Matt Kendall
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Hyper-V in saved state and can't get it to start. How can I get it to start?
Hi,
I have a Windows 2016 Server Standard with Hyper-V installed. I have two VMs: ADSRV and RDS (Active Directory Server and Remote Desktop Server). Something happened the other night and now the RDS is in a Saved state. I've seen this before and I was able to delete the saved state and continue on as usual on another server. This time, if I try to delete the saved state, I get an error message: An error occurred while attempting to delete the save state for the selected virtual machine. RDS failed to turn off. I've checked the details on the tskmgr and the only vwmp.exe that's running or showing up is the ADSRV. Microsoft's website said something about deleting .bin and some other file. I couldn't find those files in the VM folder. I found the vmcx and vmrs files. How can get this VM back up out of the saved state? Any help is greatly appreciated!
I have a Windows 2016 Server Standard with Hyper-V installed. I have two VMs: ADSRV and RDS (Active Directory Server and Remote Desktop Server). Something happened the other night and now the RDS is in a Saved state. I've seen this before and I was able to delete the saved state and continue on as usual on another server. This time, if I try to delete the saved state, I get an error message: An error occurred while attempting to delete the save state for the selected virtual machine. RDS failed to turn off. I've checked the details on the tskmgr and the only vwmp.exe that's running or showing up is the ADSRV. Microsoft's website said something about deleting .bin and some other file. I couldn't find those files in the VM folder. I found the vmcx and vmrs files. How can get this VM back up out of the saved state? Any help is greatly appreciated!
How's your disk space looking on the host?
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Thanks for the comment Cliff. Hard drive space is plenty. About 1 TB available and the VM is only 45 GB. Philip, thanks for the suggestion. I think that fixed it for me. I know that there wasn't any snapshots so I created a new VM and brought along the VHDX file. Now it works! Thanks for the advice! Have a great day!