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Top Issues for Microsoft Support for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V (Q3) It is time to update everyone on the issues our support engineers have been seeing for Hyper-V for the past quarter. The issues are categorized below with the top issue(s) in each category listed with possible resolutions and additional comments as needed. I think you will notice that the issues for Q3 have not changed much from Q1\Q2. Hopefully, the more people read our updates, the fewer occurrences we will see for some of these and eventually they will disappear altogether. There will probably be one more blog for the Q4 results. Additionally, I would like to mention that we are highly recommending the installation of Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 on all servers running the Hyper-V Role. Deployment\Planning Issue #1 Customers looking for Hyper-V documentation. Resolution: Information is provided on the Hyper-V TechNet Library which includes links to several Product Team blogs. Additionally, the Microsoft Virtualization site contains information that can be used to get a Hyper-V based solution up and running quickly. Installation Issues Issue #1 A customer was experiencing an issue on a pre-release version of Hyper-V. Resolution: Upgrade to the release version (KB950050) of Hyper-V. Issue #2 After the latest updates off Windows Update are installed or KB950050 is installed, virtual machines fail to start with one of the following error messages: An error occurred while attempting to chance the state of the virtual machine vmname . ‘ vmname ’ failed to initialize. Failed to read or update VM configuration. or An error occurred while attempting to change the state of virtual machine vmname .  VMName failed to initialize An attempt to read or update the virtual machine configuration failed.  VMName failed to read or update the virtual machine configuration: Unspecified error (0. Cause: This issue occurs because virtual machine configurations that were created