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Hyper-V Encountered An Error While Loading The Virtual Machine

Posted on 10th January 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

When I was running Windows 8 I ran into an issue importing VMs with the error “Did Not Find Virtual Machine To Import” and discussed it on the blog. The presence on the .exp file was causing the import to fail. Since I had to rebuild my corporate laptop, I hit a related the same thing in Windows 8.1 but with a different error message.

Importing the same set of lab VMs to Windows 8.1 gave me a di… Read the rest “Hyper-V Encountered An Error While Loading The Virtual Machine”

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How To Import Windows 2008 R2 VM To Windows 2012 or 8.1 Using Boot To VHD

Posted on 2nd December 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

One of the popular topics lately has revolved around the Hyper-V Did Not Find Virtual Machines To Import error. This issue can arise when we try and import a VM into Windows Server 2012 R2 or 8.1 which was originally exported from Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2. Such exported VMs from 2008 or 2008 R2 use a .exp file to hold the exported VM's configuration. The issue is discussed in detail in the… Read the rest “How To Import Windows 2008 R2 VM To Windows 2012 or 8.1 Using Boot To VHD”

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Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V Architecture Poster

Posted on 22nd October 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

A picture says a thousand words. This is one of the reasons that the various architecture posters are so popular as they provide an easy way to visualise the Hyper-V stack.

Updated posters are now available for Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V. In addition to the architecture poster, there are other smaller bite sized posters on the below topics:

Generation 2 Virtual Machines
Hyper-V and Failover Clus

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Windows Hyper-V 2012 & 8.1 Hyper-V Did Not Find Virtual Machine to Import

Posted on 22nd October 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Back in May 2013, we discussed an issue which caused the Hyper-V Did Not Find Virtual Machines To Import error. Well, as mentioned in that blog post there are a few reasons for this error message being displayed and it does depend on the versions of Hyper-V in use.

There were some comments posted (thanks again for that by the way!) which mentioned an issue with importing VMs into Windows Server 201… Read the rest “Windows Hyper-V 2012 & 8.1 Hyper-V Did Not Find Virtual Machine to Import”

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Exchange And Hyper-V Replica Support

Posted on 29th July 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

After seeing several posts and some folks discussing whether or not Exchange supports the Hyper-V Replica feature I thought it would be prudent to address the following:

Does Exchange Support Hyper-V Replica?
Does Hyper-V Support Exchange?
How Do I use Exchange and Hyper-V Replica?

What Is Hyper-V Replica

For some background reading on Hyper-V and the Replica feature; the component poster and downloada… Read the rest “Exchange And Hyper-V Replica Support”

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Updating Hyper-V Integration Components (IC)

Posted on 17th June 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

One of my favourite features in Windows 8 is client side Hyper-V. This allows me to run multiple virtual machines on my Lenovo W530 laptop without having to remote to other machines when I am on site with customers.

As you can imagine I have a plethora of VMs for a variety of situations, and I ran into a bit of a pickle when moving my Exchange 2003/2007/2010 migration workshop lab over to Windows 8… Read the rest “Updating Hyper-V Integration Components (IC)”

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Hyper-V Did Not Find Virtual Machine To Import

Posted on 31st May 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Since I have this lovely Lenovo W530 laptop with a couple of disks and 32GB of RAM, it is great to run VMs on! As you can imagine, I have multiple different Exchange labs to reflect all the different versions and builds that are in use. Generally I have been able to import all of my older VMs into Hyper-V on Windows 8 and 2012 with no issues. But as you probably have guessed by now, if I had no… Read the rest “Hyper-V Did Not Find Virtual Machine To Import”

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List Of Updates For Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V

Posted on 1st March 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

One of the best things about Microsoft products is the thriving community that drives a lot of articles outside of TechNet. For example there is a Wiki article that describes the Hyper-V updates for Windows 2008 and also for Windows 2008 R2.

The community has also started to publish the Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V update list.

Currently there are only a couple of u… Read the rest “List Of Updates For Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V”

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Hyper-V Cluster Console Crash Windows Server 2012

Posted on 25th February 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Update 1-3-2013: You may also want to reference the Hyper-V 2012 and Cluster update wiki pages as linked & discussed here.

After building up a nice new Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V cluster with SCVMM 2012 SP1, it was a bit strange to get the world’s longest error when opening up the Failover Cluster MMC. The error started with:

A weak event was created and it lives on the wrong object, there is… Read the rest “Hyper-V Cluster Console Crash Windows Server 2012”

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Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Architecture Poster

Posted on 11th February 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

The updated version of Windows 2012’s Hyper-V Architecture component poster is now available for download which is pretty neat!

As an added bonus, there are companion references for Hyper-V Replica, Hyper-V Storage, VM Mobility and Networking.

The Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Hyper-V poster is available here if you want to round out your collection

Cheers,

Rhoderick