Hello guys,

It happend to me twice recently that after rebooting my HYPER-V machine my VMs were stuck on "Starting" state.

Right click on a VM doesn't seem to help as the main options are not shown in the context menu.

After some digging around I managed to solve the issue, fix below:

Download PSHYPERV from http://pshyperv.codeplex.com/releases

Install the library as described in the site and load the module.

Run the following command in PowerShell "Get-VMSummary -VM "<VM Name>"

In the output you will find the GUID of your VM.

Open "Task Manager" and from the "View" menu add the "Command Line" view.

Scroll down to vmwp.exe (there may be more than one) there you will find the GUIDs on the "Command Line" column that we just added.

Choose the process with the affected GUID and simply kill it.

Hopefully you will find this post useful.

As always, your comments/thoughts/remarks are welcome.

Thx,