So I have a good snapshot, is there a way to restore that? Note - the snapshot doesn't show up in the HV Manager.
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 9:35 AM, James Rankin <[email protected]> wrote: > I haven't had much luck doing R1 to R2 upgrades in our ESX 4 environment. A > lot of flaky network issues with upgraded boxes, hangs on startup, all sorts > of weird behaviour. In the end I opted to build a new template fresh from R2 > rather than upgrade existing R1 systems. > > > On 26 March 2010 13:57, Steve Ens <[email protected]> wrote: > >> No AV scanning that box. I'm getting an event id 3070 and 3040. >> >> Unnamed VM' failed to initialize. (Virtual machine >> 64EF49F6-3922-44E1-BB24-254088FE6650) >> That takes me to this link >> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd581971(WS.10).aspx<http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd581971%28WS.10%29.aspx> >> >> Check the environment in which the start virtual machine operation was >> being attempted, including: >> >> 1. access and permissions to the configuration file, memory file and >> all image files >> 2. prior error messages in the event log >> 3. available RAM on the system >> 4. configuration settings >> 5. disk space for the memory file and any expanding virtual hard disks >> >> All of these should've been OK. Just doing a straight upgrade. >> >> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Miller Bonnie L. < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Are you running any file-level AV software on the host server? That’s >>> the only thing I can think of that I’ve seen completely kill off guests like >>> that. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961804. >>> >>> >>> >>> -Bonnie >>> >>> >>> >>> *From:* Steve Ens [mailto:[email protected]] >>> *Sent:* Thursday, March 25, 2010 7:26 PM >>> >>> *To:* NT System Admin Issues >>> *Subject:* Upgrade from 2008 to 2008 r2 >>> >>> >>> >>> Kicked off an upgrade before I left of a Hyper V virtual machine. Went >>> through the upgrade and let it run. At home now, thinking the upgrade >>> should be finished. Taking a look at Hyper V Manager and the machine is >>> nowhere to be seen. I took a snapshot before I ran the upgrade, but that >>> doesn't show up in the console. The backup files do seem to be there, but >>> what's the easiest way to bring the server back from the dead? I've done >>> these upgrades a bunch of times on a test server, with no issues. ANy >>> ideas? >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into > the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able > rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such > a question." > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
