Hi DaedalusK71,
The black screen can be caused due to the following reasons
1. Issue related to DNS/FQDN of host/guest
Verify the DNS/FQDN of both ESXi host and guest
2. ESXi host may need to restart management agent services (kb1003490)
Check the other VM hosted by the same ESX/ESXi host.If they don’t have issue this may not be the root cause
3. Video memory of VM is too small for WDDM video driver
(C:\Program Files\Common Files\VMware\Drivers\wddm_video\)
VMware suggest video RAM increase from default 4MB to minimum 8MB when use WDDM driver, or somewhere between 4-32 MB (kb1016770)
4. Firewall blocking ports 902/903 (kb749640)
To enable port on proxy, do this
Log in to ESXi, open /etc/vmware/config
add line -
vmauthd.server.alwaysProxy = "TRUE"
service xinetd restart
Just check if these are causing the issue.
Hope this helps!!
Regards,
SatyS
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