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January 2008 - Posts

Thursday, January 31, 2008 9:49 PM

Renaming a Hyper-V Virtual Machine

Moving on we come to a sample script for changing a setting on a virtual machine - in this case I am changing the virtual machines name. VBScript: Option Explicit   Dim WMIService Dim VM Dim VMManagementService Dim VMSystemSettingData Dim VMName
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 3 Comments
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 10:34 PM

Shutting down a Hyper-V Virtual Machine

Now to get a little trickier - shutting down a virtual machine: VBScript: Option Explicit   Dim WMIService Dim VMList Dim VMName Dim VMGuid Dim ShutdownList Dim Result   'Specify the name of the virtual machine that I want to shutdown VMName
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 1 Comments
Tuesday, January 29, 2008 11:24 PM

Starting a Hyper-V Virtual Machine

Next in the line up of scripts - another simple one - starting a virtual machine: VBScript: Option Explicit   Dim WMIService Dim VMList Dim VMName   'Specify the name of the virtual machine that I want to start VMName = "Windows Server
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 5 Comments
Monday, January 28, 2008 8:17 PM

Bring on the Scripts!

Okay! Now that initial documentation of the Hyper-V WMI API is available I thought I would respond with a "Week of Hyper-V Scripts". Starting with a simple one - here is a script that will list the name, identifier and state for each virtual
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 11 Comments
Wednesday, January 23, 2008 9:25 PM

Hyper-V WMI Documentation Available

Now for me to start working on some sample code for you all: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc136992(VS.85).aspx Cheers, Ben
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008 6:21 PM

Using BitLocker under Virtual PC / Virtual Server

Up until recently, I thought it was impossible to use BitLocker drive encryption under Virtual PC / Virtual Server (because the virtual machines do not have a TPM for BitLocker to use).  However, thanks to Pascal Sauliere, I now know how to do this. 
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 12 Comments
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 11:49 PM

Virtualization Announcements

We had a bunch of announcements today: Bob Muglia sent out an executive email on Harnessing the Power of Virtualization for Dynamic IT , and we also our Vision and Strategy to Accelerate Virtualization Adoption . Some key items here: Microsoft has acquired
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 7 Comments
Friday, January 18, 2008 9:15 PM

Creating your own Hyper-V MMC Console

The Hyper-V Manager is normally displayed under the Server Manager, and as a stand alone entry under Administrative Tools.  However - I like to make my own customized MMC Console for Hyper-V.  Specifically I like to have the Hyper-V Manager,
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Thursday, January 17, 2008 7:28 PM

Allowing non-Administrators to control Hyper-V

By default Hyper-V is configured such that only members of the administrators group can create and control virtual machines.  Today I am going to show you how to allow a non-administrative user to create and control virtual machines. Hyper-V uses
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008 4:54 PM

Managing Snapshots with Hyper-V

Hyper-V introduces the concept of virtual machine snapshots - which is to say point in time images of a virtual machine that you can return to at any stage.  These snapshots are implemented in the virtualization layer - and can be taken at any time
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Tuesday, January 15, 2008 4:15 PM

Understanding the 'Clipboard' menu under Hyper-V

With Hyper-V the Virtual Machine Connection window has a menu titled 'clipboard'.  This menu brings two of my favorite features from Virtual PC to the server world.  Unfortunately these features caused some confusion under Virtual PC - so we
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Monday, January 14, 2008 4:02 PM

Virtual Machine Connection Key Combinations with Hyper-V

With Hyper-V we now have the "Virtual Machine Connection" to use when interacting with a virtual machine (unlike Virtual Server which used "VMRC").  The Virtual Machine Connection window wraps the standard Remote Desktop Client
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Friday, January 11, 2008 3:58 PM

Problems with Virtual Server and Automatically Restarting Virtual Machines

Per this KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941125 There is a known issue with Virtual Server and virtual machines which are configured to 'save state' when the system is shutdown - and then to automatically restart when the system is powered
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 6 Comments
Thursday, January 10, 2008 4:26 PM

Mounting VHDs from Managed Code

When Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 was released it included the VHDMount tool - that came with a DLL to allow you to control it programmatically.  Unfortunately we were rather light with the documentation / sample code for this.  So today I would
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 3 Comments
Wednesday, January 09, 2008 12:12 PM

Using Hyper-V with a Wireless Network Adapter

Out of the box Hyper-V does not support connecting virtual machines to wireless network adapters.  As a primarily server focused product this is a reasonable limitation - especially given evils that we need to do to get wireless network adapters
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Tuesday, January 08, 2008 11:39 PM

Understanding Networking with Hyper-V

With Hyper-V the world of networking is quite different than it was with Virtual Server. First to set the scene, with Windows Server 2008 installed on a system with one network adapter you will see this under Network Connections: And your system is operating
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Monday, January 07, 2008 10:56 AM

The Explanation for Error 61658 when installing IC's with Hyper-V

If you are having problems installing integration components on Hyper-V and are getting an error 61658 - go and check out Mike's post on this issue: http://blogs.msdn.com/mikekol/archive/2008/01/04/getting-an-error-while-installing-the-ics-on-server-2003-here-s-why.aspx
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Friday, January 04, 2008 2:21 PM

Running Virtual PC under Hyper-V Beta

They say that a picture speaks a thousands words, so: Yes!  This is Windows Server 2008 running the Hyper-V beta with Windows Server 2003 installed in a virtual machine, which in turn has Virtual PC 2007 installed and running Windows 98. And the
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 9 Comments
Thursday, January 03, 2008 5:55 PM

Things that Virtual PC needs to be run as Administrator for...

For the most part Virtual PC is able to happily run when you are using a non-administrative user account and everything will work.  There are - however - a couple of things that will not work correctly unless Virtual PC is run under an Administrative
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