

The other option you have is to locate the VMs. The VM must be powered off to access Configuration Parameters. Click on the Options tab and then click on General -> Configuration Parameters.On a working VM (which can boot to the vDisk), in the vSphere Console, right-click on the VM and click Edit Settings.If this procedure did not fix the blue screens, or if it does not relate then follow the below to determine if this applies to your problematic VM. Try booting the affected VM again from the new vDisk version and see if it gets past the BNIStack failure.Install the PVS target device software back on to the vDisk and commit all changes. You will want to specifically look out for NICs with vmxnet3 in the name. So go ahead and right-click on the inactive device(s) and click Uninstall. Devices that were previously installed but are no longer present appear as hidden/inactive devices. Any inactive icons indicate unused device drivers and should be uninstalled. In Device Manager, click View -> Show hidden devices.Now run devmgmt.msc which will open Device Manager.Once the machine has restarted open a command prompt (CMD) as administrator and run command set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1.Uninstall the PVS target device software from the vDisk and restart the VM.You can use a working target device that has booted to the vDisk and perform the following (with the vDisk in maintenance mode and the VM booted in to the maintenance version): I’ll provide two methods you can review to try and get around this issue.įirstly you need to check for any ghost NICs residing on the vDisk. This is a known issue when using the VMXNET3 NIC driver on your Worker VMs. The following error was recorded in the blue screen output:ĮRROR: BNIStack failed, network stack could not be initialized along with stop error code 0x0000007E.

When booting a PVS target device (the one, oddly) the VM blue screens and restarts only to go in to a blue screen restart loop. An issue I came across recently with a Citrix environment running on VMware vSphere 5.
