re: QuickStart: Using Hyper-V 2008 R2 for Developer Virtualization

davidbaliles — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:00:42 GMT

If you want to use the Hyper-V that is with Windows Server "Core," you would either need 2 machines (one running Hyper-V and the other to configure it for the first time), or you'd simply want to get versed in PowerShell scripting :-). If you're wanting a demo laptop/all-in-one, my personal recommendation is to do one of two things:

1) dual-boot between your primary "client" OS and a full Windows 2008 R2 w/Hyper-V (which on boot, runs Windows 2008 R2 host & your demo VPC image)

2) just install your laptop's primary OS as Win2008 R2 w/Hyper-V. By default the server OS is your OS, and when you need to demo, spin up the desired virtual machine image.

Hope this helps!

re: QuickStart: Using Hyper-V 2008 R2 for Developer Virtualization

Tiago Rente — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:29:38 GMT

Hi,

As I understood, in this post you will need to have 2 machines (one running the Windows Hyper-V 2008 R2 and another to have the visual tools and Remotely manage the Windows Hyper-V 2008 R2). Unfortunatly, I want to create a demos laptop that is the only machine available to present demos to the clients.

How am I going to configure the Hyper-V create/delete/start/stop the VMs without a second machine?

Thanks in advance,

Tiago.