Have a script that automatically creates a VM prompts for memory size, number of CPU’s etc.
Worked fine on HyperV in 2008 SP2, but was getting intermitent failures on 2008 R2.
After a little bit of head scratching found out it was failing setting memory size to an odd number (e.g 2047 MB), worked fine when setting [...]
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A 2008 server with the Hyper-V role sometimes hangs at Shutting Down and a power cycle is required to restart it. This appears to occur with some servers due to BIOS incompatability, have read on some forums that upgrading to lastest motherboard BIOS has resolved issue.
Personally had this happen on servers fitted with Supermicro X7DWU [...]
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On several occasions have received a ‘Fatal Error’ when trying to install Integration Components into a Hyper-V Virtual Machine.
This seems to happen when upgrading from a previous version or in my test lab when I have been doing some P2V testing.
Uninstalling Hyper-V Guest Components using Add/Remove programs doesn’t fix problem.
Only way I’ve found to [...]
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So you’ve loaded Hyper-V, created your virtual machine and loaded Windows server onto the virtual machine. You are using remote desktop to connect to your Hyper-V host and power on the virtual machine.
The first thing you’ll notice when you try to use the mouse is that you’ll receive the message popup “Mouse not captured in [...]
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During a visit to Microsoft today had a demo of clustering Hyper-V. Demo environment consisted of 2 Windows 2008 servers attached to an ISCSI target with 2 disks, one operating as the data disk where the virtual machine will reside, the 2nd disk acted as the quorum disk for the cluster.
One thing I was impressed [...]
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