Vista – Installing Hyper-V
Nov17

Vista – Installing Hyper-V

Pete’s Adventures in Hyper-V Part 3 KB ID 0000094 Problem It seems a long road to get to installing Hyper-V, but now we are ready to actually install it as a SERVER ROLE, Server 2008 has many different roles, and Hyper-V is just one of them. However unlike most other roles Hyper-V requires a reboot, if you think about what hyper-v actually does then this should come as no surprise. Hyper-V is (as the name suggests) a bare metal...

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Installing the Hyper-V Management Tools
Nov17

Installing the Hyper-V Management Tools

Pete’s Adventures in Hyper-V Part 2 KB ID 0000093 Dtd 10/11/09 Problem Back in Part 1 we looked at getting your Hyper-V Media up to date, the next logical step would be to install Hyper-V, but I’ve never been that logical, and I already had a Hyper-V server at home, So I thought before I went any further I would install the Hyper-V Management tools on My laptop, then I could continue this from the comfort of my sofa. In an...

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Slipstreaming Hyper-V
Nov17

Slipstreaming Hyper-V

KB ID 0000092 Problem Anyone who has tried the version of Hyper-V that came in the first release of Server2008 may well have written it off as a bad lot, In Microsoft’s defence it was still a Beta product in that initial release, but for many the damage has now already been done. (It seems the mistakes made by releasing “Longhorn Beta 1.00001 to the public have still not been learned). I’ve been meaning to spend more...

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