Installing Windows Server 2008 R2 on a Lenovo ThinkPad W510

re: Installing Windows Server 2008 R2 on a Lenovo ThinkPad W510

Adam Rosenzweig — Sat, 08 May 2010 14:21:19 GMT

Thank you for helping with setting up my W510 with drivers for server 2008 R2 64.

re: Installing Windows Server 2008 R2 on a Lenovo ThinkPad W510

O. Tvedt — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:45:00 GMT

Thursday, February 11, 2010 12:25 PM by Arthur

# re: Installing Windows Server 2008 R2 on a Lenovo ThinkPad W510

Does enabling hyper-v on 2008 r2 disable sleep mode still like it did on 2008?

Yes Sleep mode is not possible with running virtual servers, so its automaticly disabled

re: Installing Windows Server 2008 R2 on a Lenovo ThinkPad W510

gregmcg — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:52:33 GMT

Yes, I have 8 virtual processors going . Some are "parked" occasionally in resource monitor. I have an Core i7-820 chip. I wonder if there is a way to turn off the parking? I never expected a processor didn't respond in time message.

THanks for your help. It's a wonderful machine... probably even more awesome with 16GB or RAM.

THanks for your help and the Guide to aid my installation.

re: Installing Windows Server 2008 R2 on a Lenovo ThinkPad W510

Keith Combs — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:06:58 GMT

Greg,

I returned the W510's. I only had a 30 day eval period.

Sorry, I don't know.

Do you have hyper-threading turned on?

re: Installing Windows Server 2008 R2 on a Lenovo ThinkPad W510

gregmcg — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:47:41 GMT

How has it been holding up? I just got three blue screens today while running Hyper-V on the W510 w/8GB ram. I have 3 VM's running: Win2k3R2 as DC with 512MB, 1 2GB Win2K8R2 for SQL 2008R2, 1 2GB SP2010.. It seems to be something about a processor clock missed on the BSOD. Have you seen anything like this?

It's ashame, I thought I was approaching Nivana with this configuration and performance was good.

re: Installing Windows Server 2008 R2 on a Lenovo ThinkPad W510

Keith Combs — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:41:36 GMT

No problems so far Manuel but I didn't use the machine at all last week while I was in Seattle at the MVP Summit.

re: Installing Windows Server 2008 R2 on a Lenovo ThinkPad W510

Manuel A. Rodriguez — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:05:27 GMT

Hi Keith,

Ok it's been 13 days since the post. How has the installation held up. If everything is good then this will be my decision maker to purchase. I'm a database admin and having a native and stable Server 2008 R2 along with SQL Server '05 and '08 on a laptop is a dream! Thanks for the great and helpful post.

re: Installing Windows Server 2008 R2 on a Lenovo ThinkPad W510

Keith Combs — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:43:38 GMT

Yes. Installing the Hyper-V role disables sleep on all laptops. However, there's a convenient solution.

See http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2008/04/14/creating-a-no-hypervisor-boot-entry.aspx

This will only work properly with Windows Server 2008 R2.

re: Installing Windows Server 2008 R2 on a Lenovo ThinkPad W510

Arthur — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:25:23 GMT

Does enabling hyper-v on 2008 r2 disable sleep mode still like it did on 2008?