Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between

Just incase you ever wondered what it looks like here is a screendump..

this is the VMWare equivalent of Microsoft’s BSOD (Blue Screen of Death)

I got this whilst running ESX 3.5 under VMWare Workstation 6.5 build 99530, it happened because I was trying to boot my ESX installation from a SCSI hard disk – which it didn’t like – I assume because of driver support, swapped for an IDE one and it worked fine…

update – actually the VM had 384Mb of RAM allocated and that’s what actually stopped it from booting.. upped to 1024Mb and it runs fine.

Its the first time I’ve seen one – all the production ESX boxes I’ve worked with have always been rock-solid (touch wood)

I’m preparing a blog post about unattended installations of ESX when I hit this, in case you were wondering.