Without having a backup of the original machine configuration, you may be stuck with either discarding those snapshots, or attempting to merge the entire chain into one new file, losing your checkpoints. Make backups of the files first, if you haven't already.
http://serverfault.com/questions/609772/regenerate-snapshots-from-avhdx-files http://workinghardinit.wordpress.com/2014/08/29/manually-merging-hyper-v-checkpoints/ http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/6257.manually-merge-avhd-to-vhd-in-hyper-v.aspx If you do find a way, please post back! -Bonnie From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Bonner Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 12:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [NTSysADM] Create Hyper-V from existing VHDX We have some hyper-v server images that if possible we would like to not rebuild. However the original machine they were installed on is no longer available. So we have 1 vhdx and 8 avhdx. The vhdx is the virtual disk and the avhdx are check points if I remember correctly. The process I used to build these machines was such as base install...checkpoint..install SQL Server...checkpoint...install visual studio...checkpoint etc... I created a new vm on my windows 8 box and in the create wizard I told it to use an existing vhdx then pointed to my previous one. The system boots and takes the correct password. However it comes up at the base install point. The checkpoints do not show in Hyper-V manager and consequently they do not get applied to the VM. Now I have found that there is a sort of checkpoint database (xml) and several related folders in C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Hyper-V thinking maybe there are some pointers I could realign but it seems editing them is not supported. I also tried under the settings option of the test vm to change the checkpoint location. That seems to be a place for checkpoints to be stored and it doesn't seem to pick them up if any exist........this behavior makes sense as the pointer xml / database thingy is where that information should come from. So is there a way to get these checkpoints associated / recreate / make use of these existing hyper v machines? Thank You JB
