Last week we upgraded the virtual hardware of 500 VMs form hardware version 7 to 9 (vmx-09). Overall it went smoothly, except for some Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 servers. We experienced an issue that is described in an article named "Windows 2003 virtual machine loses access to the locally stored profile after upgrading the hardware version (2009762)":
"After upgrading a Windows 2003 virtual machine to hardware version 8, you may experience these symptoms:
- You lose access to locally stored profile.
- Attempting to log on fails with error:
- Windows cannot find the locally stored profile: Insufficient security rights or a corrupted local file. Windows has logged you in with a temporary profile any setting you make will not be saved."
A power down of the VM and setting the video card memory to 4MB in "Edit Settings" of the VM did solve the issue for all VMs (see article).
Thank you all for contributing to this topic.
Regards,
Alfredj