hypervwindows-servervirtualizationtroubleshootingsnapshots

HyperV Annoyance: HyperV hangs at "Loading snapshots for the selectedVirtual machine..."

I hit this issue when I upgraded my Hyper-V from Windows Server 2008R2 to Windows Server 2012. Some of the saved VMs were not starting up and Hyper-V failed to even enumerate the saved states of the VMs.

You can work around this issue as follows:

  1. Right click on the VM node and select Delete Saved State...
  2. The Incorrect state would be deleted and the VM would be turned off
  3. Now Right click and select Start.

This fixed the issue on my setup.