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Hyper-V: Compact Hyper-V Virtual Hard Disk

I am attempting to do some quick cleanup on a Hyper-V host used for testing. To do this I compacted the Hyper-V Virtual Disks. Open the Hyper-V Management console Right click on VM Guest Select Settings Select the Hard Drive for the VM Guest Click the Edit button Select Compact Click Finish *note* you want to […]

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Hyper-V: Paused-Critical Virtual Machine State

I was facing an issue where vm guest are paused with the following “Paused-Critical Virtual Machine State” message. Each attempt to resume the guest, end in them being  pause once again. This happens when the host volume is running low on available disk space.   Here are some actions you can take to help with this: Expand […]