Hyper-V Program Manager
Per this KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941125
There is a known issue with Virtual Server and virtual machines which are configured to 'save state' when the system is shutdown - and then to automatically restart when the system is powered on.
Thankfully most systems do not see this problem (it is caused by a race condition that is relatively hard to trigger). There are a couple of things you can do if you are seeing this problem:
Cheers, Ben
I have all my VMs set to save state when stopping and not turn on automatically when starting. However, if I restart VS, all the VMs act as if the power was pulled from them. No state is saved.
To "Me" (response posted above). It might be a different problem from the one Ben and the support KB is describing. Your issue might be related to the WaitToKillServiceTimeout value that I ran into. I have a detailed blog entry about it at...
http://www.to-tech.com/blog/2007/10/09/microsoft-virtual-server-saved-state-does-not-save-state/
Thanks Todd. I think that is my problem. I know it had worked in the past when I only had a couple of VMs. When I got into the double digits of VMS is when I think it started. Good thing they are just for testing. I'll see if works next month.
Sorry, it's not only a problem of "saved state" machines but also when booting everything fresh.
The patch doesn't help for me, I need the blank VM booted first and even with this, i can't get one VM to work for longer than 2 days - today even not for more then minutes ...
Changing the "blank VMs" max. CPU-usage sometimes get the virtual machines out of their slow state and sometimes not.
What should I do ? Waiting further or going back to R2 without SP1 ?
Thank you for alerting me to this KB. I have been serching the net for a solution to this and had almost come to the conclusion that I was the only one having the problem (it didn't manifest itself quite as in the KB, but close enough). Problem solved - case closed :)