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New Integration Service “Guest Service” in Windows 8.1 Hyper-V

Sun, 30 Jun 2013 18:28:23 +0000

When opening the Virtual Machine Settings Integration Services node in Hyper-V running on Windows 8.1 Preview, you will notice that there is now an additional Integration Service listed called Guest Services. By default the service is not enabled,

With this integration service enabled, you can now directly copy a file from a remote system into the VM without utilizing a network connection. A new PowerShell cmdlet Copy-VMFile has been added for this new feature.

Saturday morning ramblings with Windows 8 Hyper-V and Sun VirtualBox

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 08:43:56 +0000

Yesterday I prepared a new system with Windows 8 CP that has the latest Intel I7 processor and 8GB of RAM. My initial plan was to use Hyper-V which is now also included as a feature on the Client.

So on this beautiful Saturday morning I continued with the setup of this HP 8760w Elitebook. But because I ran into several network related issues, others have also reported about on the Microsoft forums, I decided to switch back to Sun VirtualBox for now as that has worked fine on Windows 8 so far.

Windows 8 – How to check if your system can run Hyper-V

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 10:49:19 +0000

Many articles refer to the Sysinternals Coreinfo utility to check whether your system can run Hyper-V on Windows 8 or not. But just this morning I found out that the systeminfo command that is included in Windows provides some additional Hyper-V related information.

More Information about Hyper-V on Windows 8
Bringing Hyper-V to “Windows 8”
How to Check if Your CPU Supports Second Level Address Translation (SLAT)

The confusion around Hyper-V

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 09:58:18 +0000

When talking about Hyper-V with customers or colleagues, I notice that there is quite some confusion around the definition of Hyper-V Server and Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V.

**Hyper-V Server 2008 / 2008-R2
**The Hyper-V Server is a stand-alone product, which contains only the Windows Hypervisor, Windows Server driver model and virtualization components. What’s important to know, the Hyper-V Server comes for FREE!.

No, Hyper-V Server is not just Windows Server Core + Hyper-V, the only thing this server is designed for is virtualization and therefore does not contain any other server roles.

Who’s hosting me ?

Fri, 22 May 2009 11:35:40 +0000

This morning i had an issue with a fileserver that is running as a guest on a Hyper-V server, far away from my location, in fact I did not even know what Hyper-V system is hosting that Fileserver. I wanted to see within Hyper-V manager how the system is doing, but without knowing the Hyper-V server host name, you can’t connect (kind of logic) :-)

So what’s the name of the underlying server that is hosting my virtual server ? A friend within my team found the answer.

Hyper-V Terminology

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:04:25 +0000

Talking to people about virtualization almost every day, I notice that many aren’t that familiar yet with all the terminologies. Ben Armstrong has written two good articles on his blog, describing all the terminologies used around Hyper-V.

Hyper-V Terminology

Hyper-V Terminology Update

One of the things that seems to confuse people a lot is understanding the difference between Hyper-V Server and Hyper-V on Server 2008. I take the freedom of copying Ben’s explanation (below).

Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Live Migration Overview

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:15:05 +0000

With the release of Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V will also support “Live Migration”. Today Hyper-V provides “Quick Migration” which still means a short downtime, with Live Migration a move from one to another Hyper-V system can be performed without any system downtime.

A feature overview document can be found here. And a step by step guide can be found on TechNet here.

Technet Magazine - Automating Virtual Machine Host Deployment

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:23:39 +0000

Great article i just finished reading about automating virtual machine host deployment on Hyper-V.

Download the complete Technet Magazine January 2009 edition here. When having trouble reading the CHM file, read this.

Hyper-V and Dynamic discs

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:01:19 +0000

First let me avoid confusion here, I’m not talking about “dynamically expanding” discs but about the disc type e.g. Basic and Dynamic.

In the past weeks we have been migrating some of our physical servers into Hyper-V. Just before X-mas my colleague had prepared a plain Windows 2003 system for me so that i could continue with installing the necessary applications that were planned to run on that system. Two discs were created, the primary disc that contains the boot partition is connected to an IDE controller and the second disc to a SCSI controller. Note that the OS boot disc must always be connected to an IDE controller. So the disk layout looks as following:

SCVMM 2008 - After 48 hours

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 02:15:49 +0000

It’s about 48 hours ago , that i started with setting up a System Center Virtual Machine Manager environment, No worries, i have been doinng otherthings in between, although today , uhm yesterday I spend most of the time with it. Also the hardware I have available , isn’t realy that powerfull, so it all takes a bit time, but that’s okay, while waiting I’ve just continued reading.

So for all those that plan to give SCVMM a try as well but don’t have big powerfull servers available let me encourage you, my setup is as following:

Converting VMWare image to Hyper-V image

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:26:22 +0000

Tomorrow there are plans to move some VMWare slices into Hyper-V. In preparation of that i have found the following article on TechNet

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverhyperv/thread/ef8c12f7-c45d-442e-9a30-c43cd87df3b3/

and on vmToolkit there is a the tool VMDK to VHD converter that should help doing the job, so far for the theory, hope it works out.

New site dedicated to Microsoft Hyper-V

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:26:00 +0000

Steven Bink owner of the famous Bink.nu web site has launched a new site dedicated to Microsoft Hyper-V and related technologies called Hypervoria