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  • 1.  VMwareToolsUpgrader.exe has initiated the restart

    Posted May 20, 2013 01:24 PM

    Hi,

        One of the vm has rebooted in my environment.when i check the event logs of the VM it shows "The process C:\Windows\TEMP\vmware-SYSTEM\VMwareToolsUpgrader.exe (pord-vm1) has initiated the restart of computer pord-vm1on behalf of user NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM for the following reason: Legacy API shutdown

    Can any please let me know why the vm reboots?

    Thanks in advance.



  • 2.  RE: VMwareToolsUpgrader.exe has initiated the restart

    Posted May 21, 2013 01:38 PM

    Hi,

    Indeed regards that process the only to suppress reboot is

    http://communities.vmware.com/thread/185325?start=0&tstart=0

    Always should provide background as to why it reboots.

    Hope this helps



  • 3.  RE: VMwareToolsUpgrader.exe has initiated the restart

    Posted Mar 13, 2014 07:40 AM

    Hi we are facing exactly the same issue. The question is what initiated C:\Windows\TEMP\vmware-SYSTEM\VMwareToolsUpgrader.exe to be executed under system account.

    If we are executing VMwareToolsUpgrader.exe manually we are getting real username in log instead of NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM.

    Please could someone help us to find out the root cause of this ?

    Any help is more than appreciated.