Microsoft is getting on my last nerves! Please HELP someone!

MrWright4hire

First of all I would like to say... S.A.M. I miss talking to you. I hope is well.
To anyone who is strong in MS VMs I could sure use your Jedi powers to help me through this issue.

Enclosed, please find what I get when I try to start the V machine
I have removed and reinstalled the role
A new VM with minimal configuration has the same error when I try to start it
The event log error number is 3040
Virtualization is turned on in the bios
This all worked for years, then it stopped. I upgraded the OS and it worked again for months but now it stopped working again

In advance I would like to thank all who put forh an effort to be my hero or shero.

black3dynamite

Show us event id 3040 log.

scottalanmiller

So here is a weird one. But this was a solution for someone with this problem once...

Others had pointed me towards a possible problem with the members in the local Administrators group and it turns out that the fact that I had "Authenticated Users" in that group caused the problem.

Guess that some of the other users they mentioned shouldn't be a member of the Administrators group are implicit members when the "Authenticated Users" group is a member of Administrators.

So a:

NET LOCALGROUP Administrators "Authenticated Users" /Delete

and a reboot solved the problem for me.

MrWright4hire

@black3dynamite Will do sir. I'll get that as soon as I can. Thank you for your fast response.

MrWright4hire

@scottalanmiller Thank you S.A.M. I'll give that a shot and give you the verdict afterwards. It's great hearing from you again. Miss you brah.

MrWright4hire

@black3dynamite Hello! Enclosed is the log you requested. In advance thank you for any help you are able to provide.

MrWright4hire

@scottalanmiller The verdict is in. Unfortunately that’s not it,
C:\ >NET LOCALGROUP Administrators "Authenticated Users" /Delete
There is no such global user or group: Authenticated Users.

Thanks Scott for your input. It felt great to fell that brief moment of hope. lol!

dbeato

What if you recreate the VM and use the existing VHD? Would it run? have you tried creating a new VM and check if it loads. I suspect there is some configuration corruption.

bnrstnr

@mrwright4hire said in Microsoft is getting on my last nerves! Please HELP someone!:

@black3dynamite Hello! Enclosed is the log you requested. In advance thank you for any help you are able to provide.

The rest of the log details might be needed for @scottalanmiller's solution to work. It could be a different user/group than "Authenticated Users" that needs to be deleted.
Check the following link:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/systemcenter/en-US/0cbc8280-b612-4958-9a8b-229f183f1877/failed-to-initialize-event-3040?forum=virtualmachingmgrhyperv#35e080c0-a4a9-49ad-9149-19e556c62a2f

PhlipElder

Create a new folder in the root of the data partition being used, if any, and call it something like Hyper-V-2018.

Copy the VHDX file(s) from their current location to that (assuming there is enough space to do so).

Run the following in an elevated PowerShell where X is the destination partition:

Set-VMHost -VirtualHardDiskPath "X:\Hyper-V-2018\Virtual Hard Disks" –VirtualMachinePath "X:\Hyper-V-2018"
Get-VMHost | fl VirtualHardDiskPath,VirtualMachinePath

Create a new VM and configure its settings using the existing OS VHDX. After that is complete, open the VM's properties and add the second VHDX if it exists.

Try and start the VM. If it starts, it will require some tweaking at the network level as the vNIC's GUID and MAC will be different.