Questions tagged [avhdx]
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Hyperv-V creates mystery .avhdx files and fills up disk space
I have windows server 2016. Also i have Hyper-V role on my server. Every day in 5:36 i have error, that disk full and my virtual machine is stopping. In Hyper-V logs:
ProviderName: Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-StorageVSP
TimeCreated …
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Unable to start a VM with a Shared Disk
We're running Hyper-V 2019 on a 2 node cluster. We have 2 VMs in the Failover Cluster which are clustered together to run a server. This service requires a shared disk. The shared disk is located in a CSV on the Hyper-V Cluster.
We recently stopped…
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Redifferencing multiple checkpoint-avhdx'es agains the root vhdx instead of an intermediate avhdx
I'm currently in this situation of differentiating avdhx-files where A1, A2, B and C represents the actual checkpoints I'm using.
I would like to convert A1 and A2 into differentials directly against master.vhdx like B and C are, removing the…
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Forcing HyperV to mount an AVHDX file it thinks is corrupt
I have an AVHDX file that is part of a broken snapshot chain. However, I'm fairly certain there will be useful contiguous data on the last AVHDX in the chain, if I can run forensic tools on it. I have a tool under a Linux VM ready, and want to…
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AVHDX internal format for use with TestDisk
I can't seem to find any info about this. What is a HyperV differential AVHDX file format internally like, for the purpose of forensic recovery?
That is: Is it just straight blocks, like dd would output, but with point-in-time metadata in between…
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Merging avhdx checkpoints into vhdx under Qemu/KVM
I recently switched over from Hyper-V to Qemu (KVM), and in migrating my VM’s unpleasantly discovered that I had neglected to use the Hyper-V tools to merge one of my Ubuntu VM’s disks containing several hundred gigabytes of data I’d like…
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