VMware Workstation, HP Protect Tools, and the lsass.exe 255 error
I have an HP 8510p that I use daily at work. I currently am working in getting a demo running with ESX running in Workstation. (check out the attached white paper) One problem I immediately ran into was when I upgraded my system's RAM, I suddenly had problems booting. I was getting an error with Event ID: 1015 with the message "...C:\Windows\system32\lsass.exe, failed with status code 255..." What?! A little googlin' found the following two threads on VMware and HP forums in reference to the Protect Tools suite. Since I don't want to stop using my handy fingerprint reader and SSO credential manager, I am feeling kinda screwed. It turns out there is a conflict between the VMware authorization service and the Credential Manager software and that is what is causing the problem. At least in my case. So I start playing around and find that stopping the Local Communication Channel service you are able to then start the VMware Authorization service. One problem...don't let your machine get locked. Without the credential manager program, you can't pass your credentials. Bummer.
Best fix I can come up without resizing my hard drive and running workstation on an Ubuntu partition...hmmm...might have just created a new task for myself ;)
Workaround for Problem
I have the same problem and more less the same solution, but I wrote a script to do it a little different. Set all the VM service to manual startup in services. This seems to only happen for a machine that is a member of a domain and in which it is not connected to the LAN when it boots up. Here is what I did as a fix/workaround.
Download and expand a program called togglenic and extract the files to your windows directory. http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/ToggleNic-Download-50581.html. Then make a batch file out of the info below and when you want to use vmware, just run it and it will disable all network connections, start the services, and then enable the network connections. Note that some of the items in here might have to be changed for your environment. For example, my Local Area Connection has been renamed to "LAN" so my batch file says "togglenic "LAN" disable." So change it to whatever your local area connection name is; probably "Local Area Connection" by default. Good luck! aczerlinsky@gmail.com
>>Copy into batch file below:
@echo off
title + + + + + + + + + + + + + + VM Process Start + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
COLOR 1F
ECHO.
ECHO -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
ECHO. Now disabling network devices on "%COMPUTERNAME%
ECHO -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
togglenic "LAN" disable
togglenic "VMware Network Adapter VMnet1" disable
togglenic "VMware Network Adapter VMnet8" disable
togglenic "Wireless Network Connection" disable
CLS
ECHO.
ECHO -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
ECHO. Network Devices Disabled. now starting VM services...
ECHO -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
ECHO.
sleep 2
CLS
ECHO.
ECHO -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
ECHO. Now starting VMware services on "%COMPUTERNAME%
ECHO -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
sleep 1
net start "VMware Authorization Service"
net start "VMware Agent Service"
net start "VMware DHCP Service"
net start "VMware NAT Service"
sleep 1
CLS
ECHO.
ECHO -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
ECHO. VM services started. now starting network connections...
ECHO -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
ECHO.
sleep 2
CLS
ECHO.
ECHO -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
ECHO. Waiting for VM services to finish initializing...
ECHO -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
ECHO.
sleep 5
togglenic "LAN" enable
togglenic "VMware Network Adapter VMnet1" enable
togglenic "VMware Network Adapter VMnet8" enable
togglenic "Wireless Network Connection" enable
ECHO -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
ECHO. DONE!
ECHO -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
ECHO.
sleep 1
CLS
ECHO.
ECHO -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
ECHO. VM services started. now starting VMware...
ECHO -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
ECHO.
START C:\Progra~1\VMware\VMware~1\vmware.exe
sleep 2
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