{"id":830,"date":"2011-11-08T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T23:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/?p=830"},"modified":"2011-11-08T12:00:36","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T23:00:36","slug":"white-console-screen-in-vmware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/white-console-screen-in-vmware\/","title":{"rendered":"White console screen in VMWare"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"8781ca4f97038dd0d58a1ad8af045721\" data-index=\"3\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-6411751809866006\";\r\n\/* BlogHorizontalSlim *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"6442664612\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve recently come across an insanely annoying bug in VMWare.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not entirely sure of the steps to replicate it. For me, I was lucky enough to have several VMWare Hosts &amp; Clusters that I could test against at the time when this arose.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, the general gist is the &#8220;Console&#8221; screen of any Virtual Host is white instead of showing you what you should see. Talk about a PITA!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ScreenShot.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-831\" title=\"ScreenShot\" src=\"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ScreenShot-300x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ScreenShot-300x150.png 300w, http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ScreenShot-1024x513.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ScreenShot.png 1513w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>It was odd, it only happened on a remote host for me, ones on our LAN were fine.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the fix is thankfully dead simple.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Simply fire up a command prompt (Make sure its going to get administrative\u00c2\u00a0privileges):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/run_cmd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-833\" title=\"run_cmd\" src=\"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/run_cmd-300x165.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/run_cmd-300x165.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/run_cmd.jpg 427w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Run the command:\u00c2\u00a0<em>bcdedit.exe \/set nx AlwaysOff<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/cmd_disabledep.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-834\" title=\"cmd_disabledep\" src=\"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/cmd_disabledep-300x151.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/cmd_disabledep-300x151.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/cmd_disabledep.jpg 677w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reboot and you&#8217;re done! It should now look like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/vmware_working.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-832\" title=\"vmware_working\" src=\"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/vmware_working-300x218.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/vmware_working-300x218.png 300w, http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/vmware_working-1024x745.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/vmware_working.png 1067w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently come across an insanely annoying bug in VMWare. 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Basically, the general gist is the &#8220;Console&#8221; screen of any Virtual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[369,370,372,371,368],"class_list":["post-830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-tos-guides-tech-info","tag-esx","tag-esxi","tag-remote-server","tag-virtual-machines","tag-vmware"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pWi3e-do","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":835,"href":"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions\/835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.c2s.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}