After importing the new vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) 4.1 on my VMware Workstation 7 environment I noticed that it boots with a memory crash error, an “unable to access resume device” message and eventually ends with a kernel panic.
The memory crash error seems like something that can be ignored and which is covered by several blog articles about CentOS. The reason why the vMA is locking up is due to the fact that its SCSI card and OS type needs to be changed in the .vmx file
Follow the steps below (credits to Justin for pointing this out to me!)
- Remove the vMA from the VMware Workstation Inventory
- Open the .vmx file and change the following to lines to be:
scsi0.virtualDev = “lsilogic”
guestOS = “rhel5-64”
- Add the vMA back to VMware Workstation and boot it up.
Marek.Z
/ July 29, 2010Good one, thx!
Cheers!
John b
/ August 4, 2010Thanks a lot. You saved me a lot of time…
Rob G
/ August 23, 2010Thanks for sharing! You saved me a ton of time too 🙂
Chris-R
/ September 3, 2010Very cool post – you saved this consultant a headache!
Timo A
/ September 15, 2010Thanks, you made my day.
fengfeng
/ November 24, 2010Thanks for sharing!
You saved me a ton of time ,haha
Marcus Westlund
/ December 2, 2010Thanks!
WB
/ January 20, 2011Thanks..helped me
Chris Janoch
/ February 4, 2011Awesome tip! Saved tons of time troubleshooting!!
Matt4istal
/ February 19, 2011Great Job! I don’t usually post replies but this was very helpful and wanted to say thanks!
Jurien
/ February 25, 2011Just what i needed!!! Thanks
Tomi Hakala
/ May 15, 2011Thank you, this helped me a lot!
Shareef
/ June 27, 2011This saves my day…. 🙂
Josh_Atwell
/ July 6, 2011Thanks! That saved me some time and headache!
Phil
/ July 8, 2011That’s the ticket. Thanks Ken! Hope all is well!
Damian Karlson
/ July 14, 2011This was helpful, thanks!
AndyR
/ July 28, 2011Awesome thanks, saved me ages that did 🙂
vTed
/ August 8, 2011Thank you very much for this, that saved lots of time and got my box up and running quick!!
Sparky Henderson
/ August 16, 2011I love you man!
Kenneth van Ditmarsch
/ August 16, 2011LOL