{"id":10814,"date":"2010-08-25T11:09:08","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T11:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10814"},"modified":"2010-08-25T11:09:08","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T11:09:08","slug":"hyper-v-blue-screen-unable-to-access-data-folder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10814","title":{"rendered":"Hyper-V: Blue Screen &#038; Unable to Access Data Folder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am doing some work on my Hyper-V lab machine at home that requires a lot of VM&#8217;s and a lot of disk space.\u00a0 My eSATA disk just does not have the space so I had to do the unthinkable: use a\u00a01TB USB 2.0 drive that I had sitting spare to store some VM&#8217;s (please do not ever do this in production).\u00a0 It will be slow but I can live with that for <em>some<\/em> lab stuff.<\/p>\n<p>I attached the drive, cleared off a few bits and pieces, and used VMM Quick Storage Migration to move a bunch of VM&#8217;s over.\u00a0 I deployed a new VM and started working on it.\u00a0 It blue screened soon after boot up.\u00a0 Strange!\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t seen that before.\u00a0 I worked on it again and *bang* it was gone again.<\/p>\n<p>My first suspect was W 2008 R2 SP1 beta, but I soon had a clue that it wasn&#8217;t at fault.\u00a0 In event viewer, under Hyper-V-VMMSAdmin I saw a bunch of errors telling me that Hyper-V could access various folders, including snapshots (I know I tell you not to use them in production but I use them in a lab) and data folders.\u00a0 The alerts associated with my new VM cooincided with the crash.<\/p>\n<p>I appeared to have a permissions issue.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t have time to\u00a0figure out exactly what was at fault.\u00a0 Instead I moved the VMs, formatted the volume, and moved the VMs back again.\u00a0 Everything is working perfectly.<\/p>\n<p>I reckon the info on this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtualizationadmin.com\/articles-tutorials\/microsoft-hyper-v-articles\/storage-management\/hyper-v-file-storage-permissions.html\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a> has the answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am doing some work on my Hyper-V lab machine at home that requires a lot of VM&#8217;s and a lot of disk space.\u00a0 My eSATA disk just does not have the space so I had to do the unthinkable: use a\u00a01TB USB 2.0 drive that I had sitting spare to store some VM&#8217;s (please &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10814\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hyper-V: Blue Screen &#038; Unable to Access Data Folder&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[181,190,195,116,117],"class_list":["post-10814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyper-v","tag-hyper-v","tag-security","tag-virtualisation","tag-windows-server-2008","tag-windows-server-2008-r2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}