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Asked: 2010-06-04 07:51:26 +0800 CST

Hyper-V stuck restoring VM

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I have a hyper-v server that runs 5 virtual machines. I believe the physical box rebooted last night which is usually not a problem but this morning one of the virual machines is stuck at "restoring 0%". I have rebooted the physical machine and same thing, 4 virtual machines come up fine the 5th gets stuck at "restoring 0%". I right-clicked the VM in hyper-v manager and selected "Cancel restore" and nothing happens. I was able to copy the VHD to another hyper-v box and light it up there so I know the VHD is good.

Any ideas on what to look at next? If I can I would like to just dump the saved state and move on, or if there is a better way to handle it I'm all ears.

TIA!!

virtualization windows-server-2008 hyper-v

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Take the VHD that you copied of that VM, and save it. Delete the VM in the Hyper-V manager, move the backed up copy to its original location. Create a new VM, and when it asks to create a hard drive, pick that VHD. This should get you where you want to be.

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  2. I got mine up by:

    1. killing the “HyperV worker process” in task manager.
    2. Deleting the state (right click on vm and select delete state)
    3. Starting the vm
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