Vista - Missing VM?

For the past couple of days, when I start Virtual PC 2007 (6.0.192.0), I get
the error window:
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At least one virtual machine added to the Virtual PC Console could not be
found.

Make sure each virtual machine's .vmc file has not been moved or deleted.
Choose Remove to prevent Virtual PC from checking for these virtual machines
while starting up.
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The two VMs I normally use are just fine, but I have about 20 VMs in the
list. Without checking every single one, how can I tell which one is
missing? Does VPC log this information somewhere?

Thanks

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:36:31 -0700, John Schneider wrote:
1. When prompted choose not to remove the VPC(s) from the list.
2. Make careful note of all of the VPCs in the console.
3. Start up VPC again, this time choose to remove the VPC(s) from the list.
4. Make note of the VPCs in the console.
5. Compare the lists from 2 and 4.

I don't believe this is logged anywhere.

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On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:36:31 -0700, John Schneider
<johnmsch@xxxxxx> wrote:
The shortcuts that populate the VPC list are located in:
c:\ Documents and Settings\%username%\Application
Data\Microsoft\Virtual PC

You should be able to compare the ones listed in here with the ones
listed in the VPC list and determine which one(s) is(are) missing.

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Cheers,
Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
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I do not work for Microsoft.

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:47:02 -0700, Steve Jain
<noreply.-@-.essjae.com> wrote:
Isn't it reallay a more convoluted problem?
The console list equals the shortcuts as you mention.
But when VPC2007 says that a VM could not be found it actually means
that the VMC file *pointed to* by the shortcut could not be found, so
the work here is to check each and every shortcut and see if the vmc
file it points to exists or not. A tedious endeavour at best....

1. Go to the folder
c:\ Documents and Settings\%username%\Application
Data\Microsoft\Virtual PC\Virtual Machines

2. Rightclick each shortcut in turn and
- Look at the Target property and check if the vmc file does really
exist or not.

But of course this means checking *each and every one*....

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Bo Berglund (Sweden)

Thanks Paul, Steve and Bo. I ended up going to the VPC shortcut folder and
right-clicking on each one to open with UltraEdit. Found there were 3
machines missing and THEN remembered I had moved them to another drive last
week. DOH!

I still think it would be nice if the VPC console would tell you which
machines are missing when it finds them! Doesn't seem like rocket science to
me...

Thanks again,
John

"Paul Adare - MVP" <pkadare@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Paul,

Would there be an event in Event Viewer that would give the info on what was
not found?

"Colin Barnhorst" wrote:
Colin,

I checked the Event Viewer, and found nothing. Unlike Virtual Server, VPC
apparently does not do any Event Viewer logging. VS has its own branch in EV.

I even went so far as to search for any changed files after VPC threw the
error. I set the search to search for any files changed that day, then
sorted the list in descending order, looking for something that VPC might
have updated.

Where would I submit a change request/suggestion that VPC either displays
which VMs are missing, or at least logs it somewhere?

Thanks for the reply,
John

"John Schneider" <johnmsch@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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The venue for bugs and feature requrests for released products is Connect.
Discussion here should also bring it to the attention of the virtualization
team since Ben Armstrong often reads the ng.

Why don't you post the text of your suggestion to a new thread. In the
past, posting here has been pretty useful. I will pick up the text and
forward it for you to a another venue so that you get a couple of shots at
getting it seen.

"Colin Barnhorst" wrote:
Thanks again Colin. Haven't used Connect in a while and forgot all about
it. I'll also post something about this in Ben's blog.