Discussions about hyper-v vm

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.

How to share host VPN connection with VM instances in Hyper-V? I'm running my workstation on Server 2008 and a few servers in Hyper-V VM's on that server. I connect to my corporate LAN using VPN from the main OS (the host) but my VM's aren't seeing the servers in the corporate LAN. Internet and local access to my... Started by sergiopereira on Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 5 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): Also, as I am not familiar with that VM, are the network adapters like VMWares bridged adapaters? If so you need to setup independently on every VM, providing.... Your corp network fine on the host, then setup the routes in your vm machines.

Should I use server core vs full install for setting up webserver on a hyper-v VM? I am probably going to use hyper-v running on windows server 2008 standard SP2 for server consolidation. I was thinking that I would do a VM for the web server. I was reading up on just using server core. I am not a big command line fan, but would do ... Started by Breadtruck on Saturday, August 08, 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): Automation .... I really would recommend getting familiar with the command line as well though, unless you want to do everything by hand forever . With a Core install, there are GUI consoles in the Server 2008 toolkit for remote management of Core servers .