Where CAN’T You Use Hyper-V? (So Many Questions. So Little Time. Part 11.)

re: Where CAN’T You Use Hyper-V? (So Many Questions. So Little Time. Part 11.)

Kevin Remde — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:46:48 GMT

Hi Kyle! Yes, that's a very good point, and I'm glad you brought it up. There are times when just being able to install Hyper-V is all you need - for testing, training, or trying out other management tools against it (such as SCVMM).

And yes, Boot-to-VHD is awesome. We're actually going to be giving the attendees of our next set of IT Camps the option to copy a .VHD containing a pre-installed (non-activated evaluation) Windows Server w/Hyper-V configured, and instructions on how to add (and later remove it) as another boot option.

Cheers to you!

Kevin

re: Where CAN’T You Use Hyper-V? (So Many Questions. So Little Time. Part 11.)

Kyle Rosenthal — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 01:13:47 GMT

Hi Kevin - depending on what you need to the environment to do I have had success with installing Hyper-V in a 2008 VM using "OCSETUP Microsoft-Hyper-V" from a command line. This installs the Hyper-V components - which means you can do everything in Hyper-V - apart from actually start the VM - but depending on the circustance that might be enough - when I am doing Hyper-V demos - I will sometimes use that as a quick method. I have some pretty complex demo's that I do with SCVMM, Operations Manager and Opalis - all from a set of virtual machines - just with that little point that the final part of starting a VM doesn't work.

The other thing that I do on my Win7 machine if I know I need to use a launchable Hyper-V VM - then I flip to my boot from VHD install of 2008 which has Hyper-v installed and configured and run it from there.

Cheers

Kyle

re: Where CAN’T You Use Hyper-V? (So Many Questions. So Little Time. Part 11.)

Kevin Remde — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:00:17 GMT

Ah.. thanks Sebastian. I stand (actually sit) corrected. That's cool that they can emulate Intel-VT.

re: Where CAN’T You Use Hyper-V? (So Many Questions. So Little Time. Part 11.)

sebastian — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:53:26 GMT

You can run Hper-V in VMware Workstation 8 and in ESXi 5:

www.veeam.com/.../nesting-hyper-v-with-vmware-workstation-8-and-esxi-5.html

best regards sebastian