Jun
10
Written by:
New Age Solution
6/10/2009 9:58 PM
“An error occurred while attempting to change the state of the virtual machine [machinename]”
‘[machinename]’ failed to intialize
An attempt to read or update the virtual machine configuration failed.
All my hyper v vhd files are in external eSata. Out of blue one day I was getting
“An error occurred while attempting to change the state of the virtual machine [machinename]”
‘[machinename]’ failed to intialize
An attempt to read or update the virtual machine configuration failed.
Symptoms were:
1) I could not delete existing configuration so I could recreate
2) I could not start any of my images
3) If the images started I would get blue screen
Solution:
Apparantly after applying SP2 on Windows 2008 my eSata decide that it should be read only and write protected. To solve this problem:
1) Go to Administrative Tools -> COmputer Management
2) Right Click on external eSata which in my case E drive and choose "offline" and then right click on it and choose online
