{"id":6773,"date":"2015-09-09T21:04:16","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T11:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/?p=6773"},"modified":"2015-09-09T21:04:16","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T11:04:16","slug":"hyper-v-error-vm-could-not-initialize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/hyper-v-error-vm-could-not-initialize\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyper-V Error &#8211; VM Could Not Initialize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is perhaps one of the most unhelpful, generic error messages I have come across in my years of computing. I&#8217;m sure we all have our favourites but this one is up there:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&lt;Name of virtual machine&gt; could not initialize.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Real helpful.<\/p>\n<p>I encountered this myself after converting an Oracle VirtualBox VDI to a Microsoft Hyper-V VHD and attaching it to a Gen 1 Hyper-V VM.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that the solution is fairly simple and it involves the command line.<\/p>\n<p>On the computer hosting the Hyper-V VM, open up an <a href=\"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/open-an-administrative-command-prompt-in-windows-vista-and-windows-7\/\" target=\"_blank\">administrative command prompt<\/a> and type the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>net localgroup administrators service \/delete<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You may need to reboot the computer after executing that command but after that your Hyper-V VMs should load up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is perhaps one of the most unhelpful, generic error messages I have come across in my years of computing. I&#8217;m sure we all have our favourites but this one is up there: &lt;Name of virtual machine&gt; could not initialize. Real helpful. I encountered this myself after converting an Oracle VirtualBox VDI to a Microsoft &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/hyper-v-error-vm-could-not-initialize\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2375,152,151,18],"tags":[2379,2246,1668,1669],"class_list":["post-6773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hyper-v-server-2012-r2","category-microsoft-operating-systems-technology","category-operating-systems","category-technology","tag-hyper-v","tag-microsoft","tag-virtual-machine","tag-virtualbox","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Windows-8-Logo.png?fit=468%2C468&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6773"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6775,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6773\/revisions\/6775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}