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 [...]
I’d tried VMware server 2 back in beta but found I couldn’t get on with the new management web interface so stuck with my trusted VMware server 1.0.x A colleague mentioned recently VMware Server 2 could be managed using the familair VI client usually used to manage ESX hosts. Sure enough after downloading and installing [...]
Had a situation today where a customer asked me if I could monitor the APC UPS running his ESXi server. My plan was to install Powerchute on one of the Windows guest virtual machines running on the ESXi host and then use pass through to the comm port on the host, I’ve used this method [...]
Did some testing today with a Windows 2003 server running VMware Server and a Linux (Ubuntu) guest. The Linux guest already had tape backup software installed (BackupEdge) and needed to be able to access the tape drive (400GB LTO) on the Windows host. I knew this should work in theory but had never tried to do [...]
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 [...]
