Archive for June, 2005

No really. See this exerpt from my daily morning time involving fixing a screwed up network connectivity under Virtual Server 2005.

C:\> net start "Virtual Server"
The Virtual Server service is starting..............
The Virtual Server service could not be started.

More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 3523

Okay… Now my first question is why are they not simply calling the help message and displaying it directly? Because they like to make me type? Mmkay, so I indulge this and decide to try their useful command.

C:\> net HELPMSG 3523

The *** service could not be started.


C:\>

WOW. Geez thanks for the info! I don’t know what I would have done without that. The event log reveals “The service did not respond in a timely fashion” — which means that it got tired of waiting for Virtual Server and the virtual machines to start. Sad thing is, they’re all running. Sometimes, I think I make Bill Gates cry by using the command line…

Now time to go put my dirty hands in the registry to increase the timeout value…