64-bit applications not built with '/LARGEADDRESSAWARE:YES' flag crash
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64-bit applications not built with '/LARGEADDRESSAWARE:YES' flag crash
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Article ID: 331547
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Updated On: 05-01-2020
Products
VMware vSphere ESXi
Issue/Introduction
Symptoms:
In 64-bit windows Guest VM, few 64-bit applications may crash (exit abruptly). The corresponding services for those executables may stop.
Few applications/services which are affected: Veritas NetBackup service / bpinetd.exe and Docker engine for Windows.
Environment
VMware Tools 11.x
Cause
In VMware Tools 11.0.0, a new plugin called 'appInfo' was bundled. This new plugin runs every 30 minutes (can be configured by the guest administrator) to capture the information about running processes. For this, the plugin creates a remote thread in the target 64-bit process to capture the 'command line' of the target process. If the 64-bit application of the process is not built with '/LARGEADDRESSAWARE:YES, 'the remote thread' crashes the application.