Hi all,
I've set up a series of Windows Server 2003 (both enterprise and R2) VMWare virtual server machines with SQL 2000 SP4 installed.
We use a third party tool called DBGhost which builds databases from scripts and also compares baseline databases and current versions to create delta scripts.
Problem is, whilst DBGhost works just fine on the same setup using Microsoft Virtual Server, in VMWare I am getting SQL Assertion problems which cause SQL Server to stop and DBGhost to fail.
The event log messages on my virtual server after the issue look like this:
17066 :
SQL Server Assertion: File: <umsio.cpp>, line=563
Failed Assertion = 'm_busyCnt == 1'.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
followed by:
17310 :
SqlDumpExceptionHandler: Process 2032 generated fatal exception c000001d EXCEPTION_ILLEGAL_INSTRUCTION. SQL Server is terminating this process.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
I've tried rebuilding the image from scratch so I know this isnt just a problem with this instance. We've also been using it for ages on real servers with no problem.
Anyone got any ideas? I've seen some suggestions that this error appears on non virtual servers with multiple processors and is due to parellel processing issues - could it be something to do with VMWare Server's experimental 2 processor stuff... although I have the machines set to use only 1 processor in the settings.
Any help much appreciated.
Cheers
Luke