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 have been developed specifically for Hyper-V. These...
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 package includes the Linux implementation of the...
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 passing a reference to...
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 2003 R2 for Embedded Systems Windows Storage Server...
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 time I added another hard drive and split the load...
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 support Windows 98 integration components...
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” function that automates the kill process: Kill...
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 the use of one or two processors in a computer...
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 1GB except Windows Home Server, which is working...
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 Windows Server 2003 with up to virtual processors...