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Tech: Microsoft Hyper-V part 2

October 27, 2009 on 12:51 pm | In Tech | 2 Comments

FRACK!!

Bottomline is, the free Hyper-V is hardcore hypervisor. Bare metal.

Using the PowerShell Management Library, I’m able to create and manage virtual machines…

But there’s no way to create a session to connect to those virtual machines. Not locally. Not without using another Vista/Server2008 machine with the necessary pack to connect to it.

The Hyper-V Core does not have vmconnect.exe  nor any of the 101 thingamajigs needed to create a console to load up the VM and actually do STUFF on it.

Somebody needs to write a Dummies guide so people like me can save a bit of time…

Tech: Microsoft Hyper-V

October 27, 2009 on 10:34 am | In Tech | No Comments

Haven’t been updating regularly for a while. Then again, I no longer have the surplus of free time at work that I used to have. I may have failed to update that since September, I had hopped over to a new job at Help University.

It’s been almost 2 months of acquainting myself with the myriads of random stuff that happens here. Meeting a dozen members of the faculty to swap out their new notebooks. Learning to use an optical fibre splicing machine that costs as much as a Perodua Kelisa. Watching the last technical staff leave the branch campus sitting on top of Klang Parade, and now in the throes of figuring out how to service 1000+ users at that location without a permanent staff on the site.

But finally am getting to some meatier things to chew on…

Gonna start building up some servers.

And masochist that I am, I wanted to up the ante, and see if I can run it in Hyper-V, the new hypervisor virtualization solution from Microsoft. Free, can you imagine that? 1.5GB of download right from the M$oft website.

Well, I’ve finally got a machine to load it into and check it out.

Imagine my surprise to find that after 20min, the Hyper-V installs, and rewards me with a cmd.exe shell.

Nothing else. The Start button doesn’t do anything. No GUI interface to do anything. The only familiar thing I can call up is the Tast Manager.

Uber-coolness.

The Virtual Manager Service is running somewhere. I know that cos I can see it shutting down when I shut down the server.

A quick Google gives me lots of people who had installed MS Server 2008, and how to install Hyper-V AFTER.

What happens if you installed the CORE and FREE Hyper-V? What next? There’s no HOW-TO for Dummies…

I just want to get a Virtual Machine started so I can install some kind of Linux…

Thankfully, this hit. Which pointed me to this invaluable script.

PowerShell Management Library for Hyper-V is priceless.

Now… moving forward again…