I would like to test out R2 live migration features in my lab, but i am a
little confused as to what hardware is required for a valid test. If i
install R2 with Hyper-V on a physical node, then do i create two images
running R2? and do i need to setup clustering on both images? ...

Im having a issue with running HYPER V on a 2008 domain controller, and was
hoping someone could help me.
Basically we have a 2008 standard, domain controller, running exchange 2007.
It is also running DHCP and DNS service. We have setup HYPER V to run a

If you are having connectivity issues on your External Hyper-V networ
such that only one host can communicate at any given time - then chec
for port-security on the physical switch that your host is using wit
the Hyper-V virtual switch

In the Hyper-V Manager console I was attempting to open a Virtual Machine
Connection window on my Vista (32-bit) workstation that has the SP1
Management Pack.  When I am in the console I can see that the virtual machine
that I am attempting to connect to is running and online.  I ...

We are running Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1.
When I reboot the physical machine I always have problems with the Virtual
Server Admin Website.  The website will fail to load and displays a cgi
timeout error.

I got this  puzzling  message on trying  to start a vm
Hyper-V Manager
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An error occurred while attempting to change the state of virtual machine

how do I add a second cpu to  ms virtual server virtual machine/

OK, so I have created a Base Image of a terminal server and sypreped it,
then I created differnencing disks to reference this original disk.  Now I
have two Terminal Servers running from this original disk, how do I create a
dynamic disk from this?  I would like to separate these ...

I am trying to do the initial install of Vista x86 Business on my Hyper-V
system and it is unbearably slow.  I haven't gotten to the point of
installing the Guest Additions because it has taken me two days to get the
OS installed.  I don't have this problem installing Windows ...

I have tried some scripts for shutting down a virtual machine without success.
What I need is a command for shutting down and starting up a named virtual
machine in Hyper-V like:
Shutdown "SERVERNAME"

I hav a hyper-v server that i created a few images on, i now need to move or
copy these images to a different hyper-v server. what is the process for
doing this?
Thanks

Basically, I am curious how the performance works out on Hyper-V.  If for
example, I had a SAS drive setup to host my VM's hard drive, if I configured
the VM for IDE I would take a performance hit correct?  And if this is the
case, what is the reason to have any VM's use IDE as ...

When creating a new virtual machine in VS 2005 R2 it seemed like the only
option was to use a dynamically expanding virtual disk rather then a fixed
virtual disk.  I'm afraid of defrag problems down the road, especially
considering the size.

My direct-hardware virtualization solution experience only lies on Citrix
Xen and I want to use Hyper-V on an upcoming project and I've got questions
as to how it works (as I assume it's a little different).
I'll be purchasing SBS Premium and appropriate hardware to run

Anyone know of any good ways to move a VMDK to VHD? I have a few VM ESXi
servers and we're making the push to W2008. I have A 2008 DC server running
with SCVMM installed and now I have been tasked to convert a virtual server
on an ESXi server to the HyperV 2008 DC server.