Blank Screen ESX5.1 VMWare V9

[mcb30]

(2016-01-19 17:09)khanand Wrote:  Thanks for the suggestion, using the 'gui' switch helps reveal what's behind the blank screen. A BSOD with the error SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED. The BSOD only occurs if we select SERVER 2012 as the guest operating system on the virtual machines properties. If the OS is set to 2K8 no issue which I find a little strange as my understanding is that setting the guest OS shouldn't make any difference in terms of the way the VM is presented to the operating system.

It potentially affects which virtual hardware is presented to the guest. It would be very reasonable for VMware to decide to present a known-good list of virtual hardware, and that list is likely to vary by OS.

Michael