Crash after loading intird.img

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I have a Hyper-V VM that I exported/imported to a different host. On the new host when I try to boot the machine, it says it's loading initrd.img, and then it crashes the VM and the VM host. It does the same thing when attempting to boot to Rescue Mode or to installation. I've tried re-exporting/importing, but that wasn't the problem. I have other VMs that I've done the same thing with and didn't have any issues. What can I fix?

This is RedHat 6.3

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Sorry the community hasn't been able to help you out with this one yet, Barry. I'll see if I can track down a response for you, but a quicker option might be to open a support case with Red Hat.

Barry - are you able to map the Virtual Disk to another Virtual Machine to analyze it?
Did you export from Hyper-V and import on another Hyper-V Hypervisor?

This is entirely speculative (as I don't know Hyper-V whatsoever) - it almost seems as though you have mapped a hardware resource directly to the VM from the Hypervisor? I.e. like a pass-thru right to the Physical Disk in the Hypervisor, or something crazy. Does the Hyper-V logs give any indication as to what it was trying to do? Does Hyper-V have text file (xml or something) for each of the VMs - can you compare what you have for resources in the broken VM vs one that works?

I have had similar issues using VMware (Workstation) but my issue was global/universal - any VM would crash my Hypervisor, not just a single one.

The problem turned out to be with the Hyper-V XML. I recreated the virtual machine using the .vhd and that took care of the problem.

thanks for the update. I am fortunate that I get to manage RHEV (and not the others) but they all seem similar when you peel back the layers.

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