{"id":4926,"date":"2017-09-12T23:09:16","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T21:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michlstechblog.info\/blog\/?p=4926"},"modified":"2021-12-14T10:50:11","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T09:50:11","slug":"vmware-windows-guest-vm-does-not-boot-due-to-error-0xc000186-ntoskrnl-exe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michlstechblog.info\/blog\/vmware-windows-guest-vm-does-not-boot-due-to-error-0xc000186-ntoskrnl-exe\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware: Windows Guest VM does not boot due to Error 0xc000186 ntoskrnl.exe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"twoclick_social_bookmarks_post_4926 social_share_privacy clearfix 1.6.4 locale-en_US sprite-en_US\"><\/div><div class=\"twoclick-js\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\njQuery(document).ready(function($){if($('.twoclick_social_bookmarks_post_4926')){$('.twoclick_social_bookmarks_post_4926').socialSharePrivacy({\"services\":{\"flattr\":{\"uid\":\"Michl\",\"status\":\"on\",\"the_title\":\"VMware%3A%20Windows%20Guest%20VM%20does%20not%20boot%20due%20to%20Error%200xc000186%20ntoskrnl.exe\",\"the_excerpt\":\"Hi%2C%0D%0A%0D%0Ain%20some%20circumstances%20a%20Windows%20guest%20VM%20does%20not%20boot%20and%20stops%20with%20Error%3A%0D%0A%0D%0A%20%09Stoperror%3A%200xc000186%0D%0A%20%09Boot%20critical%20file%20C%3A%5Cwindows%5Csystem32%5Cntoskrnl.exe%20is%20corrupt.%0D%0A%0D%0A%26nbsp%3B%0D%0A%20%28more%26hellip%3B%29\",\"txt_info\":\"2 clicks for more data protection:\\r\\n\\r\\nOnly when you click here, the button will be come active and you can send your recommendation to Flattr. 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With PowerCli<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: powershell; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\nPS D:&gt; Get-AdvancedSetting -Entity yourESXiHost -Name Disk.DiskMaxIOSize | Set-AdvancedSetting -Value 4096 -Confirm:$false\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Michael<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, in some circumstances a Windows guest VM does not boot and stops with Error: Stoperror: 0xc000186 Boot critical file C:\\windows\\system32\\ntoskrnl.exe is corrupt. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[1086,355,457,1087,14,20],"class_list":["post-4926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vmware","category-windowsknowhow","tag-0xc000186-ntoskrnl-exe","tag-corrupt","tag-esxi","tag-missing","tag-vmware-2","tag-windows-2"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michlstechblog.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michlstechblog.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michlstechblog.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michlstechblog.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michlstechblog.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4926"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/michlstechblog.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8285,"href":"https:\/\/michlstechblog.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4926\/revisions\/8285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michlstechblog.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michlstechblog.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michlstechblog.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}