June 27, 2007
We are using Virtual Server 2005 R2 a lot in our database platform testing. We have automated tests that start up virtual machines to do database platform testing. Quite handy. Configuring Virtual Server on an new machine can be quite a pain. We run into a problem all the time where we are trying to create a virtual machine with a name that was once already used for that particular Virtual Server host. You get this dreaded message: The virtual machine could not be created. The virtual machine configuration could not be created. A configuration with this name already exists. What? No it doesn't. I had removed this virtual machine in the past. What is going on. Microsoft has this lovely KB which tells you how to half fix the problem which basically boils down to: C:Documents and Settings>del [virtual-machine-name]*.* /s…
Virtual Server oh how I hate your un-patched bugs
June 27, 2007
We are using Virtual Server 2005 R2 a lot in our database platform testing. We have automated tests that start up virtual machines to do database platform testing. Quite handy. Configuring Virtual Server on an new machine can be quite a pain. We run into a problem all the time where we are trying to create a virtual machine with a name that was once already used for that particular Virtual Server host. You get this dreaded message: The virtual machine could not be created. The virtual machine configuration could not be created. A configuration with this name already exists. What? No it doesn't. I had removed this virtual machine in the past. What is going on. Microsoft has this lovely KB which tells you how to half fix the problem which basically boils down to: C:Documents and Settings>del [virtual-machine-name]*.* /s…