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Friday, July 18, 2008 12:41 AM

Processor topology inside of Hyper-V virtual machines

A number of people have noticed that they can create a virtual machine with four virtual processors, and then successfully run Windows XP on it and have it utilize all four virtual processors.  This strikes them as odd, because Windows XP supposedly
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008 11:49 PM

Hyper-V Clustering without shared storage

Jose has a great post over on his blog that talks about how to setup a Hyper-V cluster using a file share instead of traditional shared storage: http://blogs.technet.com/josebda/archive/2008/07/16/failover-clustering-for-hyper-v-with-file-server-storage.aspx
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Monday, July 14, 2008 7:52 AM

Confusion over Multi-Processor Guest OS Support with Hyper-V

After posting a link to our supported guest operating system list ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954958/en-us ) I have received a number of queries about the issue of multi-processor support.  You see, while we state that we only support Windows
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Thursday, July 10, 2008 12:18 AM

PowerShell Management Library for Hyper-V

James O'Neill posts here: http://hypervoria.com/hyper-v/hyper-v-powershell-library-now-on-codeplex.aspx to let us know that he has provided a PowerShell Management Library for Hyper-V available here: http://www.codeplex.com/PSHyperv Cheers, Ben
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008 12:40 PM

Hyper-V RTM now on Windows Update!

So now updating to the final release is easier than ever. Hurray! Cheers, Ben
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Monday, July 07, 2008 11:31 PM

Hyper-V: Supported Guest Operating Systems

In case you missed this one, with the RTM of Hyper-V we expanded the list of supported guest operating systems.  You can see the full official list here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954958/en-us Cheers, Ben
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008 7:34 PM

Ronald Beekelaar on Hyper-V

There is a great post today on the team blog where Ronald Beekelaar, Microsoft Virtualization MVP, talks about Hyper-V.  Read more here: http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2008/07/01/Top-5-things-to-know-about-Hyper_2D00_V.aspx Cheers,
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