I am trying to install the testversion from VMM on my HyperV (2008 SP2) Host.
This is a standalone Server which will host the Domainservers.
If I try to start the setup of the VMM Server I always get an error 'you
have to be logged on under a domain account that has administrative

Hi friends, we have a W2k3 server with a fresh installation of Virtual
Server, can we run a Virtual PC (w2k3) on this Virtual Server that act
as Terminal Server? a Virtual PC running w2k3 can take advantage of my
Quad Xeon (multi cores)? or only will use 1 core?

I'm testing the Hyper-V on this server and I have a Win2003 SP2 VM in there
that I can't give move than 2GB of memory.
The same VM was seeing 4GB I allocated when it was in Win2008 Datacenter SP2.
I am not sure if this a limitation to R2 Evaluation or there is a bug in the

We are trying to test a dual Hyper-V configuration and its failover
capabilities. Each blade is running Hyper-V/Windows 2008(Core). They are
connected via a 4GB fiberchannel HBA to a FC-switch and then to our SAN. Each
Hyper-V also has two GB-Enet cards.

I downloaded and installed Server 2007 R2 and the MOSS 2007 VHD to my laptop.
The MOSS VHD is running fine; however, I'm new to the virtual server
environment and cannot figure out how to set up networking between my laptop
and the virtual environment to mimic an actual ...

All,
QUESTION: Is it possible for a VM to promiscuously listen to *all* packets
coming in on a physical NIC on the VS 2005 R2 host, where the VM has a
dedicated connection to that NIC?

Hello. If a have a standalone server (2003 server), is it possible to backup
the system using windows backup, install a virtual server, and the restore
it using windows backup again?
Thanks

Hello. I know that standard and enterprise editions allow respectively 1 and
4 virtual servers to be installed.
During tests with Win200 standard x64, i was allowed to install 2 virtual
servers.

I have found some documents explaining how to set up clustering in Hyper-v
but this is for clustering the host servers. These docs talk about shared
iSCSI disks.
I would like to set up clustering, for test purposes, in a single Hyper-V

Still being a Newbie to Hyper-V I wonder if there is a concept on hardware monitoring.
I need Hyper-V (without Windows Server 2008) to send e-mails whenever critical events are added to the event log (like RAID malfunction).
While trying to Google for information I learned about ...

   I'm having an issue about high physical disk average write and read
queues on one of my Windows 2003 guest runing ISA 2006.
   The same queues on host system are ok, mostly below 1.
   Anyone have a tip to me ?

I have had discussions with others about this and am up in the air as there
are valid points for both.  Some say the host should be run in a workgroup as
if the domain controller goes down you cannot log into the host.  While
others say if you have several domain controllers ...

I'm running a Hyper-V Server 2008 (Free version) and have one Windows server
2003 guest running on it at the min.  I'm using Windows 7 (VPC) with the
Hyper-V Manager MMC to manage the guest.
Just wondering what's the most complete way of backing up the guest OS given

I terminal served into the Hyper-V desktop. I accidently closed down the CMD
window and all I have left is the back ground screen.  How do I remotely get
CMD window back?

How can I safely disconnect a USB drive from a Hyper-V system without shutting it down?
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