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  • 1.  Virtual XP Machine Blue Screen of Death

    Posted May 18, 2009 07:18 PM

    Whenever I attempt to boot my Virtual XP machine, I get the attached Blue Screen of Death. Error is STOP 0x7B. I used VMware-converter-4.0.0-146302.exe to produce the virtual machine. I have successfully used the configuration option of Converter post conversion, but without effect.

    How can I convert this machine?

    Thanks for any light you can shed on my problem.



  • 2.  RE: Virtual XP Machine Blue Screen of Death

    Posted May 18, 2009 07:33 PM

    What SCSI Controller is it using? While the VM is powered off try to switch to LSI if using BusLogic and vice versa.



  • 3.  RE: Virtual XP Machine Blue Screen of Death

    Posted May 18, 2009 08:42 PM

    Thanks for your advice. How do I change SCSI controllers on Vmware Fusion 2.04?

    On my copy of Vmware Workstation I see that it is possible to add or delete SCSI controllers, but there is no SCSI device listed on the Vmware Fusion settings page--just sharing, processors, hard disk etc.

    Thanks for your help understanding what my options are.



  • 4.  RE: Virtual XP Machine Blue Screen of Death

    Posted May 18, 2009 08:47 PM

    My apologies, I was not aware you were hosting these VM's in Fusion.

    You may have more luck posting in the Forums.

    I know nothing about fusion, but did find this.



  • 5.  RE: Virtual XP Machine Blue Screen of Death

    Posted May 19, 2009 11:55 PM

    Thank you for your reply. I tried including both SCSI controllers, buslogic and lsilogic, in my VM, by manually modifying my Fusion vmx file. Neither works and I continue to get the blue screen of death when booting my converted VM. Nor does setting scsi0.present="false" in my vmx file bring any joy. Since the original physical machine does not include a SCSI adapter and boots from a vanilla IDE disk, I am not sure why you suspect the SCSI controller is the issue in my case.

    What other files would be useful to you and the VMWare community in terms of diagnosing my problem?

    Thanks again for your help and prompt answers.



  • 6.  RE: Virtual XP Machine Blue Screen of Death

    Posted May 28, 2009 03:30 PM

    I'm experiencing the exact same issue. I've used the converter for 3 other servers without issue but they all had 2003 Server with SATA or SCSI raid controllers whereas this VAIO box has an IDE controller and XP Home. The host machine that I'm trying to run the VM on is XP 64bit. It has 3 VM currently running on it with no issue. I've tried several adding the scsi lines to vmx file as well with no postive results.

    Right now, I'm trying it one more time with block-level versus file-level and see if that is the difference. Anyone have any other suggestions?