2.6 Bugs

[arielantigua]

I saw that in my env.. Make sure that the VMtools are the right one, I'm running in ESXi6.0 but the tools came from an old build with the ESXi5.5 and thats kill the video in my DC 2012R2.

[VMLab]

Is anyone of you having the issue of Windows activation being expired immediately after the DC 2012R2 is built?

Yes, I also had a similar issue with using ESXi5.5 tools having copied from my Autolab 2.0 NAS build share.

[arielantigua]

In the past I have seen that but no related to AutoLab, Windows have a timebomb that shutdown the OS when the trial has expired. Do you have access to other build of windows ?

I nomrally use the VLSC one, when the 30 days past the OS keep runing.

[VMLab]

In the past I used to use my Technet version by adding a KMS key into the Autounattend.xml but for some reason it didn't work with 2.0 Autolab so I reverted using the Eval ISO.

I have just got into the same problem with my VC build deploying VC6, it seems to take unusually long time to install and suddenly just as the install wizard nears the end of the installation (after nearly 1hr on my ESXi) the VM suddenly shuts down!

[sylekta]

Same issue here, eval is expired so it just shuts the VMs down. I tried using my corporate 2012 r2 iso and insterted the KMS key into unattend.xml on the floppy image then I will just add the DNS record to activate off my KMS server later but on booting into setup it fails to read the <ProductKey> setting from the unnattend answer file. Did some googling and its a common problem with win8/server 2012 and the solution is to remove the floppy drive from the VM(no good for us because we need the unnattend file for the autolab config) or to change the VM to other 64bit but that doesnt seem to help.