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Friday, July 18, 2008 12:41 AM

Processor topology inside of Hyper-V virtual machines

A number of people have noticed that they can create a virtual machine with four virtual processors, and then successfully run Windows XP on it and have it utilize all four virtual processors.  This strikes them as odd, because Windows XP supposedly
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008 11:49 PM

Hyper-V Clustering without shared storage

Jose has a great post over on his blog that talks about how to setup a Hyper-V cluster using a file share instead of traditional shared storage: http://blogs.technet.com/josebda/archive/2008/07/16/failover-clustering-for-hyper-v-with-file-server-storage.aspx
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Monday, July 14, 2008 7:52 AM

Confusion over Multi-Processor Guest OS Support with Hyper-V

After posting a link to our supported guest operating system list ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954958/en-us ) I have received a number of queries about the issue of multi-processor support.  You see, while we state that we only support Windows
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Thursday, July 10, 2008 12:18 AM

PowerShell Management Library for Hyper-V

James O'Neill posts here: http://hypervoria.com/hyper-v/hyper-v-powershell-library-now-on-codeplex.aspx to let us know that he has provided a PowerShell Management Library for Hyper-V available here: http://www.codeplex.com/PSHyperv Cheers, Ben
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008 12:40 PM

Hyper-V RTM now on Windows Update!

So now updating to the final release is easier than ever. Hurray! Cheers, Ben
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Monday, July 07, 2008 11:31 PM

Hyper-V: Supported Guest Operating Systems

In case you missed this one, with the RTM of Hyper-V we expanded the list of supported guest operating systems.  You can see the full official list here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954958/en-us Cheers, Ben
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008 7:34 PM

Ronald Beekelaar on Hyper-V

There is a great post today on the team blog where Ronald Beekelaar, Microsoft Virtualization MVP, talks about Hyper-V.  Read more here: http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2008/07/01/Top-5-things-to-know-about-Hyper_2D00_V.aspx Cheers,
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Thursday, June 26, 2008 11:58 AM

Hyper-V RTM!

Okay - this is going to be a short post as I am off to party for the rest of the day. Hyper-V has RTM'd! Press release here: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2008/jun08/06-26hyperv.mspx John Howard has install directions here: http://blogs.technet.com/jhoward/archive/2008/06/26/hyper-v-rtm-announcement-available-today-from-the-microsoft-download-centre.aspx
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008 11:33 AM

Whitepaper: Hyper-V and BitLocker

There is a new whitepaper on how to use BitLocker with Hyper-V for securing Hyper-V server installations.  This is great for branch office / other situations where there is a potential physical security issue.  Read more here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2c3c0615-baf4-4a9c-b613-3fda14e84545&DisplayLang=en
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008 11:57 PM

Hyper-V: Storing VHDs on network shares

Jose has done a great post on how to store VHDs on network shares when using Hyper-V.  Go check it out here: http://blogs.technet.com/josebda/archive/2008/06/24/storing-windows-server-2008-hyper-v-files-on-an-cifs-smb-file-share.aspx Cheers, Ben
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Monday, June 23, 2008 3:09 PM

Hyper-V Sidebar Gadget

Tore Lervik has made a great little Hyper-V Sidebar Gadget available on his website: http://mindre.net/post/Hyper-V-Monitor-Gadget-for-Windows-Sidebar.aspx This gadget allows you to see the status of virtual machines on multiple servers "at a glance"
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008 7:21 PM

Updated VHDs Available

There are a couple of interesting VHD updates that have recently come out: The Internet Explorer team have provided updated "IE Compatibility" test virtual machines, which now include an IE6, IE7 and IE8 Beta 1 virtual machine. Download available here:
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008 9:33 AM

Hyper-V Script: Compact VHD

Continuing on with my walk through the storage WMI API - here are some scripts for compacting VHDs with Hyper-V.  Note that Hyper-V allows you to compact both differencing and dynamically expanding virtual hard disks. PowerShell: # Prompt for the
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 11:30 PM

SCVMM 2008 Beta Update for Hyper-V RC1

An update for the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 beta, which adds support for managing Hyper-V RC1, is now available.  You can grab it now from http://connect.microsoft.com (if you are not already signed up for the SCVMM 2008 beta - you
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Monday, June 09, 2008 11:55 PM

Hyper-V Script: Validate VHD

Hyper-V provides a handy scripting interface that allows you to validate a virtual hard disk.  You can use this for two main purposes: To confirm that a standard VHD file is correctly structured and not corrupted. To confirm that a differencing disk
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