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Hyper-V Beta now available for download!

Go and get it while it's hot:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=8F22F69E-D1AF-49F0-8236-2B742B354919&displaylang=en

This is Windows Server 2008 RC1 with the Hyper-V Beta components. 

Lots of changes since the preview, huge improvements in performance, stability and compatibility as well as:

  1. Support for installing Hyper-V on Windows Server core.
  2. Support for clustering of Hyper-V.
  3. Support for VSS backup of Hyper-V.
  4. Integration Services are now part of Windows Server 2008 (which means that if you use the CD image of this beta to install Windows Server 2008 inside a virtual machine - Integration Services will automatically be there with no need for you to perform extra steps).

I will post detailed installation instructions soon - but two pointers to get you started:

  1. There are no .MSUs anymore.  Just install Windows, select to install a new server role, and select 'Hyper-V'.
  2. You need to install using 'English (United States)'.  If you install with any other language (or flavor of English) Hyper-V will not work.  However - you can change the local / keyboard preferences for your user after installation without any problems.

Cheers,
Ben

Published Thursday, December 13, 2007 9:21 AM by Virtual PC Guy
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Thursday, December 13, 2007 12:39 PM by x(perts)64

# Hyper-V on HP ProLiant ML 350

I've been running Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V virtualization for a while now. It has become my main

Thursday, December 13, 2007 2:02 PM by Mark Sweeney

# Data Center Manager - Kaiser

Been using the beta for a while too.  We have also been running VMware in production for the past year.  No comparison unfortunately.  We are sticking with VMware until Microsoft shows us value.

Thursday, December 13, 2007 4:54 PM by The things that are better left unspoken

# (RC1 with) Hyper-V Beta available for testing

Ben Armstrong, the Virtual Guy, just posted about the availability of a special version of Windows Server

Friday, December 14, 2007 9:25 AM by Phil Scott

# re: Hyper-V Beta now available for download!

Hey Ben, the file name seems to imply that this is AMD 64 only. Is that the case?

Friday, December 14, 2007 10:14 AM by NathanL

# re: Hyper-V Beta now available for download!

Do you know where i can find info on setting up the new quick migration and HA features?

Friday, December 14, 2007 2:06 PM by Jose Aguilar's Blog

# Hyper-V Beta is out!

For those of you who missed it, Windows Server 2008 RC1 was released yesterday, with the Beta of Hyper-V....

Saturday, December 15, 2007 11:18 AM by Johan

# re: Hyper-V Beta now available for download!

Actually changing system locale from Swedish to EN-US still didn't get Hyper-V to start, so I ended upp reinstalling the server. Then it worked.

Saturday, December 15, 2007 1:01 PM by Kit Kai's Tech Blog

# Few things to take note before upgrading to Hyper-V Beta

Just when I got my RC1 with Hyper-V preview configured and running for a few days, Microsoft released

Tuesday, February 12, 2008 9:38 AM by Windows Server

# Hyper-V tjänsten startar inte - Språkförbistring

Jag satt och testade RTM och tänkte att jag skulle lägga till Hyper-V tjänsten med en gång eftersom jag

Tuesday, February 12, 2008 9:50 AM by Teknik

# Hyper-V tjänsten startar inte - Språkförbistring

Jag satt och testade RTM och tänkte att jag skulle lägga till Hyper-V tjänsten med en gång eftersom jag

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