Unable to Connect to Virtual Disk Service

[Moshe Raab]

When I run the Computer Management Snap on the local server i get an error
message in the status bar: Unable to Connect to Virtual Disk Service.
In the System event log, there are four message in this order:

Service started. (Source = Virtual Disk Service)
Service stopped. (Source = Virtual Disk Service)
The Virtual Disk service entered the running state. (Source = Service
Control Manager)
The Virtual Disk service entered the stopped state. (Source = Service
Control Manager)

so there are no errors.

the environment is Windows 2008 R2 Standard (build 7100). It is in its own
workgroup. It has 8GM RAM, 4 SATA drives (2 are mirrored 512GB, 1TB and 1
1.5TB)
the only roles are Hyper-V and Backup and File Services
The guest OS is SBS2008 and is the domain controller

thanks for any suggestions
m

 

[Lane Rowland]

I had the same issue trying to connect to my Server2008 R2 Core OS using the
Disk Manager on Windows 7. After I added my username to the local admins
group on the Server 2008 R2 Core i was able to connect to the VDS with no
problem.

"Moshe Raab" wrote:

> When I run the Computer Management Snap on the local server i get an error
> message in the status bar: Unable to Connect to Virtual Disk Service.
> In the System event log, there are four message in this order:
>
> Service started. (Source = Virtual Disk Service)
> Service stopped. (Source = Virtual Disk Service)
> The Virtual Disk service entered the running state. (Source = Service
> Control Manager)
> The Virtual Disk service entered the stopped state. (Source = Service
> Control Manager)
>
> so there are no errors.
>
> the environment is Windows 2008 R2 Standard (build 7100). It is in its own
> workgroup. It has 8GM RAM, 4 SATA drives (2 are mirrored 512GB, 1TB and 1
> 1.5TB)
> the only roles are Hyper-V and Backup and File Services
> The guest OS is SBS2008 and is the domain controller
>
> thanks for any suggestions
> m
>
>