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Hyper-V on Windows 8 RP; Failed to Import Virtual Machine…

Before two days I receive exported virtual machine from one of our clients, (exported through Hyper-V manager). I needed to import into Hyper-V on my laptop, (I have Windows 8 RP with Hyper-V role installed). Few first steps is well passed, but I’m stuck on the fifth step, as you can see in the pictures below.

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And after the fourth step I got this error.
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I solved this issue and I would like to explain you how to do that.

I’m domain user and local administrator on my machine!

Open local group policy editor (gpedit.msc), navigate to;

Computer Configuration\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Local Policies\User Rights Assignment\Log on as a batch job.
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By default Administrators, Backup Operators and Performance Log Users have rights but you need to add local administrator on the Local Security Settings on Log on as a batch job.
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When your are finished open command prompt and type gpupdate /force,
and now you can import your previously exported virtual machine.
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I’m not sure, but this looks like a bug in Windows 8 Release Preview

One more important thing!
If you ever do virtual machine export, shutdown the guest, don’t leave it in save state condition!
Why? As you can see on the picture below, if you do export with the previous version of Hyper-V and import to a Hyper-V 3.0 you will get this warning.
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Folks, enjoy in weekend Smile

Romeo Mlinar
June 29, 2012
Administration, Hyper-V, Uncategorized, Virtualization, Windows 8
3 comments

Can’t create virtual machine in Windows 8 RP Hyper-V – Error:(0x80070569: Logon failure: the user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer.)

Yesterday I tried to create virtual machine in Hyper-V on my newly installed Windows 8 Release Preview and I got a strange error: Error:0x80070569: Logon failure: the user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer.

I need mention that I’m a domain user and local administrator on laptop. After a few hours of investigation I solved problem. How?
Open local group policy editor (gpedit.msc), navigate to;

Computer Configuration\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Local Policies\User Rights Assignment\Log on as a batch job.
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By default Administrators, Backup Operators and Performance Log Users have rights but you need to add local administrator on the Local Security Settings on Log on as a batch job. Why? I really don’t know Sad smile.

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When your are finished open command prompt and type gpupdate /force.
Now you can create your virtual machines on Windows 8 with Hyper-V role installed.

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Enjoy in Windows 8 Release Preview!

NOTE: After I created first virtual machine with mentioned changes in local group policy, I returned gpo to default settings and after that I could create second, third, etc… virtual machines without any problems. Maybe this is a bug in Release Preview. Who knows! We shall see when the final version comes out. I hope this information will be useful for someone.

Romeo Mlinar
June 19, 2012
Administration, Hyper-V, Microsoft, Recovery, Virtualization, Windows 8
11 comments

Windows 8 RP on HP 8560w Elitebook

Today I installed Windows 8 Release Preview on my laptop in a production environment. All went well until I installed the fingerprint reader driver (Validity Fingerprint Driver) from HP web site (this driver is for the Windows 7). When installation and initialization of the fingerprint reader was finished, I did restart after which Windows would not start, screen just flashes. Only you can do is to restore you system to the earlier time or like in my case, install your Windows 8 RP from the scratch and find appropriate driver.
It was easy and if you have HP Elitebook 8560w you can download appropriate driver for fingerprint reader from here.

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The second thing that could be useful! If you are using more than two monitors, like me, and this monitors are connected with USB-to-DVI adapter, Windows 8 don’t have appropriate driver. So, if you want use monitors with mentioned adapters, download and install driver/application from DisplayLink site and enjoy in multiple monitors and in Windows 8 RP.

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That’s it for today and have a nice weekend Winking smile

Romeo Mlinar
June 15, 2012
Administration, Microsoft, Recovery, Windows 8
16 comments