If it was me, and I had a couple of ESX hosts, I would VMotion everything off one, run update manager to remediate the patch level, and then move everything the other way and do it to my other hosts. I always take a screenshot first so I can put everything back the way it was. I can honestly say I haven’t seen this, but why in the back of my head does something tell me the VM drivers on the Windows host and the patches seem to be conflicting. Hopefully when running WU, you are NOT updating drivers. No need in a VM.
-----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 6:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: The arrrgghhhness of it all... 32-bit VM ESX 3.5.0 Update 2 110268 13 Aug 2008 Flexible adapter Don't know what you mean by 'guest OS set correctly' Kurt On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 18:24, Damien Solodow <damien.solo...@harrison.edu> wrote: > Few questions: > Windows x86 or x64? > What update or build of ESX are you using? > Which virtual nic are you using? > Is the guest OS set correctly on the VM? > -------------------------- > Sent using BlackBerry > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 08:14 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> > Subject: The arrrgghhhness of it all... > > I'm trying to install Win2k3 R2 SP2 in an ESX3.5 VM, from scratch. > It's blowing up on it big time, and I am really unhappy with it right > now. > > Sitrep: > > Install Disk1 (Win2k3 R2 SP2), reboot, then Disk2, then install the > VMWare tools, reboot, then join doimain - no problem. > > Install first round of 90+ patches from the MSFT site, minus IE8 and > the malicious software removal tool, and plus a few optional goodies, > such as .NET framework updates, reboot - no problem > > Install the second round of 43 updates, and no more DNS name > resolution. Error in the event log 11167 Dnsapi - I've looked at that, > and several other eventlog entries that probably stem from that. (17 > W32tm, 1010 MsGina, 1053 Userenv in particular) > > I've scratched the machine twice and started over, and it's the same > each time. I can resolve NetBIOS names, but it barks on any FQDN. > "Ping request could not find host ad.example.com. Please check the > name and try again." > > EventID.net isn't much help, as I've tried everything on there I can > see, and it doesn't resolve the issue. > > Anyone run into this? It's terribly weird... > > Kurt > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
