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ws 2008 R2 added hyper-v tools and now blue screens, can only boot in safe mode

We have a WS 2008 R2 running on a laptop which has a WS2008 R2 vhd running on it. We tried to add hyper-v tools to the base OS today and it now blue screens when you try and boot the base OS. We can boot in safe mode but can not seem to remove /…
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How can I convert a physical machine to a Windows Virtual PC machine (possibly using SCVMM)

I've got a physical machine which I'd like to convert to a virtual machine. I've done this P2V process a number of times onto Windows Server 2008 R2 and Hyper-V by using System Centre Virtual Machine Manager. However, in this case I'd like to go a…
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How can I determine if a VHD is a differencing disk?

I have a VHD that I suspect is a differencing disk. How can I know for certain, and if it is, then what parent VHD is it tied to?
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VM deployement error in Azure

I was getting error while deploying a Windows VM in Azure. This VM image was created from a custom VHD. Error: Provisioning failed. OS provisioning for VM did not finish in the allotted time. The VM may still finish provisioning successfully. Also,…
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Virtual PC - parent appears to have been modified

I have been trying to install a training pack for Microsoft BizTalk course 2934a. I have downloaded multiple VHDs and followed the instructions (I think!) for installation. However, on attempting to start one of the VHDs from the Virtual PC 2007…
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Is it possible to use a VHD for dual boot and VPC?

Using Windows 7 Virtual PC to create a virtual machine, I know you can sysprep the VHD and then you are able to use it to dual boot using the Win7 boot from VHD mode. However can you take that VHD later and load it in Virtual PC? I suspect another…
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0xC03A001B error while trying to compact VHD

What can be the reason of such error? I tried to compact both via DISKPART and Optimize-Vhd commandlet. Via DISKPART I get following error: DISKPART> compact vdisk DiskPart has encountered an error: The requested operation cannot be performed on a…
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Hyper-V - Why would .vhd expand when it still has unused space?

I have a dynamically expanding .vhd file. The current file size was about 50 GB, with only 29 GB used. However, it recently expanded to about 54 GB, but still only shows 29 GB used. Are there any reasons that a .vhd file would expand when it still…
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Migrate Windows 7 guest VM to Generation 2?

Yes, I know that officially Hyper-V Gen 2 VMs don't support Windows 7, but maybe there is some workaround or fix? Had anybody such experience? I created new Gen 2 VM, converted my Win7 VHD to VHDx but without a luck. It simply doesn't recognize…
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Windows 7: Can you use the same VHD to boot and run virtually?

I have a Windows 7 (host) machine that also has a Windows 7 (guest) VHD configured to dual boot. This is very cool and working great! But... If I'm running the host OS I would like to ALSO be able to run the guest OS virtually. I tried creating a…
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How to mount VHD file with bootable linux USB

I have a Xenserver which the primary drive has failed to the point it won't boot. However, my RAID containing the SRs is fine. I can boot with gparted USB stick and mount the RAID LVM and see the .VHD files. However, I don't know which VHDs I…
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Mount VHD as ReadOnly

So I have the following scenario - two servers, one is Web server, another is a Backup server. Both running Windows Server 2012 R2 I have a mapped drive on Web referencing Backup I have a VHD I created on the Map drive, physically located on Backup…
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Does a dynamic VHD automatically add space to its local drives?

OK, this might be a stupid question but I'm new to this. Dealing with Hyper-V server 2008. So let's say I got a dyamic VHD which has a 70gb max when i inspect it in Hyper-V, and then the C: drive of that VHD hits its limit. Does space automatically…
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Can I sysprep a bootable VHD without using any virtualization technology?

I booted from a VHD on my laptop and hoped to sysprep this image, but it didn't let me do it. I got a fatal error during the process. I used the following command: sysprep /generalize /shutdown. My question is it possible at all to sysprep a VHD…
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Can't see other VHDs after detaching another. Azure Ubuntu VM

We have encountered high Disk IO on our Ubuntu 14.04 VM's running mongoDB. On Windows Azure. To solve this issue we have changed the VM size from A2 to A3 (to add the additional data discs) and attached 4 additional VHD and set them as raid10 which…
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