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Eject CD in Lab Manager cause vCenter service to stop.
As i’ve been playing around with VMware Lab Manager recently, I ran into a not so nice problem. If I attached an ISO file to a Lab Manager virtual machine and ejected it again, it caused VMware vCenter service to die every time.
Im running the newest releases: VMware vSphere 4.0 Update 1 and VMware Lab Manager 4.0.1.
As there is no official fix, the below temporary workaround could be implemented. Bare in mind this is an unsupported temporary workaround.
Go to your vCenter server, first stop your vcenter service and make a backup of the vpxd.cfg file located within C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\
Now edit the vpxd.cfg file and add the following:
<i18nFilter>
<disable>true</disable>
</i18nFilter>
Copy/paste the above code in just before the </config> tag.
And start the vCenter service again.
There is a catch-22 by changing this setting. You may observe odd looking tasks in the recent tasks window of VC after this workaround. Hopefully a supported fix is beeing released soon.
Once again, this is not a supported fix and should be changed with care. If you see any problems you should restore the original vpxd.cfg file and restart the vCenter service.
Feel free to leave a comment. Thanks in advance. Regards Heino.