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Bug with connecting to virtual machines under SCVMM

So while I was playing with System Center Virtual Machine Manager Beta 1 I hit an annoying little bug.  Basically if you try and connect to a virtual machine, via VMRC, and the virtual machine has a space in its name - instead of connecting you will see the VMRC error dialog that tells you how to use the command line parameters.

This was particularly odd for me as it turned out that all of my virtual machines have spaces in their names - and I thought this feature was completely broken until I created a new temporary virtual machine, called 'foo', and found that I could connect to it.

So if you are seeing this issue - the quick fix is to remove any spaces in your virtual machine name.

Cheers,
Ben

Published Tuesday, August 29, 2006 5:47 PM by Virtual PC Guy

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Tuesday, August 29, 2006 10:26 PM by Ken Schaefer

# re: Bug with connecting to virtual machines under SCVMM

Not having SCVMM I don't know if this is the issue, but if you use %20 rather than a space in your VM name, can you connect?
Wednesday, August 30, 2006 7:09 AM by DosFreak

# re: Bug with connecting to virtual machines under SCVMM

Do Quotes work? "Windows 2003 Enterprise"
Thursday, August 31, 2006 4:21 PM by Virtual PC Guy

# re: Bug with connecting to virtual machines under SCVMM

DosFreak -

You cannot put quotes in a VM name.

Cheers,
Ben
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