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Today is Memphis Code Camp day and I was one of the first presenters up this morning.  We talked about Smart Clients until we were blue in the face.  For those that attended the session, thanks for geting up early and coming out!  Also a big thanks to Jerry Dixon for hosting the event.  As promised...

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VMWare Not Playing Nice with Server 2008 SP2

Posted by Keith Elder | Posted in Windows | Posted on 03-06-2009

I just had to restart my VM and went ahead and applied Server 2008 SP2 to it.  When it rebooted I got this error:

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VMware Workstation unrecoverable error: (vcpu-1)
NOT_IMPLEMENTED d:/build/ob/bora-156735/bora/lib/disklib/sparse.c:6283
A log file is available in “D:\Virtual Machines\QLDevTools\vmware.log”.  A core file is available in “D:\Virtual Machines\QLDevTools\vmware-vmx-7004.dmp”.  Please request support and include the contents of the log file and core file. 
To collect data to submit to VMware support, select Help > About and click “Collect Support Data”. You can also run the “vm-support” script in the Workstation folder directly.
We will respond on the basis of your support entitlement.

If you are running Server 2008 in a VM and thinking about upgrading to SP2, you may want to wait.  If  find a fix I’ll let you know.