Could not intialitize a virtual machine on Hyper-V Manager on a Windows 8.1 laptop

Question

Hello,
I am receiving the following error when I try to start any virtual machine on Hyper-V Manager on a Windows 8.1 lap"color:black;">An error occurred while attempting to start the selected virtual machine(s):
Morillo-DC could not initialize (Virtual Machine ID …)
On the Event Viewer, I can see:
Event ID 3040
Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-Worker/Admin
Morillo-DC could not initialize (Virtual Machine ID …)
Thank you in advance for any help.
Regards,
Alberto Morillo

Answer 1

Hello,
Hyper-V was working fine with Windows 8 before installing Windows 8.1 update.
On the Applications and Services Logs (Event Viewer), I found the following event:
Log Name:     
Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-Worker-Admin
Source:       
Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-Worker
Date:         
12/16/2013 3:59:13 PM
Event ID:     
3040
Task Category: None
Level:        
Error
Keywords:     
User:         
NT VIRTUAL MACHINE\E304221F-2B11-4E29-B235-85A3F505EC48
Computer:     
MorilloPC
Description:
'borrar' could not initialize. (Virtual machine ID E304221F-2B11-4E29-B235-85A3F505EC48)
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-Worker" Guid="{51DDFA29-D5C8-4803-BE4B-2ECB715570FE}" />
<EventID>3040</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x8000000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2013-12-16T19:59:13.665065300Z" />
<EventRecordID>114</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="6364" ThreadID="3340" />
<Channel>Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-Worker-Admin</Channel>
<Computer>MorilloPC</Computer>
<Security UserID="S-1-5-83-1-3808698911-1311320849-2743416242-1223427573" />
</System>
<UserData>
<VmInitialize xmlns:auto-ns2="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events" xmlns="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Virtualization/Events">
<VmName>borrar</VmName>
<VmId>E304221F-2B11-4E29-B235-85A3F505EC48</VmId>
</VmInitialize>
</UserData>
</Event>
Thank you for your help.
Regards,
Alberto Morillo
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