Hey everyone! Hoping someone came across this before. Googling didn’t help much. I might not be thinking correctly here…

So I run EAXI 7 hosts in my home lab, and have been running into new VM builds corrupting. Windows 10 and windows server 2022 constantly has errors after first installation. It’s always the same issues, BSOD or failed updates. The usual attempts at repairing the windows image fails. I’m completely out of ideas. I have another 13 windows 2022 servers running happily without issues. They update completely fine!

I thought maybe the ISOs were corrupted, so i downloaded new ones of each, no dice.

Anyone running into the same issues? This is happening on all of my 2 hosts running the same ESXI version. Photo of my lab for fun

  • NorthernDen@alien.topBEnglish
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    9 months ago

    did you try the install with nothing but bare minimum? So no nics, only one hdd presented to the guest (just for the c drive), usb 2 only.

    Nothing different about the iso, so nothing slipstreamed in?

    If you clone one of the working machines, then do a sys prep on it (so treats it like a new install) does this work?

    I’m going to be offline for a few days, so may not respond right away.

    • thatfrostyguy@alien.topOPBEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      I’ll clone and run a sysprep on it, see if that makes any difference. I got the ISOs directly from microsoft