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i reied https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/rmilne/2014/01/15/hyper-v-could-not-initialize-could-not-create-or-access-saved-state-file/ with no avail [https://msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net/media/TNBlogsFS/prod.evol.blogs.technet.com/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/00/00/00/91/09/metablogapi/image3_521939FD.png]<https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/rmilne/2014/01/15/hyper-v-could-not-initialize-could-not-create-or-access-saved-state-file/> Hyper-V Could Not Initialize – Could Not Create or Access ...<https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/rmilne/2014/01/15/hyper-v-could-not-initialize-could-not-create-or-access-saved-state-file/> blogs.technet.microsoft.com As part of my relaxing holiday, I spent a fair bit of time upgrading the hardware in my lab and installing Windows Server 2012 R2 onto all of my Hyper-V ... Jean-Paul Natola ________________________________ From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com <listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> on behalf of J- P <jnat...@hotmail.com> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2017 9:45 PM To: NT Subject: [NTSysADM] HyperV guest failed to launch after crash So the HyperV host (2012r2) crashed today and all but one guest came back-online after restart the error was An attempt to initialize VM state failed - I got the call while on the road so I asked them to "delete the saved state", however there was no option to delete the saved state- It was actually faster for me to pull over create a new VM and attach the disks from the failed vm and get it up and running- All articles point to "permissions error" but as I check perms on the VHDX files they *seem* to have the right permissions- granted since I was able to get it up and running its not an urgent issue, but I'm curios as to why 1 out of 5 guest VM's failed. HOST 2012r2, Guest VM's 2008r2 any thoughts, feedback , comments appreciated TIA
