Anyone who has ever tried to run anything with a high graphics content in a remote desktop (RDP) session will know how poor the performance is, video clips can be measured in frames per minute rather than frames per second. Microsoft may just have a solution for this in SP1 of Windows 2008 R2 and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
You can use the free VMware converter tool to import Microsoft virtual machines into VMware. Most of the Microsoft product line can be downloaded for evaluation in a pre configured virtual machine format. Microsoft virtual machines come with a virtual disk with a file extension of VHD and configuration file with the extension VMC, VMware [...]
Spent sometime today clarifying Microsoft’s stance on licensing Windows Servers as virtual machines, this applies regardless of which virtulisatuion platform the VM’s are running on e.g. VMware, Microsoft Virtual Server, Hyper-V. With standard Windows server licences you have to buy a licence for each VM running Windows Server as the guest OS. With an enterprise [...]
