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Windows Guests Installed with LSI Logic Storport Driver 1.26.05 Crash while Booting (1006224)

Details

Windows guests installed with LSI Logic Storport driver version 1.26.05 or later crash with a blue screen while booting.

Solution

ESX 3.5 Update 3 resolves this issue. However, you must also set the following option in the virtual machine's .vmx configuration file:

lsilogic.iobar256 = "TRUE"

Note: This configuration option is supported only for Windows 2003, XP, Vista, and 2008 guests (both 32 and 64 bit).

For versions earlier than ESX 3.5 Update 3, use LSI Logic Storport driver version 1.20.18 (or older) or LSI Logic SCSIport driver for Windows guests. This driver is available at:

http://lsi.com/obsolete/lsi22320_3136.html?remote=1&locale=

Main site:

http://www.lsi.com/storage_home/products_home/host_bus_adapters/scsi_hbas/lsi20320r/index.html

Note: If you use this older driver, you cannot use EMC's admsnap utility within the virtual machine.

Note: The preceding links were correct as of March 18, 2010. If you find the link is broken, provide feedback and a VMware employee will update the link.

Keywords

Win VMs OS BSOD BSODs parallel SCSI

Update History

03/18/2011 - Corrected links to LSI's website.

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