JoelC707Premium
join:2002-07-09
West Point, GA
kudos:5 | reply to izy
Re: ESXi PF Exception 14 You mean after downgrading it to 5.0 U1? If so, yeah to an extent. One VM is a DC and I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the tools but it still shows "Not running, not installed"; though the mouse, video and vmxnet3 driver are installed.
I'm replacing that DC shortly so I'm not too worried about it. The others either were 5.0 (no updates) and got upgraded, or were 5.1 and haven't complained yet. I should probably remove and reinstall all the tools just to make sure they are on the same version. |
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JoelC707Premium
join:2002-07-09
West Point, GA
kudos:5 | I was just shutting down VMs on the host that crashed with the not_implemented error again. I got all shutdown but one before it crashed with that error again. I'm gonna downgrade it to 5.0 U1 as well. |
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 izyPremium,MVM
join:2000-09-21
endless loop
kudos:2 | Not sure if you've seen this yet but is definitely pointing towards a guest issue.
»kb.vmware.com/selfservice/micros···=1019956
Did you update the guest tools "after" you upgraded ESXi to 5.1?
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JoelC707Premium
join:2002-07-09
West Point, GA
kudos:5 | Yeah I've seen that too but knowing little about ESXi debugging, that meant less to me than a page fault error LOL. I did upgrade the tools after the upgrade, should I upgrade beforehand instead? Is there anything wrong with running the 5.1 tools on 5.0? I know you can download the tools ISO so it's certainly possible to upgrade first, I just never have done it that way (should I?). |
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amungusPremium
join:2004-11-26
America | From what I've read, the tools can be run prior to upgrade, and are backwards compatible.
Getting ready to move from ESX 4.1 to ESXi 5.1 here.. |
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JoelC707Premium
join:2002-07-09
West Point, GA
kudos:5 | That's sorta what I did, 4.1 U1 to 5.0 to 5.1. Most VMs had been upgraded to hardware version 8 but some were still on 7 and even after 5.1 I tried version 9 too. Good news on the tools, at least this way I don't have to worry about stripping out all the tools and reinstalling with the 5.0 version (since I'm not 100% sure which ones upgraded and which ones didn't).
So far, downgrading to 5.0 U1 has solved all of my problems. I do want to see about moving to 5.1 though so I'll probably have to take a spare system and run some sandboxed tests. Fortunately my Precision 690 runs ESXi nicely and has the storage space needed  |
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