Issue:
Unable to Start any VM in one of the Hyper-V node(Windows Server 2012) cluster.
Observations
- Issue started post upgradation of Symantec, Symantec upgradation is not successful
- Unable to migrate any VM from another node in a cluster
- Unable to start any VM in that node. After clicking start, VM is in Starting stage and throwing error after 2-5 minutes.
Error Messages Seen:
TEST failed to start worker process: “server execution failed (0x80080005)”
Troubleshooting done:
- Given full control to Everyone on below regkey: HKCR\AppID\{8BC3F05E-D86B-11D0-A075-00C04FB68820}
- Post giving permission, able to start VM on the host.
- Compared the registry key permissions with other working machine and found Creator Owner was missing on problem machine. I added it and removed the everyone. Able to start VM
- To fix WMI and DCOM errors, I re-registered the dlls by running below command ( for /f %s in (‘dir /b *.dll’) do regsvr32 /s %s ) to resolve the issue.
Attached is the detailed document with all screenshots. Unable to Start VM -Doc