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The Parallel port driver service failed to start – Hyper-V
Posted on Friday, May 22, 2009 10:56 PM

imageI migrated Bit Armory's servers from Virtual Server 2005 R2 to Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V and ran into a lot of friction.

Anyway, the migrated servers had annoying errors from the Service Control Manager saying:

Event Type:    Error
Event Source:    Service Control Manager
Event Category:    None
Event ID:    7000
Description:
The Parallel port driver service failed to start due to the following error:
The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it.

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The problem can easily be solved by disabling the "Parvdm" device & driver service.  Open Device Manager, Check "Show hidden devices", find "Parvdm" in "Non-Plug and Play Drivers".

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Then all should be well. Again, just more friction from Microsoft.  They really need to test this stuff. confused0072.gif

Hope that helps,
Brian Chavez

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# re: The Parallel port driver service failed to start – Hyper-V
Gravatar Thanks!
Left by Matt on 5/27/2010 11:10 AM
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Gravatar Nice one thanks :)
Left by Russ on 7/27/2010 8:54 PM
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Gravatar Exactly what I was looking for!
Left by Billy Bob on 8/30/2010 5:18 AM
# re: The Parallel port driver service failed to start – Hyper-V
Gravatar Thanks a lot !
Left by Inokenty on 1/19/2011 8:13 PM
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Gravatar you saved me time. thanks pal!
Left by jeff on 2/23/2011 12:56 AM
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Gravatar Thanks so much1
Left by Greg on 7/11/2011 3:28 AM
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Gravatar thanks it really helps
Left by ganesh on 8/15/2011 6:00 PM
# re: The Parallel port driver service failed to start – Hyper-V
Gravatar Thanks for the tip -- I was migrating a bunch of VMs, and this was really annoying. This fix also seems to allow the Hyper-V integrated services to work on XP and 2003, so I don't have the mouse capture issue anymore either!
Left by Bart on 10/7/2011 5:35 AM

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