.VHD read only?

Environment: VS2005 running on Windows Home Server (I know, I know... ).
Vista business running as guest. Yes, the disk holding the VHD/VMC files is
on a separate disk, not in the WHS pool.

I set this up months ago, and everything was fine. About a week ago I
noticed the guest wasn't running, so I went into the VS console; sure
enough, the guest was off. Tried to start it - VS reports it can't start
the guest because the .VHD is read-only! I check the permissions, nothing
seems different.

So my question: what would cause this, and other than creating a new .VHD is
there anything I can do to correct it?

Thanks.
--
Regards,
Dean

No idea what caused it, but you know you're running in a totally unsupported
scenario, so...

If the VHD is marked R/O, then check the permissions on the directory where
it resides, and the file itself. Make sure both allow read and write. And
I'd turn off inherited permissions on them. Finally, make sure that the
disk/volume where the VHD resides is NOT part of the WHS pool.

--
Charlie.
http://msmvps.com/blogs/russel




"DPM" <dm@junk.com> wrote in message
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> Environment: VS2005 running on Windows Home Server (I know, I know...
> ). Vista business running as guest. Yes, the disk holding the VHD/VMC
> files is on a separate disk, not in the WHS pool.
>
> I set this up months ago, and everything was fine. About a week ago I
> noticed the guest wasn't running, so I went into the VS console; sure
> enough, the guest was off. Tried to start it - VS reports it can't start
> the guest because the .VHD is read-only! I check the permissions, nothing
> seems different.
>
> So my question: what would cause this, and other than creating a new .VHD
> is there anything I can do to correct it?
>
> Thanks.
> --
> Regards,
> Dean
>
>