I added the 2 Hyper-v guides I promised and there are more to follow. Up next will be better documentation on the actual setup process of Hyper-v and a compairison of Hyper-v vs. installing your OS directly on the hardware. Click the Hyper-v catagory to the right.
Microsoft makes it very difficult to manage a standalone Hyper-v server in a workgroup but it is possible. The first thing you need to know is that you will need a Windows Vista machine to manage Hyper-v server. What Microsoft doesn’t make very clear is that machine will need to be Vista Business or Ultimate. Lucky for me my media pc is running Ultimate which is also how I discovered the OS needs to be “business classâ€. Lucky for you I’m here to walk you through the rest of setup process and get you VM’ing in a few simple steps.
I am going to assume the person reading this is technically inclined and doesn’t need a whole mess of pictures detailing every step of the process. This is a quick guide intended to get you up and running as quickly as possible on a machine with little to no Server 2008 driver support. I will show you how to install drivers in Hyper-v Server on any machine as long as it will get through the initial install. Note: Hyper-v Server is the standalone version of Server 2008 w/ Hyper-v. To learn more check out this video. http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-us&vid=27a22995-ea7d-4a00-af86-bf18280b65cd First things first,
This week I will detail the installation of Hyper-v standalone (not core) on a whitebox (mine is an AMD on an Nvidia chipset) and the trickiest part of all will be administering it in a workgroup environment.
Why DavidOrlo.com? I wanted to create a new site where I would share information on various projects I am interested in but I have so many and one may have nothing to do with another so instead of coming up with a bunch of cool names for twenty plus websites I decided I would just create a site using my name and try to categorize it the best I could. Here you will find logs of all my projects, past, present, future. I decided to start logging them online to share any information I can and hopefully it will help