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moved vhd, startup fails
  1. #1


    RocketRog Guest

    moved vhd, startup fails

    Hi. I have virtual machines running under VS 2005 32 bit on Windows Svr 2003.
    I shut down the vms and moved the vhds and vmcs to VS 2005 64 bit on Windows
    Svr 2008. When I start the vms, the start up fails after about a minute. I
    see the Windows splash screen, then the screen turns gray. No mouse pointer
    appears, it won't answer a ping, and eventually the VMRC quits with "No
    connection" or "Connection timed out".



    I'm stumped.


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  2. #2


    Bill Grant Guest

    Re: moved vhd, startup fails



    "RocketRog" <u54452@newsgroup> wrote in message news:9b79f0b52fa39@newsgroup

    > Hi. I have virtual machines running under VS 2005 32 bit on Windows Svr
    > 2003.
    > I shut down the vms and moved the vhds and vmcs to VS 2005 64 bit on
    > Windows
    > Svr 2008. When I start the vms, the start up fails after about a minute. I
    > see the Windows splash screen, then the screen turns gray. No mouse
    > pointer
    > appears, it won't answer a ping, and eventually the VMRC quits with "No
    > connection" or "Connection timed out".
    >
    > I'm stumped.
    >
    Have you tried deleting the .vmc files and creating new vms using the
    existing .vhd files?



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  3. #3


    RocketRog via WinServerKB.com Guest

    Re: moved vhd, startup fails

    Thanks for writing!

    Yes, I did. I also stripped down the new vmc to the bare minimum. The
    actually vm has two hard drives and two nics. Same symptom.

    Bill Grant wrote:

    >> Hi. I have virtual machines running under VS 2005 32 bit on Windows Svr
    >> 2003.
    >[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]

    >>
    >> I'm stumped.
    >
    > Have you tried deleting the .vmc files and creating new vms using the
    >existing .vhd files?
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