Questions tagged [hyper-v-server-2008-r2]
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How can I create an external switch but refrain to use the external dhcp in Hyper V?
The requirement might seem strange. I have an organisational network (external network), but I desire to create a own private network of VMs in Hyper-v with its own domain and DHCP server(which runs in a VM). I do not want to use the IPs supplied by…
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Command line repair of RAID5 set on Server 2008 HyperV (or Core)
I have a HyperV box that is showing bad blocks on one of the disks. I got this from diskpart;
DISKPART> list disk
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
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Disk 0 Online …
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Is it possible to export a HyperV VM from Server 2012R2 and import it into HyperV on Server 2008R2?
I'm planning on migrating 2 HyperV VMs that are currently running on Windows Server 2012R2 to a new server running 2008R2. What's the best way to migrate the VMs? Will replication work between the two OSes? How about the export feature in HyperV? I…
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Restoring a VM from a backed up snapshot in Windows Server 2008R2
I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 cluster with a number of guest VMs that are undergoing weekly maintenance for backups, performed in a save -> export -> start process. This process was taking up to several hours because of the VHD size, and clients…
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Configure Windows 2012 VHD to boot in Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V
I have a server running Windows 2008 R2 and Hyper-V. I use this server routinely to create Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7 VHDs to boot within Hyper-V and natively.
I have created a VHD, used imagex to apply an image of Windows Server 2012, made the…
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Can't start VM on Hyper-V 2008R2 cluster
I have a Server 2008R2 Hyper-V cluster with 2 nodes. They use a CSV on a SAN. I use SCVMM to manage them. We recently had several crashes that caused a failover, making virtual machines die and start up on the other node. For the most part, this…
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How do I reserve RAM on the Hyper-V 2012 host partition for VMs only?
I have a situation where a Hyper-V 2012 cluster node cannot support 2 VMs when I think it should. Presently, I'm playing around with 96GB RAM, and I want to have 2 47GB VMs running (static RAM). That leaves 2GB for the host, which is supposed to be…
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Hyper-V, Linux . Can I install mouse and graphic integration?
I use windows server 2008r2 with role Hyper-V. The guest system is Ubuntu 12.04 LTC. There is local network between Ubuntu and other machines.
EDIT The main problem for me is that my quest OS is Ubuntu 12.04 LTC. As I know, mouse support is not…
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Hyper-V Role Space Usage on Windows Server 2008
I have stood up a 2008 R2 Server running only a Hyper-V role. The *.vhd files are stored on a separate partition. The files (including hidden files) within the C:\ drive consume about 12 GB of disk space. Yet, when I check the local disk, C:\, it…
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latest integration services for Hyper-v host
I have Hyper-V hosts with both Win Server 2008 R2 and Win Server 2012. These hosts are not connected on the internet and do get security patches installed every month.
How do I know if the integration services present on a Hyper-v host are the…
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Unable to reduce size of .vhd in Hyper-V 2008 R2
I have a VM that was a P2V using disk2vhd. It is WinXP Pro. It used to reside on a ~200Gb physical disk, so when it was converted, it took that size with it to its .vhd. The disk was only about 70GB used. I wanted to reclaim about 100GB of that disk…
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How to access device manager in Hyper-V Server 2008 R2?
I have installed Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 SP1 and almost everything works fine. Now I would like to inspect the hardware and drivers being used. On normal desktop, I'd just click Control Panel and go to Device Manager. Is there any way how to get…
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Automating windows server 2008 installation in hyper V with powershell
I often set up servers in Hyper V on my laptop (running windows server 2008) to test varoius software.
Is there a way in powershell to build an image in Hyper V and run windows update on that image? Does anyone have a script that they could share?
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Import VMs with differencing VHD into Hyper-V 2012
I've recently installed Windows Server 2012 to my test server to run Hyper-V test environment. I have bunch of old VMs which were created in Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V which I didn't export in advance - I just have all VMs files created on old…
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hyper-v any way to automatically start a vm after merge?
In Hyper-V, a VM needs to be shutdown for the merging of deleted snapshots to take place. The merge process can take a long time so I wanted to know if there is any available method/program/script to monitor the merge process and restart the VM once…
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