Saturday, September 26, 2020

Nutanix guest vm crashing with error "DPC WATCHDOG VIOLATION"

Problem:

Nutanix AHV guest VMs with windows OS crashes intermittently with error "your pc ran into a problem and needs to restart. DPC WATCHDOG VIOLATION".

your pc ran into a problem and needs to restart."DPC WATCHDOG VIOLATION".

Reason:

This issue usually observed whenever Windows guest VM is running with old or corrupted or incompatible Nutanix Virtio drivers. 

Solution:

Download and install latest Nutanix Virtio drivers from Nutanix support portal, downloads > AHV > Virtio section. 

Nutanix Support Portal 





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