I appear to have a few people at Microsoft scratching their heads with an issue we are experiencing....and I dont think I'm the only one; When we create VMs (no matter how), VMM insists on a step called "installing VM components". This is when creating a VM on the Hyper-V host. It is my understanding that VMM should not carry out this step, if for example you are creating a machine with a blank HDD, or with a non supported OS such as Linux. However, this step runs every single time a VM is created. I will add that eventually it times out (15 minutes or so), and the VM does function perfectly. This might not seem an issue generally, but in a classroom where students may wish to create a VM from the portal, it becomes a problem. Firstly students tend to be a little inpatient....and secondly they cannot see the job list in the same way an administrator can, and probably give up thinking that it isnt going to work. We have tried creating a VM from a template....same problem, with a blank small HDD, large HDD, a template with "noi customization required".....but every single time VMM does the step and the creation hangs. Interestingly the error log says;
----------------------------- Warning (13226) Virtual hard disk W:\test907am\Blank Disk - Small.vhd cannot be mounted on host trent.students.blackburn.local because it conflicts with other disks. Recommended Action Wait a few moments and then try the operation again. -----------------------------
You can see my full report on Technet here; http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=4088882&SiteID=17
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Getting the same error (and some other similar ones) on Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1, have added them onto the thread, let's see if they can come up with anything..
See follow up article here;
http://collegeguyuk.blogspot.com/2008/11/vmm2008-slow-creating-vms.html
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