Solution: The Virtual PC engine may crash when attempt to start MED-V a workspace

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image When you attempt to start MED-V a workspace using a test image or a deployed image, the Virtual PC engine may crash and generate a Fault Report using Windows Error Reporting. Subsequently, the MED-V Workspace will fail to start.

The Virtual PC engine crash will show the following fault:

{virtual pc.exe, 6.0.210.0, unknown, 0.0.0.0, ffff08ef}

You will also see the following event in the Application Event Log:

Log Name: Application
Source: MED-V Workspace
Date:
Event ID: 0
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User:
Computer:
Description:

The following information was included with the event:

Failed intializing the service log: System.TimeoutException: Timed out waiting for the shared memory client to initialize
at Kidaro.Foundation.Log.PrettyLogProxy.InitializeSharedMemoryClient()
at Kidaro.Foundation.Log.PrettyLogProxy.Start()
at Kidaro.Workspaces.Service.WorkspaceService.ServiceStartThread()

Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="https://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="MED-V Workspace" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">0</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2009-09-22T16:24:30.000Z" />
<EventRecordID>1372</EventRecordID>
<Channel>_evt_Application.evt</Channel>
<Computer></Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>Failed intializing the service log: System.TimeoutException: Timed out waiting for the shared memroy client to initialize
at Kidaro.Foundation.Log.PrettyLogProxy.InitializeSharedMemoryClient()
at Kidaro.Foundation.Log.PrettyLogProxy.Start()
at Kidaro.Workspaces.Service.WorkspaceService.ServiceStartThread()</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

Cause

This can happen if the MED-V Workspace (the workspace installation) binaries have been installed along with the client on the physical host machine. The MED-V workspace installer should only be run inside the virtual machine being used to create the workspace.

Resolution

To resolve this issue, please do the following:

1.) Uninstall both the MED-V Workspace and the MED-V Client.

2.) Reinstall the MED-V Client.

Hope this helps,

Steve Thomas | Senior Support Escalation Engineer