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    April 30

    Cannot Connect to Virtual Machine -- McAfee HIPS Firewall.

    I was working on a Windows Server 2008 version of Hyper-V that had McAfee's HIPS firewall turned on. It had been on for several weeks without incident, when I needed to turn on and connect to a virtual machine. But whenever I tried to connect to a running VM a very generic "Cannot connect to the Virtual Machine" error popped up as shown below.
     
     
    It took me too long to figure out that the firewall was finally causing the issue. Adding the following firewall rule solved the issue:
     
    TCP    Incomming    onPort 2179     fromPorts 1024-65535     fromIP: Any
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