VMware image customization is in progress … at every reboot
When rebooting a virtual machine (server 2008 R2 x64 in this example) in vSphere 5 you see the following:
loading:
followed by:
To resolve this open regedit and browse to HKLM, System, CurrentControlSet, Control, Session Manager:
Open the BootExecute key:
Change the BootExecute key from this:
to this:
Reboot.