Registering a virtual machine with Hyper-V in Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012

re: Registering a virtual machine with Hyper-V in Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012

MB-NS — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 20:39:16 GMT

Hello,

Last question from Tom was very relevant.

Can we now register VMs without first exporting them ?

Thanks !

re: Registering a virtual machine with Hyper-V in Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012

Tom Mitchell — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 12:13:04 GMT

Can you confirm, that when using the 'Register' option, I no longer have to go through and export all my VMs. Can I just import a VM that was working in the previous version?

Thanks.

re: Registering a virtual machine with Hyper-V in Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012

Benjamin Armstrong — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 09:54:37 GMT

Nori -

It is actually not as simple as that, unfortunately. A number of usability studies has shown that the more text you put on the page, the less likely it is that people will actually read the text. With GUI text your goal really is to give people just enough information that they will be able to read it and make the right decision given what they are wanting to do.

Luciano Buffoni -

I completely agree, deleting a virtual machine is something that we need to make better in the future.

Aamod Potdar -

It sounds like WinRM is not working for some reason, and I am afraid that that is outside my area of expertise.

Cheers,

Ben

re: Registering a virtual machine with Hyper-V in Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012

Ian Yates — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 04:32:35 GMT

@Aamod Potdar

Permissions issue of some sort perhaps? from your second server (let's call it server2) are you able to browse the administrative shares of the first server (server1)? That is, on server2 can you browse to \\server1\c$ ? On an out-of-the-box Windows server you need to be an admin to do that. If that doesn't work then that probably explains why you can't add/remove roles, etc.

@Luciano Buffoni

SQL Server refers to this as detach. Useful thing to have.

@Nóri

Probably issues with having text translated into other languages in time for release. Updating MSDN / Technet is a lot easier than updating a shipped GUI. The meaining is fairly clear as is but perhaps an Ikea-style icon next to each one would help. Something that looks like it's taking files from one folder to another with either a green + on the target (copy), a red cross on the source (move) or just a single folder with an unannotated arrow leaving and pointing back to iself (register in place).

I do agree that in isolation each option is difficult to comprehend. The word "Restore" doesn't imply, on first reading, to indicate that it's going to MOVE the data. Even in context with the others it still doesn't really read that way...

re: Registering a virtual machine with Hyper-V in Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012

Aamod Potdar — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:40:20 GMT

I recently upgraded my test Windows 2008 R2 Machine to Windows Server 2012 RC. Now i added another Windows Server 2012 RC to manage from Server Manager which has a Hyper V role installed with few test VM.

But i am unable to open Hyper V Manager of the remote server. I am getting error "WinRM Negotiate Authentication Error" . I can RDP , but option to Add Roles , Restart Server are grayed out. I dont see option for Hyper V Manager for the remote server

Any clue , what could be the issue ?

re: Registering a virtual machine with Hyper-V in Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012

Luciano Buffoni — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 22:49:39 GMT

The Delete option in Hyper-V Manager deletes the configuration for the selected virtual machine.

How about having a NEW option of Removing a VM from the Hyper-V Manager and not deleting the configuration files of the VM?

(Option available in VirtualBox)

re: Registering a virtual machine with Hyper-V in Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012

Nóri — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 21:54:01 GMT

How about having those explanations in the GUI itself?