I ran into a nasty error the other day that I'd like to share with you. So a little background. I was creating a Citrix PVS golden image and everything seemed to be working great. I'm running ESXi 5.0 with PVS 6.1 and XenDesktop 5.6. I took the default E1000 network card when I was building my golden image and boot times were horribly slow. I remembered I had some issues with the E1000 settings in the past, but I can hardly remember what I had for breakfast yesterday... I looked around and found this article on the Citrix site http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX131993 that says to use the VMXNet3 NIC. No problem, add a new VMXNet3 NIC in vCenter and delete the old E1000 NIC.
I switched my golden image from hard disk boot to vdisk boot, it booted MUCH faster and everything seemed to be working great. I put my vdisk into Standard Image mode and tried to boot up my PVS clones. Oh NO, not the BLUE SCREEN of DEATH!
Thanks goodness for Google! I started searching and found this article written by Jan Hendriks
http://jhmeier.de/2013/02/19/citrix-pvs-6-1-target-device-fails-to-start-on-vmware-esxi-5-1-with-a-blue-screen/ which totally saved me! It describes the error I was seeing and pointed to this Citrix article http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX125361, which pointed to these Microsoft articles http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2344941 and/or http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2550978. I guess when I replaced my E1000 for the VMXNet3 I introduced this. Luckily there was a hotfix available!
I installed the hotfix and it worked!!
So what does this teach us? I don't know.... :-)
Until Next Time!
-Brain
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