If I had vmotion, I would do exactly that. I don't believe I'm updating drivers - none of the optional updates are for hardware.
Kurt On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 04:26, Martin Blackstone <[email protected]> wrote: > 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:[email protected]] > 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 <[email protected]> > 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:[email protected]] >> Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 08:14 PM >> To: NT System Admin Issues <[email protected]> >> 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/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
