What are the best practices in setting up a new instance of TFS 2008 Workgroup edition? Specifically, the constraints are as follows: Must install on an existing Windows Server 2008 64 bit TFS application layer is 32 bit only Should I install SQL Server 2008, Sharepoint and the app layer in a virtual instance of Windows Server 200...
I'm looking to replace a couple of machines in the office with a more powerful multi-processor machine running either VMware or Microsoft's Hyper-V with a view to hosting a mix of Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 and Linux operating systems. The machines are used mainly for testing ASP.Net or Perl web sites. I don't need advanced...
I am currently using Windows Server 2008 Standard and have several Hyper V machines. These are development VM's and I want to now switch back Vista x64 because I am missing Aero. I know Windows Server 2008 can have aero but the host performance is very very bad when I run VM in Hyper V. I want to export my Hyper V machines so that I ca...
I'd like to use alternatives to System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 is possible, in other words, any FREE tools? ...
I'm running Server 2008 64bit with Hyper-V. I've created a virtual machine with Vista 64bit and installed it. I can't get the Vista virtual machine to see the network adapter. I've set-up an external network on the Virtual Network Manager (Hyper-V) and associated that with the virtual machine (Vista). I've also tried using a Legacy Netw...
We use Hyper-V extensively in our development environment. Each developer has a virtual server that they own and then we have a bunch of build, test, R&D, and staging virtual servers. Is there any documented or best practice way to duplicate a virtual machine in Hyper-V? What I would really like to be able to do is to split a machine ...
I'm running my workstation on Server 2008 and a few servers in Hyper-V VM's on that server. I connect to my corporate LAN using VPN from the main OS (the host) but my VM's aren't seeing the servers in the corporate LAN. Internet and local access to my home network work fine. Each of the VMs has one virtual network adapter. What should ...
On top of a dual quad core physical host, I would like to run a single VM with 8 virtual CPU (if possible) or at least 4 virtual CPU - for the purpose of scientific computing. I have investigated what the market has to offer at this date and it seems that VMWare Server 2.0 is limited to 2 virtual CPU. Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 RC2...
I'd hate to have to relearn C++ just for this! Any libraries/URLs would be great and yes, Google didn't help much here :-( This is for an upcoming project in which my product (Java based) would provide support for Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization platform. Unlike VMware, which provides a Web-service, the Hyper-V APIs are mere extensi...
Hello, I'm in the process of attempting to automate Hyper-V for our dev\test lab. I downloaded the PSHyperV pack, most of the scripts work however when I attempt to shutdown the machine it fails with the error code 32768. I also tried the script off Ben's blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2008/01/30/shutting-down-a-hy...
Hello! Is there any possibility to run Hyper-V Manager MMC SnapIn on Windows 2008 Web edition ? Thanks ...
It's one of those things I see a lot but never really think of. Do you think for the purpose of web application development (specifically ASP.NET WebForms/MVC). Do you think it's advantageous to do such a thing and if so, what kind of advantages come out of it? By virtualization I mean using products like Hyper-V to separate the serve...
The drive the VM's are running on have run out of space and this caused all my VM's to go into Paused-Critical state. To free up some space I want to delete some snapshots I took. Where my snapshot is extended from the main VM with the Now (green arrow) extending the snapshot. When I try to delete the snapshot I get the following erro...
I've looked at several objects in the "root\virtualization" name space but I have not been able to find where Hyper-V stores the path to the config file for a given virtual machine. I need to get this file path programmatically or at least just the home path of a given virtual machine would be fine as well. What WMI object and field stor...
I want to script the building of a Hyper-V VM as part of a build process. Specifically I need to be able to launch processes, perhaps sending keys into the VM as well, but as long as I can launch processes with specific command-lines I think I'll be good. I'm already aware of this useful library: http://www.codeplex.com/PSHyperv, but i...
I have a VMware virtual machine running Windows 2008 Standard and I would like to enable the Hyper-V role for learning purposes, but the VMware workstation says my processor doesn't support the virtualization features. My development machine uses a Core2Duo E8200 which supports hardware virtualization. Is there any additional setting ...
Background: I am using Hyper-V on Server 2008 to manage many virtual servers. I have scripts that have been built to make changes or apply updates to some or all of these virtual servers. Using the Hyper-V Manager, I am able to snapshot these virtual servers prior to doing an update, then roll back the changes if there is a problem. ...
I am currently looking at the list of available ISOs for Windows Server 2008 on MSDN subscription site and I need to know which one to download for using the Hyper-V feature. I have the Visual Studio Team System Development Edition with MSDN Premium license. Follow up question on the available ISOs (x86 and X64) with and without Hyper-...
I notice there are two version of Windows Server 2008 w/ Hyper-V available for download on the MSDN Subscription License site: Windows Server 2008 Datacenter, Enterprise and Standard (x64) Windows Server 2008 Datacenter, Enterprise and Standard (x86) I want to set up a development server for testing/developing using the Hyper-V softw...
Hello, I'd like to import a real Windows Server 2008 server as a Hyper-V Virtual Server on another Windows Server 2008 instance. Anyone have any idea how to do this? I'm looking at the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 but it doesn't seem to import Windows Server 2008 - nor is it free. Is there some other workaround (i.e. ...