Unable to delete VM

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  I'm trying to move a number of Virtual Machines from one disk to another. Basically, we've install a new and faster drive (SAN, RAID 10), and we need to migrate all of our VMs to this new drive.
  
  In order to do this, I export the VM to the new location, but when I then try to delete the VM, I get an "failed to delete" error. It says:
  
  VM_Name failed to delete
  VM_Name failed to delete configuration: General access denied error (0x8007005)
  VM_Name failed to delete. (VM ID 51xxx...)
  VM_Name failed to delete configuration: General access denied error (0x8007005) (VM ID 51xxx...)
  
  The first thing I looked at was file and directory access. Do I have the rights to delete the files in question, and yes I do. I've done a "Effective Permission" check on each and every file in the VM_Name directory structure (the folders, the .xml file and the .vhd file), but I still cannot delete the VM, and I'd rather not have duplicates of each machine showing in the Hyper-V manager.
  
  Can anyone point me in the right direction to troubleshoot this?
  
  To make matters more confusing, I have been able to delete a botched imported VM, even though I did get the same error the first time around. I simply changed that ACL on the directory structure to allow me to delete, and I was then able to delete it. But I'm not having any luck with the next WM that I am working on moving...

  Wednesday, June 3, 2009 3:45 PM