VMWare ESX 4.1 - Upgrade from 2000 to 2003 R2 gives STOP Error 0X0000000A during "installing devices"

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I am trying to upgrade a recently P2V'd server, but I get STOP Error 0X0000000A every time I try.. It always gets this STOP error when it is trying to install devices during the upgrade process. Any ideas? Stop error below

windows
windows-server-2003
vmware-esxi
vmware-esx
vmware-vsphere
asked on Server Fault Aug 10, 2011 by IT_Fixr

2 Answers

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Probably a device driver, possibly one of the vmtools ones, did you update these before updating?

answered on Server Fault Aug 10, 2011 by Chopper3
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Could be a SCSI driver issue. Try switching to LSI before you do the upgrade. You do this by adding a second disk to the VM with id 1.1. Change the controller type for controller 1 to lsi. Let the vm boot and find the new devices. Now shutdown and change controller 0 to lsi. Try the upgrade again.

answered on Server Fault Aug 15, 2011 by atmorell

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