Is there a way for a VM to mimic a laptop? I want to be able to query the battery using WMI and some other functions.
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Laptop as a guest VM
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Hyper-V guest DC will not shutdown (hangs), when shutdown from Hyper-V GUI or host reboot. Please help.
Hello, I look after a number of primary school servers and have the following issue at each school.<o:p></o:p>
Each school has a single server (host) (2012r2) with two guest vm's (2012r2). One vm is a DC and the other is our Data server.<o:p></o:p>
The issue only affects the DC at each school and not the Data server.<o:p></o:p>
Issue -
If I use the Hyper-V GUI on the host to issue a shutdown the DC will start its shutdown process but hang at 90%, after a short while the Hyper-V Heartbeat will cut off. I am then forced to Turn Off the VM in a none graceful way.<o:p></o:p>
Another knock on issue and more serious is if the host needs to do a reboot the host hangs for about 20mins at shutting down service: Hyper-V Virtual Machine Management.<o:p></o:p>
If I shutdown the guest DC from within the OS all works fine. If I shutdown the other VM (data server) using the Hyper-V host GUI all is fine.<o:p></o:p>
Does anyone have any ideas please.<o:p></o:p>
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Enabled replication on Hyper-v
Hi, i had disabled the replica on a server, and now I'm trying to reactivate it, but I need to change the disk path where I'm going to make the replica, as I change it? Thanks!
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General Hyper V operation/interaction questions
I've got alittle experience with Hyper V, but am looking to re-acclimate myself again.
I am looking to enable Hyper V on a SP4. I remember there being some issues with enabling Hyper V on a SP3 and causing issues with connected standby, is that still the case with the SP4? I asked in the Microsoft Support forums and it was told to me that it was a Windows 8 issue and not a Surface specific issue.
The last time I ran Hyper V was with a Windows 8 host and then ran windows 7 in the VM, I was not able to get a full screen console. I didn't research this at the time, but is in order to get a full screen experience, I would need to use RDP, is this correct? Is there a better alternative?
Will I run into problems if I create the VM in PC A (Yoga Pro 2) and then move it to a PC B (SP4)? Would just be coping files and then changing the network switch setting, correct?
I will probably have a few other newbie questions when I think of them.
Thanks for your time.
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Problem using live-migration on Shared-Nothing.
I am trying to do a live migration between two Hyper-V 2012 hosts:
From Workload5 -> Workload4
When i try to migrate i get the following error:
Virtual machine migration operation failed to migration source.
Failed to establish a conection with host 'WORKLOAD4' No credentials are available in the security package (0x8009030E)....
On both servers live migration is enabled using kerberos, and the AD delegation are created for both machines:
For Workload4, the following services has been added for workload5:
cifs, Hyper-V Replica Service, Microsoft Virtual System Migration Service, RestrictedKrbHost
This is for workload4, the same (but other direction is done with workload5).
In the event log i get 3 errors:
- Failed to receive data for a Virtual Machine migration: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host. (0x80072746).
- The Virtual Machine Management Service failed to authenticate the connection for a Virtual Machine migration at the destination host: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host. (0x80072746).
- The Virtual Machine Management Service blocked a connection request for a Virtual Machine migration from client address '10.3.1.60': An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host. (0x80072746).
I must say, i don't get that much of this, so i hope you can help troubleshoot...
On another note, i am able to use replication..
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Cannot upgrade Integration Components of R2 guest on R2 host
Hi,
Some Hyper-V patches require you to upgrade the IC of the guests. In order to keep everything correctly versioned I have created some scripts which raise alerts when the IC of the guest don't match the version of the host. I then go and upgrade the ones that are out of date.
I am having a problem updating SOME of my WS08R2 guests. Some have upgraded fine so I don't understand what is going wrong with these last 2 guests. Here is what happens:
- I insert the integration components CD using the Hyper-V manager
- I run the setup.exe out of the support\amd64 folder
- It gets as far as "Installing Guest Components" when an error appears saying "An error has occurred: One of the update processes returned exit code 14101"
Having a look at the vmguestsetup.log file show the following error:
-->8
Temporary directory = C:\Windows\Temp\{b9054f11-0c3c-44a2-845e-e83b97878e46}
Command Line: "C:\Windows\system32\pkgmgr.exe" /ip /m:"C:\Windows\Temp\{b9054f11-0c3c-44a2-845e-e83b97878e46}\Windows6.1-HyperVIntegrationServices-x64.cab" -quiet -norestart
Process exit code = 0x3715
-->8
So I have then tried running the command line above without the quiet switch and I get the following error:
Operation failed with 0x80073715
The identities of the manifests are identical but their contents are different.
I've tried rebooting the guest prior to installation, I've tried getting SCVMM 2008 R2 to install the guests services for me, I've tried migrating the VM to another node in the cluster and I've tried copying the guest components out of the ISO from another VM host and installing them that way.
Why wont it work?
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Hyper-V 2012 R2 guests aren't shutdown properly on host shutdown
I have installed a new System based on Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard RTM (german)
So the Host is running Windows Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V Role.
Then I have installed a Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard as guest, which is running fine, except the integrating Services.
(Generation 2, dynamic memory)
The guest is not shutted down, when I shutdown the host, even when configured to do so (shutdown guest).
So the Hyper-V guest is just powered off, and I will get a power off warning in the guests eventviewer on the next start.
As the guest is Windows Server 2012 R2, the Integration Service can't be installed, as they are installed automatically. Also the Services seems to be up and running on the guest.
When connecting the guest from the Hyper-V console, the shutdown button from the console is working.
Also the shutdown command from inside the Hyper-V Manager works correct.
So what I'm missing?
Severin
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Challenge converting a physical disk into a virtual disk?
Hi All,
I am attempting to convert a physical hard drive into a virtual hard drive. The physical hard drive contains multiple partitions and is running Windows 10. In an effort to convert the disk from physical to virtual I have utilised a program called 'Paragon Hard Drive Manager'. This software gives me the option of either selecting an individual partition from the physical drive, or selecting the entire drive itself.
Here is a screen capture of selecting only the 'OS' partition from the physical drive -
When I subsequently attempt to use the VHD produced above in Hyper-V I am met with the message below -
This lead me to believe that I would be better served converting the entire physical disk into a single VHD, as shown below -
However when taking the above approach in Hyper-V I am not even able to get past the initial VM configuration, as shown below -
I understand that Paragon is not supported by Microsoft; therefore I am not looking for an answer about why the software I am using is not working. Instead I am simply wondering how Microsoft suggests going about converting a physical disk into a virtual disk?
Any help here will be greatly appreciated.
Kind Regards,
Davo
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Cannot Extend Volume Hyper-V
Windows Server 2008 R2
I have a 2 TB virtual drive (non-OS) that I have expanded to 2.25 TB. However, when I go into Disk Manager I am not
given the option to either expand the volume or create a secondary partition. I have done this on quite a few drives in
our virtual environment but this is the first one I've had issues with.
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Server 2012 R2 Hyper V Network Connectivity Issues
We have been managing a HP Proliant ML350 running Microsoft Server 2012 R2 with Hyper V running two Server 2012 Servers, One DC and One Exchange 2013.
It has two nics (Intel) One setup for Hyper V Host + Management and the other for vmswitch for virtuals.
Nearly every morning when staff come into the office the server stops responding on both nics. No ping no response. If we then either disable the network cards and re-enable the server come back to live.
We have replaced the switch the server connects to but the problem still occurs.
There are no errors in the event log at all and no hardware errors with the hp insight log. The switch records nothing either.
The virtual machines show no internet access on the network when this occurs.
We can also connect to the server via ilo during this time.
Really banging our heads against a wall on this one.
any help will be appreciated.
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Cannot change generation 2 vm's boot order
Hi,
I have following issue: I'm not able to change generation 2 vm's boot order. Neither Hyper-V Manager nor Powershell can do it:
On good host (all settings are correct):
Host where I'm not able to change settings:
Both servers are Windows 2012 R2 with all updates installed. I have found this thread: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/d1a5238e-b20f-4773-9ad6-253cae118f10/uefi-boot-order-options-missing-from-hyperv-host?forum=winserverhyperv but I cannot reinstall Hyper-V role (server is a part of production environment). Do you know how to fix this issue?
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Unable to create & Move VMs
I'm having a strange issue & wondered if anyone else had seen the same.
we have 3 NAS servers (one is a fresh build) with a 3 Hyper-V Node cluster & 2 Hyper-V nodes not clustered currently (fresh build)
All VMs are stored currently on NAS01 & NAS02, we are trying to migrate to NAS03 from NAS02
If we try to move a VM's storage the following error happens
Move-VMStorage : Storage migration for virtual machine 'RSV09' (59C775B7-FBCB-4A5D-9A49-7B01F5E5C3C3) failed witherror 'The device is not ready.' (0x80070015).
Migration did not succeed. Mirror operation failed for the source VHD file
'\\rs-nas01b\VMs\RS-Infrastructure\RSV09\Virtual Hard Disks\rsv09_disk_1_5EF6FC1B-0F9A-4ADA-8972-7A7CA20EB051.avhd' to
the destination file '\\rs-nas03\VMs\Infrastructure\RSV09\Virtual Hard
Disks\rsv09_disk_1_5EF6FC1B-0F9A-4ADA-8972-7A7CA20EB051.avhd': 'The device is not ready.'('0x80070015').
The system cannot process the request at this time.
At line:1 char:1
+ Move-VMStorage rsv09 -DestinationStoragePath \\rs-nas03\VMs\Infrastructure\RSV09
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (Microsoft.Hyper...VMMigrationTask:VMMigrationTask) [Move-VMStorage], Virt
ualizationOperationFailedException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Unspecified,Microsoft.HyperV.PowerShell.Commands.MoveVMStorageCommand
If we try to create a new VM this error happens
This only happens on the Data volume of the server, if we try to do it to the C drive (as a test) it works fine, some people have suggested security but I don't think that is the issue
The ACL's aren't identical but there are no deny permissions & the only difference is that on the one that isn't working I have explicitly allowed the computer accounts access to the problem share.
Again as a test I have added the 'Everyone' object to both share & NTFS permissions & granted full control, this hasn't had any affect.
I wondered if constrained delegation in AD might help but I don't know what to set & i can't see it being that given the C drive works but not D i would have thought that would have been a machine wide setting. We have even tried installing Hyper-V on the NAS in case that helped, it didn't.
now where it gets stranger... I have managed to move 3 VMs to the problem share, they failed initially with the same error but when I tried them the next morning the first 3 all worked but I haven't been able to move any others since.
If I manually copy the VM & then try to import it to Hyper-V I get the following VM:
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Intermittent Network connectivity Hyper-V Virtual Machines
We are experiencing a situation where we have 4 Hyper-V virtual machines on a VLAN-A that also contains a few physical servers. The physical servers have no problem but we are seeing continuous intermittent connectivity on all the virtual machines. For example on any of the VMs, I can query AD now and then get an error that no domain controller available if I try again in a few minutes, Opening ADUC received errors. On the physical servers none of these errors is visible so we can't really say if it is an AD or Hyper-V issue. Also if I move the virtual machine to another VLAN-B it works perfect with no issues.
A good example of one of the issue, I installed the AD replication tool on one of the virtual machine. It fails to run every time on VLAN-A but as soon as I move the virtual machine to VLAN-B the tool runs perfectly with no error.
Not sure how to diagnose issue like this.
Thanks
Isaac Oben MCITP:EA, MCSE,MCC <a href="https://www.mcpvirtualbusinesscard.com/VBCServer/4a046848-4b33-4a28-b254-e5b01e29693e/interactivecard"> View my MCP Certifications</a>
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Backup to Multiple USB drives
Hello,
What is the best way for me to backup to multiple USB hard drives from a Virtual guest using WIndows Backup? This way I can alternate USB drives and take one offsite. Usually we create a VHD on the USB drive and attach that to the virtual guest as a hard drive destination for Windows Server backup, however I do not know how this would work with two or more USB drives?
Thanks
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Error creating a new VM
Hi everyone,
this has now happened on both of my Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper V hosts.
Both servers are part of the domain.
When creating a new VM, I can run through every step but when I click Finish, I receive the error:
Hyper-V encountered an error trying to access an object on computer localhost because the object was not found. The object might have been deleted or you might not have permission to perform the task. Verify that the Virtual Machine Management service on the computer is running. If the service is running try to perform the task again by using run as administrator.
I'm running this as the domain administrator. Have also tried as local administrator. Managing Hyper V on the servers themselves so this shouldn't be related to firewall etc.
This occurred once before, and it was resolved by doing the following:
1. Stopped the Virtual Machine Management Service.
2. Run (elevated command prompt) the command
MOFCOMP %SYSTEMROOT%\System32\WindowsVirtualization.V2.mof
3. Reboot the server.
This isn't working anymore. I suspect a recent windows update has broken something, but can't be sure.
Can anyone assist with this?
Ian
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Change virtual switch connection type
I set up a test domain with one virtual switch and in order to keep it segregated from our LAN when I need to, I simply switch the connection type within the virtual switch from external to internal/private. This was working great till just the other day when I made the switch and it didn't seem to finish the changes. Now when I try to change the setting, it's grayed out and there's an additional note at the bottom saying "Some settings can't be changed because you have multiple network adapters for the management operating system."
When I look at ncpa, I see my 2 NICs, the team it's on and for some reason 3 virtual ethernet adapters with different IPs from my guest DHCP.
I've restarted yet am still unable to modify these settings. I don't want to nor can I anyway remove the one virtual switch I've made. Next plans were to shutdown all hyper-v services then see if I'm able to go from there. Ideally I'd like to keep this adapter and fix whatever stuck setting(s) were never applied when I made that property change.
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Hyper V-Connection establishment between Hyper V machines in two different Virtual machines
I have created a hyper V Machine,say,HV1 in one Virtual machine,VM1 and a different hyper V,say,HV2 machine in another different Virtual machine,VM2.I am able to ping from a hyper V machine,HV1 to its base Virtual machine,VM1 and I am able to establish
the same kind of connection between HV2 and VM2 also.
But when I try to connect from HV1 to VM2 or HV2 or from HV2 to VM1 or HV1,I am not able to ping or make connection between the machines.
Can someone please confirm whether these kind of connection is possible with Hyper V machines?
If it is possible,Please tell me the way to establish the connection between the machines.
But when I try to connect from HV1 to VM2 or HV2 or from HV2 to VM1 or HV1,I am not able to ping or make connection between the machines.
Can someone please confirm whether these kind of connection is possible with Hyper V machines?
If it is possible,Please tell me the way to establish the connection between the machines.
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Process VLANs inside a Windows Server 2012 R2 virtual machine
Hello,
is it possible to process VLANs inside a Hyper-V VM?
On the host-side I'm using Windows Server 2012 R2 and have a dedicated NIC connected to a trunk port on a switch.
I want to assign one NIC with Hyper-V Manager to a VM, and create virtual NICs inside the VM for every VLAN I need to use.
I can't assign the NICs in Hyper-V Manager, because the VM needs to be connected to more than 8 VLANs.
Guest OS is Windows Server 2012 R2 aswell (Gen2 VM).
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Windows 2012R2 VM Guests hang showing state Stopping-critical
Hi
I have a Windows 2012 R2 Std Server running Hyper V. I have 2 VM guests running windows 2012 Std R2. Since last week Windows backup on the Host was failing and the VM Guest was hanging. As of yesterday the VM guests Hangs intermittently or always on reboot. The VM Manager shows the guest state as "Stopping- Critical" and the only way to bring the VN Guest back up is to reboot the current Host server.
We have reinstalled Hyper-V on the host and it still does the same. The Host has been updated using windows update, still the same.
Dheren Maharaj
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General Hyper V operation/interaction questions
I've got alittle experience with Hyper V, but am looking to re-acclimate myself again.
I am looking to enable Hyper V on a SP4. I remember there being some issues with enabling Hyper V on a SP3 and causing issues with connected standby, is that still the case with the SP4? I asked in the Microsoft Support forums and it was told to me that it was a Windows 8 issue and not a Surface specific issue.
The last time I ran Hyper V was with a Windows 8 host and then ran windows 7 in the VM, I was not able to get a full screen console. I didn't research this at the time, but is in order to get a full screen experience, I would need to use RDP, is this correct? Is there a better alternative?
Will I run into problems if I create the VM in PC A (Yoga Pro 2) and then move it to a PC B (SP4)? Would just be coping files and then changing the network switch setting, correct?
I will probably have a few other newbie questions when I think of them.
Thanks for your time.
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