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February 2009 - Posts

Tuesday, February 24, 2009 11:09 PM

Script: Determining Virtual Switch Type Under Hyper-V

When you are scripting against virtual switches – it is good to know what type of switch you are talking to.  In order to figure this out you need to find out whether the virtual switch has an internal network connection, external network connection,
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Monday, February 23, 2009 3:41 PM

Guide to setting up Hyper-V + CSV + Live Migration

The clustering team have posted a useful step-by-step guide to setting up Hyper-V with Cluster Shared Volumes on Windows Server 2008 R2 so that you can perform live migrations of virtual machines.  The details are here: http://blogs.msdn.com/clustering/archive/2009/02/19/9433146.aspx
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Friday, February 20, 2009 5:18 PM

Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders under Virtual PC

Continuing on through the LucasArts adventure game history (last week I was playing Maniac Mansion ) I arrive at Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders.  This is third LucasArts adventure game chronologically – but it was the first one I ever played. 
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Thursday, February 19, 2009 12:54 PM

Script: Creating an external-only virtual network with Hyper-V

Okay, last script for the week.  Creating an external-only virtual network (one without a connection in the parent partition). VBScript: option explicit   Dim HyperVServer Dim SwitchFriendlyName Dim TypeLib Dim SwitchName Dim ExternalSwitchPortFriendlyName
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Thursday, February 19, 2009 12:27 AM

Script: Creating an external virtual network with Hyper-V

Moving on with the series, we arrive at creating an external virtual network. VBScript: option explicit Dim HyperVServer Dim SwitchFriendlyName Dim TypeLib Dim SwitchName Dim InternalEthernetPortFriendlyName Dim InternalSwitchPortFriendlyName Dim InternalSwitchPortName
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009 11:58 PM

Script: Creating an internal virtual network with Hyper-V

Moving on from yesterdays script (which showed you how to create a private virtual network) let’s look at creating an internal virtual network via a script.  An internal virtual network is one that is not connected to a physical network adapter –
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Monday, February 16, 2009 5:29 PM

Script: Creating a private virtual network with Hyper-V

I spent a bunch of time scripting virtual networks under Hyper-V over the weekend – so this week I am going to share some of my scripts.  The first one is a simple one: it creates a private – or “virtual machine only” – virtual network. VBScript:
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Friday, February 13, 2009 9:37 PM

Maniac Mansion under Virtual PC

After posting about Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade , I thought I would take a walk down the list of LucasArts adventure games that I have played. Maniac Mansion is the first game that comes to mind for many people when they think of LucasArts adventure
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Thursday, February 12, 2009 4:16 PM

Three Icons on Virtual Machine Connection

Down the bottom right hand corner of the virtual machine connection window there are three icons that you may have wondered about:   The first icon indicates whether keyboard data is being sent to the virtual machine or not.  In the above picture
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009 7:40 PM

iSCSI Configuration UI included in Hyper-V 2008 R2

Originally Microsoft Hyper-V only included the command-line tools for configuring iSCSI devices. Now, anyone who has had to use these tools (namely iscsicli) will tell you that they are incredibly complicated and are very hard to use.  Now with Microsoft
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009 6:58 PM

Enabling PowerShell on Hyper-V Server 2008 R2

One of the new capabilities of Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 is that you can now enable PowerShell on it.  This is really helpful for when you want to perform basic tasks locally instead of having to use the remote user interface.  In order
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Monday, February 09, 2009 3:38 PM

Mike releases WIM2VHD

Mike Kolitz has just released "WIM2VHD".  This is a tool that allows you to take the WIM file off of a Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 install DVD and turn it directly into a virtual hard disk that can be used by Hyper-V, Virtual Server
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Friday, February 06, 2009 11:19 PM

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure under Virtual PC

I am a long time "LucasArts Adventure Game" junky - and own *almost* all of their adventure games.  Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure (hereafter referred to as "the Last Crusade") is one of the earlier
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Thursday, February 05, 2009 10:27 PM

Mounting VHDs with Windows 7

In Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 VHD support is now part of the platform.  This means that you do not need to enable Hyper-V to mount and manipulate virtual hard disks.  You can mount virtual hard disks directly on your Windows 7 / Windows
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Wednesday, February 04, 2009 9:42 PM

Windows 7 on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and false event logs

A little while ago I blogged about the fact that you can install Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 on top of Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 with no need to install integration components.  Well - a number of people have noticed that when you do
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Tuesday, February 03, 2009 9:36 PM

Virtual Server to Hyper-V Migration Guide

For users who want to move virtual machines from Virtual Server to Hyper-V there are two resources you should be aware of. The first is the Virtual Server to Hyper-V Migration Guide that is now available here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd296684.aspx
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Monday, February 02, 2009 10:03 PM

Looking at the Hyper-V Event Log

Hyper-V logs a lot of useful information if you need to diagnose a problem, so I thought I would put together a little post explaining where you should be looking. The first thing to know is that all Hyper-V event logs are stored in the Event Viewer under
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