This article helps customers deal with unknown VDDK failures by enabling them to produce
core dumps that may be useful for troubleshooting and diagnosis.
When a VDDK application fails on a Windows machine while running vmacore library code,
no crash dump is generated.
VDDK runs code and creates threads from vmacore.dll, which has its own exception handler.
If a crash occurs in these threads, the core dump file is generated by vmacore.dll
in a hard-coded folder location, C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Local\VMware.
If this folder does not exist, vmacore skips generating a crash dump.
None currently. A fix has been identified and will be available in a future release.
None currently. A fix has been identified and will be available in a future release.