The PA-VM eval is crashing after minutes since reboot

[Adam_D]

Hello,

I've created this discussion because I've downloaded PA-VM eval for ESXi [.ova] and tried to launch this using VMware workstation PRO [latest version]. 

I found on the LIVEcommunity some threads like so:

https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/general-topics/pa-vm-10-0-4-trial-gets-shutdown-after-a-minute/...

however, once I followed the below steps

1. Import PA-VM to VMware workstation

2. Extend disk space to 100GB

3. Increase RAM to 16 GB

4. Increase CPU to 4. 

5. Boot PA-VM machine

6. PA-HFD login appeared for hours 

7. Reinstalled Pa-VM via 'disk image' and PA-VM login was available, however device started rebooting after about minutes.

8. I've changed the clock in the BIOS of the VM and unchecked clock synchronization in VMware Workstation

9. After the above steps PA-VM was accessible BUT once I changed the primary and secondary NTP server, PA-VM rebooted automatically and after bootup, the device forgot all credentials created and default password also. In essence, the device became absolutely useless.

Actually I've no clue how to proceed further because I want to use this machine connected to the Internet but how if NTP can't be configured correctly...

Dear PA Community, may you have encountered a similar problem and managed to solve it.

BR Adam

[JayGolf]

Hi @Adam_D ,

Which .ova version did you download? 

[Adam_D]

Hello @JayGolf 

I've requested an eval version via Palo Alto website and I received links to download the software for ESX and KVM like so:

for my setup I used to ESX VM and the version that I got is "PA-VM-ESX-10.2.5.bm eval.ova".