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STATUS_HV_INVALID_DEVICE_STATE
The device exists, but not in the state required for this operation
STATUS_HV_INVALID_DEVICE_STATE is a device lifecycle status. Hyper-V recognized the device or device-domain object, but the requested operation is not legal in its current state.
This commonly matters around assignment, unassignment, reset, surprise removal, pause/resume, and VM teardown. A management tool can hold a valid device ID and still fail if it issues an operation while the device is not attached, not quiesced, already being removed, or not yet fully initialized.
What to inspect
- The device state immediately before the failing operation: created, assigned, mapped, started, paused, resetting, removed, or destroyed.
- Concurrent management operations on the same VM or passthrough device.
- Host PnP, IOMMU, and virtualization stack events around the transition.
- Whether the operation requires the partition to be stopped, running, or quiesced.
Useful distinction
This is the state counterpart to STATUS_HV_INVALID_DEVICE_ID. Re-resolving the identifier may not help if the same device is still in a lifecycle state where Hyper-V forbids the operation.
References
- Microsoft: Hyper-V architecture
- Microsoft: Windows Hypervisor Platform API
- Linux kernel documentation: Hyper-V overview
- Wine: ntstatus.h constant definitions
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