWStats Hot Page: U     hash 0x0 count 0
Apr 18 16:55:23.520: vmx| COWStats Hot Page: Z     hash 0x0 count 52
Apr 18 16:55:23.520: vmx| VMMEM VM 0 min 156784 max 287856 share 262144 paged 267349 nonpaged 20507 locked 11073 cowed 52 usedPct 75
Apr 18 16:58:23.861: vmx| VMMEM 0 1 11052 777945 786137 1014784 818431 50
Apr 18 16:58:23.861: vmx| VMMEM locked 11050 target 287856 balloon 0 0 0 swapped 11 2 0 allocd 0 455 state 0 100
Apr 18 16:58:23.861: vmx| VMMEM states: 0 361 : 1 0 : 2 0 : 3 0
Apr 18 16:58:23.861: vmx| VMMEM checked 132 bad 0 badKey 0 badMPN 0 badCOW 0
Apr 18 16:58:23.861: vmx| COWStats: numHints 173 unique 2 shared 71 totalUnique 2 totalBreaks 2
Apr 18 16:58:23.861: vmx| COWStats Hot Page: U     hash 0x0 count 0
Apr 18 16:58:23.861: vmx| COWStats Hot Page: U     hash 0x0 count 0
Apr 18 16:58:23.861: vmx| COWStats Hot Page: U     hash 0x0 count 0
Apr 18 16:58:23.861: vmx| COWStats Hot Page: P1    hash 0x3f3f3f3f count 2
Apr 18 16:58:23.861: vmx| COWStats Hot Page: Z     hash 0x0 count 69
Apr 18 16:58:23.861: vmx| VMMEM VM 0 min 156784 max 287856 share 262144 paged 267349 nonpaged 20507 locked 11050 cowed 71 usedPct 75

Last few lines of CentOS install from iso image:

Code:

Apr 17 18:39:02.799: vcpu-1| RDMSR: unknown MSR[0x2a] (read as zero): rip=0x4c24 count=1
Apr 17 18:39:02.799: vcpu-1| RDMSR: MSR[0x11e] (read as 708101): rip=0x4c3a
Apr 17 18:39:02.799: vcpu-1| WRMSR: unknown MSR[0x11e]:=40000 (sinking): rip=0x4c47 count=1
Apr 17 18:39:02.799: vcpu-1| RDMSR: unknown MSR[0x17] (read as zero): rip=0x4951 count=1
Apr 17 18:39:02.799: vcpu-1| WRMSR: unknown MSR[0x116]:=0 (sinking): rip=0x17bc count=5
Apr 17 18:39:02.799: vcpu-1| WRMSR: unknown MSR[0x88]:=0 (sinking): rip=0x17ca count=3
Apr 17 18:39:02.799: vcpu-1| WRMSR: unknown MSR[0x89]:=0 (sinking): rip=0x17ca count=3
Apr 17 18:39:02.799: vcpu-1| WRMSR: unknown MSR[0x8a]:=0 (sinking): rip=0x17ca count=3
Apr 17 18:39:02.799: vcpu-1| WRMSR: unknown MSR[0x8b]:=0 (sinking): rip=0x17ca count=5
Apr 17 18:39:02.799: vcpu-1| RDMSR: unknown MSR[0x119] (read as zero): rip=0x17dd count=5
Apr 17 18:39:02.799: vcpu-1| WRMSR: unknown MSR[0x119]:=2 (sinking): rip=0x17ea count=6
Apr 17 18:39:02.799: vcpu-1| WRMSR: unknown MSR[0x11a]:=0 (sinking): rip=0x17f8 count=3
Apr 17 18:39:02.799: vcpu-1| RDMSR: unknown MSR[0x11b] (read as zero): rip=0x1803 count=3
Apr 17 18:39:02.799: vcpu-1| RDMSR: unknown MSR[0x116] (read as zero): rip=0x1781 count=6
Apr 17 18:39:02.836: vcpu-0| BIOS-UUID is 56 4d 5e 13 6b 03 8e 0d-01 73 c8 93 3b 9c 59 6b
Apr 17 18:39:02.839: vcpu-0| RDMSR: MSR[0x11e] (read as 708101): rip=0xba22
Apr 17 18:39:03.219: vcpu-0| DISKUTIL: scsi0:0 : toolsVersion = 0
Apr 17 18:39:03.219: vcpu-0| DISKUTIL: Offline toolsVersion = 0
Apr 17 18:39:03.248: vcpu-0| RDMSR: MSR[0x11e] (read as 708101): rip=0x4747
Apr 17 18:39:03.248: vcpu-0| WRMSR: unknown MSR[0x11e]:=708001 (sinking): rip=0x474c count=23
Apr 17 18:39:03.252: vcpu-0| RDMSR: MSR[0x11e] (read as 708101): rip=0x4747
Apr 17 18:39:03.252: vcpu-0| WRMSR: unknown MSR[0x11e]:=708001 (sinking): rip=0x474c count=24
Apr 17 18:39:03.593: vcpu-0| Msg_Post: Warning
Apr 17 18:39:03.593: vcpu-0| [msg.Backdoor.OsNotFound] No bootable device was detected.  A bootable device might be a CD, floppy, hard disk, or network device, as when booting with PXE.
Apr 17 18:39:03.593: vcpu-0| To install an operating system, insert a bootable CD or floppy and restart the virtual machine.----------------------------------------
Apr 17 18:40:33.964: vmx| vmdbPipe_Streams: Couldn't complete write
Apr 17 18:41:38.214: vmx| CnxHandleConnection: WSASocket returned error 10022.
Apr 17 18:41:38.214: vmx| VMXVmdbAcceptVmdbConnection: Failed to get connection on vmdb port
Apr 17 18:41:59.294: vmx| VMMEM 0 1 9458 774951 786137 1014784 783143 50
Apr 17 18:41:59.294: vmx| VMMEM locked 9456 target 287847 balloon 0 0 0 swapped 0 2 0 allocd 0 455 state 0 100
Apr 17 18:41:59.294: vmx| VMMEM states: 0 181 : 1 0 : 2 0 : 3 0
Apr 17 18:41:59.294: vmx| VMMEM checked 24 bad 0 badKey 0 badMPN 0 badCOW 0
Apr 17 18:41:59.294: vmx| COWStats: numHints 5 unique 2 shared 158 totalUnique 16 totalBreaks 34
Apr 17 18:41:59.294: vmx| COWStats Hot Page: U     hash 0x0 count 0
Apr 17 18:41:59.294: vmx| COWStats Hot Page: U     hash 0x0 count 0
Apr 17 18:41:59.294: vmx| COWStats Hot Page: U     hash 0x0 count 0
Apr 17 18:41:59.294: vmx| COWStats Hot Page: P1    hash 0xffffffff count 2
Apr 17 18:41:59.294: vmx| COWStats Hot Page: Z     hash 0x0 count 156
Apr 17 18:41:59.294: vmx| VMMEM VM 0 min 156775 max 287847 share 262144 paged 267349 nonpaged 20498 locked 9456 cowed 158 usedPct 75

**madman045** · 20-04-2008, 06:56 PM

Have you moved the virtual machine folder from wherever it is into your profile if its not already there?

**Craig321** · 20-04-2008, 07:44 PM

I assume you mean moving it without changing any of the VM settings?

If so, yes. But when I do it just says files not found.

I've tried telling it I've moved them, but it restricts me to the one folder in C:

**soko99** · 15-12-2010, 07:55 AM

Operating systems and apps go way over my head so I am the last person to offer advice on the subject. Installing the VMWare 2 Beta certainly didn’t go as smoothly as it should have and stopped running just when it was almost at the end. Had no idea it required an elevated admin, approved driver, and so on. The posts only confused me further and I decided that expert help was the best way to tackle this!
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