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Friday, May 30, 2008 1:54 PM

Hyper-V + WinPE + Integration Services

Mike Sterling has just done a great post on how to integrate the Hyper-V Integration Services into a WinPE image.  If you do WinPE based OS installations on a regular basis this will really speed things up for you.  Read more here: http://blogs.msdn.com/mikester/archive/2008/05/30/using-the-hyper-v-integration-components-in-winpe.aspx
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008 12:37 AM

Scripting VM Creation with Hyper-V

People have been bugging me for this for a while - so here we go. Here are the VBScripts / PowerShell scripts to create a basic virtual machine: VBScript: Option Explicit   Dim HyperVServer Dim VMName Dim WMIService Dim VSManagementService Dim VSGlobalSettingData
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 6 Comments
Wednesday, May 21, 2008 1:43 PM

Hyper-V RC1 Available

In case you missed it - Hyper-V RC1 is now available for download.  Full details can be found here: http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2008/05/20/hyper-v-rc1-release-available-on-microsoft-download-center.aspx And the release notes are
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Monday, May 19, 2008 2:04 AM

Handling Job Objects with Hyper-V WMI scripting

Many of the methods in the Hyper-V WMI have an odd way of returning status. They can either immediately return a return value - or instead return a job object - and it can be hard to predict which one you are going to get. The reason for this is that
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 4 Comments
Thursday, May 15, 2008 3:20 PM

Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Update now Available

Download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a79bcf9b-59f7-480b-a4b8-fb56f42e3348&displaylang=en KB: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948515 Details: This update to Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 adds support for the following operating
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Thursday, May 15, 2008 3:16 PM

Virtual PC 2007 SP1 now available

Download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=28c97d22-6eb8-4a09-a7f7-f6c7a1f000b5&displaylang=en Release notes: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9f3d3eb5-5e03-4712-999c-e96f91bdf128&displaylang=en
Posted by Virtual PC Guy | 24 Comments
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 11:47 AM

Hyper-V Clustering Step-by-Step Guide

We recently published the Hyper-V Clustering Step-by-Step guide here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=CD828712-8D1E-45D1-A290-7EDADF1E4E9C&displaylang=en Note that this guide is aimed at people who want to "test out"
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008 2:01 PM

It doesn't feel like a hypervisor to me...

When I have talked to people about Hyper-V - I have often come across the sentiment that Hyper-V doesn't feel like a hypervisor based virtualization solution. You install Windows, enable a role and then have virtual machines - how is this different from
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