hyper-v: Unable to copy and boot Generation 2 Ubuntu 14.04 VHDs

[Abhishek Gupta]

After creating a Generation 2 virtual machine, we are unable to shutdown the VM, copy the VHD and create a new Generation 2 virtual machine out of the VHD. It seems that once the copy out operation has occurred, the UEFI boot entry is not available on the file-system. This hinders scenarios where customers routinely copy VHDs to create new virtual machines. Root cause unknown as of now.

[Jeff Leung (jleung)]

There is a temporary workaround for this issue. That workaround is to:

* Rename the /boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu directory to /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT
* In the newly renamed BOOT directory, rename shimx64.efi to bootx64.efi

This should temporarily resolve the issue.

[Ben Howard (darkmuggle-deactivatedaccount)]

To highlight jleung's comments, what is going on is that generation 2 VM's require UEFI to boot, inform the UEFI boot manager of the OS (via registration of values in the NVRAM). The Ubuntu installer does this at installation time. What jlaeung's describing is converting to "removal" mode.

I suspect that VM's should be installed w/ removal mode by default to support cloning operations. We currently do this on the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS UEFI cloud images.

[Joseph Salisbury (jsalisbury)]

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[aravinth v (aravinthvvs1)]

I tried to create a Ubuntu virtual machine in 2nd Generation by copying the Vhdx from already booted machine in Hyper-v Generation 2,But it wont booted in Generation 2, shimx64.efi file was not created in while try to boot from the copied Vhdx.

Then I tried your Workaround,It didn't work.Please help me to solve this issue.

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

This bug is missing log files that will aid in diagnosing the problem. From a terminal window please run:

apport-collect 1317695

and then change the status of the bug to 'Confirmed'.

If, due to the nature of the issue you have encountered, you are unable to run this command, please add a comment stating that fact and change the bug status to 'Confirmed'.

This change has been made by an automated script, maintained by the Ubuntu Kernel Team.

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