Hyper-V “Could not initialize” on windows 2008 r2

Hyper – An error occurred while attempting to start the selected virtual machine (s). ‘VM’ could not initialize.

Checked the permissions if this could be with Full Control permissions under Task Manager.

If permissions missing then you can follow the below article:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/rmilne/archive/2014/01/15/hyper-v-could-not-initialize-could-not-create-or-access-saved-state-file.aspx

Checked and found both System and Administrators has Full Control Permissions.

Now this time I have jumped in Event Viewer and found two Events

Confirmed that there are few update missing, found that there is hot fix by released by Microsoft

Download and Install below Hotfix to fix this issue.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2517374

Installed the Hot fix

Restarted the machine.

Started the VM Machine.

Great it got started and working……. 🙂

Ready for Installing OS

Praveen Kumar