April, 2008

Hyper-V brings us the ability to attach a physical hard disk directly to a virtual machine.  In order to do this the hard disk in question needs to not be identified as "removable" by Windows.  It also needs to be in an offline state...

From time to time I want to run Virtual PC / Virtual Server on my Hyper-V system.  While I can do this with the hypervisor running, the result is that Virtual PC / Virtual Server run quite slowly.  An easy fix for this is to create a second...

Updated integration components for Hyper-V RC are now available for download.  You can find out more about this here: http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2008/04/01/linux-integration-components-for-hyper-v-rc-now-available.aspx Note that...

A slightly hidden option on the virtual machine settings dialog under Hyper-V is that you can enable or disable the settings summary display on the left pane by right clicking on the left pane and unchecking the option to show summaries: You can also...

While you are probably used to connecting to a virtual machine from the Hyper-V manager snap-in, it is possible to just run the Virtual Machine Connection directly.  On a computer where you have the Hyper-V management tools installed, go to the Hyper...

Released in 1989, this was the first "official" computer version of Risk.  As such it goes a long way to try and replicate the board game in as much detail as possible.  It even goes as far as allowing you to pick whether you are playing...

Under Virtual PC / Virtual Server, if you wanted to copy a physical hard disk to a virtual hard disk you had to make a linked virtual hard disk and convert it.  With Hyper-V we have gotten rid of the concept of linked virtual hard disks, and instead...

If you are getting an "Authentication Error" when trying to connect to a virtual machine under Hyper-V,  you can open the Hyper-V Settings (from the main MMC page) and disable the use of default credentials under the User Credentials section...

A neat little touch in the Hyper-V virtual machines settings is the integration of the virtual hard disk wizards: If you go to the hard disk settings page for a virtual machine you can click on the New button - which will open the new virtual hard disk...

A KB article ( http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/950792 ) has just been posted about problems that people are encountering with installation / uninstallation of Hyper-V RC0.  This is caused by and incompatibility with the Hewlett-Packard...