25 March 2008

Vista SP1 Management Tools for Hyper-V RC0 download links

The Vista SP1 Management Tools for Hyper-V RC0 are now available for download. These include Hyper-V Manager, the MMC management console, and Virtual Machine Connection, which provides a remote console for virtual machines. After installation, Hyper-V Manager is available under Administrative Tools on the control panel. There is no direct shortcut created for Virtual Machine Connection.

In Windows Vista, Administrative Tools are not, by default available on the Start menu. However, if you right-click the Start button, choose properties and then click customize next to the Start menu option, down the bottom of the list is the option to "Display on the All Programs menu and the Start menu".

Download the appropiate version according to the architecture of your Vista SP1 machine:

x86: Update for Windows Vista (KB949758)
x64: Update for Windows Vista x64 Edition (KB949758)

Windows Vista SP1 information and download links can be found here.

Please take a look at KB949758 for further information on this download, and KB949219 and my previous blog entry for further information on Hyper-V RC0 itself.

Cheers,
John.

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# Toby Brown said:

Download links don't seem to be live yet.

25 March 08 at 1:37 PM
# ashridah said:

Yeah, they went away, and then came back a while later for me. Try them again?

Personally, I'm having trouble getting the tools to connect. It sits around a while, and then eventually times out claiming it can't talk to the RPC service. I've got exceptions in the firewall in place for the remote management services and the remote admin services are up and running, but no joy so far.

Of course, I'm hardly a windows admin expert atm, so it might just be a config issue on my part.

25 March 08 at 3:06 PM
# ashridah said:

Ah, yes. Config problem on my end. needed an open port on the client as well.

25 March 08 at 5:33 PM
# John Howard said:

After the many emails I’ve had about this, it seemed only appropriate to write up a detailed post about

28 March 08 at 11:12 PM
# Joel Mansford said:

Is there a client for Windows Server 2008?  Sounds silly but as the workstation I use is x86 and thus non-hyper-V there's no role option for it ,and the x86 vista client says not for this version!?

06 May 08 at 10:59 AM
# jhoward said:

Joel - yes, enable the Remote Server Administration Tools feature, and install the x86 version of the RC0 MSU on the x86 "client" server machine. Hyper-V Manager will be present under Administrative Tools.

Cheers,

John.

06 May 08 at 11:40 AM

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