
Monthly Archives: April 2009


Managing Hyper-v server in a workgroup
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.

Installing drivers in Hyper-V Server 2008 Core
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,
