White console screen in VMWare

November 8, 2011 Chilling_Silence How-To's / Guides / Tech info

I’ve recently come across an insanely annoying bug in VMWare.

I’m not entirely sure of the steps to replicate it. For me, I was lucky enough to have several VMWare Hosts & Clusters that I could test against at the time when this arose.

Basically, the general gist is the “Console” screen of any Virtual Host is white instead of showing you what you should see. Talk about a PITA!

It was odd, it only happened on a remote host for me, ones on our LAN were fine.

Anyway, the fix is thankfully dead simple.

Simply fire up a command prompt (Make sure its going to get administrative privileges):

Run the command: bcdedit.exe /set nx AlwaysOff

Reboot and you’re done! It should now look like this:

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