VMware VM with more than 1 vCPU BSoD when loading WinPE using WIMBOOT

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(2016-07-01 16:12)d4rk3 Wrote:  Try VM hardware type 8...

I wouldn't have thought so, but hardware type 8 does work with more than one vCPU.

Any idea what the difference is and how to get the later hardware types working?

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I did some more testing and hardware type 8 and 9 are working. I probably screwed up my earlier test of hardware type 9.

But a new VM with hardware type 8 boots fine into WinPE using WIMBOOT.
Also upgrading the VM from type 8 to type 9 works.
Also a new VM created as type 9 works.

Upgrading to type 10 or creating a new machine as type 10 both fail with the BSoD.
Same is true for type 11.