Technical reference for Client Hyper-V in Windows 8http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh857623.aspx Client Hyper-V Survival Guidehttp://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/7704.client-hyper-v-survival-guide.aspx Hyper-V: How to Fix BIOS Errors Enabling Hyper-Vhttp://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/3190.hyper-v-how-to-fix-bios-errors-enabling-hyper-v.aspx
Linux Integration Services Version 3.4 for Hyper-V http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34603 Overview When installed in a supported Linux virtual machine running on Hyper-V, the Linux Integration Components provide: •Driver support: Linux Integration Services supports the network controller and the IDE and SCSI storage controllers that were developed specifically for Hyper-V. •Fastpath Boot Support for Hyper-V: Boot devices now take advantage of the block Virtualization Service Client (VSC) to provide enhanced performance. •Time Keeping: The clock inside the virtual machine will remain accurate by synchronizing to the clock on the virtualization server via Timesync service, and with the help of the pluggable time source … Continue reading Linux Integration Services Version 3.4 for Hyper-V
My student got a problem on running VM on a AMD FX CPU machine. You may reference this to solve the problem: Virtual machine does not start on a computer that has an AMD CPU that supports the AVX feature and that is running Windows Server 2008 R2http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2568088
A useful document blog post which talk about the virtualization in Hyper-V 3 in Windows Server 2012! http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive/2012/04/05/windows-server-8-beta-hyper-v-amp-scale-up-virtual-machines-part-1.aspx
A good reference on the coming Hyper-V V3: http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive/2012/04/05/windows-server-8-beta-hyper-v-amp-scale-up-virtual-machines-part-1.aspx It also talk about NUMA.
Hyper-V will be included as part of Windows 8 – what does that mean for client-side virtualization? http://www.brianmadden.com/blogs/gabeknuth/archive/2011/09/14/hyper-v-will-be-included-as-part-of-windows-8-what-does-that-mean-for-client-side-virtualization.aspx
http://www.brianmadden.com/blogs/brianmadden/archive/2011/09/22/why-microsoft-is-not-getting-serious-with-desktop-virtualization-in-windows-8.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+brianmadden%2Frss+(BrianMadden.com+-+Citrix%2C+VMware%2C+and+application+virtualization+news%2C+opinions%2C+and+analysis)
The iSCSI Target solution from MS is now free! We can use it to setup a environment to test fail-over clustering!http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=19867 Here are more information about this:http://blogs.technet.com/b/josebda/archive/2011/04/04/microsoft-iscsi-software-target-3-3-for-windows-server-2008-r2-available-for-public-download.aspx More info: The Microsoft iSCSI Software Target has been available for production use as part of Windows Storage Server since early 2007. It has also been available for development and test use by MSDN and TechNet subscribers starting in May 2009. However, until now, there was no way to use the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target in production on a regular server running Windows Server 2008 R2. This new download offers exactly that. Now … Continue reading Free Microsoft iSCSI Target
A student asked about the activation of a VM count toward to KMS or not: Windows Server 2008 SP2 or R2 can count virtual machine toward the activation threshold. SP2: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dd262148.aspx
Saw a good reference on the online backup of Hyper-V VM, so re-post here: Online Backup of Hyper-V Virtual Machines – These are the steps to do an online backup of your Hyper-V machines. The process comprises of three parts. 1. Finding your “Microsoft Hyper-V VSS Writer” ID 2. Using DiskShadow to take a snapshot of the volume that your virtual machine resides 3. Copy the backup file to your destinated location 1. Finding your “Microsoft Hyper-V VSS Writer” IDOn your Windows 2008 Virtual Host, run command prompt in administrator mode.Run the command vssadmin list writers. Take note of your “Writer … Continue reading Online Backup of Hyper-V Virtual Machines
