On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 18:45 -0700, Mark Hull-Richter wrote:
For reasons which escape me, my VMWare Server, which was working perfectly a week ago when I shut down my machine for vacation, no loner comes up with the formerly working Windows XP system - it just stays in the small window where it normally boots and does nothing.
It turns out that this was the same problem I was seeing on CentOS 4.4 right before I upgraded, only rebooting does not help. I have booted to a plain vanilla 2.6.18-8.1.8 kernel and even went back to the 2.6.18-8.1.6 kernel where this was working before, so it clearly is NOT a CentOS problem (never thought it was!).
The logs are rather unrevealing as to what happens - the guest just starts to boot and hangs with a black screen (and the play button blinking). It has been suggested (elsewhere and before) that I create a new VMWare guest OS, attach the current non-working drive to it and try to clean it up from there. This might work and I will try it, but I was wondering if there was anyone else out there who might have an idea what this could be.
Thanks.
mhr