Interesting-I haven't run into that (yet?) with Hyper-V. We started on 2008 SP1, then SP2, and now are migrated to a new 2008 R2 cluster.
If I'm understanding you correctly, you shut down the guest vm and then could still not copy the *.vhd files until you shut down a service on the host server? Which service are you having to stop? Do you have some sort of VSS snapshot util going against the guest VMs that could be holding the *.vhd files open? From: Jon Harris [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 1:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: XP Mode Snapshots? FYI, you may need to reboot after shutting down and disabling the VM service. I know with Hyper-V any machine that is live and shutdown must have the services shutdown or services to restart and then I could copy the vhd. They may have fixed that with R2 and 7. I would hope so anyway. The VHD was listed as in use and unavailable for copying in 2008. On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Richard Stovall <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I would think you should shut down the VM completely first, then copy the vhd and the vmc. I think the presence of the vsv file indicates that it's still running. The vhd is the disk file. The vmc file is the settings. When I shut mine down a few minutes ago everything but the vmc, the vhd, and one vpcbackup disappeared. The vpbackup is just a copy of the vmc at some point in time. They're both just xml files with the VM's settings. You could also just copy the whole directory. On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Sam Cayze <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Ok, new to MS virtual stuff. Do I just copy the VHD? [cid:[email protected]] ________________________________ From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 3:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: XP Mode Snapshots? Aha! Slow today... That will actually work great. It's just a one off thing... Cheers :) ________________________________ From: Jonathan Link [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 3:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: XP Mode Snapshots? It's just a file, copy it somewhere. On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Sam Cayze <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: ? ________________________________ From: Richard Stovall [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 2:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: XP Mode Snapshots? Turn it off, copy the vhd. Not elegant or fast, but it is effective. On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Sam Cayze <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Is there really no way to take snapshots of XP Mode? All my google searches point to VMlite, an alternative. Which actually, looks more promising. Sam ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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