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The final version of the Linux Integration Components for Hyper-V have been released!

The final version of the Linux Integration Components for Hyper-V have been released! Driver support for synthetic devices: The Linux integration components include support for both the synthetic network controller and synthetic storage controller that...

Published Wed, Sep 09 2008 9:12 PM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Linux, Guest
Microsoft delays the Hyper-V Integration Components for Linux, removes the RC version

Microsoft supports one flavor of Linux as guest OS in Hyper-V: Novell SUSE Enterprise Linux 10. But to work properly inside the virtual machine Linux needs additional components that Microsoft releases under the name of Linux Integration Components. This...

Published Wed, Aug 08 2008 11:23 PM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Linux, Guest
Hyper-V WMI: Creating a Thumbnail Image

Hyper-V has a WMI API that will allow you to create a thumbnail image of any running or paused virtual machine. You can create any sized thumbnail you want (640x480, 800x600, 1024x768 etc…). Creating the image is pretty easy, you just call GetVirtualSystemThumbnailImage...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2008 5:35 PM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Guide, Scripts, PowerShell, Guest
Windows Embedded Server Products Evaluation

Wow finally you can download evaluation versions of Windows Embedded products like Storage Server, normally only approved OEMs could get it. Now after a simple registration form you can download: Windows Server 2008 for Embedded Systems Windows Server...

Published Sat, Jul 07 2008 2:02 PM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Storage, Guest
27 Windows Vista SP1 VMs on a single Hyper-V laptop!

Keith Combs' Blahg : Twenty Seven Windows Vista Enterprise SP1 Virtual Machines executing courtesy of Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V. All of this is running on a single laptop, the world famous Lenovo ThinkPad T61p with 8GB of Kingston memory. This...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2008 11:08 PM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Performance, Guest
Windows 98 on Hyper-V

Christopher Painter: ...I was recently contacted by a potential client who needs an install created and tested on Windows 98! I don't know about you, but I haven't used Windows 98 in a good 6 or 7 years. ....there is the problem that Hyper-V doesn't...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2008 11:30 AM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Guest
Hyper-V FreeBSD shutdown problem workaround

Luka Manojlovic: Hyper-V FreeBSD shutdown problem workaround. I’ve found an even easier way to do this. I found a PowerShell Hyper-V script at: http://www.codeplex.com/PSHyperv It has a lot of functions already, and I added a “Kill-VM”...

Published Fri, Jul 07 2008 8:47 PM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Guide, Guest
Processor topology inside of Hyper-V virtual machines

A number of people noticed that they can create a virtual machine with four virtual processors, and then successfully run Windows XP on it and have it utilize all four virtual processors. This strikes them as odd, because Windows XP supposedly only supports...

Published Fri, Jul 07 2008 2:54 PM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Guest
Hyper-V in action

Ed Bott: Here’s a snapshot of the collection of virtual machines running on Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V here right now: That’s one Windows Server 2008 VM, one Windows Home Server, two Linux distros, and Vista Ultimate. All are allocated...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2008 8:30 AM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Guest
Confusion over Multi-Processor Guest OS Support with Hyper-V

Ben Armstrong: After posting a link to our supported guest operating system list ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954958/en-us ) I have received a number of queries about the issue of multi-processor support. You see, while we state that we only support...

Published Mon, Jul 07 2008 9:12 PM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Guest
How To: Get the TFS "Rosario" April 08 CTP running under Hyper-V

Steven St Jean: just finished getting the TFS Codename "Rosario" April 2008 CTP running under Hyper-V. Because Hyper-V is a different animal than Virtual Server, I had some "head scratching" moments. I wound up doing a fair bit of...

Published Mon, Jul 07 2008 11:07 AM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Guest
Running Windows Home Server in a Hyper-V virtual machine

The idea of having separate physical machines for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Home Server has always seemed wasteful to me: space, hardware cost, power usage, and heat are all issues when you have two boxes. So, as an experiment, I’ve installed...

Published Fri, Jul 07 2008 2:58 PM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Guest

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