What happens if i delete vhd file

David Vinod. Hi, You may delete the VHD files except the latest image stored in the. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. In reply to David Vinod's post on May 11, Thank you for your assistance. In reply to Poetska's post on May 12, I found the solution for the problem and have deleted the VHD files. Go to the VM where it is mounted, unmount it and try to delete it again.

No it's not mounted somewhere. Which is what the below determined. Thanks for the suggestion. I checked already. It isn't mounted. I see this often.

Try stopping then re-starting the vmms service. Reboot if all else fails. Not ideal, but it works Yeah, I did already restart VMM, and a reboot is off the table until the weekend. It's unfortunate I can't identify the process that has a lock on this thing. Okay okay, Gary has this one. But though I've found it I can't close the handle. Which might be for the best. Scott Oct 13, at UTC. I ran into this on a machine a few weeks ago, it took a restart in order to delete it.

Yeah I'm not okay with that. I need to find a way to close this bastard without a reboot. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Asked by:. Archived Forums. Virtual Machine Manager — General. It uses the MOTW tag associated with the file in question.

That is, the user double-clicks on the file to show its contents in Windows Explorer. What does this mean from the end user's perspective? However, for those running an enterprise, the lack of the ability to scan these files leaves a blind spot for certain files until they arrive at the endpoint. Here are the results :. There is no evidence that any of the scanners configured in VirusTotal scanned the contents of a VHD file.

Malware spread via ISO files is already happening in the wild. While these results are not great, there is at least some evidence that some security products will scan the file contents of an ISO file. Due to the combination of kernel-level file system parsing and also lack of MOTW tagging to their contents, allowing VHD or VHDX files to arrive at endpoints increases the risk presented to those systems. The following strategies can help minimize this risk:.