Windows 7 on Hyper-V

re: Windows 7 on Hyper-V

Mark — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:54:20 GMT

Is there any way to install the VM Additions to test this Win7 under VS2005 R2?

Thanks.

re: Windows 7 on Hyper-V

kjopc — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:28:49 GMT

I'd like to see a workstation version of Windows Server 2008 R2 (or a developer edition of Windows 7) that supports Hyper-V.

It's handy to keep work for different clients on separate VHDs. A quad-core, RAM-laden desktop PC with Hyper-V would make a nice machine for developers.

re: Windows 7 on Hyper-V

Explorer5 — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:57:46 GMT

Forget about Hyper-V. I downloaded the Vista VHD from Technet, ran it on Virtual PC (on windows vista) then installed the Windows 7 beta from the captured ISO.

It worked perfectly! Not only that, but I dont have to worry about messing up my main vista install, I can test, mess around with and get to know Windows 7 with almost no drawbacks..

Virtualization is amazing.

re: Windows 7 on Hyper-V

Geert Baeke — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:48:29 GMT

I am running Windows 7 natively on my laptop but from a vhd. All it takes is to replace the Vista boot loader with the Windows 7 boot loader and creating a vhd with diskpart. You can then install Windows 7 in the VHD. Works great but not supported of course.

re: Windows 7 on Hyper-V

David Symons — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:23:39 GMT

Hi,

Geert - can you please advise how you got Windows 7 to install on this VHD? I'm using Hyper-V on a 2008 server and am finding problems when capturing the Windows 7 64-bit ISO and trying to install.

re: Windows 7 on Hyper-V

dkyeager — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:10:10 GMT

Windows 7 on hyper-v with 64-bit windows server 2008 did install for me quite easily using iso file as dvd, however careful observation shows some incompatibilities with hyper-v on the integration services:

hyper-v event 23012: Device 'VMbus' in 'Windows 7 64-bit (my system name) cannot load because it is incompatible with virtualization stack. Server version 13 Client version 65537

any attempt to "upgrade the integration components" with the old integration services disk produces an upgrade error for me. orginal windows7 intergration services does not apper under guest os's add/remove programs.

re: Windows 7 on Hyper-V

David Symons — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:17:29 GMT

ok - I did this to get it running:

- installed Windows Vista Ultimate into a Hyper-V VHD

- attached ISO to VHD of Windows 7

- reboot Vista Ultimate, booted off Windows 7 cd

- used Advanced Options instead of Upgrade

- formatted installation drive which has Vista installed

- installed Windows 7

this installs a fresh full copy of Windows 7 via Hyper-V if you were experiencing the install.wim / OSImage problem.

re: Windows 7 on Hyper-V

briankel — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:46:31 GMT

If anybody wants to install Windows 7 under Virtual PC 2007 I wrote a similar post here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/briankel/archive/2009/01/10/installing-the-windows-7-beta-with-virtual-pc-2007-sp1.aspx

re: Windows 7 on Hyper-V

Virtual PC Guy — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 10:32:26 GMT

Mark -

Yes, this works as long as you have the latest version of Virtual Server / Virtual PC.

Kjopc -

There are a number of things that need to be addressed before this is even considerable.

dkyeager -

This is a known issue - the event log entries are wrong, and should be ignored.

Cheers,

Ben

re: Windows 7 on Hyper-V

SWaschitz — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:32:32 GMT

Any idea how you can enable audio properly when Windows 7 runs in Hyper-V? I realize there is no audio adapter nor need on my server physically, however, I'd like to host some Desktop VMs within Hyper-V. I was expecting to be able to redirect audio when I connect in via RDP, however, I can't figure out why this isn't working. The Windows Audio service is running. When I play sounds, the mixer shows "output", however, nothing is pushed to my clients. Any advice? Anyone get this to work?