[nflug] vmware player bsod

Stephen Burke qfwfq at adelphia.net
Thu Feb 15 01:35:13 EST 2007 

Indeed, the bsod does talk about new hard drives, which would mean IDE, 
but I've never actually had to toy with IDE drivers before so I'm a bit 
lost. I'm in the vmware profile, on the driver tab of the Primary IDE 
Channel Properties window and I see buttons for Driver Details, Update 
Driver, Roll Back Driver, and Uninstall. I see two drivers in the driver 
details window (C:\WINDOWS\System32\DRIVERS\atapi.sys and 
C:\WINDOWS\System32\storprop.dll), but I can't do much with them from 
here. Update doesn't sound right for this, and I have nothing to roll 
back to. Where might I find the generic drivers? A different window? Do 
I just uninstall and log out before it goes looking for the hard drive 
again? That would seem to negate the bootable vmware profile, however.

Thanks,
S.

Mark Musone wrote:
> You need to remove/change the windows drivers..
> 
> You need to boot straight into windows, create a "vmware" profile, then boot
> up using that profile and change the IDE drivers and a few others to use the
> standard/generic windows drivers.
> 
> Once you have a booting windows machine with generic drivers in the "vmware"
> profile, then try booting it in vmware using the "vmware" profile.
> 
> 
> The problem is that your existing windows install is expecting certain real
> hardware that vmware does not have. So windows is trying to boot up and is
> trying to load drivers for devices that don't exist. Windows get miffed and
> craps out..
> 
> I actually do this a lot (take a physical machine and virtualize it) it's a
> pain in the butt, but after a while it's not too bad and it gets easier..
> 
> The only thing the new motherboard may screw up is the cpu, everything else
> is essentially virtualized..
> 
> Feel free to let me know if you have any questions.
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nflug-bounces at nflug.org [mailto:nflug-bounces at nflug.org] On Behalf Of
> Stephen Burke
> Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 9:01 PM
> To: nflug at nflug.org
> Subject: Re: [nflug] vmware player bsod
> 
> Thanks for the response, Mark.
> The two methods seem quite similar, except for the gentoo/ubuntu 
> differences and the ubuntu guy recommending installing the vmware tools 
> from inside the player. But I am still not quite sure what drivers 
> you're talking about. Something to be set in windows or ubuntu?
> 
> Actually, I am on the verge of putting a new motherboard in this 
> machine, probably of the amd64 variety, so that's probably going to 
> screw everything up, right?
> 
> Thanks,
> S.
> 
> Mark Musone wrote:
> 
>>I was reading your web site reference..and the thing is that you want to
>>make that vmware profile, but disable/change all those special drivers
> 
> when
> 
>>you are booted in that profile.
>>
>>
>>Also try this
> 
> http://rougebob.com/Running-a-Windows-Partition-in-VMware.htm
> 
>>I know that I had to specifically change the IDE driver to a windows
>>standard one, then it worked fine.
>>
>>Matk
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: nflug-bounces at nflug.org [mailto:nflug-bounces at nflug.org] On Behalf
> 
> Of
> 
>>Stephen Burke
>>Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 11:24 PM
>>To: nflug at nflug.org
>>Subject: [nflug] vmware player bsod
>>
>>So, after finding this
>>
>>
> 
> http://www.advicesource.org/ubuntu/Run_Existing_Windows_Instalation_On_Ubunt
> 
>>u_With_Vmware_player.html
>>
>>on digg recently, I decided to finally try diving into the vm realm 
>>(mainly to avoind the creeping heebie jeebies and feeling of despair 
>>that booting M$ gives me anymore). I followed the instructions there, 
>>and I can ALMOST get things going, but as soon as xp gets to the 
>>splashscreen it crashes with a bsod that says:
>>
>>"A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent 
>>damage to your computer.
>>
>>If this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen, restart 
>>your computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps:
>>
>>Check for viruses on your computer. Remove any newly installed hard 
>>drives or hard drive controllers. Check your hard drive to make sure it 
>>is properly configured and terminated. Run CHKDSK /F to check for hard 
>>drive corruption, and then restart your computer.
>>
>>Technical information:
>>
>>*** STOP: 0x0000007B (0xFC8D2640, 0x0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)"
>>
>>Then the vmware player window starts flashing red (e17 thing for not 
>>responding from what I gather), so killing the window is the only way to 
>>  quit.
>>
>>After that "ps -ae | grep vm" still shows this:
>>
>>  4391 ?        00:00:00 vmnet-bridge
>>  4405 ?        00:00:00 vmnet-natd
>>  5086 ?        00:00:00 vmnet-netifup
>>  5100 ?        00:00:00 vmnet-netifup
>>  5114 ?        00:00:00 vmnet-dhcpd
>>  5115 ?        00:00:00 vmnet-dhcpd
>>
>>And I still see the vmware window in the middle click window list no 
>>matter how many times I kill it. I can't seem to kill it completely 
>>without logging out. It keeps popping back up when I return to the 
>>desktop it was started on.
>>
>>This machine has a 1.3G duron processor and 512M ram. Maybe not enough 
>>to run vmware?
>>
>>The xp system still boots and runs fine, and I can't see how it could be 
>>infected with a virus since it's almost never used, though as a toy 
>>inside vmware it might be amusing.
>>
>>I'm can't actually recall how or if it's even possible to get to a CL in 
>>xp to actually run CHDSK /F.
>>
>>Strangeness indeed.
>>Clearly I'm doing something terribly wrong, but I can't see what. since 
>>the instructions don't seem that complex
>>Has anyone seen this sort of thing before?
>>Any ideas?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>S.
>>
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