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Hyper-V Integration Services when hosting a Win2k8 SP2 VM on a Win2k8 RTM Hyper-V Host Now that Win2k8 with SP2 ISO's are available for download, I'm installing a new Win2k8 Std SP2 VM on my Win2k8 RTM Hyper-V host machine. If I "Insert Integration Services Disk" on the new SP2 VM from my non-SP2 host machine, would I be introducing old... Started by cpuguru on Wednesday, May 27, 2009, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at serverfault Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault): One way to verify would be to compare your IS version numbers: Open device manager on the VM.... I don't believe IS is going to be installed on your 2008 guest at all, prior to hyper V recognizing moving that VM back and forth.

Hyper-V Enterprise Licensing - Are included CALs applied to each VM or per VM? I've been doing lots of reading on the Hyper-V server from Microsoft, the enterprise edition comes with the rights to run 4 virtual machines included in the license. Somewhere I read on Microsoft's site that includes 25 CALs also (I can't find the exact... Started by Chris Marisic on Monday, July 13, 2009, 4 posts by 4 people.   Read the full thread at serverfault Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault): You are using it solely as a VM host.) According to Licensing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 to Run. Hyper-V, but someone forgot to update the document.

Is it possible to access a vm from Hyper-V server locally? I've just installed hyper-v server on a new machine for testing purposes and wonders if there is a way to access one of the guests locally? Or is it only through Hyper-V manager (or remote desktop) from a different machine I can access them? So the only... Started by Ola Herrdahl on Wednesday, September 09, 2009, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at serverfault Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault): Perform the following-powershell-on-hyper-.... Obtain the latest version of PSHyper-V. Hyper-V Server is an embedded hypervisor without any graphical UI; in this, it is very similar installation with the Hyper-V role.

Recommendations on VM memory allocation General/Hyper-V I've got a basic question on VM setup. I'm using Hyper-V, but I think the question is pretty generic. This is for a home office, I want to get reasonably good performance on the VMs without a lot of work. I use the VMs for testing/debugging my software... Started by Brett Stottlemyer on Saturday, January 23, 2010, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at serverfault Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault): If Hyper-V supports it I would with Hyper-V when you attempt to start up VM's that will take the memory requirements beyondIt's .... That technology can enormously change the way in which VM memory is allocated.

VM Not Using 100% CPU On Hyper-V I have a dedicated Hyper-V server setup, with 4 VMs. Logged into one of the VM's which is running XP and with Integration Services installed. All other VMs are idle. Using Windows Task Manager to monitor CPU usage on both the server and the vm. If I launch... Started by mxmissile on Thursday, August 20, 2009, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at serverfault Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):

Upgrading mobo, cpu and memory - will a host OS still work as a guest in a Hyper-V VM? I will be migrating my Windows 7 install to a VHD to use inside Windows Server 2008 Hyper V, but I plan on upgrading my memory, CPU and mobo. Once these hardware upgrades are done, this is when I will then install Windows Server as the host OS. Is it ... Started by windowsUser on Saturday, December 26, 2009, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): As long as you keep configuration of your virtual ... . Processor and memory). Activation will happen if two things are changed (e.g. Everything else is anyhow emulated. As far as virtual machine is concerned, only processor type will change . It will work.

Convert a (big) vm from ESXi 3.5 to Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Ok Here is my problem I have 1 ESXi 3.5 server that has 3 vm's on it. I have decided to move over to Hyper-V Server R2 since I like what they are doing on the free side of things. (Free Clustering and Live Migration seal the deal for me) we are a small... Started by Barden on Monday, July 13, 2009, 4 posts by 4 people.   Read the full thread at serverfault Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault): As far as SCVMM is concerned the VM is just a physical server. JR http://www.adopenstatic.com/cs/blogs/ken to import VMs from VMWare Server (v1). Warnings when you start the VM in Hyper-V.

SCVMM 2008 R2 problems migrating VM from VS2005 to Hyper-V host I have System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 installed, and have a Hyper-V R2 host and a Virtual Server 2005 host. I'm trying to migrate my machines from the VS2005 host to the Hyper-V host, and keep getting the following error... VMM is unable... Started by Scott Ivey on Friday, October 16, 2009, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at serverfault Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault): Edit .... Copy the VHD file(s) from VS2005 to the new VM directory on the Hyper-V server. Plan this out because you lose in Hyper-V. To Hyper-V: Uninstall the integration bits from the VM on VS2005.

Move Physical Windows Server 2008 into a Hyper-V VM Hello, I'd like to import a real Windows Server 2008 server as a Hyper-V Virtual Server on another Windows Server 2008 instance. Anyone have any idea how to do this? I'm looking at the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 but it doesn't seem to ... Started by Randall Sexton on Saturday, May 09, 2009, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): When I was testing the the beta version of Hyper-V this was the only reliable method I found to import a physical system into a Hyper to hyper-v.... You can then use Hyper V to import the VMware image you created.

Hyper-V VM bluescreens upon LiveMotioning I am doing some testing with Hyper-V LiveMotion, and when I stress the VM and try to LiveMotion it, sometimes it'll work just fine, sometimes it'll restart and give no clear error, sometimes it just "fails" and I have to manually restart the VM. The most... Started by HannesFostie on Thursday, June 04, 2009, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at serverfault Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault): Have enough reputation to comment, but because Hyper-V uses a hypervisor it is very sensitive.