Connecting attached HyperV VHD to new VM
I have a 2016VM thats reached 50 checkpoints and Im unable to delete them - various errors. It has an attached VHD being used as a data drive. Plan on creating new VM and attaching the data drive VHD to it. When creating the VM and then attaching the data drive VHD I get the message that corruption may occur if the data drive VHD is already attached to another VM.
What would the best course of action be ?
Thank you.
What would the best course of action be ?
Thank you.
Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)
are you attaching the disk with the snapshots ?
The warning is mainly meant that you shouldn't use the same VHD within more than one VM simultaneously. If you access one VHD at the same time, & both of them want to write to it, you can run into all sorts of problems.
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Both the VM and Data HD have lots of checkpoints - im slowly merging all the ones in the main VM so i can get a decent version to export (exports fail with VHD file error when done from a checkpoint) - but reluctant to merge the data VHD AVHDX files in case i mess that up - so backing up the files manually first.
If I detach the data VHD and reattach to the new VM - I will still have a data VHD with lots of checkpoints ?
If I detach the data VHD and reattach to the new VM - I will still have a data VHD with lots of checkpoints ?
The data virtual hard disk will be the same as before, it'll still have checkpoints. Thought it was just the OS VHD that had the problem.