On the physical server everytime I want to attach the DVD drive to a different VM I need to reboot the physical server before it will work.
Each time I release the DVD drive from one client and then attach it to the other but then when I try to start the VM I have just attached it to I get the following error:
The application encountered an error while attempting to change the state of 'VM NAME'.
'VM NAME' failed to start.
Microsoft Emulated IDE controller (Instance ID ...): Failed to Power on with Error 'Cannot create a file when that file already exists.'.
Failed to open attachment 'E:'. Error: 'Cannot create a file when that file already exists.'.
If I restart the physical server and then try to start the VM it starts without any errors. I just don't want to have to keep rebooting the server in order to attach the DVD drive as obviously this makes all the VMs unavailable so the domain controller, DNS and website go down.
Is this a known bug in the Windows Server 2012 RC or is something not configured correctly?
Thanks
Robin
Robin Wilson