Win2kPro Guest BSOD

[Gary Neil]

Ok, ere's a puzzler (well puzzled me anyway).

Scenario:
WinXP - host ( fully SPd SP2+ etc...)
Two Hard Drives - C:\ & D:\ (both 12GB)
Win2k Pro Guest ( SP3 at the minute )
Guest was originally created with Workstation 4.5.2.
VMWare Workstation 5.0 installed to default location.
Guest files on D:\ drive.

Due to running out of disk space, I was forced to compress the D:\ drive
temporarily
before allowing VMWare to upgrade the virtual disks. All seemed to go
hunky dorey.
Compressed the drive, allowed VMWare to upgrade the disk drives, CMOS,
Virtual hardware.
Booted the VM - came up as expected.
Now the good bit.
Uncompressed the host D:\ drive.
Now, if I boot the VM the guest BSODs (IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL).
If I recompress the host D:\ drive and run VMWare\load the VM again, all
is ok.
Anyone care to offer any suggestions as to why this may be happening. -
I'm at a loss.

Rgds, S

[Dave Taylor]

Post by Gary Neil
Booted the VM - came up as expected.
Now the good bit.
Uncompressed the host D:\ drive.
Now, if I boot the VM the guest BSODs (IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL).
If I recompress the host D:\ drive and run VMWare\load the VM again, all
is ok.
Anyone care to offer any suggestions as to why this may be
happening. -
I'm at a loss.
Rgds, S

Have you tried reloading VMware in the host between compression,
uncompression?

[Gary Neil]

Dave,

Thanks for replying.

Hmm... Can't see why that'd actually make any difference.

Anywayz solved the prob (without finding the root cause), the second vdisk
is actually empty, just removed it and the VM booted ok.
As to why it doesn't boot when not compressed - err... ????

Thanks for your input m8.

G

Post by Dave Taylor

Post by Gary Neil
Booted the VM - came up as expected.
Now the good bit.
Uncompressed the host D:\ drive.
Now, if I boot the VM the guest BSODs (IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL).
If I recompress the host D:\ drive and run VMWare\load the VM again, all
is ok.
Anyone care to offer any suggestions as to why this may be
happening. -
I'm at a loss.
Rgds, S

Have you tried reloading VMware in the host between compression,
uncompression?
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Ciao, Dave