Tuesday, August 31, 2010

VMWare black screen of death

Ever had a black screen when loading up a VMWare image?  Try booting into safe mode and deleting your display adapter from Device Manager, then restarting.  (Don’t worry, the adapter should reinstall automatically.)

Device Manager

This issue seems to appear after changing monitors – in my case, when I unplug an external monitor from my laptop.  I’m running a Windows Server 2008 guest VM on a Windows 7 host, under VMWare Player 3.1.0.

Another workaround here.

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