Michael Phillips Blog » imaging http://nukeitmike.com/blog My place to speak about things Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:55:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Hyper-V host blank black screen http://nukeitmike.com/blog/2010/10/14/hyper-v-host-blank-black-screen/ http://nukeitmike.com/blog/2010/10/14/hyper-v-host-blank-black-screen/#comments Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:46:43 +0000 Michael http://nukeitmike.com/blog/2010/10/14/hyper-v-host-blank-black-screen/ I recently had a problem with a couple of IBM Blades that I was trying to deploy as Hyper-V hosts.  I employ the use of a replay volume from our Compellent storage to create an image for my blades.  Basically, I install one, sysprep it, and then copy the volume mount the copy as the boot volume for each of my blades.  The most recent hosts that I attempted to use this technique with, would boot, but once they made it into Windows, the screen would go black and there would be no way to interact with the machine other than turning it off.

This happened on two blades in two chassis so I assumed that it must be the image.  I made a new image, and it worked just fine, until I installed the Hyper-V role.  Once I installed the Hyper-V role, the machine exhibited the same behavior as above. 

With a short amount of searching, I came across this: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverhyperv/thread/61fd5b0d-9d15-4f74-a970-7aafe491ef67

I have actually seen this mentioned before for something else, I just don’t recall what, but basically the problem was that the two processors in each blade were different revisions.  The simple solution we employed was to swap a processor from each blade to have the two processors match.  Now all is well in the land of Hyper-V.  At least for the moment…

]]> http://nukeitmike.com/blog/2010/10/14/hyper-v-host-blank-black-screen//feed 0 A fatal error occurred while trying to sysprep the machine. http://nukeitmike.com/blog/2010/06/03/a-fatal-error-occurred-while-trying-to-sysprep-the-machine/ http://nukeitmike.com/blog/2010/06/03/a-fatal-error-occurred-while-trying-to-sysprep-the-machine/#comments Fri, 04 Jun 2010 01:08:22 +0000 Michael http://nukeitmike.com/blog/2010/06/03/a-fatal-error-occurred-while-trying-to-sysprep-the-machine/ Today, while getting ready to deploy an updated Citrix farm for a set of Line of Business applications, I got an error during the sysprep process.  The machine in question is a 2008 64 bit machine.  It has Citrix and all the applications installed.  It is also a Hyper-V VM. 

I created an answer file and when I run Sysprep I get a popup that says:  A fatal error occurred while trying to sysprep the machine.

Hmm..  so I look at the logs and here is what I find:

2010-06-03 10:42:33, Error      [0x0f0085] SYSPRP LaunchDll:Could not load DLL drmv2clt.dll[gle=0x0000007e]
2010-06-03 10:42:33, Error      [0x0f0070] SYSPRP RunExternalDlls:An error occurred while running registry sysprep DLLs, halting sysprep execution. dwRet = 126[gle=0x0000007e]
2010-06-03 10:42:33, Error      [0x0f00a8] SYSPRP WinMain:Hit failure while processing sysprep cleanup providers; hr = 0x8007007e[gle=0x0000007e]

I found lots of references to Windows Media Player, and that you can’t have sharing enabled.  Not a problem on this machine.  Not any help either. 

I did find this article helpful: http://myit4u.wordpress.com/2010/03/17/launchdll-could-not-load-dll-drmv2clt-dll/

Guess what?! Those aren’t shown in on a Windows Server 2008! Our workaround was to install the Desktop Experience feature on the server.

I added the “Desktop Experience” feature did the sysprep and then uninstalled it on each of the new machines.  Rather a pain, but I didn’t have a lot of time to work on figuring out a better answer.

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