{"id":9484,"date":"2009-03-03T10:09:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9484"},"modified":"2009-03-03T10:09:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"important-hyper-v-vm-startconnection-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9484","title":{"rendered":"Important Hyper-V VM Start\/Connection Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Windows Server team has <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/windowsserver\/archive\/2009\/03\/02\/Hyper_2D00_V-certificate-expiration-and-resolution.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">blogged<\/a> about an important new <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;967902\" target=\"_blank\">patch<\/a> for Hyper-V.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cOn a Windows Server 2008-based computer that has the Hyper-V role installed, or on a Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008-based computer, you may experience one of the following issues: <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>When you try to connect to a virtual machine, you receive the following error message: Cannot connect to the virtual machine because the authentication certificate is expired or invalid. Would you like to try connecting again?<\/em>\n<\/li>\n<li><em>When you start a virtual machine, you receive the following error message: &#8216;VMName&#8217; failed to initialize. <br \/>Could not initialize machine remoting system. Error: \u2018Unspecified error\u2019 (0x80004005). <br \/>Could not find a usable certificate. Error: \u2018Unspecified error\u2019 (0x80004005)\u201d. <\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Basically, a certificate is created on the host that is valid for one year.\u00a0 When it expires you may experience issues with VM\u2019s starting or connecting to running VM consoles.\n<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;967902\" target=\"_blank\">request<\/a> this download now.\u00a0 It requires a reboot.\n<\/p>\n<p>Alternatively there is a workaround:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Shut down or save all virtual machines.\n<\/li>\n<li>Restart the Hyper-V VMMS.\n<\/li>\n<li>Start the virtual machines.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>EDIT #1:\n<\/p>\n<p>I just got the update.\u00a0 The zip file only contains a text file called placeholder.txt.\u00a0 Someone has made a booboo.\n<\/p>\n<p>EDIT #2:\n<\/p>\n<p>I posted the patch issue on the private MVP newsgroups and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/Virtual_PC_Guy\/\">Ben Armstrong<\/a> escalated it to the team in question.\u00a0 It was simple human error which we&#8217;re all guilty of \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 It should be all sorted now.\u00a0 You just need to re-request the patch to download and get a new password.\u00a0 Thanks for taking care of this so quick Ben and the\u00a0patch team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Windows Server team has blogged about an important new patch for Hyper-V.\u00a0 \u201cOn a Windows Server 2008-based computer that has the Hyper-V role installed, or on a Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008-based computer, you may experience one of the following issues: When you try to connect to a virtual machine, you receive the following error &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9484\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Important Hyper-V VM Start\/Connection Issue&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[],"class_list":["post-9484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyper-v"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9484","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=9484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}