Hyper-V RC1 Hypervisor Failed to Start
There is a known problem in Hyper-V RC1 in which after you upgrade a perfectly working RC0 server the Hypervisor will not start. You will see the following error in the event log: Source: Hyper-V Hypervisor Event ID: 48 “Hyper-V launch failed; Processor 0×4 does not provide the features necessary to run Hyper-V (leaf 0×80000008, [...]
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DFSRDIAG (Distributed File System Replication Diag)
I’ve recently been tweaking my data replication schemes. We’ve got multiple servers spread out all over and seems like we replicate date all over the place. My most recent brilliant idea was to replicate our offline virtual machine images and software installation ISO files to all of our Hyper-V servers. In working through some staging [...]
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Hyper-V Remote Administration Tools
Microsoft released the Hyper-V Remote Management tools for Windows Vista earlier this week. This is an important release to effectively managing a remote Hyper-V server now that in Hyper-V RC0 mouse movement is no longer being captured in a virtual machine connection when connected to a Hyper-V RC0 server via terminal services (Remote Desktop). Microsoft reportedly blocked capturing [...]
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Micosoft releases Hyper-V RC0
On Wednesday, Microsoft released the first release candidate (RC0) of Hyper-V, the virtualization functionality that is built into Windows Server 2008. This updates the Beta version of Hyper-V that shipped with Server 2008 RTM earlier this year. The final version of Hyper-V is due out in late August 2008. Read:Microsoft Reaches Virtualization Milestone With Release Candidate [...]
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Hyper-V Questions
During the 24 Hours of Windows Server 2008: Part 3 webcast today, I got a couple of my virtualization questions answered. Question: Is Server 2008 32 bit suppoted as a VM in Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 or VPC 2007? What about the VMAdditions? It seems that Server 2008 performance as a VM on VS 2005 [...]
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Migrating a Windows Server 2003 Virtual Machine to Hyper-V
The learning process is always fun and can be frustrating at times. I recently started migrating my lab to Microsoft’s new virtualization technology called Hyper-V. Hyper-V is a new role in Windows Server 2008. There are a couple of issues that I’ve already run across that you need to be aware of before attempting to [...]
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Configuring NICs in Hyper-V
At my day job, we currently run Windows Server 2003 with Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1. One on the things we do is setup a “Shared Virtual Network” in which the guest virtual machines use a dedicated NIC separate from the one the host uses. To do this we take one of the server NICs [...]
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