Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
In this question, the VM has "multiple snapshots" which would use up a lot of disk space. Virtual machines will go into the "Paused-Critical" state in Hyper-V if the free space on the drive that contains the snapshots goes below 200MB.
One thing that often trips people up is if they have their virtual hard disks configured on one drive - but have left their snapshot files stored on the system drive. Once a virtual machine snapshot has been taken
- the base virtual hard disk stops expanding and the snapshot file stores new data that is written to the disk - so it is critical that there is enough space in the snapshot storage location.
References:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2009/04/22/why-is-my-virtual-machine-paused-critical- hyper-v.aspx