I am trying to stand up a Windows 2012 server inside either Workstation 9 or 10 for testing.
I have the same error that the pc needs to be re-started when the iso try's to fire up. I have tried different iso files with the same results as below:
Your PC needs to restart.
Please hold down the power button.
error code: 0x000000C4
Parameters:
0x0000000000000091
0x000000000000000F
The error causes my physical machines to bleep and the following message appears as well:
A fault has occurred causing a virtual CPU to enter the shutdown state. If this fault had occurred outside of a virtual machine, it would have caused the physical machine to restart. The shutdown state can be reached by incorrectly configuring the virtual machine, a bug in the guest operating system, or a problem in VMware Workstation.
Click OK to restart the virtual machine or Cancel to power off the virtual machine
I have tried restarting the virtual and phyiscal machines and no change with the error
I have checked my machines and the installs of VM Workstation should be fine as I have many other VM's built and running just not any 2012 of Win 8 machines yet.
I am running workstation 9 on a Windows 7 Professional with SP1 laptop with 16gb RAM and Workstation 10 on a Windows 7 Professional with SP1 installed on an HP Z420 workstation with 32gb RAM
The VM team here had the same problem inside the ESX 5.1 farm and just upgraded to 5.5 and the problem went away so wondering what the fix is for Workstation