I'm standing up a new environment with vSphere 5.0.1 and I'm running into an issue with deploying Windows 2008 R2 VMs from a template.
If I deploy a Windows 2008 R2 VM from a template and do any type of guest customization then the VM does not work. When I power on the VM where I used guest customization and attempt to connect to the console I get the error: Unable to connect to the MKS: Error connecting to /bin/vmx process. The VM enters a state where I can not do anything to it. I can't power it off, shut it down, migrate it. After some period of time, maybe like 15 - 20 minutes I am able to power it off.
The template itself has no isses, I can convert it to VM and power it on with no problem and any VMs that I deploy with the tamplate thay do not use guest customization work just fine.
Has anyone else run into this issue? Is this an bug with 5.0.1? I'm not even sure how to troubleshoot, so any hints on where to look would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Joe