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Looked att syslog and dmesg after a boot but can't find anything special. I've tried to reinstall grub, whithout any difference. When the server hasn't been nicly shutdown or restarted it waits in grub menu. If the server hangs and I need to do hard shutdown it waits in grub menu. Any...

Nothing in the log, since the guest doesn't boot.

Hi! I have a ESXi 5 (with latest rollup) used at home. I have one VM running Ubuntu 11.10 and sometimes when it is restarted it hangs on the boot menu (grub). To get it to boot I need to open the console and hit enter. Sometimes it boots without the need for me to press enter on the menu...

How do I do that?

I think the problem is that I have passthrough a DVB-card to the client and sometimes I get a " irq 9: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)" and I think that the error is related to that device. Sometimes when I get the error the kernel coredumps and the host stops responding...

After some reserach on commands I created the script below. There are probably bether ways of doing it, but hopefully it would meet my needs. #!/bin/sh ID=`vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms|grep $1|cut -d\ -f1` if [ ! `vim-cmd vmsvc/get.guest $ID|grep toolsStatus|cut -d\" -f2` = toolsOk ]; then...

I know that tools doesn't respond. The problem is that I don't know the console version of VMWare commands. Is there any good guides/documentation? I guess that I could use vim-cmd or vsish.

I have a VM that occasionally stops responding. To get it to work again I need to restart the VM. Until I've figured out why th VM stop responding I need a workaround. I'm thinking of running a script on the ESXi 5 server that checks if Vmware Tools is responding. If it doesn't respond I...

If needed I can also help you with testing.